By Mandy Oakham
Warm days and balmy nights can make a person start “felin-ing” a bit frisky.
And the long, long hot summer has resulted in a bumper crop of Kutee Kittees out at the Geelong Animal Welfare Centre and they are all looking for new homes.
For the fur servants at the centre, this extended Indian summer has meant they are coping with a truly extended kitten season but it is not proving to be a total cat-astrophe!
As community engagement manager at the centre Pip Hunt explained, kitten season normally starts in late November and goes through to about January but March’s summer bonus has meant that kittens are still arriving at the centre and they are all looking for new “forever homes”.
“We have been absolutely inundated with kittens but thankfully we have also been overwhelmed with people’s generosity opening up their hearts and homes to all our new arrivals,” Pip said
“We are so grateful to Geelong people for their support as we receive absolutely no government funding so we are totally reliant on people’s donations and our adoptions.”
In fact, so welcoming has Geelong been that two weeks ago the centre set an all-time new record of 78 adoptions in one week!
But there are still 64 pussy cats, young and old, looking for homes and amazingly only four dogs waiting to dribble and drool in a new home.
There many other animals at the centre but they are being put through their various health checks, desexing and microchipping to make sure they are purrfect for adoption.
Those who have been given paws for thought and are interested in having another fur mouth to feed can hop onto the website or get their tail out to the centre on Portarlington Road, Moolap, and the fur servants at GAWS defy them to leave empty-handed.
