Welcome to your local Cats Protection!
Tain & District Branch is run entirely by volunteers who give up their time freely to help stray and abandoned cats/kittens. As a result of this, the telephone is not manned 24 hours a day. If you contact us, please leave a message and a branch member will get back to you as soon as possible. Any delay in responding to telephone calls or emails is usually down to work commitment. Telephone Number 0845 3712737 or email jardij@aol.com
We have been in existence for almost 10 years now and our main aim is to rescue and rehome stray and abandoned cats who come into our care through no fault of their own. The cats/kittens are cared for by our 5 fosterers who all have outside pens in their gardens to house the cats until they are rehomed.
Our homing area is: Invergordon, Seaboard Villages, Portmahomack, Tain, Dornoch, Embo, Golspie, Lairg and surrounding areas. We do however try to give help to kittens/cats outwith these areas if this is required. To enable us to rehome outwith our area, we are required to ask the permission of the relevant local Cats Protection Branch. However, it is always wise to check with your local Branch to find out if they have any kittens/cats in their care available for rehoming.
As we have to raise our own funds to help run the Branch, and because the medical care for the cats is often very expensive, we are always keen to recruit new volunteers, especially in fundraising. This is a very important part of our work. It enables us to give that little bit extra comfort to the kittens/cats in our care. We would like to attract fundraisers who have new, fresh ideas, and who are willing to give up their time to help the cats in our care. All money raised is spent locally and NOT put into a 'big pot'.
We advertise our cats and kittens on other websites to give us a better chance to rehome the cats in our care. These are:
Catchat.org - this is a superb website and has helped us home difficult to home cats because of the breadth of its appeal
Freecycle - under the Inverness Group
If you feel you would like to join our group, please telephone 0845 3712737 or e-mail jardij@aol.com.
 | | Bric-a-brac We are always looking for good bric-a-brac to sell at our Car Boot Sales, Highland Gatherings and Shows etc. If you have any bric-a-brac you would like to donate, we would be delighted to hear from you. We can collect. These shows and car boots are the backbone of our fundraising to enable us to carry on helping stray and abandoned kittens/cats, but we are looking for new ideas on how to raise the much needed money required to run the branch.. |
