Fluffs & Paws

28/06/2024

Update on broken leg kitty 💔

Unfortunately his leg is shattered at the joint, I'm sorry my little fluff that you had to go through this. He was sent over the rainbow bridge this morning ❤️

Run free up in kitty heaven my sweet angel boy 🕊️

27/06/2024

So last night when I went to feed, one of the members told me about one of the cats with a broken leg, I had already put the food down so I know I wasn't going to get him so ofcoz the next 24h were going to be stressful for me because I am going to stress about the cat with this broken leg in the cold.. Anyway, tonight I went to feed with the plan to catch the little fella.

He has already been trapped before for sterilization so I knew that wasn't going to work, I also had a net in hand but that was going to be impossible because there are just to many cats in one spot at the same time...

So I had to use my hands... I put the food down, everyone came to eat and as Mr was next to me, I scruffed him, but as I grabbed him, I knew that my positioning was off, but if I let go now.... I won't get him again... Well, as I lifted, he bit, and he chomped and bit me some more... Thank goodness he only had 3.5 legs otherwise he would have done alot more damage with his claws.. For a cat with a broken leg, he sure could fight me.. Anyway, eventually I get proper grip and manage to get him into the carrier... In the car and off he went to the vet. He is being held tonight and will be seen to tomorrow and then they will let me know what exactly is wrong with him.

From what it looked like, it look broken as it was just hanging there and if that is the case, unfortunately he will be sent over the rainbow bridge as it's just to hard to work with ferals and such injuries.. But legs hope for the best.

Imagine his mom was sterilized! He wouldn't have had to endure the trauma he has, and this cat isn't even 2 years old yet.

15/06/2024

How max spends his winter nights ❤️

Laura Wojtulewicz

12/06/2024

The sad reality of some ferals and this is why it's so important to sterilize your pets!

This little girl was born in a home, unfortunately she remained feral and when the people moved, they couldn't catch her and left her behind. Due to the property being sold and everything being demolished, she ran away making it even harder to trap her as I had not seen her and had no idea where she was, the temps are dropping, she is sickly, unaterilized and probably hungry, I had to move my ass and get her!. I asked our other neighbor if I can put a trap out in her property at 5 on Sunday night. I went to feed at the base and when I came back, madam was in the Trap by 7.. What a relief!

The sad reality of some ferals is that you soemtiems have to make tough choices and as she is an all white cat, as you can see the cancer has already started eating away at her ears, so the decision to send her over the rainbow bridge was made.

I'm sorry that humans failed you sweet girl, really I am. Her last night was spent on a warm fleecy blankie, with a soft pillow, fresh water and a big serving of pallets, pampers and some tinfish.. Rest easy sweet girl. Go and run free with all the others in kitty hevean ❤️😻

09/06/2024

So the other day I went to feed the cats at the Army base and when I got to my one feeding spot, I see this contraption sitting on the otherside of the fence... 🤬( there are always guys in the bush on the otherside of the fence who wait for leftovers from the army guys) it was one of theirs, and inside it was abit food.. Luckily it was food a cat wouldn't touch.

Now after inspecting this crap, I could see that they won't catch anything with this.. But all hell did break loose because the fact that they even had the thought of trying to catch one of my cats... If u know me, you know that this s**t isn't going to fly with me. I made them give me this trap, I gave them a mouthfull and told them if I ever see this again.. They will be in a trap..

04/06/2024

What a life ❤️

19/12/2023

Not as successful tonight as i was hoping to be, but as Amaya said, 1 is better than none.

This little poppet was caught tonight, after almost 3 hours of trapping... Finally got 1. It's becoming challenging as all the already trapped cats are not scared of the traps so they go in and munch the food while the last few unsterilized ones stand and watch 🤦‍♀️...

From so many cats to less than 10 left to trap, If I can say so my self, iv done a bloody good job! Pat on the back to me.. I will celebrate when I see all 3 colonies with clipped ears!

If you would like to donate towards a sterilization please do so into Cluny Animal Trust PBO No. 930039295 account.

Acc details are -

CLUNY ANIMAL TRUST
ABSA BANK
ACC NO - 4109951641
BRANCH - BETHLEHEM
632005

REF - JESSICA/ARMY BASE CATS

Tia ❤️

19/12/2023

Hello Everyone 💕

I am kindly asking for donations towards my vet bill 💞 with almost all the cats done at the Army base, I need to pay off this bill. I appriciate those who have donated already and I thank you. No donation is to small, every single cent counts. Please consider donating to help me to be able to continue doing this.

Please donate to -

CLUNY ANIMAL TRUST
ABSA BANK
ACC NO - 4109951641
BRANCH - Bethlehem

REF - JESSICA/ARMY BASE CATS

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29/11/2023

As a rescuer/trapper we often do the work first and worry about the cost later. When we eventually see the cost, we crumble because most of the time we don't know how we are going to pay off our vet bills, it's tough because your heart tells you to keep doing what you do but your pockets are just burning bigger holes.

I have been blessed, so so blessed by From Tassie with Love for sponsering these 6 sterries 💕🙏!

Thank you so much for your unwavering support and generosity. You have made a difference in my life and the cats lives, and I will never forget your thoughtfulness. Your kindness has inspired me to be a better person and continue to do good deeds for others. Again, thank you so much for your kindness and generosity from the bottom of my heart.

You are amazing!

23/11/2023

Tonight I caught the two gingers and last week I got the other 3. 💃 I am so glad that my numbers are going down! It's been very stressful 😔

Please consider donating towards a sterrie ❤️ Thank you. 🥺

If you can't donate, all I ask is that you share this post please please 😻

Cluny Animal Trust PBO No. 930039295
Bank - standard bank
Acc no - 035278846
Branch - Bethlehem (branch code - 055033)
Swift code - SBZAZAJJ
Ref - Jessica / army base

12/11/2023

Hi all

Happy Diwali Celebrations to everyone who will be celebrating over the next few days!

This is NOT a post complaining about fireworks or telling people not to do it, everyone is entitled to celebrate their religious days..

I would just like to ask everyone to please check under the bonnets/engines of you cars before you drive away. Cats and kittens tend to seek shelter from the noise of fireworks and make their way in the engines.

In rescue we have seen plenty of cats/kittens get stuck in cars, fall out on the freeways and even ripped up in the fanbelt, and it's not a nice sight.

You dont all have to love animals but you dont have to hurt them either..

A good deed is the best prayer..

I hope everyone have a blessed weeked further!

Stay safe.

Please share to let others know. Thank you

Original post is public on my profile for sharing.

05/11/2023

Oh hi 😻

05/11/2023

I would also like to give a thank you to My aunt Delene Smit van Wyk and another Facebook friend who would like to remain anonymous for the donation towards my vet bill! 💕 I appreciate it very much.

05/11/2023

I just want to send a huge THANK YOU to From Tassie with Love for sponsering these two sterries 💕 I am so grateful that that world has people like you! Thank you so much from the army base kitties and myself 😻

We appreciate you!

03/11/2023

Something fun for all the cat lovers! Chai was adopted from the Cluny Animal Trust earlier this year - his mom has entered him to be the cover model for Pet Prints 2024 and all you have to do is click on the Facebook link and like or love his picture! Voting closes tomorrow 🐱❤️🐱https://www.facebook.com/share/p/8mxz4G497h2PNpCJ/?mibextid=8vaNaI

Cluny Animal Trust PBO No. 930039295

Chai

03/11/2023

Zak update 💕

you would not say this is the same kitty from 2 days ago 😻..

This morning he watched ducks, played the garden and tried to climb the fence 😎.

Such a handsome boy!

01/11/2023

When all you did was plan to go to the mall to get groceries... You land up with cat no 21...

This little souls would not have seen the end of today if it wasn't for people who actually care...

As I was walking in, I saw a family friend Brenda Webber Jonker looking very upset, arguing with a mentally unstable homeless man.. As I walk closer, I see a kitten on his shoulder, barely moving and faint little cries.

My blood boils, this man doesn't want to give the kitten up, he is arguing and so are we, while arguing, I grab kitty from his shoulders, put her under my jacket and went to the car and drove away... Not a f**k will I have left him with that cat... Anyway, kitty is about 6/7 weeks old, skin and bones and covered in ticks ND fleas..

He has now been named Zak 😍, has had a bath, eaten a yummy meal and now sleeping in a warm bed.

Thank you Brenda for stopping this man. God knows how many people saw it and did nothing..

Welcome to the family little one.. ❤️

26/10/2023

Tonight's catch 😻

These two precious souls will be getting sterried tomorrow 💃

I must say, when I first started I was getting 3/ 4 cats in a trap, now it takes me about half an hour to catch one... They have become wary of the traps and are not so keen on going in. Well when you have seen +-70 of your friends getting caught and taken away then I'm sure you would also be wary too.

Please consider donating towards a sterrie ❤️ Thank you.

If you can't donate, all I ask is that you share this post please please 😻

Cluny Animal Trust PBO No. 930039295
Bank - standard bank
Acc no - 035278846
Branch - Bethlehem (branch code - 055033)
Swift code - SBZAZAJJ
Ref - Jessica / army base

23/10/2023

I need your help please.🙏❗❗🆘

With kitten season in full swing, fosters are short of milk for kittens.

Please can I ask you to register your pet on the royal canin website, they will send your R200 royal canin voucher code which can be used to get kitten milk ( it's about R300 a tin).
This does not cost you anything and is literally a 2 minute process.. Then please send me the codes.

Many of you have done this for my before, if so it will not work on your cell no again, so please ask your husbands, wives, mother, fathers, cousins, aunties and uncles..

Tia

21/10/2023

19/10/2023

Hi all!
I am humbly asking for donations into my vet account 🙏 with around 70 cats already TNRd at the Fouriesburg Army base, my vet account is sitting at over R7000.

I have hit a stand still with any donations towards the sterilizations. Please, every cent counts in a case like this.

Please consider donating towards my vet bill🙏 I will be forever grateful, and so. Would every TNRd Kitty who is living a better life now ❤️

If you can't donate, all I ask is that you share this post please please 😻

Cluny Animal Trust PBO No. 930039295
Bank - standard bank
Acc no - 035278846
Branch - Bethlehem (branch code - 055033)
Swift code - SBZAZAJJ
Ref - Jessica / army base

09/10/2023

I May Never Be A Lap Cat

I may never be a lap cat
Or one who comes when called
I may resist the hand that tries to touch
And some may think me flawed
I may prefer my freedom
To your warm and cozy house
I may reject the bowl of finest foods
For the chance to chase a mouse.

But the box you put out for me
Feels safe and warm and dry
And I raise my eyes to thank you
When I see you walking by
And I eat the food you give me
And I listen to your voice
I may never be a lap cat
But you offer me that choice.

One day will see the winter
One day will see the rain
I may grow old not knowing
That there is freedom from this pain
But I know you try to help me
And although my days may end
I may never be a lap cat
But I know you are my friend.

- Melanie Nordberg.

Pictured
Stompi - one of the army base kitties

07/10/2023

One thing about being in any type of rescue is the stress of finances to keep on going, some days you just feel like giving up and then Heaven sent angels like From Tassie with Love who step in and help! A rescuer will never have enough thank yous to give those who who help us, especially financially!

From the bottom of my heart and all my babies at the Army base, I would like to say thank you to very very much for your donations towards sterilizing all these babies 🙏😻

I have a lot of work still to do, and your generous donation helps me get that important work done.

God bless you ❤️

04/10/2023

Last night's catch 🎣

Another 5 BEAUTIFUL kitties trapped 😻 off to the vet to be sterried!

Below is a list explaining TNR and why it's important.

What is TNR?

TNR stands for trap, neuter (or spay), and return. Community cats are humanely trapped, brought to a spay and neuter clinic for surgical sterilization, then returned to their original location once they’ve recovered from surgery. Community cats are not placed into an adoption program, and we do not attempt to socialize them.

Why TNR?

TNR is the most humane method to reduce feral and free-roaming cat populations. TNR also provides an effective alternative to euthanasia of otherwise healthy cats. Spaying and neutering cats decreases health complications and undesirable behaviors like yowling and fighting.


Why are community cats returned to their neighborhoods after surgery?

Stray and feral cats populate an area when there’s food and shelter to support them. If the cats are removed, other cats will find the vacant space and move in. This is called the vacuum effect. The new cats will have more kittens and repeat the cycle.

With TNR, the original cats are returned to their territory after they’ve been spayed or neutered, so new cats will not move into the area. Altered cats will not continue the cycle because they cannot have kittens.


Why do community cats receive tipped ears?

A community cat receives a tipped ear at the time of their spay or neuter appointment so trappers will know they’ve already been altered. The cat will receive the tip at the time of surgery, when they’re under anesthesia, so they will not feel any pain. An ear tip is required for all community cats who come through our program. If an altered community cat with a tipped ear finds its way into a trap or new colony, the trappers take one look at that ear and know that the tipped ear means they’re taken care of.

Trap-Neuter-Return

20/09/2023

What a night!

Another 5 BEAUTIFUL kitties trapped and off to the vets to be sterilized 😻

Army base cats are catching onto me now.. When I first started trapping there, they were so hungry that I was getting 4/5 cats in a trap at once, i could never leave traps on auto because of the risk of it shutting on other cats, but last night took me almost 2 hours to get these 5 because the are aware of them now.

If you would like to sponser a sterri for any of these kitties, it's R250 for a male and R350 for a female sterri but anything would be greatly appreciated, I have also attached the vets Banking details, please ref any donations as Jess or army base cats, it really does go along way.

16/09/2023

Some of the kitties I have sterilized over the past 4 months. It's alot of cats have been done but there are so many more to go.. But some is better than none!
This hasn't been easy, but this is alot of babies that won't be born this kitten season and that is the goal.

16/09/2023

12/09/2023

12/09/2023

My buggy 💕 this month marks 2 years that you left me 😭 not a day goes by that I don't think about you, not a week goes by that I don't shed tears wishing I could hold you one more time.

You saved me in so many ways that no one would ever understand, you were the light in my life, my whole world revolved around you, the day I lost you was the day a piece of my heart died too.

I love you my boy! So so much and I miss you every single day. I wish you could have come spent this life with me on the farm, you would have loved it so much.

I always look up at you in the stars and talk to you, I know you here with me in spirit, but I miss you kisses and your touches, I miss you so much💔😭

07/09/2023

This is why I trap.

When you in rescue, you see how cruel the world really is, you see the really hard life that some of these animals have and the struggles they face. Iv been in rescue and fostering for years and it never gets better. Every year there are just more and more kittens being born.

This is why I decided to start trapping, to try fix the root of the problem. We can rescue and foster all we want but it's pointless if we are not sterilizing the adult cats.

This little girl below was a few week away from starting a whole new colony. She is a loner and stays on the other side of the base by herself, for a while iv seen her and have been saying I need to get before she has babies because it's in a part that is not accessible to me and if she has babies there, it will go from 1 cat to 5/6 cats. Anyway, she was trapped and PREGNANT!

This is why I do it! Knowing I have helped prevent some kittens being born next to a main road, risk being poisoned or living a life of struggle and hunger.

Besides my love for animals, The sad part is that it's the cruelty of the world that keeps me motivated to keep helping these cats.

YOUR PETS! STOP THE CYCLE. Don't be part of the problem!

They are not humans, they don't NEED to have babies.