DoggieRescue CATS E-Magazine January 2017

ADDRESS : 2 Mc Cowan Rd, Cnr. Bloodwood Rd, INGLESIDE. 2101
OPEN: 10am-5pm Tuesday-Sunday

DoggieRescue PHONE: 9486-3133

J ANUAR Y NO KILL
2017
SHELTER
Issue 7

TO BYIS WAITING
TO LIGHTUP YOUR

LIFE IN 2017!
Meet him & all his feline

friends inside...

www.DoggieRescue.com

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Monika with Logan

What’s inside: Published
MONTHLY

FROM MY DESK 2 Dear Supporters,
By Monika Biernacki 3
4 -5 The year 2016 has drawn to a close and as we put
START THE NEW YEAR BY our Christmas celebrations behind us we look to a
SAVING A LIFE! brand new year with many desperate cats and
kittens filling the pounds surrounding Sydney. Many
MERIDA & TOBY ( Cover boy) beautiful homeless kitties are featured throughout
Adopt a bonded pair this magazine and if you are genuinely seeking to
add a furry friend to your family there could not be
STOP BEING A LITTER-BUG! Desex 6-7 a better time than now with so many homeless.
your kitties now.. By Deb Rouse
The staff at The Cottage Animal Hospital and our
MEET SOME OF DOGGIERESCUE’S 8-10 volunteers are committed to saving those that are
ADORABLE KITTIES! sick and abandoned. Nursing and feeding kittens
who are days old through to Mums and kitties from
UPDATE ON LAST MONTH’S COVER 11 the pound with ringworm and cat flu are part of
GIRL “QUEEN” IN HER NEW HOME! everyday work at that busy vet practice. These
strays get the same attention and care as their
FEATURING CATS AT BLACKTOWN 16-19 private clients. They too have kitties waiting to meet
ANIMAL HOLDING FACILITY their forever families and for more information
please give them a call on 9890 7220.
FEATURING CATS AT 20-26
CAMPBELLTOWN ANIMAL HOLDING 27 “ In 2017 I look forward to your continued
FACILITY support and care for all our homeless animals.”

FEATURING CATS AT HAWKESBURY Email: [email protected]
ANIMAL SHELTER

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Location: 2 Rose St (off Blaxland Rd), Campbelltown 2560
Opening hours: Mon: 9:00am - 3:30pm

Tues - Fri : 9:00am - 3:00pm
Sat: 9:00am - 12:00pm Sun: Closed
Closed: 1st & 2nd January, 2017

Campbelltown Animal Care Facility 02 4645 4790 CLICK HERE FOR LINK TO THE WEB SITE

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START THE NEW YEAR BY

SAVING A LIFE!

— JANUARY 2017 —

CAMPBELLTOWN ANIMAL CARE FACILITY HAS CATS/KITTENS NEEDING LOVING HOMES!

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• Adopt me! LIGHT UP YOUR LIFE IN 2017 WITH A FURRY FRIEND...

Merida & Toby

• Merida Domestic Shorthair Tortoiseshell 12mths Female

Sponsor Merida to give her a better chance of a home! Email: [email protected]

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Download our CAT ADOPTION FORMS here: http://www.doggierescue.com/forms.htm

Rescued, bonded young couple

• Toby Domestic Shorthair White 12mths Male ( Toby is hearing impaired )

Sponsor: “ Just ‘cause you’re such a good boy!” Jane & Romeo

6 JANUARY 2017 DOGGIERESCUE.COM CATS E-MAGAZINE Written by
Deb Rouse
• Feline FEATURE

Stop being a
litter-bug! Desex
your kitties now!

Over the last few years we have been seeing the kitten-season become year long, climate
change is likely to be one contributing factor but the major factor is lack of desexing! It has
been reported to us that cats are breeding multiple times during summer, and the flow of
pregnant cats and little kitty-babes does not stop during winter.

Absolutely heart-breaking is the news of the So each cat that is not desexed may produce on
numbers of kittens being dumped at the pounds average around 24 or more kittens per year…
this summer: one pound had 40 kittens left in 2
days!! Two weeks earlier they had 51 cats and kittens but it gets worse…
left with them, and there have been drop-offs in
between. How high will the numbers go this summer? each of those female kittens may be pregnant them-
selves at the age of 6 months! And will have kicked off
Yet rescue groups are reporting that they are their own chain of ever rising number of kittens and cats
distributing desexing-vouchers in ever increasing And within a year without desexing another 60
numbers. These provide a low-cost option for those kitties may be born, with an increasing number year
with hardships who cannot afford the usual $150-$250 after year!
per kitten at a vets. Nearly all rescue groups absorb
the desex cost in their low-charge adoption fee for the And it is not just the owner of the female cats who needs
cats and kittens under their care, and are only able to to take responsibility… undesexed males are just as
do so based on kind $ donations from the public. responsible for the number of unwanted kitty-litters per
year.
There is no general rational reason for not desexing
your pet regardless of it being a cat or dog. The So don’t be a kitty-litter bug…desex your kitty!
Australian National Desexing Network (NDN) lists
several benefits for the animals’ health, behaviour and Other ways you can help:
costs: http://www.ndn.org.au/benefits-of-desexing.html
They also offer vouchers for desexing females • Adopt don’t shop – adopt a
$40 and males $25 – please spread the word!
rescued cat or kitten which
The pregnancy period for a cat is usually 9 weeks – is looking for a new family
two calendar months, in easily less than another month
they may be pregnant again! A cat may have at least • Donate $, food, kitty litter
4 sets of litters per year, and each litter may be from
4 to up to 8 kittens! to kitty-rescue groups

• Volunteer your time

and help – there
are so many ways to help

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At 6 months your female kitty may have 6 kittens, 3 of which may be females

IN ON E YEAR OM G what happens in year 2?!!

M1 M2 M3 M4 M5 M6 M7 M8 M9 M10 M11 M12

1 little kitty

3 months later if undesexed, your kitty may have 6 kittens

3 months later, your kitty may have another 6 kittens
3 months later, your kitty may have another 6 kittens

3 months later, your kitty may have another 6 kittens

but at 6 months after your first
litter was born, those 3 females
have their own kittens!

& 6 months after the second litter was born,
those 3 females have their own kittens

Congratulations!! From your one un-desexed kitty you have contributed an additional 60 kitties
in one year! And an ever increasing number if subsequent owners decide not to dexex too!!

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• Adopt me! MAKE 2017 THE YEAR THAT YOU CHANGE A KITTIES LIFE!

• LIL Domestic Short Hair • LOGAN Domestic Short Hair • ITSY Domestic Short Hair 7mths

7mths Black/White Female 8mths Ginger Male FIV+ Black Female

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Annabelle Pinocchio Jiminy Annabelle 7mths
Astro Female Tuxedo
FURRY Sponsor Annabelle!

FRIENDS Astro 7mths Male
Tuxedo Sponsor:
“ A house without a
cat is not a home!”
Love from Sylvia
Raye

Can be adopted
separately but will
make a lovely pair.

Jiminy & Pinocchio
Adult Males Bi
Colour brothers.
Sponsor: “ Some-
where a loving
home is waiting!”
Lesley Cansdell &
Titch & “With love
from Joey & Rosie!”
Pat Broderick

A bonded pair to be
rehomed together.

• For more details on the cats featured or others not pictured please phone DoggieRescue on 9486-3133

Our kitties love FANCY FEAST and BREEDERS CHOICE cat litter….

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Tennessee and William are gentle and
sweet tabby and white boys. They are looking
for that special someone that can help them
continue to grow in confidence and let their
beautiful personalities shine through. They come
desexed, wormed, F3 vaccinated, FIV tested &
micro chipped. Adoption fee is $220 each.
If you are interested in meeting them, please fill
in the Cat Adoption Questionnaire and email it to
[email protected] or call 9486 3133.

CLICK HERE FOR VIDEO

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• Update WHERE ARE THEY NOW? Compiled by December Cover Girl Queen

Postcard from Queen & her forever Family!!

Hi Everyone,

I just wanted to give you an update on my new life. I am becoming more and more confident every day,
and am getting to love and be affectionate with my new family. I already sit on their laps for cuddles,
with lots of purrs and smooching, only of course when I feel like it! I am also becoming more
adventurous, coming down from my safe space and exploring more of my new home. The other girls
( felines who already live here ) just keep their distance from me, content to sleep. No confrontations,
just staring. I have formed a bond with the most beautiful cat who sits and stares at me also. Funny
thing—she looks a lot like me! My new family loves my super powers; the way I can jump so high!! I am
always so sweet and happy to see them when they return from going out for a short while. I just wish
that all the cats in this magazine could find a home as good as mine! Happy 2017. Love from Queen

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HAPPY ENDING STORIES OF 2016

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In December one Sydney pound had reached crisis point. Cats
& Kittens were pouring in daily to an already overcrowded
pound. There were 19 cats designated for destruction...

It seemed these poor, innocent victims of Christmas were simply doomed to die for how could so many
be adopted/rescued just a few weeks before Christmas when rescue shelters themselves were so full?

I followed this heartbreaking story on the
facebook site below, watching, hoping that
somehow a miracle would occur. I noticed
that many of the cats who were featured in
our Christmas Edition of Cats E-Magazine
were listed for destruction on Tuesday 6/12
including a very frightened pair of
surrendered cats called Tango & Sheba.

https://www.facebook.com/
Campbelltownpoundcats/

Please, don’t blame the pound who had no
option with so many cats and kittens being
dumped. The onus is on all the irresponsible
people who don’t desex their pets. Who not
only abandon them but at the worst possible
time of the year to give them a chance of
adoption, when all pounds are so full. I felt I
didn’t want to see the end of this tragic story.

But I had not counted on people power as cat lovers joined
together to try and save these precious lives. One by one
they put their hands up to help in what truly shows the tre-
mendous rehoming tool of social media…..

As Tuesday dawned facebook went into overdrive. Cat lovers who
could not adopt donated, so many of the urgent cats had a CASH
BACK scheme, many with their adoption fees to be reimbursed in
full if a home could be found. As the day progressed cat’s names
came up with ADOPTED/ RESCUED and people prayed that some-
how a few of these precious lives would be saved. I know I did.

Tuesday night this message was put up ...“ We want to thank so many people today. A few days ago, 19 cats
were due to be put to sleep at 2:00pm today. Today saw a mammoth effort from rescues and adopters to
save these cats. We want to thank the sponsors, people donating toward advertising, the people who
adopted, the transporters, the rescues involved and the massive support network on this page. People were
all coming out of the woodwork to help. You all helped to save 19 lives this week. Thank you all so much.”

Note: Tango & Sheba scored an adoption, together. To all you wonderful people —THANK YOU!!!

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This crisis is happening NOW in some pound, probably Imp: PCC6230
in many pounds. Even though overworked pound staff 8wks Ginger Male
and rescue shelters try their hardest not all CATS/ Hawkesbury Pound
KITTENS are able to be saved. Many perish, especially CLICK HERE
during the Dec/Jan holiday period. Irresponsible pet
owners simply walk away without a thought for their
dumped pet. …..

• It is NOT ILLEGAL to surrender a pet, or
to not desex your pet and let it have
kittens.

• It isn’t illegal to abandon a pet who loves
you without a care for it’s future or if it
survives, or the fact that it will be so
afraid when left to die in a strange
environment.

It is not illegal, but it is absolutely
heartless…

4 WAYS YOU TOO CAN HELP
SAVE LIVES!

1. ADOPT—DON’T SHOP Are you seriously wanting a KITTEN / CAT this Christmas? Are you committed to
caring for your new pet for the next perhaps 20 years? If the answer is YES then please...adopt a homeless
kitty from a pound. They are just as beautiful and their lives are equally precious and worth saving.

2. CAN’T ADOPT THEN NETWORK On these two pages are links to large pounds. Scroll down the lists of
kittens and cats looking for homes—SPREAD THE WORD! There are thousands of cat lovers on
TWITTER and FACEBOOK. Send these links to all of your friends.

3. VOLUNTEER Contact the pounds on these pages (or your local pound) and ask them how you can help.
Donate your time and resources.

4. FOSTER A KITTY If you are really serious in saving a life enquire about rescue groups in your area. Do
you have a secure environment where a kitten/s or a cat could be cared for and a few weeks/months to
spare?

On the following pages in this E-Magazine you will see many homeless kitties urgently needing
adoption or the reprieve that a foster home brings. If you are looking for a new furry friend and
are serious about caring for this pet for the rest of it’s life PLEASE consider one of these very
deserving kitties whose only fault has been to be owned and dumped by families who should
never had owned a pet in the first place. To give a homeless kitty a home not only gives that pet
a home but literally means that you have SAVED A LIFE— is there any better feeling?

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This time last year I was brand new and so spoilt and loved by my family...

I know my My family abandoned me
family will but I’m not sure why..
come and
take me They just could not keep me
home. so they said goodbye…
My time is running out and
They said I’m not sure how much
they loved longer I can stay,
me….
But my paws are crossed that
perhaps this day will be my

lucky day!
I rub my head upon my cage

and purr and purr away…
Oh, please will I find my

new family TODAY?

I am so
frightened—

THOUSANDS OF CATS
& KITTENS WILL
PERISH OVER THE
HOLIDAY SEASON.

Dumped by their uncaring families
who either don’t look for them when
they are lost or surrender them to an
unknown fate at a time of the year
when pounds and shelters are full.

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Everyone wanted to hold me and pat me...

I was so
contented
and loved.

I would
spend my day
sleeping and
waiting for
my family to
come home.

Life was
good but
then...

Most of the cats sitting in pounds right now are
abandoned pets. The reasons given for giving
up their pets range from...

• We are moving
• We have a baby now
• He’s not cute anymore
• I am allergic to cats
• I did not think he would live this long
• We are going on holidays and will get

another when we come back

A stranger came and took me away

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“ I’m as cute as cute can be,
please adopt me! ” Clarette

Each of these photos represents a loving, full of life cat on death row.

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For details of each featured cat at Blacktown Animal Holding Facility please see page 18

February March April -Click here

May June July—Click here

August—Click here September October

November –Click here December

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CALENDAR CATS 9 out of 10 people adopt a kitten.
2017 from p16-17 Only 1 out of 10 adopts an adult cat.

January: Imp.4936 CLARETTE Imp: 4862 JASMYNE 1-3yrs Torti/White Female
3-6mths Tabby/White Female VIDEO CLICK HERE:

February: Imp.5136 MAID MAKE A DIFFERENCE!
MARION 1-3yrs Ginger Female ADOPT AN ADULT CAT

March: Imp.4717 BRUNO
1-3yrs Black Male

April: Imp.4938 VIVIAN
1-3yrs Blue Torti Female

May: Imp.5145 ANTONY
8wks Black/White Male

June: Imp.4929 GINA
1-3yrs Torti Female

July: Imp.4870 ASTAIRE
1-3yrs Black/White Male

August: Imp.5066 NEWTON
6mths-1yrs White/Black Male

September: Imp. 4706 HANKS
Tabby/White Female

October: Imp.5138 RITCHIE
8-12wks Ginger Male

November: Imp.5177 NEMO
1-3yrs Ginger/Tabby Male

December: Imp.4530 TAVI
6wks Tabby/White Unknown

WHERE: Blacktown’s Animal Holding Facility
415 Flushcombe Road, PROSPECT. NSW

WHEN: Monday to Friday 8:30 am to 4:30 pm
Saturday 9:00 am to 1:00 pm
Sunday 9:00 am to 11:00 am

( Closed Public Holidays )

COST: Prices vary—contact the pound

BLACKTOWN ANIMAL HOLDING FACILITY
Phone: 9839-6161 CLICK HERE!

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Blacktown Animal
Holding Facility

Cats & kittens Phone : 9839 6161
URGENTLY

needing loving
homes ...

Start 2017 by
SAVING A LIFE!

Wanting to adopt a cat. Scrolling through the Blacktown website…
Came across these 6 poor quality photos. Not what you are looking
for...but wait!!! A poor photo does not sell a kitty but a VIDEO does.
Click on each photo to see how stunning these cats REALLY are!!!

Imp: 5144 Imp: 4979
CLEOPATRA RICKY

Imp: 5031 Imp: 948 BONDED
LIONEL JOE BONDED

Imp: 5103
PICASSO

Imp: 5069
EFRON

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Santa was bringing us
homes for Christmas
but... he forgot!!!

CLICK HERE ANIMAL CARE

Location: 2 Rose St (off Blaxland Rd), FACILITY
Campbelltown 2560
29 - 30 December 2016 - Closed
31 December 2016 - Open 9.00am-12.00pm
1-2 January 2017 - Closed
3 January 2017 - Normal hours resume
Contact: Animal Care Facility Office
Business hours phone: 02 4645 4790

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Christmas is
scary...

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WHERE DO YOU

FIND US?

Campbelltown Animal Care Facility : CLICK HERE to see individual cat’s bios
For more details please phone : (02) 4645 4790

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Heidi and Princess....

This lovely pair of girls came
to the pound loaded with
fleas, so much that some of
their hair is missing. Poor
darlings. They've suffered, but
now they've been treated and
are on the mend. It's time for
them to have a good home,
with proper care, good food
and regular flea and other
parasite treatment. Cats need
this sort of basic care, at
least.

Can you offer them a better
home this time around?

To read more about them :
CLICK HERE
for Campbelltown Animal
Care Facility

Christmas is over and yet the
many kittens and cats who
wait in pound still hope and
pray for a miracle. The busy
pound staff are also hoping
that some more lives are able
to be saved for the cages are
full and more come in every
day.

Is there a better way to start a
brand new year than by
saving a precious life?

PLEASE GIVE A HOMELESS
PET THE CHANCE TO
GROWN OLD AND TO LIVE
THEIR LIFE TO THE FULL.

PLEASE………………….

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ADOPT A KITTEN/CAT Copyright 2017

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site "Adopt a Pet", then "See the Cats!" given to reprint for educational
purposes only, provided that
http://www.doggierescue.com/adoption_cat.htm DoggieRescue.com Magazine is
for the latest information on available cats and kitties. acknowledged.
A BIG THANK YOU goes to the public/readers for supporting adoption
from the vets of rescued kitties - the more CATS & KITTENS who are Published by: DoggieRescue.com
ADOPTED, the MORE THAT CAN BE SAVED from death in POUNDS. ABN 49098918471

The Hawkesbury Companion Animal Shelter is located at Address: 8 Chiltern Rd
10 Mulgrave Road, Mulgrave NSW 2756. CLICK HERE Ingleside NSW 2101
Phone: 9486 3133 or 0429 044 484

Editor, Advertising, Typesetting,
Layout & Design: Corinne Daw
[email protected]

Photography: Kim Bernotas
& Oznur Mezgil

Printing: Printing: SPOTPRESS
9549-1111 www.spotpress.com.au

Advertising: 9746-5446

DISCLAIMER: The point of view
that is expressed by some
contributors in their respective
articles does not necessarily reflect
that of the Publisher, Editor.

Advertising for services and
products appearing here is
accepted by the Publisher and
Editor in good faith. However the
Publisher and Editor give no
guarantee or endorsement of
products or services, nor the
advertisers will fulfill their
obligations.

Monday to Friday: 9.00am - 12.30pm and 2.00pm - 4.30pm
Saturday: 9.30am - 11.30am Sunday: 7.00am - 9.00am

Phone: (02) 4560 4644 / Fax: (02) 4577 6604 SAVING ANIMALS LIVES FOR
OVER 15 YEARS
Email:[email protected]

No - Kill Charity Phone 9486-3133 Volunteers welcome!

2017

Please call DoggieRescue on 9486-3133 at Ingleside or fill in the Adoption form for cats
on www.doggierescue.com/adoption_cat and email it to [email protected]

A HAPPY NEW YEAR TO OUR FANTASTIC SUPPORTERS...