COVID 19 & Feeding Community Cats

Adapted from Alley Cat Allies' resources. Our Recommendations Healthy caregivers should go about their care and feeding routines while maintaining appropriate social distancing protocols with regard to distance from other people. If you can stock up on cat food so as to reduce the number of visits you make to the store, that’s great. Follow safety […]

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COVID-19 & Community Cat Caregivers

Adapted from Alley Cat Allies' resources. Answers to your Questions & Helpful Checklists We at CATalyst want to make sure that you have the information you need about caring for community cats during this time of COVID-19 – including if you become unable to care for your cats. Please find below several answers based on information […]

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Crisis Care for Companion Animals – Preparing a Plan

Their Hero is YOU with many thanks to Liza Clancy of Drogheda Animal Rescue for her invaluable input Pets bring vital energy to our homes and lives. Pets communicate many messages about love and connection. Care tenderly for all pets throughout their precious lives. The interspecies dance of love softens and expands the heart. Laura […]

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Eligible for Adoption?

Just looking at old email queries. Got a great reply for this one: Query: “We have 2 adult cats ferrel with 3 kittens in our bank yard and we are afraid to leave our grandchildren out in the yard can you tell us how to get rid of them any ideas are welcome” Reply: The […]

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Feral Cat Shelters

Found a lovely little feral cat shelter & feeding station on Items for Sale or Free in Bantry (a great FB resource in my area). It needs a bit of weather proofing (primarily a more overhanging roof), but works lovely in the rare sunshine – got some snaps of my guys checking it out when it was installed. In the cold weather it’s especially important to provide community cats with warm shelters and safe, dry feeding stations.

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Winter Holidays

Adapted from DSPCA (© Vets Now 2009), Apartment Pets and Harmony Animal Hospital. There are a number of potential hazards to be mindful of during the festive season so read on and feast your eyes on all the tips to ensure you and your pet have a happy, safe and stress free time at Christmas… Stick To Your Usual Routine Even […]

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Winter Animal Care

Adapted from DSPCA Human animals aren’t the only ones who want to stay indoors and wrap up warm during the cold winter months! We can sometimes forget that domesticated animals are not adapted to live outside under any and all weather conditions. When it gets too cold outside, we need to take some precautions to […]

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Beara Animal Rights Action Project

UPDATE 2021: Please note, some links have changed since this was written. They have been updated here, but not on the pdf.   On Monday, 24th February, I set off for Castletownbere on the beautiful Beara peninsula. I was to meet Shonagh, one of the excellent vets from Kenmare Veterinary Centre. With her was Shadow (picture to come), […]

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Why Won’t People Neuter?

For some time now I’ve been meaning to write about why, for decades, rescues have been recommending adopting from rescues and neutering, rather than breeding; and why it sometimes seems like we’re making very little headway. Sinead O’Connor’s facebook announcement that she’s going to breed her cat once before neutering has prompted me to finally do so. Sinead’s announcement […]

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What To Do When Your Dog Goes Missing

UPDATE: From 31st of March 2016, it has been a legal requirement for all dogs & puppies to be microchipped. Failure to comply with the legislation could result in a fine of up to €5,000.   Interesting stats today from a UK survey by OnePoll on behalf of the Dogs Trust – What happens when dogs go […]

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Why Home Check?

We’ve done a couple of homechecks recently for A Dog’s Life and West Cork Animal Welfare Group – one for a dog and one for a puss. And, of course, I’ve done homechecks all through the years for myself and the other organisations I volunteer for. I often get asked why we homecheck and thought […]

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Dog Fighting & Reporting

The ASPCA designated April 8 as National Dog Fighting Awareness Day (NDFAD) to advance the conversation about dog fighting and to encourage animal lovers across the US to take action against this brutal form of animal cruelty – find out more here (link updated April 2019). While the information will be specific to America, it will undoubtedly translate fairly easily […]

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Family in Desperate Need!

Help Urgently Required! Please help! After two long years of being on a waiting list for an exotic rare breed dog, we were finally notified by the breeder that at long last, our number has come up, and … WE’RE HAVING A PUPPY! We must IMMEDIATELY get rid of our children now, because we just […]

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Reporting Internet Animal Cruelty, Abuse and Crimes

Mostly from Eagle’s Den Rescue. I’ve added the bit about Ireland. If you come across a facebook page, website, video, or other things on the internet you might find, that promotes/supports violent acts, animal cruelty, abuse, crimes, etc … it’s hard to know what to do, but you can do something, and here are instructions […]

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Halloween and Keeping your Pets Safe!

adapted from DSPCA Unfortunately Halloween and the weeks preceding it can be a very distressing time for animals. You may be aware of the terrible incident this September where the dog died as a result of a firework. Whilst cases like that are relatively rare; the Dublin SPCA (and CATalyst!) would like to remind guardians to […]

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