Cats Protection, Preston Branch - SPONSORSHIP

PENS AND SPONSOR CATS.

If you would like to sponsor a cat or a pen, please email us, or ring us on 01772 748788.

Very occasionally we have cats in care that are unlikely ever to be re-homed, either due to illness, disability or age. We run a sponsorship scheme for these cats. Wherever we can, we find a home for the cats that come into our care, and we try to keep the number of sponsor cats as low as possible, particularly since most of the fosterers who are willing to take on the special problems of a sponsor cat tend to have one or more 'difficult' cats of their own. Still, now and again we take in a cat that has more problems than most, and if a home is not found, we eventually seem to find a special volunteer to take the cat into their home. The Branch pays for food, litter, and veterinary bills. At the moment we have just two sponsor cats.

Tilly is a tortoiseshell, she has a long term health problem and is on a special diet. Nobody seemed willing to give her a home, so she is on our sponsorship list now, and has moved into her fosterer's home. She is a very strong minded little cat, and has made herself very much at home. Her medical bills and food bills are quite high, and we would be glad of the sponsorship.

Guinness has been with us for nearly a year now. He is a thirteen year old black and white neutered male who has toiletting problems and so is very difficult to home. He is going to stay with us now, to be cared for by our cat welfare officer in her own home. Taking in Guinness as a sponsor cat really was a last resort, we would have much preferred to rehome him, as we are trying to move away from having cats in permanent care and towards asking for sponsorship for the pens themselves.

PEN SPONSORSHIP

We also have a pen sponsorship scheme, where sponsors promise a certain sum per month or per year towards the care of cats in a specific pen. Sponsors get news and pictures (where possible) of the cats that have been in the pen.

Cat pen sponsorship is £60 minimum. It's a big thing to ask, we know, but £5 a month by standing order or a £60 annual payment is a huge help to our finances. We've spent over £5,000 this year on pen refurbishment alone, and each cat that we take in costs us in veterinary fees, food, litter, electricity etc. Maybe if you would like a gift sponsorship, you could let several people know and they could club together? All sponsors who are not already members will be added to our mailing list.

Here is the list of pens:-

Alfie's Pen is a spacious double sized pen which is one of our newest pens and is situated in Walton-le-Dale.

Blackberry's Pen and Vincent's Pen are in Hoghton and have recently been refurbished to allow easier access for cleaning, and to keep them in tip top condition.

Lillian's Pen is in Little Hoole with great views of an active cattery and lots of visitors.

Lucky's Pen and Lucy's Pen are in Preston, the original pens came to the end of their useful lives earlier this year, after being used by three different fosterers and being moved and reassembled twice. We'd had them for many years and it was time to retire them, with the safety of the foster cats in mind. They have now been replaced at a cost of over £4000, and we hope to get our money's worth out of them!

Merrily's Pen aka Zoe's Pen is in Penwortham and has splendid garden views.

Poe's Pen is in Little Hoole, and has great views of an active cattery with lots of visitors.

Prudence's Pen is in Lostock Hall, it's one of our smallest pens, and is reserved for older cats who need some extra socialisation. Our fosterer for this pen has no pets of her own, so can take her foster cat indoors regularly for extra cuddles.

Rosie's Pen and Toby's Pen are in Little Hoole.

Sally's Pen is in Leyland, and has a new attraction, in the shape of a small flock of rescued battery hens that are free to roam the garden surrounding the pen. That's extra 'enrichment' for our foster cats right there.

Sarah's Pen and Smudge's Pen are in Whittle-le-Woods and were refurbished in early 2009, with improvements to the roof and the floors.

Sasha's Pen and Thursday's Pen are in Leyland, and the foster cats are frequently visited by the fosterer's own two cats, who are both ex CP rescues.

Gift membership.

For only £7:50 a year in the UK (please ask for overseas prices) we will add your chosen recipient to our mailing list and tell them all about the cats in our care and what our volunteers are up to. Please note that we do not make a profit from this, the money covers printing and postage costs only, but it is nice to have new members.

Sponsor a snip.

£20.00 We're one of the top branches in the country for neutering, last year we were joint first with our neighbours Atherton and Wigan Branch. HQ pays for a lot of the neutering, but we are dipping into our reserves this year to fund the huge increase in demand that we're seeing for help with neutering costs. We have other costs associated with neutering, such as transport costs and food / litter for the ferals and strays that we sometimes keep for a few days after the operation. Help us in this vital work and buy a 'sponsored snip'. We'll send you or your chosen recipient a certificate with some details of a recently neutered cat.

Sponsor an event.

If you can't help at our jumble sales, table tops or other events, perhaps you'd like to help us pay for advertising and hiring the halls? For £25 (part sponsorship) or £75 (exclusive full sponsorship) you can have an event dedicated in honour or in memory of a person or pet.

For more details, please contact us on 01772 748788. You can pay by cheque or by standing order if you want to make a regular payment. You can also pay by PayPal to Jeanette@prestoncpl.com. Please specify that it is a gift, and leave a note telling me what it's for! If you can Gift Aid the donation, please leave your name and address so that we can send you a Gift Aid form,

Most recent revision 22nd December 2009