WITH more than 7000 unwanted cats and kittens being euthanased in Australia each year, and with a great number of these coming from the Mandurah area, Western Australia’s only dedicated cat rescue centre, the Shenton Park Cat Haven, has called for people to get their female cats sterilised.
The recent influx of kittens being delivered to the Cat Haven has highlighted the need for a similar organisation in Mandurah.
Vet nurse Verona Finnigan from the Halls Head Small Animal Clinic said, “we get lots of unwanted kittens given to us that we have to try to rehouse.”
“I have already taken home six kittens myself,” Ms Finnigan said.
“This is a huge problem and I’d love to do it more often, but it’s very difficult,” she said.
People bring found cats and kittens to the clinic on a regular basis, and many are rehoused locally.
But if a home cannot be found for a kitten it gets taken to the Cat Haven.
If the Cat Haven can still not find a home for the kitten, the kitten will be put down.
“It would be great to have a cat rescue centre in Mandurah,” Ms Finnigan said.
Until then, Ms Finnigan urges people to keep their cats inside at night-time and have them sterilised and microchipped.
The Halls Head Small Animal Clinic has kittens needing new homes.
They can be contacted on 9581 1012.
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