Cats in our Cattery

Highlighting... Hugo and Charlie

A couple of young characters from our West Sussex emergency: Hugo a shorthaired apricot male who is inseparable from his brother Charlie a long haired ginger.

They are gorgeous but are not for the faint hearted. The kittens would not be suitable for children's pets but would be great in a quiet home with experienced cat owners.

They have been fully vaccinated, treated for parasites and are micro chipped. Please help if you can.

Here are some more of the cats living in our cattery, or living in the West Sussex cottage (see below) waiting to be taken in to the safety of the cattery.

If you can offer a home to one of our cats as a pet or as a working cat please, please, please phone Julie Grant on 01273 423861 or email Julie here (please include your telephone number) .

You will probably get the answer phone but please leave a message and Julie will return your call.
We all get frustrated with answer machines but Julie's whole day is taken up with looking after the cats at the moment.

We regret that the cattery is not open to the public. Should you wish to adopt a cat please phone Julie for an appointment.

About our Emergency....

60 to 70 cats!

January 2010  [From our Winter 2010 Newsletter]

Back in early November 2009 we received an emergency call that an elderly gentleman had collapsed and had been rushed into hospital. As a long term supporter of CWS he requested that we feed his cats in his absence as he had no one else who could help. Sadly, this kindly gentleman has since passed away.

So, since then, through torrential rain, floods, gales and the winter snow and ice; we have had to make a seventy mile round trip every day to feed the cats. The conditions are appalling. There is no indoor access so all feeding has to be done out in the open and we are constantly at the mercy of the weather.

Still, we have no choice. We cannot leave the cats without food. Here are some more photos of the cats.

Lots more to come into care

Up until now we have taken many of them into care but there are still lots more to come in. Although they have access to the house via cat flaps it is very bleak they have no warmth or comfort.
The cats have always been well fed and have been used to the best of everything- fresh turkey, salmon, chicken and pints of cream!!! But sadly, due to his frailty their owner was unable to cope with flea treatments and routine medicines - so some were in a pretty poor way.

The good news is that those moved to the cattery are all doing well and seem more than happy to be cuddled up with the heating on 24-7. It has taken a while to treat and assess them all and some have had to have courses of antibiotics etc.  But...

We need to start rehoming...

We urgently need to start re homing ASAP. We cannot take the remaining cats into care yet as we do not have the room to house them all in the cattery. We will have to work on a one-out one-in basis but it’s a race against time before they start to breed in the early spring.

Most of them have lovely natures but are a little nervous as they have led a very quiet existence with just one owner so they will need patience and understanding and would not be suitable for young children.
We have all colours, ages, shapes and sizes, long haired and shorthaired and even a couple with curly fur like the Devon Rex.

Some of the more feral cats will be rehomed onto stables or smallholdings and will do a useful job mousing and rat catching in exchange for food and a nice dry barn to sleep in.

If you can offer a home to one of our cats as a pet or as a working cat please, please, please phone Julie Grant on 01273 423861 or email Julie here (please include your telephone number) .