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| Dear Friends, Thank you for all your help during the previous year, including of course the sponsorship of the wheelchair marathon. Stephen and I completed the 7 ½ mile course in 50 minutes (well done to Stephen). Unfortunately this year we did not win, but did manage a respectable second. This was our 18th marathon; I do hope we will be able to make it to the 20th. Edna Baybutt a long time member of our charity has taken part in 24 marathons. A wonderful achievement as I am sure you will agree. Well done Edna. The money we have raised over the years has been a big help to the charity enabling us to buy many things that were needed for the animals and the rescue service. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| These are washable mats and can be used for cat or dog bowls and placemats with your favourite pictures or photographs on them £2.00 plus post and packing. Calendars for 2005 at £3.99 + 50p P&P are available. All proceeds to go to the sanctuary. For further details please contact the Field of Dreams at the address given after the next item. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| The A4 animal writing paper depicting dogs, cats or horses has been so popular that we have ordered more! This can be personalised for you with your name and address in fancy writing in the top right hand corner. There is plenty of space for the writing connoisseur and all the proceeds will go to Animals in Distress, which will be printed on the bottom of the page. Ten pages with envelopes cost £3.00 inclusive of postage and packing to members and £3.50 to non members. Also available are trolley coins and lapel badges at £1 each plus P+P of 50p Send your requirements to :- | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| If you want any animal sponsorships for presents, please let us know in plenty of time and include the person's name and address that you wish it to go to. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Irlam | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| With the assistance of some hard working volunteers the sanctuary pond has been given a facelift. It is 12 ft by 16 ft and 4 ft deep. The water was replaced after a gentle clean of the liner and a new pump has been fitted to run the waterfall. A fountain has been added to the pond. About twenty fish have been introduced to the pond and are living happily with the resident family of frogs that have been returning there to breed for the last ten years. This has all been carried out without any expense to the charity and allowed fish to be rescued as otherwise they had nowhere to go. If anyone has any spare filter media for the filters this would be put to good use. The renovation of five units of the outside cattery has been completed, but donations are badly needed to complete the work. Sadly our call out van was involved in an accident and has been off the road Fortunately it is now repaired and back on duty. The Swinton shop is up and running! So far it has been a big success, even though there are not enough helpers. The few we have are very dedicated and hard working. If you can offer some time to help please call Mike at Irlam. Recently thieves broke into the sanctuary yard and stole the security cameras. As ever no-one has been apprehended. They have now been replaced. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Directions to Animals in Distress, 55 Silver Street, Irlam, Manchester M44 6HT. Motorway M62 exit 11 Irlam and Eccles, take the third left from the roundabout heading towards Irlam and Cadishead, straight on past Makro, then take right hand fork to Irlam, carry straight on until you come to the pub on the right hand side called the Nags Head, and the Late Shop. Turn immediately right between the two, straight up the street until you come to a thick privet hedge on the left hand side and there you will find the Irlam sanctuary. If you are going to rehome an animal from Irlam please phone first to check on what items you will need. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 The framework for the reptile house and the roof are now erected. The steel stanchions have proved very strong in the wind and inclement weather. The weather took a turn for the worse following the start of Spring with snow and frost. The Shetland ponies had had their rugs taken off as the temperatures had risen. They were caught out and needed somewhere immediately to shelter them. Some panels were erected on the framework from a new field shelter that we were given by one of the members . This made a very quick large shelter for them. It came in extremely useful as we managed to put in most of the sanctuary Shetlands. They lived very comfortably in their makeshift shelter. All the ponies stayed dry and warm until the weather changed again. In addition, whilst the panels of the shelter were held upright the resident handymen at the sanctuary were able to paint them with a wood preservative to protect them from the weather. While the shelter has been painted, an area has been levelled to erect it in and the concrete base is now in place. This should be finished before the end of the Summer and will provide a large stable for another 'inmate'.
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| We can feed the sanctuary animals from collecting your empty toner cartridges and unwanted mobile phones with battery and charging unit (without sim card). Within a certain radius of the two sanctuaries the charity could pick the toners up or the charity can send you pre paid envelopes (these are paid by the company who are collecting the empty toners) so sending the cartridges does not cost you anything. If you get a lot of them we could give you a collection box. The cartridges need to be empty but undamaged and if they come with a lid, that as well please. They can be placed in the plastic bag or the tray that the new toner came in. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Raising Funds | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| You can now purchase items online from many of our well known High Street Shops by visiting http://www.buy.at/AnimalsInDistress where
every purchase will earn funds for the Sanctuaries at no extra cost to you. You can visit http://www.animals-in-distress.net/aff.htm for shopping from Argos, Amazon.co.uk and Tesco. We need your, to collect funds for the sanctuaries. Do you have a day or two to spare to help collect money for the charity. Please call Mell on 01706 371 731 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| We now have a charity shop on the eBay.co.uk site where we hold regular auctions of items from our shops, visit our page at http://www.animals-in-distress.net/ebay_page.htm to see what we are auctioning. If you have an eBay account and you log on via that page then each bid you make will earn funds for the charity. You can also sign up for an eBay account from that page. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| If your still using Dial Up Internet access, why not use a service that helps us for free! Broadband is still very much the buzzword in the world of Internet Access. However, a huge army of people still use dial up (Pay As You Go) for their Internet access. This enforces the fact that a good proportion of people do not require the speed or “always on” features of broadband, especially when the cost of entry is over £180 a year. We are asking all our supporters that use Dial up access to change their supplier to CharityDays as they donate money to us every time they connect to the Internet. So, for the few minutes it would take to sign up for an account, you would be helping us every time you connect to the internet without it costing you an extra penny! For more information and to change your supplier, visit www.charitydays.net | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Fund Raising Direct | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Animals in Distress have joined Fund Raising Direct. This is a catalogue which sells everything from toys to furniture and comes out twice a year. The catalogue has some excellent buys and good ideas for presents. The charity gets twenty five percent of everything that the catalogue sells. It is easy to order. You can phone or order by post, quoting a reference number on the front of the catalogue to place your order. The charity will be sent a statement and when they have made a certain amount of money it will be sent by standing order to pay into the bank. If you would like one of these catalogues please contact Mel at the Field of Dreams. Telephone 01706 371731 Thank you to all of you who have asked and received one of these catalogues. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| It is now possible to have your copy of the newsletter sent to you by Email. This will be a quicker, cheaper and easier service for the charity. So if you would like your newsletter hot off the press, please send your Email address to the Field of Dreams, Leach Farm, Swaindrod Lane, Littleborough, Lancs, OL15 0LE or telephone the Littleborough sanctuary on 01706 371 731. Thank you to all the members who have got back to us to ask for their Newsletter to be sent out by E-mail. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| The Sanctuary operates due to your support. Without that support we could not afford to help the animals that are mentioned in the magazine. These are only a few of the ones you have helped us to save, return to good health and find loving homes for. Please keep your donations coming, even a donation of £1 will help us. We know there are so many charities out there, worthy of your money. However, the charity puts donations directly into animal welfare and you can visit to see how your money is spent. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Bursting at the seams | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| We are at the moment trying to help a lady who has fifty or so cats. The problem is that her father has died and his farm is to be sold off and demolished. We will certainly try to take in as many of the cats as we can. We have taken a few in, but we do not have a large cattery in Littleborough, as time is spent working on the cats, trying to make them tamer. If we had too many cages then we could not give each one the quality time that they need. We are doing our best to take more cats in, but it is a struggle. I have given the lady numerous telephone numbers of the very few organisations that deal with ferals, and hopefully, with the help of us all, we will manage to save these cats. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| A member of the public found a fox on the Moss in Irlam and brought it into the Silver Street Sanctuary. Its age appeared to be around six to seven weeks old and it was discovered to be quite ill and very weak. It was suffering from worms. It was decided to send it to the Wildlife Animal Hospital in Knutsford as they had another single cub. He will be released into the wild, when he is declared fit enough to cope. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Jaffa Revisited | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| The lady that saved Jaffa from the auctions visited us again to see how he was doing. She was shocked and amazed to see the difference that a little time with us had made to Jaffa. Her first words, when she saw him with one of our staff was, I cannot believe that is the same pony, her second was, have you drugged him. We laughed and replied, not at all. Jaffa rested his head on a member of staffs shoulder while she scratched round his face and eyes. The lady was delighted to see this previous monster, with his eyes shut in pleasure, obviously enjoying being scratched round the face. As you approach Jaffa he still puts his ears back but you ignore this and carry on walking towards him. The next thing is he wants to be stroked and petted. If you ignore him and go to the other horses he gets quite impatient and begins stamping around his stable. This is quite an achievement on our part, as at the beginning he was not interested in interacting with humans at all, as he considered them untrustworthy. Jaffa will now let you in his stable and allows us to move his hay around. He switched from biting people to biting the lead rope, but this was swiftly dealt with, and now he quickly holds the rope, then remembers, then lets go. We now need to work with him with the farrier, as when he visited Jaffa earlier, Jaffa did not trust him at all and would not stand still, but this is another hurdle we will face together and help him with. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Holly was brought to the farm by a lady whose father had passed away. He'd had a number of feral cats that lived on or around the farm. The lady asked the Littleborough branch if we would take them in. We agreed to this but told her she would have to catch a few at a time. She brought Holly first. We could not have Holly checked in properly as the vet was on holiday but we noticed that she was very young, pregnant and suffered with fleas. We gave her a small quick squirt of flea spray on her back and left her to settle in her new surroundings. Four days later, in the morning, Holly had her kittens. She must have thought that she needed to go to the toilet as she had delivered her kittens in the cat litter tray. The staff kept an eye on her from a distance but Holly, after only half cleaning one kitten, left the rest. She had laid her head on one kitten that appeared to have passed away, and the other was hardly moving. We approached Holly and for a feral she seemed to really appreciate the company. She seemed stressed and lost. We moved what we thought were the nearly dead kittens and took them to the radiator in the office, gently rubbing them dry with towels. As they were dried and warmed they both perked up, even the one that we thought had no chance, as it was not crying or moving suddenly began crying for her mum. This was great. Now the hard job, reuniting them with mum. We returned to the cattery where mum had not moved out of the cat tray. It was still messy from the births. Sneaking the kittens back was very easy, but mum was not moving over onto her side to enable them to drink. She just lay there in a normal position. We stroked her face (ignoring her spitting) and waited for her to calm down then gently moved our hands down the side of her body and this seemed to bring a reaction from Holly as she turned on her side enabling the kittens to drink. We felt it was time to leave them to it but we would need to keep an eye on them as Holly seemed to have no maternal instinct at all . We went back an hour later and she had moved two of them into the house area of the pen and left one of them behind. We placed the other kitten with the group and noticed that what must have been her firstborn kitten had wandered off looking for her while Holly was collecting her second kitten. We found a cardboard box and cut out the bottom and placed this over Holly and her kittens. Holly seemed too tired to care but we now had the kittens safe with mum. We placed hot water bottles, wrapped up in towels inside, for Holly would not want to move and this shrunk the size of the box so the kittens could not get far. Holly did well for three days. We checked her during the day but on the fourth day the little black kitten was cold, it had been well fed and seemed to be growing. We did not know why it had passed on. All we could think was that Holly must have laid on it. At the moment of writing this, the other kittens are doing well and so is their mother. She has turned from a spitting, frightened cat to one who is very interested in humans and we really think that the day she had her kittens was a turning point for her. We all think that she really appreciated us being there for her. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| A lady turned up at the Littleborough Sanctuary late one night asking for help for a little lamb she had taken in. She had found the lamb on a farm and had spoken to the farmer who told her that he was aware of the lamb, but could not save it. The lady offered to take the lamb and try bottle feeding it but the farmer said the best thing she could do was leave it where it was as it did not have long to live. She still took the little lamb hoping that it would survive. She took it to work so she could feed it little and often. At work the lamb caused trouble when a lorry driver saw it and wanted to cuddle it. He left his wagon without turning off the engine or putting on the handbrake. Whoops! The wagon rolled fully laden with goods and landed in the canal. It needed a crane to pull it out again. As the little lamb had already caused some expensive damage the lady decided to bring it to the Littleborough Sanctuary. The poor thing was very dehydrated so we kept feeding her liquids while we looked for a vet that would check her as our vet was on holiday . We eventually found a vet who would look at her and we took her straight away. She was put on a subcutaeneous drip and injected with antibiotics and vitamins. The vet said that if she was still with us by the next day we were to bring her back for some more antibiotics tablets. We kept feeding her every half an hour but we had to force feed her as she did not want to eat or drink at all. We kept her in the office as she was very thin and this gave her the warmth that she needed. After a day or two she had picked up really well and we kept taking her outside so that she could get a little strength back into her legs. Birgit as we called her, after the vet that treated her, progressed to eating in a grassy pen, no longer needing her milk. She put on weight and grew. Just as she seemed to be back to full health she suddenly passed away over night. The vet said she was a 'fader' but it's still painful for all involved. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Swinton Shop Now Open | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Our new Sanctuary Charity Shop at 177 Station Road Swinton which opened on Monday, March 14, 2005, is a great success. Station Road leads down to Swinton Shopping Precinct, so we are hoping for lots of visitors and especially buyers. We have much to offer in the way of clothes, videos, books, bric-a-brac, hats, handbags, evening and shopping bags, bikes, Jewellery, vases, picture frames, glassware, table lamps, lamp shades, and furniture. We would like to be open for longer periods of time but we are very much in need of volunteers to help out the stalwart volunteers who have got this show on the road. If you feel you could give a few hours to the shop, we would be very grateful. Just phone Mike at the Irlam Sanctuary. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Samson Re homed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| One of our ponies at the farm is about to go to a new home. From a rearing stallion with no manners, with the help of all the team at the Littleborough Sanctuary, he is now handled by a fourteen year old girl. He no longer walks through you as if you were not there but stands next to you and only fidgets a little, but this will improve as he gets more of one to one training. He will stand while you wash him down, mount him, have shoes put on and all the mundane things that need a standing position. He is going to a local stables where the owner, and the young girls mother will keep an eye on him and let us know if there are any problems. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| For birds with broken wings For rabbits caught in springs For poor bewildered foxes For butterflies in boxes HEAR US WE BESEECH THEE For dogs without a home For cats that walk alone For horses worn and old For sheep without a fold HEAR US WE BESEECH THEE For all things weak and lowly Depending on man solely By all we hold most holy HEAR US WE BESEECH THEE | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| We always need your help in any way you can. This can range from collecting aluminium cans to running your own charity event or entering a sponsored event. Every little helps, as we have been saying for 38 years! Most goods can be turned into cash to help to fund the Sanctuaries and the Animal Ambulance. We are always in need of the following: clean clothes and rags, used mobile telephones, empty printer cartridges, furniture, bric-a-brac, clean newspapers, aluminium and warm blankets. Do you have any new ideas for fundraising? We always need volunteers to help at the Open Days and anyone who is able to set up and run a stall will be very welcome. Any offer of help is always gratefully received even if only for a few hours. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| A woman brought a very limp duck into a veterinarian. As she laid her pet on the table, the vet pulled out his stethoscope and listened to the bird's chest. After a moment or two, the vet shook his head sadlyand said, "I'm so sorry, your pet has passed away." The distressed owner wailed, "How can you be so sure", she protested. "I mean, you haven't done any testing on him or anything. He might just be in a coma or something." The vet rolled his eyes, turned around and left the room. He returned a few moments later with a black Labrador Retriever. As the duck's owner looked on in amazement, the dog stood on his hind legs, put his front paws on the examination table and sniffed the duck from top to bottom. He looked at the vet with sad eyes and shook his head. The vet patted the dog and took it out. He returned a few moments later with a beautiful cat. The cat jumped on the table and also sniffed the bird from its beak to its tail and back again. The cat sat back on its haunches, shook its head, meowed softly, jumped down and strolled out of the room. The vet looked at the woman and said, "I'm sorry, but as I said, this is, most definitely, 100% certifiably, a dead duck." Then the vet turned to his computer terminal, hit a few keys and produced a bill, which he handed to the woman. The duck's owner, still in shock, took the bill. "£150!" she cried. "£150 just to tell me my duck is dead?!!" The vet shrugged. "I'm sorry. If you'd taken my word for it, the bill would have been £20. But what with the Lab Report and the Cat Scan, it all adds up" | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Clara | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| The Sanctuary driver was called out to a German Shepherd and nine puppies. One of the pups had climbed on to a table, skidded along it and landed with her back right leg in the back of the chair. It was twisted and broke and she was left hanging by her leg for a short time. The break was at the growth plate and the vet was unsure whether he could save the leg, or have to amputate it. He decided to apply a cast up to Clara's hip. She needed constant supervision, so Adrian, our driver took her home. She was housed in a very small cage to restrict her movements. She stayed this way for two to three weeks, hoping the bones would knit, if not the leg would have to be amputated. Clara calmed down and managed to live with three more casts, without any trauma. After the three weeks she was given a clean bill of health and it was not long before Clara went to a loving home. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Our driver from the Irlam Sanctuary was called out by a very distressed lady who told us two deer were being hounded by youths. He found a gang of youngsters pelting the terrified wild deer with stones, as the animal desperately searched for an escape route from a school playground. The female escaped but the male deer suffered appalling injuries as it tried to get away from the crowds of mocking onlookers. It had been herded into the school by heartless youngsters who had a dog to steer the deer where they wanted it to go. It started to head butt the railings, watched by youths stationed on the roof of the school, but it became stuck in the fence. Our driver put a blanket on the deer, it was terrified and in great pain and had to be cut out by firemen from the local fire station. Tragically, because of its appalling injuries and severe stress, the vet had no choice but to put the deer to sleep. Our driver said it was one of the worst cases of cruelty he had ever witnessed. Workers are now desperately searching for the female deer, who they believe is still at large. They are unsure how the animals managed either to be in the town centre or how they became trapped in the school playground, although police had received several reports over the last week of a pair of deer running wild in the local park. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| A cat was brought into the Irlam Sanctuary yard by a man who had found her on a building site. She was extremely thin and had collapsed by the roadside. Brandy was rushed to the vet as it was touch and go. He wasted no time and put her on a drip to get those vital fluids into her. He also treated her for a neck wound caused by a collar she had worn since she was a kitten, and living as a stray and receiving no human care, over a period of time the buckle of the collar had grown into her skin. The skin in turn had rotted leaving a hole 1.5 inches wide and 2 inches deep. She had tried to remove the collar but only managed to trap her leg in it. Brandy really needed an emergency operation on her armpit but being so very thin she was neither heavy enough nor strong enough to survive the anaesthetic. Over the next few weeks Brandy put on weight and survived five operations. She is still not fully recovered, however from the state of her when she was first rescued she has made remarkable progress. Good luck Brandy. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| To Animals In Distress I write today to let you know the sad news about Cassie. After 13 years with us she has gone to sleep for the last time. I want to thank you for the opportunity of letting me and my family share in Cassie's life. We adopted Cassie in June 1991 and have had virtually no problems with her health despite us being warned by one vets assistant that all rescue dogs were demics. Apart from one small operation to remove a rose thorn from her side Cass never got the message that cats can sneak through places where dogs cannot go we only ever saw the vet for annual boosters and bonfire night tranquillisers. Then about 6 months ago she developed a lump on her side, this was diagnosed as a fatty lump and no risk to health. Last week she banged this lump chasing a cat from the garden and after 3 visits to the vet in one week it was decided that the lump could not safely be removed because too much skin had died. So we thought it was time to let her go before she suffered any great pain, and the vet agreed. This was not an easy decision to make but we had to act in Cassie's best interest. Both my sister and myself held Cassie and she went to sleep. Friends and family have suggested I get another dog but I do not think any other dog could replace Cass, however, I do admire the work you do and would like to continue to help the charity that gave me Cassie so I am considering sponsorship or remaining a member of AID. I will be looking into this in the next few weeks. Any information would be gratefully received and could be sent to my home address Thanks once again Love Margaret Stevenson and Joanne Ancell | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dear All Its now a week since I collected these two beautiful playful kittens whom have been named Missy and Felix. We originally thought of Bonnie and Clyde but they seemed to lend themselves to Missy and Felix. As you can imagine they are a laugh a minute (better than watching television) During the day they follow me into my office and make themselves at home under my desk, have a little play fight with one another and then snuggle up and sleep. The fun starts in the evening with the children, Felix is always cunning, and does a bucking bronco action (not knowing which way he's going to go) and then charges, whilst Missy being the most mischievous of the two likes to go up the stairs and through the spindles onto the back of the settee, so that she has the vantage view point over her brother. They love their milk first thing in the morning with their food, and then their tea before I go and get the children from school at 3.15 pm. My mum says they are in paradise, and are two very lucky kittens to have such a loving home. Well if you want pets, you have to be fully committed to their needs and happiness, and I feel that is exactly what they have here. I will write again and keep you up to date with their progress of growing into cats!! I've enclosed a photo of them as promised for you all. Thanks again. Sue, Carl, Nathan, Kerri-Anne and of course Missy and Felix xxx | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dear Animals In Distress Thank you for sending me a copy of your AID News letter. Since adopting the two black kittens back in February of this year, it has always been a mystery to us as to how these kittens were found and obviously rescued. Now having read your newsletter it is very distressing to read where they were found and in the midst of winter. Thankfully it is a happy ending, and although we have yet again re-named them (thanks to the children) Missy and Misty are well and truly treated like King and Queen of the family. They are growing fast and their mischievousness always has us in laughter. Missy has this liking for our daughters hair scrunches and she brings them to me in her mouth and makes a noise as if to say look what I've brought you. The funny thing is no matter where I put these scrunches she always gets one. She's always calling to us by a meowing / purring sound, always wants to know where I am and when I shout her, she comes running, she is always mothering Misty too, who is turning into quite a character, he loves being held by our daughter who dotes on him and literally carries him around like a baby, he loves it, purring and letting his eyes go all googly, until he finally goes to sleep (what a life) Now its over 3 months since adopting them, it seems like we have never been without them. I have enclosed a few new photos of them, and as you will see they are two beautiful kittens, turning into wonderful cats. As a BIG thank you from Missy and Misty I enclose a donation of £20-00 on their behalf, for if it wasn't firstly for your driver picking them up when he did, and the care and attention of your team, they would not be here today, and we would not have had the pleasure of adopting them. Even the vet (where they are now registered and fully immunised), were surprised by not only had they been neutered and spayed but also the treatment they were given was, in his words "Excellent, No expense spared." This shows what wonderful work you do, and I hope this gives you gratification and satisfaction from a third party who didn't until now know who you were. Well done !! Missy and Misty hope this small donation goes a little way in helping other animals who have not had a good start in life. We wish you and all the animals all the very best. Carl Sue Nathan Kerri-Anne and of course Missy and Misty xxxx | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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