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Cat Saving Program

As you may may have seen, Norman (the most recent 'graduate' from our Cat Saving Program) has been adopted and is doing well in his new home. Subsequent to our initial plea for foster carers to establish the Cat Saving Program, we've received lots of phone calls and your wonderful response is very heartening! Many of these calls, however, were from people who work long hours or already have multiple animals so we're unable to place one of these special cats with them — but we genuinely appreciate your generous offers of help. We're still keen to hear from people who can help with these special cats. If you have a busy household, work from home or are interested in fostering cats — either cats in the Cat Saving Program or those in our regular rehoming prorgram — please call us on 9824 7928 or 9885 1188. We'd love to hear from you!

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Save-A-Dog Scheme's Position on Cats
Save-A-Dog Scheme is primarily a dog organisation. Part of our work is to operate a regional pound and therefore we are charged with the care of species other than dogs, the greatest number of which are cats.

Under our contract, Save-A-Dog Scheme only acquires cats from two specific areas; hence the number of cats we deal with is small compared to the larger shelters which are responsible for larger areas. This places us in the fortunate position of being able to offer a humane alternative to the vast majority of cats and kittens unclaimed from our pound. These cats and kittens, as with the dogs, are assessed, have their vet work completed and are then rehomed by Save-A-Dog Scheme.

Cat Saving Program
There is a particular category of cats which require fostering for the purpose of completing their interactive skills with people before they will pass our rehoming assessment tests. We are distressed at the thought of having to kill these animals when all they need is time and closer contact with people and their environments.

To this end, Save-A-Dog Scheme has established a program to help them. We therefore DESPERATELY NEED appropriate people to be part of this “cat saving team”.

How You Can Help
You don't have to be a cat expert to help! We are seeking animal lovers in general; people who believe animals should be given every opportunity to enter the community. In particular, for the Cat Saving Program we're looking for people who work from home or have a busy household with lots of comings and goings rather than people who are away from home for long hours.

We provide all equipment, guidance and visits on a regular basis. To facilitate supervision of the program, we would prefer foster homes that aren't too far from our shelter in Malvern, but we're flexible and welcome discussion with would-be helpers who may live further away.

Please help us — without this program, these cats will die
If you believe they should live, we need your help!

For more information on our program, please contact us on 9824 7928 or 9885 1188. Please leave a message on the answering machine if necessary and we'll return your call.