Fabulous Five Desexing Fund

$375 donated

Given by 5 generous donors in 4 weeks

Please help us to pay for spay/neuter of Fabulous Five kittens found dumped on the side of the rural road and to bring them to good health!

Otago

And so it begins…

Dumping kittens on my rural road during kitten season ?

It never ceases to amaze me how disposable animals are for some ‘humans’ no matter where you live, it is everywhere… In my case it is a road I drive every day to work and back from my rural property. The road goes through the bush and has become a dumping ground for everyone’s unwanted rubbish from computers, fridges, ovens, washing machines and broken furniture to unfortunately animals! City Council contractors will come and pick up the rubbish, but who will pick up animals? They are left there to die! If I’m not driving there at the right spot in the right time to notice them and pick them up they will get under the bushes and this is it.. they are gone! They can’t survive in there, pets are not hunters! They are relying on you from the time they were born to feed them and now you dumped them in the bush?

So here they are my first lot for 2015: Fabulous Five as I call them or FF-team that I picked up on the side of the road on 3 of January!

The strength these little critters have is amazing when care and love are involved. They blossom and grow. Even with all the sadness and loss, there is hope for tomorrow! The hard part is after I take kitties from the bush or stray kittens of the streets in the city, I have to flea/worm, do what ever medical things have to be done, spay/neuter and get them to good health before finding forever homes for those that would otherwise live a short horrible life and died painfully with no one around them. But no one person can do it alone and my mission depends on the kindness of people like you to continue helping animals! So I’m asking for your help my friends to be able to pay for their medical expenses. Every little bit helps and each donation means so much! Thank you from the bottom of my heart!

Cat Rescue Dunedin's involvement (page creator)

My name is Ana and as long as I can remember I was rescuing every creature that was coming my way. I remember really clearly my first experience. I was about 4 years old and on the way home from the yard I noticed a little mouse next to the dumpster that seemed to be barely moving, so I picked it up and brought home saying to my grandmother that the mouse was not feeling well and we must save it…. And yes I probably never heard my grandmother scream so loud and certainly haven’t seen her jumping on the chair so fast and I didn’t know why! Since then my heart wants to save everyone, but truly no one person can!! I’m trying my best, but I work fulltime and I live outside the city, commuting a long way twice a day. It doesn’t leave me much time at all. So I can’t really run fulltime rescue at this stage, even though I collected a very big fur family over the years that is almost the size of animal shelter! I created and am administrating the Animal Rescue Network New Zealand Facebook page to connect rescuers and public, to help, to educate, to raise awareness and also I’m always helping those animals in need who crossing my path and there are so many!

About us

In January 2015 Cat Rescue Dunedin was formed by a small group of Dunedin residents who had seen the need for someone to begin helping the wild-born and abandoned cats and kittens living on the streets of Dunedin.

We became a charitable trust in June 2015, and since then we have desexed and rehomed hundreds of kittens which would otherwise have been left to breed uncontrollably. We were formerly known as the Animal Rescue Network NZ.

We are committed to reducing the wild-born and stray cat population through a combination of TNR and adoption.

Cats which are unable to be socialized to live with people can be humanely managed by a process known as trap, neuter, return (TNR). This means that the cats are desexed and returned to their environment where a caretaker feeds and monitors the cats to ensure their continued wellbeing. Desexing the cats ensures that their numbers don't increase, and over time the colony size reduces naturally.

Our long-term aim is to have our own shelter but until then all of our cats and kittens are fostered in private homes until they are ready for adoption.