NEWBERRY — Cat Haven Development is revealing the primary of what’s going to be many homes for homeless cats on Friday, October 27, on the Newberry Career Center (3413 Main Street).
The concept for homing homeless cats got here a couple of couple years in the past when Cashia Gauci observed stray cats across the Newberry Recycling Center. In 2019, she invited her Girl Scout Troop, Troop 990, to build a pair varieties of homes from totes, ensuring they insulated the small, one door home. That similar yr, they delivered the homes to the Newberry Recycling Center.
“But it’s not enough,” stated Gauci.
In October 2022, Gauci spoke to Newberry City Council, advocating for provides and/or financial donations to assist with the building of cat properties, offering shelter because the winter months started. She additionally defined {that a} centralized cat colony would assist spaying and neutering efforts, since all of the cats can be in a single spot.
A protected place for cats to congregate additionally means much less cats going to the shelter and dealing with euthanasia. It additionally helps the setting since indoor/out of doors cats and homeless cats are thought-about one of the crucial non-native invasive species. Cats have contributed to the extinction of 33 species of rodents, birds and reptiles. It’s vital to spay and neuter homeless cats since it’s going to preserve the general homeless cat inhabitants down, serving to the setting whereas additionally stopping cats from spreading illnesses to 1 one other and retaining them out of roadways by giving them someplace to remain.
Earlier this yr, Gauci delivered two extra insulated, wood Cat Haven properties to the Little Mountain Recycling Center. In September, the scholars on the Newberry Career Center constructed and painted two extra cat properties with 4 separate compartments for them to remain. Each door has plastic flaps for wind and rain safety, Styrofoam insulation for heat, shingles and might shelter a number of cats at a time. The building of the homes assist train young adults and college students to learn to work collectively and build empathy.
One of those homes will probably be unveiled on October 27, on the Newberry Career Center. The home will probably be painted by Ricardo Ramirez of Octopus Ink. Other businesses that helped with the properties have been Kirsten Ward of Sherman Williams Paint, Austin Willingham of Willingham and Son’s and Michael Cruickshanks and college students of the Newberry Career Center. Others have been invited to the revealing, resembling Mayor Foster Senn and Chief Building Inspector Wayne Redfern.
Come out and see the brand new homes for the homeless cats of Newberry!
