Help our Dump Cats

That's what the start of a new year feels full of.

Plans are in place to share a stall with Kittycat Rehoming at Martinborough Fair in March.

We have a new trap with double ends for cats to enter. This means we can potentially catch several kittens at once or perhaps two cats. We are looking at how to alter it so that the cats inside it are safer from injury and can feel calmer but just the thicker wire of this trap should mean fewer scratched up and bumped noses.

We have two new fosterers which is absolutely magic.

Of course, we have one million challenges. Attitudes in the community are really negative towards stray cats. Some of those attitudes find expression in unpleasant ways. We have a long way to go building partnerships and encouraging people to walk with us instead of at odd tangents or the opposite direction.

I really hope we make steps in the right direction this year. There are many ways we can be derailed but I am seeing lots of things to give us hope. For that reason I've paired this update with an earlier picture of Quinn. Our adults are hard work, and expensive, but so worth it. She is battered but the funniest, most characterful person in the world. She's been forgetting how to hiss and watches her holiday carer attentively. Every moment we spend together (I foster Quinn) I think of the others still out there who are just like her but haven't yet had the chance. We'll never find them all and many die each week. But step by step we will build a better world for as many as we can reach. Like Quinn they'll see better days.