October 2013
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30th October 2013
A young male was caught in one of our colonies and neutered. |
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25th October 2013
Phoebe's teeth were extracted. Hopefully he'll feel much better very soon! At this time he can only eat babyfood... |
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23rd October 2013
Spikey and CJ 2 were neutered. Two lovely boys, both caught in our colonies. |
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22nd October 2013
Bro is doing very well. He has to stay one or two days more with the collar to be sure the wound has healed but it looks very good! |
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21st October 2013
We saw Phoebe having problems eating and we suspected him having problems with his teeth and/or gums. We caught him and took him to the vet, where it was confirmed that he has very bad teeth but because he was breathing with difficulties he had a cortisone and antibiotic injection. He needs antibiotics for a few more days and hopefully by the end of the week (or the beginning of next week) his teeth can be extracted. |
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18th October 2013
Spikey was caught in a colony to be neutered but he had signs of cat-flu so he couldn’t be sedated. We’ll keep him in our recovery for a week and he’ll have antibiotics. |
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17th October 2013
We postponed it for a long time but it was needed to neuter Bro…
He’s one year old now and usually we neuter at the age of 6-7 months but after all his suffering we felt so sorry for him, especially because he was cryptorchid (one of his testicles failed to descend into the scrotum).
It’s like this beautiful, lovely boy had to encounter all possible problems…
The operation took long because it was difficult to find the not-descended testicle but finally it was found in the groin canal (inguinal canal).
It was very important to remove it because it could cause cancer and of course this is the last thing we want….
He has a wound of approx. 7 cm. and the vet recommended an Elizabethan collar to prevent him from licking/biting the stitches. This is something we really hate as we had a lot of problems in the past and decided not to use this anymore but the (lovely) vet begged us to give it a try for at least 2 days so we gave in.
As expected: Bro went CRAZY after waking up and soon we decided to take this plastic collar off and changed it for a soft collar, which is much more comfortable!
Bro calmed down and seems to be quite comfortable with it.
He needs antibiotics for 7 days and hopefully after this he’ll NEVER have any problems again!
We postponed it for a long time but it was needed to neuter Bro…
He’s one year old now and usually we neuter at the age of 6-7 months but after all his suffering we felt so sorry for him, especially because he was cryptorchid (one of his testicles failed to descend into the scrotum).
It’s like this beautiful, lovely boy had to encounter all possible problems…
The operation took long because it was difficult to find the not-descended testicle but finally it was found in the groin canal (inguinal canal).
It was very important to remove it because it could cause cancer and of course this is the last thing we want….
He has a wound of approx. 7 cm. and the vet recommended an Elizabethan collar to prevent him from licking/biting the stitches. This is something we really hate as we had a lot of problems in the past and decided not to use this anymore but the (lovely) vet begged us to give it a try for at least 2 days so we gave in.
As expected: Bro went CRAZY after waking up and soon we decided to take this plastic collar off and changed it for a soft collar, which is much more comfortable!
Bro calmed down and seems to be quite comfortable with it.
He needs antibiotics for 7 days and hopefully after this he’ll NEVER have any problems again!
With the plastic collar
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With the soft collar
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15th October 2013
Time for an update…(especially for Connie who reads our update every day ;-)
Sorry Connie, there was no time for regular updates these last months…
We’ve been so busy, especially with bottle-feeding kittens; we’ve been bottle-feeding from the 26th February (Fuxa) till a few weeks ago (Bobby, Bibi and Balou). This might look very romantic and idyllic but it’s a hell of a job: feeding every 2-3 hours, even during the night… it’s exhausting!
At least we managed to find good homes for almost all of them (some of them are still here…) and now we can concentrate on trapping and neutering the cats in the colonies we’re feeding.
Not that we didn’t trap and neuter during the last months: we neutered 57 males and 34 females till now this year and hopefully there will be much more in the coming months. Of course this depends on the funds we’ll receive because unfortunately the vets are not working for free and a lot of bills have to be paid.
We’ve received some financial help from abroad and this made it possible to buy some much needed equipment; yesterday we used our new cat-trap for the first time and we’re so happy with this! It’s much less noisy than the other ones and the cats hardly realize that they are trapped! Thank you Marchig Trust!
Underneath some pictures of yesterday.
Time for an update…(especially for Connie who reads our update every day ;-)
Sorry Connie, there was no time for regular updates these last months…
We’ve been so busy, especially with bottle-feeding kittens; we’ve been bottle-feeding from the 26th February (Fuxa) till a few weeks ago (Bobby, Bibi and Balou). This might look very romantic and idyllic but it’s a hell of a job: feeding every 2-3 hours, even during the night… it’s exhausting!
At least we managed to find good homes for almost all of them (some of them are still here…) and now we can concentrate on trapping and neutering the cats in the colonies we’re feeding.
Not that we didn’t trap and neuter during the last months: we neutered 57 males and 34 females till now this year and hopefully there will be much more in the coming months. Of course this depends on the funds we’ll receive because unfortunately the vets are not working for free and a lot of bills have to be paid.
We’ve received some financial help from abroad and this made it possible to buy some much needed equipment; yesterday we used our new cat-trap for the first time and we’re so happy with this! It’s much less noisy than the other ones and the cats hardly realize that they are trapped! Thank you Marchig Trust!
Underneath some pictures of yesterday.
Trap set up...
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The first one coming...
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Just before trapping..
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A (trapping)day like this is very stressful –not only for the cats!- because when you love them, you feel pity for them. When they are caught they panic and of course we try to give them the least stress by taking them to the vet straight away and when they wake up they’re in a cosy environment, but still…
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The two boys who were caught and neutered.
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We treat them like kings and queens in our recovery but they’re scared and we would like to keep them all here but unfortunately this is not possible and we have to take them back to their colony.
A lot of times this is heart-breaking….. we wish all these little lovely creatures would have a loving home…
With your support we can continue our work; please help us to take care of these less fortunate little creatures!
4th October 2013
The Primary School in Mellieha celebrated World Animal Day and for the 3rd year we were invited to represent Animal Care Malta in this wonderful event.
The children were allowed to bring their pets to be blessed by the priest but some of them preferred to bring a picture or a soft toy because they didn’t want to stress their beloved pets, an initiative we support…
We were allowed to tell the children about our work and we told them about the rescued kittens of last year, accompanied by a slide-show.
There were a lot of “oohhhs and aaaahhhs” when they saw the pictures of Fuxa, a kitten who we rescued when he was only one day old and became a beautiful boy.
After our presentation we were presented by the catfood which was collected by the children these last week.
The children were allowed to bring their pets to be blessed by the priest but some of them preferred to bring a picture or a soft toy because they didn’t want to stress their beloved pets, an initiative we support…
We were allowed to tell the children about our work and we told them about the rescued kittens of last year, accompanied by a slide-show.
There were a lot of “oohhhs and aaaahhhs” when they saw the pictures of Fuxa, a kitten who we rescued when he was only one day old and became a beautiful boy.
After our presentation we were presented by the catfood which was collected by the children these last week.
