This is the sort of outcome that really warms the hearts of those at WCK, while its not everyone cup of tea and we appreciate that (there are many benefits for all involved)
Meet Pickles and Branston
We first got a call in late April in regards to a property just out of Featherston owned by an amazing couple Ian and Tess Mallet. They had come across a wee tabby "Pickles" frequenting their Hay barn...We lent them a trap and once caught they desexed and chipped this wee boy and set about releasing him back to the barn...within a couple of weeks, it seems who ever dumped Pickles had dumped another. Once again the trap goes out, and this wonderful couple set about trapping, desexing, chipping and releasing "Branston" back out with his brother.
These boys are only a young and without the kindness shown by the Mallets had a very uncertain future. One of possible starvation, fighting with the spread of disease from other "stray cats" and roaming to find queens on heat. They will now have a happy, healthy long life. While keeping a couple of barn cats might not be everyone's idea....keeping a couple of desexed barn cats helps to keep others away from taking that territory, slows the breeding of unowned strays and most importantly saving a life, from an animal that never asked to born, but purely was due to someone not caring enough to desex their pet and once its no longer cute. Dump it.
Community attitudes in the Wairarapa are beginning to change for the positive, with our regions growing population of "community cats", with many calls now coming into WCK purely for advice, not just surrenders. Far to often we have collected cats and kits on the side of the road, with horrific injuries, disease ridden and many others just driving by, this annoys us the most. It doesn't take much to save a life, to help, and in the case where they cant always be saved...can leave this world with a kind hand, who even for a short time cared enough to help and end the suffering, the starvation, the spread of disease. So a huge Thankyou to the Mallets and all the rest of the Wairarapa Community who are stepping up to help. It wont be over night but long term, together we can make a difference!!!
