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What’s new pussycat?
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Roz Britnell looks for the purrfect pet...
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The
Cats Protection our shop at Well Hall”. The event constant care, which means they
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League Eltham & raised a record amount of rely solely on your donations.
Sidcup branch annually holds a £3,454.46 this year as well as fi nd- Unbelievably 31.5 percent of the
fundraiser to go towards help- ing potential homes for the cats cats that are brought into a CPL
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ing cats in need and last month that were in the cattery during centre are strays or have been
it was a roaring success. The the day and pictured here. abandoned; these are cats who
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tiev garden party was CPL, originally founded in have never been shown love.
lemen
Eltham & Sidcup
bustling with 1927, is busy all year long but Wendy Morton who arranges
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le
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ey K
branch has
photo competi- August is a particularly active homes for the cats explains that
olia: A
tions, bric a brac period and an important time to home checks are done which 21
ot successfully
and jewellery raise funds as cats are seasonal ensures the felines go to fami-
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phot
homed over 300 stalls in addition breeders’ typically producing lit- lies who can offer a safe environ-
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cats last year
to the manda- ters in spring and autumn. One of ment, maybe a garden if it suits
tory cake and tea the key messages of CPL is how them and a cosy spot for a cat
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stand and the important neutering is, as often nap. Wendy, who has 17 cats of
cats had plenty of visitors too. owners do not have this done re- her own at home, tells SEnine
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Last year the money raised was sulting in unwanted litters. There the Eltham & Sidcup branch has
over two thousand pounds but are simply not enough homes to successfully homed over 300
with vet fees in excess of this eve- go around for these cats but CPL cats last year and are looking
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ry month it proves events like this help to neuter 100,000 a year to to exceed that this year. When
are crucial to keeping this charity help control the animal popula- SEnine asked Wendy why she
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going. tion. They also rehome 55,500 preferred the company of cats,
Jan Mar- cats every year and while many she purred “because cats don’t 33
quis who people fl ock to the kittens they answer back”.
helps to frequently over- l o o k SE9 student Daniel Courtnei-
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organ- older cats that can dge is running the 2008 Dublin
ise these m a k e Marathon in October to raise
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events said won- money for CPL, aiming to com-
“The mon- d e r f u l plete a massive 26.2 miles. You
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ey goes to- com- can support Daniel and help
wards neu- panions. a homeless kitten by popping
tering and However into the Eltham branch at Well
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fostering there are Hall and sponsoring him. Alter-
a r o u n d also some natively the CPL shop will ac-
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the area, cats that cept any donations you want
other- can never to give from a tin of cat food to
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wise CPL be homed unwanted furniture.
can only often due 47
rely on to their
donations tempera-
If you are thinking of adopting a
a n d ment or
cat or are interested in fostering
n e e d
you can contact the Eltham branch
f o r
0208 859 2419 or the Lee cattery
on 0208 516 1606.
Be active in your community
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