“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.”
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A charity which supplies free and confidential foster look after pet cats whereas their house owners flee home abuse is trying to recruit extra volunteer fosterers this January.
Cats Protection’s Lifeline service provides short-term look after cats in a home surroundings whereas survivors get to security, figuring out their cat will probably be sorted till they are often reunited.
The charity is in determined want of extra volunteer fosterers who can provide a short lived home to a cat in want.
Cats Protection’s Lifeline Manager Amy Hyde stated: “Many people want to start a New Year by making a resolution to help others, and joining our Lifeline team as a volunteer cat fosterer could be the perfect opportunity.
“Not only do our volunteers help cats, they also provide an opportunity for victim-survivors to get to safety knowing that their beloved pet cat will also be safe.
“We know that in cases of domestic abuse, pets are often targeted as a way to control or coerce a victim-survivor into staying.
“And as most refuges are unable to accept pets, this can be a significant barrier for people seeking support and safe 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 help 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 every thing they want to ensure the cat stays pleased 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 increase 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 by way of a community of over 210 volunteer-run branches and 34 centres.
