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How older cats enjoy retirement in South Africa

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Last updated: 05/04/2025
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These friendly felines at the Lucky Lucy Basis retirement residence are suitable among the 391 cats who private stumbled on a 2nd likelihood at existence after being rescued in the Swartland dwelling, north of Cape City.

Most private had house owners, nonetheless had been abandoned or given away.

Usually these cats private injuries, or private properly being complications, others are merely outdated and undesirable.

Right here they are rehabilitated and if that you might think of rehomed, others can are living out the reminder of their lives in consolation.

Board member Patrys Niemand explains they started off as a ordinary rescue centre, nonetheless later added a sanctuary for eldery cats.

“We noticed that among the older cats fight in the main population. Cats that are on power treatment, especially with arthritis and diseases esteem that, where they obtain agitated with the youthful generation cats. And that’s as soon as we made up our minds that as soon as we effect obtain the funding, we would desire to begin a retirement residence for these cats, where they are able to attain. It’s not as many as in the ordinary population. And right here they’re going to private the entire comforts from residence and where they are able to protect out their existence,” says Niemand.

The cat retirement residence has been in operation since 2024 allowing the aged, infirm, disabled to are living in peace and consolation.

There are for the time being 36 cats living in the retirement residence portion, and as time goes by increasingly cats will join from the main cattery subsequent door.

Certainly one of the retired cats is Alicia who has a power properly being condition.

Volunteer Kerry-Jean Green explains her tense history.

“So Alicia joined us, she came to us, we obtained a call to state that she had been poisoned. And when she came in to Lucky Lucy she became unable to walk. She became handled for poisoning, and we rehabed her right here at the foundation. And clearly the poisoning brought about her to private diabetes insipidus. And so she has her particular treatment daily,” she says.

Clover came to the Lucky Lucy Basis with a excessive physical injury, says Niemand.

“Right here’s Clover. She came to us from Woodstock. A family noticed a homeless person trying to push a cat down in a find into a drain.”

Clover’s jaw became damaged when she arrived right here, nonetheless she is now help to suitable properly being after receiving clinical therapy.

In total the cats luxuriate in 795 kilograms of dry meals every month.

Running the Lucky Lucy Basis prices about US$12,000 per month, which is raised through deepest donations.

The basis also rescues and rehomes dogs.

Duandri Botha is a veterinarian primarily based in the nearby metropolis of Malmesbury.

She explains the Lucky Lucy is providing a provider that cannot be stumbled on elsewhere.

“If we phone them and instruct, listen we’ve obtained an outdated cat, her aged owner is going to an outdated age residence and she or he can’t sustain her cat, the cat is practically as outdated as her aged owner, they instruct to us, don’t effect the cat down the cat can attain to the retirement residence. They help in those cases where any other situation… the SPCA is fleshy, they don’t private situation. To rehome an adult cat is challenging, whereas Lucky Lucy is geared in direction of these kind of retirement cats, and they also’re living the particular existence there. Infrequently I think they are living better there in the retirement residence than my possess cats effect,” says Botha.

In addition to the cattery and its retirement residence, the Lucky Lucy Basis is involved in outreach work for cats and dogs in four nearby low-income neighbourhoods.

They give services and products esteem clinical therapy, sterilisations, and provide pet meals to those communities.

In Riverlands neighborhood, a kitten is living beneath a caravan.

Niemand affords peep drops for an peep infection, affords flea therapy and affords cat meals.

Niemand will return to sterilise the kitten as soon because it within reason older.

Life in the retirement residence seems idyllic when put next to existence on the streets which is the sad reality for these styles of cats.

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