Kats & KitsThe Diary of a Rural Cat Sanctuary |
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12 July 2006 Lorraine Spencer started work as a veterinary nurse in 1982. Soon all the unwanted waifs and strays that came into the practise found their way home with her. Within a few years space became short and group of friends and colleagues got together to raise funds to convert a small stable block into cat pens. Many sales, and garden parties later this was done and Kats and Kits came into being.Devizes Kats and Kits is in its 13th year and during that time it has rescued and re-homed more than 1300 cats and kittens. All have been neutered where necessary, some have had extensive veterinary care but all have been cared for and cherished until they were ready to go on to a suitable new home. During this time Kats and Kits have, maybe rather naively, never refused to help a cat. Consequently we have always rescued more cats than we could re-home; timid cats from farms and factories, elderly cats, and cats with on-going veterinary problems, with the house cats these number 65.  They will all spend the rest of their days with Kats and Kits, sharing 13 acres with chickens, goats and cattle, living in custom built heated accommodation, but often finding their way into the house where the old ones will be found curled up in beds by the Aga or on Lorraine’s bed.Though Kats and Kits is operating mainly as a sanctuary it does not mean we will not help cats in need. We have built good working relationships with other rescues and the R.S.P.C.A. liasing with them when emergencies occur. Some cats need extra care and recuperation after illness and injury and Lorraine does this with great care and skill.  Kats and Kits has a long term commitment to all the cats it has re-homed insisting that they come back to us if circumstances change and their owners cannot care for them. We also do all we can to encourage people in the community to neuter their cats, this being the most important thing of all.
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About Kats & Kits:Kats & Kits is a long established cat sanctuary based in the depth of the UK's mystical Wiltshire countryside, on the edge of Salisbury Plain, near the white horses of Alton Barnes and Westbury. Run by a small dedicated team we aim to provide a home to rescued cats where re-homing is not a viable option. This blog documents the daily challenges the group has overcome since 1994 to provide care and shelter for abandonded, stray and unwanted cats.
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