A charity which gives free and confidential foster look after pet cats whereas their house owners flee home abuse is seeking to recruit extra volunteer fosterers this January.
Cats Protection’s Lifeline service presents non permanent look after cats in a home surroundings, enabling survivors to get to security understanding their cat can be sorted till they are often reunited.
But with a view to assist extra folks, the charity is in determined want of extra volunteer fosterers who can supply a brief home to a cat in want.
Cats Protection’s Lifeline Manager Amy Hyde stated: “Many folks wish to begin a New Year by making a decision to assist others, and becoming a member of our Lifeline workforce as a volunteer cat fosterer could possibly be the right alternative.
“Not solely do our volunteers assist cats, in addition they present a possibility for victim-survivors to get to security understanding that their beloved pet cat can even be secure.
“We know that in circumstances of home abuse, pets are sometimes focused as a option to management or coerce a victim-survivor into staying. And as most refuges are unable to simply accept pets, this is usually a important barrier for folks searching for assist and secure housing.
“By offering free and confidential cat foster care, Lifeline helps to remove that barrier and gives victim-survivors the time, space and opportunity they need to get to a safe place.”
Referrals to Lifeline – beforehand referred to as Paws Protect – come from both house owners themselves or a assist employee. Once in Lifeline’s care, cats are given a full well being examine earlier than going to a Lifeline volunteer fosterer who is supplied with all the things they want to verify the cat stays completely happy and wholesome till they are often reunited with their proprietor.
After supporting cats within the South East for almost 20 years, Lifeline was lately capable of broaden into Yorkshire, East Anglia and the Midlands.
“We’ve fostered over 330 cats during 2023, enabling over 200 owners to get to safety but we need more cat fosterers to turn it into a UK-wide service.” stated Amy.
Cats Protection is the UK’s largest cat charity, serving to an common of 157,000 cats and kittens yearly via a community of over 210 volunteer-run branches and 34 centres.
To discover out extra about turning into a volunteer, or different methods to assist the Lifeline service, please go to www.cats.org.uk/lifelineservice
If you’re experiencing home abuse or know somebody who’s, please contact the National Domestic Abuse Helpline, run by Refuge, anytime on 0808 2000 247.
