We Take Feline Care over the £40,000 mark!

 Yesterday, we spent the day at Feline Care, the lovely vegan run cat shelter near Thetford. They are doing an amazing job with their fund raising- their goal is to raise £70,000 by the end of this month,  so that they can buy the shelter premises from their sister charity and secure the future of Feline Care as a charity in its own right.

Pretty Smudge learns his numbers!

  Feline Care is a very special place, which provides shelter and sanctuary for over 140 cats, some of whom have heartbreaking stories and need particularly special homes.
  The good news is that we made another donation while we were there and when Molly (Farrar, who runs Feline Care) took the cheque and then picked up her clipboard to add the donation to her running total, she told us that our donation had taken the total over £40,000! Modesty forbids me to say how much of that £40,000 was from the cheque I just wrote, (but there was a 4 and a 0 in it!), but Feline Care really needs people to put their hands in their pockets and give all they can to help get the total to £70,000 by October.
  The less good news is that wonderful Smokey, the mathematical cat, still hasn't found a home. Smokey is 17 or 18, and although he is in wonderful condition, and is a fit active cat, with a lovely shiny coat, he needs to find his very own lap to sit on as soon as possible.

Smokey needs his very own lap!

  It's a sad fact that older cats tend to get passed over at shelters in favour of younger, more playful cats and kittens, but older cats are WONDERFUL! We adopted a 20 year old cat a couple of years ago, and it was one of the most rewarding things we've ever done. Smokey found a new home a few months ago but, heartbreakingly, was returned through no fault of his own, and now, he's back in the shelter, happy, but slightly bored. He is a lovely friendly cat, very calm and unflappable, and gets along well with other cats, and when we go to do a maths session in the older cats' room (sounds crazy, but we home educate and it works for us!) he always climbs straight into a lap to help. Please if you or anyone you know thinks that they could give beautiful Smokey a loving retirement home with lots of cuddles, please contact Feline Care through their website at www.felinecare.org.uk .