Dear Letters Editor,
We are happy to share that the Cats Protection Lifeline service, beforehand generally known as Paws Protect, is increasing into additional areas of the UK. Lifeline is a free and confidential fostering service that gives non permanent loving properties to cats whose households are fleeing home abuse, reuniting them with their proprietor as soon as they’re protected.
Abusers will typically use their associate or member of the family’s love for his or her cat as a software to coerce and management. Our recent survey of over 400 professionals working with victim-survivors of home abuse confirmed that 78% encountered circumstances the place cats had been bodily abused and 39% had supported circumstances the place a cat or kitten was killed by the abuser.
They haven’t solely come throughout circumstances the place cats have been bodily abused, but in addition spoke of circumstances the place survivors of home abuse have been unable to access important veterinary care as a result of an abuser had full management over their access to money.
The Cats Protection Lifeline service has supplied confidential foster look after over 250 cats this 12 months to date, enabling over 150 homeowners to get to security, however we need to do extra. It has expanded from the South East into Yorkshire, East Anglia and the Midlands, however we now want extra volunteer cat fosterers in these areas to allow us to assist much more cats and their homeowners.
The growth of the service is supported by a beneficiant three-year grant of £315,000 from the Pets Foundation, so we want to thank everybody who outlets at Pets at Home for making this doable.
Anyone wishing to seek out out extra about Lifeline or occupied with changing into a fosterer ought to go to www.cats.org.uk/lifelineservice
Yours faithfully
Amy Hyde
National Lifeline Manager, Cats Protection
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