Rehoming

After the thirty plus kittens that we received just before the summer holidays, December, here in Rarotonga, we only have one left! It's been a long time but we have found homes for every single one of them except one which one of our local volunteers has called "Mr. Pudgy". We still get the occasional kitten given to us to re-home but we are finding homes for them. Just recently we have also received a very small kitten which the volunteers have been feeding every four hours, even in the middle of the night. They have been very diligent but their work seems to be paying off for we have a healthy approximately two week old kitten which they have called "Micro Craig", after Craig. We already have a "Mini Craig" as well. They all look alike.

On occasion we also get a box full of puppies which we then have to find homes for. This never seems to be much of a problem though as most of the people who live here are looking for puppies. Earlier this week we were given six puppies, three males and three females, that were found in the mountains. Thanks to a "puppies wanted" list that has been created we called made a few phone calls and every one of these puppies found a new home by the afternoon. We don't seem to have much of a problem finding them homes. Even with big dogs we are finding good owners. We caught a couple of stray dogs, one male one female, and before they were even desexed we found homes for them.



As we continue to desex the local animal population there are less litters being born. This may be why we are seeing such a positive turn out of our animals looking for new homes. It's wonderful to see an animal that one has looked after for a month or so (in this case mostly cats) go to a good home where they can receive more attention than we can give them here at the clinic. Thanks goes out to the community for supporting these animals as well as the work we do.





Pictures, from the top, are of Graham holding "Mr. Pudgy", "Micro Craig" weighing in at 300g, and camera shy Laura feeding "Micro Craig".