Kittens are very mischievous, full of energy and often time-consuming. Adopting a kitten is a lifetime commitment – which could be 15-20 years. Kittens should be given commercial kitten food to ensure their nutritional needs are met. The socialisation period happens between two and eight weeks of age and allows your kitten to learn what is safe and normal. Grooming will help to keep your kitten’s coat and skin healthy. Neutering (spaying for females and castration for males) is the most humane way to stop unwanted pregnancies and minimise the unwanted cat population. [Read More]

Cats Protection’s Honiton Branch are celebrating the successful homing of the final group of kittens from the feral colony. Ebony, Jet and Midnight were socialised and found new homes. It was a busy year for the branch as they rehomed more than 40 cats and neutered 163 cats by October. But it has been the most recent humane trapping of a pregnant female cat at a farm outside Monkton that has been cause for most celebration. [Read More]

Pregnant cat needs emergency Caesarean to save the lives of her unborn kittens. Staff at Cats Protection’s National Cat Adoption Centre saved their lives. Black-and-white Lexi developed complications during labour. She and her kittens recovered well and are being cared for at the centre. The kittens have been named Nat (tabby) and Vicky, Dominic and Dale (all black and white) after some members of the vet team and their partners. Lexi, who is only 14 months old, will be available for rehoming in several weeks once her vaccinations are up to date. [Read More]

Tristan Goodway-Sims is supporting his mum with fostering for a Duke of Edinburgh award. In his previous blog post, Honey and her kittens were returned to CP’s Bridgend Adoption Centre. Tristan is happy to report that mum and kittens were all adopted by their forever homes. The teen volunteer has learnt so much in the last very busy six months. He has tremendous admiration for the mother cats who have had such upheaval while pregnant and nursing yet are good-natured towards us humans and devoted mums to their kittens. [Read More]