NEWSLETTER / January - February 2012
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Welcome to our Jan/Feb newsletter - read on for lots of interesting tidbits from the trust and if you are interested in subscribing please email Cathy at owens@nznet.co.nz. :)


First newsletter of the year!

Welcome to the first newsletter for the new year, we have many items to report this month. An excellent BBQ was held at Mitre 10 Mega in Takanini just before Christmas and recently on the 14th January. (Thank to Jan, Kyle and Cathy for their undying support).

Both events were well patronised and our funds were boosted. This is just as well as we have had a full number of kittens arrive so once again we have a full house.

We have BBQs at Animates in Manukau in the near future and we are again calling for volunteers to man these. Even if you can only give us half a day, it is a BIG help. Contact Yvonne on 09 276 9960 if you are interested or need more info.

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To those who have been following Lucky's Story - read on:

All About Lucky

On Sunday January 8 2012 our little blind man Lucky went to his forever home. After almost 10 months of love and nourishing and excellent medical attention from his Vet Aunty Amy Burnett from Great South Vets in Papatoetoe, he was given a clean bill of health and his Mummy and Daddy (pictured below) came to take their little boy home.

lucky family

I remember the way he looked when our volunteer Aunty Sandi (pictured above holding Lucky) brought him to us he was covered in scabs and his eyes were bulging from the Calicivirus. He was such a sick little baby and I wondered who could have allowed him to get into this awful state.

From day one with us he had the will to live and our little man overcame all obstacles, integrating himself into the house with the other cats and just being a kitten.

The swelling of his eyes decreased and we thought that we may save his left eye, everything was going well with him, but at the age of 6 months the cornea blew in his left eye and surgery to remove both eyes was a necessity. Aunty Amy also found a polyp in his left ear, and that was removed as well as him being neutered at the same time, he was also micro chipped and vaccinated.

Lucky never looked back and to see him catch a fly was an awesome experience, truly amazing, to share moments of him learning to finely tune the senses that he would draw on to see him through the rest of his life is very humbling.

To witness the comfortable way that he went to his new Mummy and Daddy was simply beautiful, to pack up his beloved toys that made Lucky what he is was gut wrenching, but knowing that he had a forever home, that is all that we could ever ask for.

May you always grasp life with those lovely strong paws that you stretch out to embrace the life you have young man, you are and always will be our treasured little boy.

Yvonne Brown

LUCKY's TIMELINE

lucky timeline

Santa and Harry

harry

Harry gives Santa many thanks for his forever home - what else does he need? :)

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OUTGOINGS

Our apologies for an omission in our last newsletter. Celia was omitted as going to a forever home with James and Lorna.

Midnight and Many have got new homes.

Esau also has a forever home with Joy and Tony. This is a quote from their email to us: "We just wanted to elt you know that we just love Esau and he loves us. He is becoming more and more affectionate every day. We kept him inside for a month as you suggested and let him out last weekend. He loves to climb the trees and spends a lot of time in the roof of our garage, sleeping on suitcases and rugs etc. He is very entertaining and we hope we will have him for many years"

We do enjoy receiving these emails, we know our efforts are not in vain.

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To all who donated so generously to Lucky's Appeal, we say THANK YOU. Without your help the out-come would not have been as it is.

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A hearfelt note:

Please understand we have very limited resources and we cannot take every cat and kitten that the public call us about. We are a very small non-profit organisation and it is unfair to use emotional blackmail on us. Our hearts go out to the cats, but we cannot save all -- we cannot save the world--.

We can hope that people like yourselves will take the opportunity when it presents itself, to encourage others to DESEX their cats and make every cat and kitten a wanted life.

Also spare a thought for Yvonne, who at times has had to endure abusive phone calls demanding that Cats In Need Trust fixes their problem of a stray cat.



QUOTE OF THE MONTH
"A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not." -Ernest Hemmingway