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curiouswombatMy friend D. from Skye has four beautiful cats.
When we met up last October, however, she was not showing me pictures of her own cats but pictures of a friend of hers, in New York, who looks after a colony of feral cats - ensures their health, sees to speying and neutering, generally caring for them.
At the weekend I had an e-mail from D. to tell me about a major threat to the cats and the work B does caring for them. She asked me particularly if I would ask my LJ friends for help - the full text of the e-mail is
I know all of you aren’t cat-people, some of you are dog-people and others are just humane but I thought you might all be able and willing to help by signing a petition to stop potential cat suffering.
Someone I know in Brooklyn, NY, looks after a feral cat colony in a warehouse. Under her care the colony has been managed, they have been spayed / neutered, kittens re-homed, they are fed and they even get their fixes of cat-nip. In return they help control the rat population of the warehouse as when they are well fed and fit they will hunt for sport.
The owner of the warehouse suddenly said last Friday that the people who live in the flats over the warehouse are saying that they don’t want the cats to be fed because the presence of cat food will encourage the rats, and so the carers for the colony should stop visiting / feeding – this is a warehouse that is supposedly for paper re-cycling, but seems to acquire assorted garbage, and is down by the river. The cats aren’t encouraging the rats!
Their fate could be:
Death by being deprived of food and water
· Death by eating poisoned rats – which they would do if desperate enough and there is already poison down in the warehouse
But as no cat lovers can bear either of those options Plan B is for them
· To be trapped and live in cages until a solution can be found
That isn’t nice either, is it?
The petition is to try to explain to the residents that they are actually better off with the cats in residence.
You will find the web site with the petition and more information about the colony (put together at high speed by a wonderful cat person in Dublin) here: http://savedumbo.com
The petition is counted by e-mail address so you can get all your household to sign, with a real name or a screen name – including those sophisticated cats and dogs with their own e-mail addresses! You get an email back almost at once asking you to click on a link to confirm – some people have had to retrieve these from their junk mail folders or have had delays, mainly hotmail & ntl as far as I know.
And those of you that are vaguely around NY if you know of any kind people with a spare outbuilding and a bit of land please shout now.
I know other people have put links on face book (I haven’t) and e-mailed their friends so apologies if you have had this plea already. And if any of you feel you could pass this on to others....
Thanks, D.
As D says, the cats are doing a good job of keeping down the rat population, and so getting rid of them would not be in the health interests of the people of the neighbourhood, so if you want to help, please do click and sign, (http://savedumbo.com).
Thank you.
When we met up last October, however, she was not showing me pictures of her own cats but pictures of a friend of hers, in New York, who looks after a colony of feral cats - ensures their health, sees to speying and neutering, generally caring for them.
At the weekend I had an e-mail from D. to tell me about a major threat to the cats and the work B does caring for them. She asked me particularly if I would ask my LJ friends for help - the full text of the e-mail is
I know all of you aren’t cat-people, some of you are dog-people and others are just humane but I thought you might all be able and willing to help by signing a petition to stop potential cat suffering.
Someone I know in Brooklyn, NY, looks after a feral cat colony in a warehouse. Under her care the colony has been managed, they have been spayed / neutered, kittens re-homed, they are fed and they even get their fixes of cat-nip. In return they help control the rat population of the warehouse as when they are well fed and fit they will hunt for sport.
The owner of the warehouse suddenly said last Friday that the people who live in the flats over the warehouse are saying that they don’t want the cats to be fed because the presence of cat food will encourage the rats, and so the carers for the colony should stop visiting / feeding – this is a warehouse that is supposedly for paper re-cycling, but seems to acquire assorted garbage, and is down by the river. The cats aren’t encouraging the rats!
Their fate could be:
Death by being deprived of food and water
· Death by eating poisoned rats – which they would do if desperate enough and there is already poison down in the warehouse
But as no cat lovers can bear either of those options Plan B is for them
· To be trapped and live in cages until a solution can be found
That isn’t nice either, is it?
The petition is to try to explain to the residents that they are actually better off with the cats in residence.
You will find the web site with the petition and more information about the colony (put together at high speed by a wonderful cat person in Dublin) here: http://savedumbo.com
The petition is counted by e-mail address so you can get all your household to sign, with a real name or a screen name – including those sophisticated cats and dogs with their own e-mail addresses! You get an email back almost at once asking you to click on a link to confirm – some people have had to retrieve these from their junk mail folders or have had delays, mainly hotmail & ntl as far as I know.
And those of you that are vaguely around NY if you know of any kind people with a spare outbuilding and a bit of land please shout now.
I know other people have put links on face book (I haven’t) and e-mailed their friends so apologies if you have had this plea already. And if any of you feel you could pass this on to others....
Thanks, D.
As D says, the cats are doing a good job of keeping down the rat population, and so getting rid of them would not be in the health interests of the people of the neighbourhood, so if you want to help, please do click and sign, (http://savedumbo.com).
Thank you.
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Date: 24/03/2009 12:08 am (UTC)May I just ask people who sign to please check their spam folder - to add your signature to the petition you have to click the link in the confirmation email we send you, but many (about 70 now) are now lost in spam folders... so please check yours after you sign if you don't get an email from us immediately.
And if you've any queries please email us at cats at savedumbo dot com.
Thank you!
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