Pets Life Line is a charity primarily based in Keswick that operates a cattery that cares for cats that must be re-homed.
Currently, the cattery is caring for 44 cats and kittens, with cost-of-living pressures forcing some homeowners to surrender their beloved moggies.
However, Joyce Walker, who’s the primary care supplier for the cats within the cattery believes that different cat homeowners are utilizing monetary points as a handy method to do away with their pets.
Joyce meticulously takes care of every cat within the charity’s care and has seven in her personal entrance room. Whilst chatting with the News & Star she was additionally tending to considered one of her felines who was giving delivery.
She stated: “I really feel as if I’m drowning in cats and kittens.
“Some are struggling to take care of their pets however for others, it’s only a good excuse to do away with them to be fairly sincere.
“We have had loads of telephone calls wanting cats in and various telephone calls wanting to return for cats and kittens however then you’ve got to be so cautious that you’re placing them into the appropriate houses.
“We are actually almost 50 cats and kittens – extra this time this yr than final yr – so it’s attending to the purpose the place I feel, the place do I put them?”
Despite the present pressures that include the elevated variety of cats that require new houses, Joyce stays devoted to giving her felines the absolute best care.
This spans from a childhood love of giving animals comparable to cats, dogs, and hedgehogs houses and a connection together with her animals that has developed for the reason that passing of her husband and cat-caring accomplice, David.
She stated: “If it hadn’t been for my animals I do not know the place I’d have been.
“I owe an terrible lot to my animals, to each cat and kitten there’s.
“I’m liable for them and I’ve acquired to make certain that they’re going to be properly sorted.”
