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Be intrigued by our new kittens!

16/11/2018

 
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The collective noun for a group of kittens is the well-known ‘litter’, the surprising ‘kindle’ (who knew kittens were tech-literate?) and best of all, an ‘intrigue’. If that’s the case, then we’ve certainly been hit by a major conspiracy in recent weeks, with the arrival into foster care of 16 tiny fluffballs.
 
For those who haven’t been following our facebook page, all the new arrivals are aged around the 8-12 weeks mark, from five different litters. These curious little adventurers are now enjoying their foster homes and exploring their new worlds. 
 
Foster carer Chloe is caring for Noora, who arrived heavily pregnant in late October and had five black and tortoiseshell on her second night in care. Other foster carers are looking after two very active ginger boys, Widget and Sprocket, who arrived snuffily from Kingston Pound, with a bout of flu but have since recovered. There is also Thelma, a black kitten from a Toowoomba animal rescue that assist farmers with their pets and rehoming accidental litters.
 
Jay and her family heroically fostered (in addition to their other fosters) nine kittens from two litters, dumped in a box at the local pound at just a few weeks old. A mix of gorgeous black, grey, tortoiseshell and ginger kittens, including a very rare female ginger. Seven of these – Coco, Bella, Lady Gaga, Harvey, Ed, Felix and Charlie - are available now for pre-adoption. 
 
When they arrived at their new foster homes in late October, Furry Friends Animal Rescue Queensland spent over $500 in vet consultations, flea and worm treatments and food to get them started on their way. These costs are likely to triple or more in the next coming weeks, as they each need to be desexed, vaccinated and microchipped before they can be made available for adoption. Their adoption fees do not cover these costs in total. So far we have received around $400 in donations from generous supporters in our Name a Kitten facebook campaign. If you want to help please see our donations page.
 
You can stay up to date with all our kittens’ progress through the FFARQ facebook page. If you are interested in adopting any of these furbabies, be quick! These fascinating felines won’t be available for long. 

Felines on the front line: WW1

8/11/2018

 
PictureA sailor on board the Royal Australian Navy Destroyer HMAS Swan shaking the paw of Ching, the ship's mascot cat.
When we think of cats, we probably picture them snoozing on a sunny windowsill, not serving on the front line in times of war. Yet cats have been as much a part of the military sphere as the domestic one. In combat a cat brings a touch of a normal home life to serving soldiers. Compared to the horrors of war, a cat is a playful, delightful innocent.
 
It’s estimated that over 500,000 cats were deployed in the trenches in World War 1, and many more were used aboard naval ships. They served a practical purpose along with their mascot role. Cats were used in the trenches as ratters and more unusually, as gas detectors. Cats could detect the smell of gas at much lower levels than their humans, and were an early warning for soldiers to don their gas masks.
 
On naval vessels a ship’s cat was a serving member of the crew: keeping down the rodent population to protect the human’s food stores, and prevent rigging (and then electrical equipment) from being chewed through. Superstitious sailors often thought of ships cats as good luck symbols as well. They were so well regarded that, on board Royal Navy vessels, the ship’s cat often had their own “cat hammock”.
 
There are very few recorded names of cats serving with the Royal Australian Navy, but the mascot Ching, of the HMAS Swan (pictured showing typical cat-titude) is one such. Other ship’s cats, including two kittens of the HMAS Borda, and the ship’s cat of the HMAS Encounter seemed to find gun barrels good perches, and all three served with their crews in WWI.
 
In 1975, the Royal Navy banned pets from all ships for hygiene reasons, which is a sad day for both our feline friends, and all those who may have served with them.



October Adoptions update

2/11/2018

 
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October might be the month of Halloween, but it hasn’t been unlucky for some of our rescue kitties, who have successfully found their furever homes.
 
Long term foster residents, cheeky Pua, laidback Raz, little Tiger and the divine Princess Molly have all been adopted and loving their new homes.
 
Our recent arrivals, Celeste with the beautiful green eyes, (anything but) Tiny and Denni have also been adopted. Celeste came to us from another shelter and had only been in our care for six days before being swooped up by a great family.
 
Tiny came to us with his two sisters, being an accidental litter of their mum Turtle. They were getting too big to be living under one roof and their owners wanted help finding good homes for them. For an eight-month old kitten Tiny is the size of an adult cat, with a sweet and loving personality. Cuddly Tiny was in our care for 13 days, and Denni too was also adopted very quickly. Tiny’s sisters Pip and Blondie have not been so lucky though and are still available for adoption.
 
We are so appreciative that these cats were able to find their furever homes, and grateful that these families chose to adopt a rescued pet instead of buying an undesexed pet from a back yard breeder. Our aim is to increase the desexed companion pets in the our community and reduce the number of undesexed cats reproducing uncontrolled in our community and becoming feral.
Thanks in particular to our sponsor partners Pets Pool and Produce and PetBarn Ipswich, for hosted them at their stores and being a major contributor to their speedy adoptions.
 
Would you like to adopt a kitty? Check our Adopt us page for cats currently in foster care. If you would like to share the love but cannot adopt long-term find out how you can become a foster carer. Alternatively, we have many furbabies that need some extra help before they get their new life chances if you wish to donate. Every dollar we receive goes to the medical care and rehoming of all our foster cats.

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