Caring for Cats

Luciano

Four-year-old Luciano is a striking black Domestic Short Hair with a captivating personality. This charming boy absolutely adores a good scratch behind the ears and will happily roll around on the floor to show his contentment. When it’s playtime, Luciano is all in, especially when a feather toy is involved! Afterwards, you’ll likely find him happily sunbathing on a warm windowsill. Luciano has a cheeky personality and loves a good cuddle, but he’s also a cat who knows his own mind. He’ll let you know when he’s had enough affection with a gentle nip, so it’s important to respect his boundaries. If you’re ready to open your home to a fun-loving cat with plenty of character, come and meet Luciano!

Luciano takes a daily urinary medication which is simply sprinkled onto his food. He is available to be permanently re-homed or a long-term foster would be considered.

Be part of the future of Caring for Cats, and help us go on rescuing and rehoming cats & kittens in our region. There are so many ways that you can raise vital funds for us – take part in an organised challenge like a marathon or sponsored swim, plan your own event like a bake sale or coffee morning, or maybe you could fundraise via your workplace with donation tins. Whatever you choose, let us know so we can cheer you on and share your fundraising success with our friends and supporters too.

The pennies and pounds all add up, here are some ideas to start you off…

Sponsored events – support ours, or organise your own!

Every year we hold a charity sponsored walk organised by volunteers – see photo right of our 2015 walkers, pictured with a £200 donation cheque from a local business sponsor, when they raised an amazing total of £1006!! You can take part or show your support by sponsoring the group; sponsor forms are available from our homing centre or charity shop.
Or, why not raise your own sponsorship by doing your own activity at any time of the year. Support us by…

• giving up a treat for a month…chocolate, alcohol, PC games, smoking, or watching TV!
• a sponsored weight loss, where you benefit too
• doing your own sporting challenge… cycling, running, or a charity match

You can easily create your own fundraising page at our MyDonate site to collect donations online (or click on the MyDonate button below). Let us know and we can also provide official collection tins to make asking for support easier.

School & kids’ fundraising

A great way to involve children so they can learn about animal welfare, community responsibility and have fun at the same time. Organise a kids quiz or raffle, a fancy dress day (maybe as cats?), a sponsored car wash for family and friends, or maybe a sponsored silence 🙂 Or hold a fundraising stall at a local fair for us. A good way to start is to help us with one of our charity-organised stalls at local fairs and markets which take place several times a year. You can easily create your own fundraising page at our MyDonate site to collect donations online.

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Help us raise funds for free when you shop online – easyfundraising is a brilliant way to raise money for Caring for Cats. Shop online from over 2,700 retailers and they’ll give a donation every time you buy something, at no extra cost.

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Shop at Pets at Home?

Join the Pets at Home VIP Club and nominate Caring for Cats (Yorks & Humber) as your chosen charity. You will earn Lifelines by presenting your VIP card in store or by providing details online at the time of purchase. For every £1 you spend you will earn 1 Lifeline for us. 300 Lifelines will be converted into a £1 Pets at Home gift card for us to spend. It does add up! Every quarter Rose goes to buy new toys and cat products to make life in the catteries that bit nicer 🙂

Sell on Ebay?

Thanks to Ebay’s charity partner Paypal Giving Fund, you can donate a percentage or all proceeds of your sales to a registered charity. Once your item sells, PayPal Giving Fund automatically collects the donation from your seller account, claims Gift Aid on the charity’s behalf, and passes on 100% of the funds raised to us.

When you sell an item, select ‘Donate to charity’ and search for ‘Caring for Cats Yorkshire & Humber’ to select our charity as the beneficiary. Find out more about Ebay for Charity now.

In your workplace or local

Does your workplace run a charity support scheme? Nominate us for a donation grant or maybe even as their Charity of the Year partner!

We can also provide donation tins for you to place at reception or by tills or other public areas, as long as the business owner gives their permission. Even small change can make a big difference…

Organise a charity event

Make this as big or small an event as you can cope with. Make it a coffee morning with the girls, or a dinner party ‘Come dine with me!’ for friends or family, or host a fashion show in your community or a pub quiz at your local. A local fundraising group in Hull put on a whole entertainment show and raised a whopping £514 for us one evening. Thanks again guys… 🙂

Make a 25% bigger difference to your donations with Gift Aid

Under the UK Gift Aid scheme the Income Tax you pay on any donations given can be reclaimed by the charity. Once recorded by us you need take no further action for as long as you continue to pay UK Income Tax or Capital Gains Tax equal to, or greater than, the amount we would be reclaiming. this currently gives us a further 25p for every £1 you give us, at no extra cost to yourself. So, if you are a tax payer and would like us to reclaim the tax from any money you donate, simply complete the form below and submit.

WHY ‘NEUTER YOUR ‘TOM’ CAT?

A ‘tom’ cat can mate with over 40 female cats a year and he can and will follow the scent of a female over 7 miles away! While he’s out and about roaming the area he can easily get lost and find himself homeless when the romancing is over. Unless his owner has micro-chipped him and is lucky to have him found by a cat lover, Tom is doomed to live a life of misery. Nobody will adopt an entire tomcat, or even tolerate him in the back garden, because he fights other people’s pets, male and female, and marks houses and gardens with a pungent scent.

Homeless and hungry, he will enter houses through the cat flap in search of food, only to get shooed away. Fighting for his survival, he will soon look run-down and battered and his chances of finding a new home dwindle even further. “Mangy toms” are usually not mangy at all, they are often only neglected, undernourished and battle scarred. Toms are the most frequent victims of road death. The newest threat of all now is a virus, the killer FIV (Feline Immunodeficiency Virus), which is passed on during fights through biting when the saliva of the infected cat enters the bloodstream of the other. No cat has been known to recover from it and entire tomcats are most likely to fall victim. All this could be avoided by neutering.

And what about “the girls”?

Did you know that one unspayed female cat could be responsible for 10,924 kittens over a 6 year period?
This is a minimum total calculated by assuming she has her first litter when she is a year old, (although this could be as young as six months) and using the low rate of only 2 litters a year per mature female cat (most cats have 3 or 4 litters per year), basing our calculation on 4 kittens each time, 2 male and 2 female, and not taking the death rate into account.

So neutering your female kitten before she is six months old could prevent a minimum of 10,924 unwanted cats looking for new homes and would most likely extend your cats life by excluding the many risks involved in having kittens. It is an old wives tale when people say that cats should be allowed to have one litter first. Why put your cat at risk?