Well Christmas and New Year are well and truly over, although nothing stops at the APS. Kittens, cats and dogs still need to be fed, watered and cared for. So again, no relenting break for the volunteers and carers! Well I had 2 weeks off, so I am happy.
Again, we're having another bumper kitten season (what's new), it just astounds me that people in this day and age, don't get their cats sterilised.
One woman called me on Saturday, and asked if we could take 2 kittens, as I chatted to her more, I realised they were hers, mom was 2 years old. I asked why she hadn't had mum sterilised, she said in a plaintive voice "I know, I know, I'll let you have a go at me, because you are right". What the!?!?!?!?! I couldn't believe that she was trying to offload HER 2 kittens on us, she hadn't even bothered to advertise them locally, because quote "there are already quite a few posters up for kittens". Absolutely unbelievable. We have every single one of our quarantine cages full of kittens and fortunately for them, some mums as well, so thank god the ones that come in to us get sterilised and at least we end their cycle.
We also had one of last year's kittens returned to us, as the husband was going to "dispose" of it, due to the fact that it kept walking on the husband's expensive cars. Wow, whoop-te-do, they're only paw prints you fool! Sheesh, some people. I knew I should never have sold her a kitten. I will always rely on my gut feeling from now on.
Our premises are undergoing a fairly major overhaul in most areas! We are busy going through procedures to convert the house on our premises into a surgery for our animals. You try getting a building quote at Christmas!! Well done Sue R and Clare M!!! We are just commencing with planning to upgrade the kitten sheds into more smaller units to ensure the kittens can keep the segregation that they get in quarantine, reducing the chances of illness amongst them.
Once this is done we will then start to look at the existing hospital and quarantine area and refurbish this building.
The kennels are getting an upgrade with doors to the kennels that front the outside. This will be brilliant for the carers as it's very, very stressful walking your kennelled dog through the corridor with every other dog doing their best to distract the dog you are walking! Now they can simply go out the back door of their kennels and voila, open space! Fantastic.
Oh by the way, all of the work I am talking about above is organised and pushed forward by the volunteers at the APS, so again, I will churn out the old chestnut - we are in urgent need of carers and volunteers, you don't have to get involved in all this nitty gritty, but the more people we have on board willing to lend a hand just alleviates the pressure for those individuals that do so much for the APS.
One powerball, that's all I need!
ClareDF
