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Our Posters... are a great way to help us find new forever homes for our dogs and cats. They're available on the You Can Help page and we have a new one every fortnight. Put them on your community noticeboards or your office noticeboard and help our dogs and cats. Festivals and Fairs We're always happy to attend these functions and bring along dogs for adoption and information about our cats and the Shelter. If you or anyone you know is organising a function that would be suitable for us to attend, please let us know the details by phoning us on (02) 9587 9611. There are no festivals or fairs booked at this stage, but keep watching this space. Fancy a break? One of SDCH supporters owns a fabulous apartment in Jindabyne which is let out to holidaymakers. The picture below is the view from the apartment.
If you make a winter booking for the apartment, the owner will donate 15% of the rental to SDCH, and if you make a week's summer booking, the owner will donate $200 to SDCH. There's just one catch - you must mention that you read about the apartment on the Sydney Dogs & Cats Home website. What a great place to stay if you're heading to the snow this year, or perhaps you might like to think about a summer break at Jindabyne (if you haven't been to the Snowy in summer you don't know what you're missing!). And ... you'd be helping the animals at SDCH at the same time. For more information check out the website: http://www.snowridge3.com.au/ |
Due to the current economic conditions, we have found it necessary to reduce our opening hours. The new hours are: Monday to Friday 9.00am to 3.00pm Dog viewing hours 9.00am to 1.00pm Saturday and Sunday 10.00am to 2.00pm Dog viewing hours 10.00am to 1.00pm Cats can be viewed during normal opening hours.
Our dogs and cats need your help this winter... With winter upon us our dogs and cats need more bedding at night. They could really use towels and blankets that you no longer have a use for - particularly towels. If you're cleaning out your linen closet, please think of the dogs and cats at SDCH who could be kept a bit warmer at night with an extra towel or blanket. We're sorry but we cannot accept eiderdowns, doonas or pillows, as we just don't have the storage room or cleaning/washing facilities for these items. You can drop them off at SDCH any day of the week between 9.00am and 3.00pm. And they would ... Would really appreciate some food donations. We seem to be always in need of soft cat food for all our older cats. The Whiskas tins are ideal and are about $1.00 a can - which feeds one or two cats for one meal, depending on the size of the cat. And we find that we are now in need of tins of tuna in brine. The dogs are fed a special mixture that uses the tuna, so we are always grateful for donations. We're very lucky in that we get Cat and Kitten biscuits donated by Eukanuba, but we really do need cans of soft cat food for our feline residents.
Five reasons to desex These five tiny kittens were recently brought into the shelter. They aren't old enough to eat or lap or fend themselves. They were brought in without a mother. If they hadn't been brought in, they may have survived if they were still with their mother, but chances are that they may have died an awful death due to cold, malnutrition or disease. If they had survived, the three females would possibly give birth to another five kittens each in about 5 months time - that's another 15 kittens. If all them survived and assuming half were females they would possibly then give birth to another 4, 5 or even 6 kittens each - that's another say 35 kittens. At the same time the first three would probably be pregnant again and they would have given birth to another say 15 kittens. That's about 75 unwanted kittens in less than 12 months from the original three. And we don't have to explain how it just continues on. Makes sense to desex animals doesn't it? These are just five of the many thousands of unwanted kittens born every year because of the lack of desexing. Thankfully these five will probably survive. One of our vet nurses has taken them home and is hand rearing them. They're the lucky ones - they will be rehomed with responsible owners and will be desexed. It's the ones that people don't bother to have desexed that have the hard time. And it's not just the females that you need to have desexed. In addition to preventing unwanted litters, desexing may result, in varying degrees, to a positive behavioural change in your pet. For example, your male cat will be less likely to
We often have rabbits looking for homes The Shelter often has rabbits available for adoption. If you want more information phone the Shelter on (02) 9587 9611. |
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