TWO cats from Dorset have began the 12 months with fame after that includes on a calendar and jigsaw puzzle.
The cats have been chosen to grace the pages of the Cats Protection 2024 calendar.
Beau from Christchurch options on the introductory web page of the charity’s calendar whereas Teddy from Ferndown stars as Mr January.
Images of each cats have additionally been used on its first ever 500-piece puzzle which makes use of all of the calendar pictures.
Beau, 5, was adopted by house owners Brian and Pam Wadie from the Cats Protection Weymouth department the place he had arrived after residing as a stray for a while.
Brian mentioned Beau “blossomed into a fully integrated member of [the] family”, having been fairly timid at first.
Cats Protection Calendar 2024 (Image: Cats Protection)
Fellow star Teddy, now round eight-years-old, was adopted by Stefanie Lees from Cats Protection’s Ferndown Homing Centre in 2019.
He had been discovered as a stray with a damaged tail in addition to feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV), which meant he had a lowered immune system and wanted to be homed as an indoor-only cat.
Stephanie mentioned adopting Teddy was “the best choice ever made.”
Every calendar and jigsaw offered helps Cats Protection elevate much-needed funds for cats and kittens in want of recent properties.
Martin Green, designer for the charity, first created the calendar for the charity in 2010.
It has centered on cats rehomed by Cats Protection since 2015 and moved to utilizing house owners’ personal pictures in 2020 because of the pandemic.
Martin mentioned: “The calendar is always popular, we print around 17,500 each year, and we created a jigsaw of the calendar images for the first time this year to ensure the cats can continue to be admired long after their calendar page has been turned.”
