Your Cat — November 2017

10 Your Cat November 2017

c a t c h - u p NEWS-DIARY DATES-BOOKS-GOSSIP-GIVEAWAYS

by Anthony Smith

DIARY DATES

October 18

Battersea Dogs & Cats Home will

be hosting its next Knitting Kittens

event at its London centre from 5pm

to 8pm. All are welcome to come

and knit a blanket or toy for the cats.

Admission is £2; bring your own wool

and needles. For more information,

call 0843 509 4444.

October 26

Wood Green, the Animals Charity, will

be running a Cat MOT at its London

centre on Lordship Lane in Wood

Green from 12pm onwards. Your cat

will be given a full body check-up,

dental advice, microchip checking

and some basic behaviour advice.

For more information, or to make

a booking, call 0300 303 9333 x1005.

October 27

Cats Protection’s Cornwall adoption

centre is hosting a Children’s

Halloween Black Cat Club at Cardon

Downs village hall. Activities will

include Halloween arts and crafts,

junior cat care talk, cat-themed quiz,

games, and story-telling. Admission

is £2 per child, and includes a free

goody bag. To book, call Sarah Searle

on 07814 223901.

November 15

The RSPCA’s Sheffield Animal Centre

will be hosting a Ladies Fashion Show

and Sale at its centre at 2 Stadium

Way, Sheffield, from 7pm onwards. For

more information, call 0114 289 8050

or email [email protected]

The RSPCA is caring for a feral cat and

her kittens, after the litter was born in

a tree in London!

Locals became concerned for the

kittens’ welfare after spotting them with

their mum in the branches.

RSPCA inspector Phil Norman says:

“We believe that the mother had given

birth up in the tree, where she felt safe

and secure. But, for day-old kittens to be

at such a height is obviously potentially

very dangerous, and three of the four

babies had actually fallen from the tree.

“Thankfully, they weren’t injured and we

could hear the fourth kitten squeaking,

so we managed to find them all before

catching Mum.”

The mum — who has been nicknamed

Twiggy — and her four kittens were taken

to RSPCA Putney Animal Hospital for

care, but sadly one of the kittens died.

The remaining kittens were named

Willow, Ash, and Oakley. The family will

be rehomed when they are old enough.

Kittens born in a tree!

Twiggy and her kittens

after the event.

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