'Watch out you'll be sorry': The cat rescues facing abuse and threats from desperate owners dumping pets
Cat rescues across Greater Manchester and surrounding areas are facing their own ‘pandemic’. Rescues across the region are struggling to look after the hundreds of stray, abandoned and rehomed cats and kittens, while facing abuse from desperate owners.
“We’re getting calls to building sites, empty garages, storage places, empty houses and we’re having to go pick up injured or sick cats and particularly mums with newborn babies from there. “The emotional toll, I think people forget that rescues are volunteers, we’re human. We don’t make a wage, we don’t get paid for this and we are seeing the worst in humanity at the minute.
“As a rescue, we pay for all of the food, medications, vet bills, but what people now are realising is, it’s all of the hidden costs that you don’t think about: fuel that you need to spend to go to vet appointments, the electric that you use in the house when you’re looking after the cats. “So many are coming back to us now because they can’t afford to pay for them. People are literally having to choose between feeding their animals or feeding their children.
He said: “It’s becoming harder to maintain a cats’ rescue because people are not donating like they were. That’s another knock on effect, as well as wanting to give the pets up and long waiting lists at rescues, people are not donating. “The cost of everything has absolutely rocketed and so that’s a big contributing factor in people not feeling they can look after their pets anymore. There’s so many people coming into the shop, phoning me, messaging me on Facebook, there’s a stray cat here, there’s an abandoned cat here, the people living here they just left and left the cat behind.
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