Finding homes for cats and dogs

Gulf News

Finding homes for cats and dogs. Volunteers from Bin Kitty and the Ras Al Kaimah Animal Welfare Centre help to find foster homes for cats and dogs in the UAE. See more at: http://gulfnews.com/gntv

Transcript

00:00We have a lot of cats to adopt.

00:06We have adoption days like this at least once a month, although we do have a few extra ones

00:10coming up over the next couple of months.

00:13So adoption days you can come and meet them, but also our foster families are generally

00:17very happy to have you come and visit, meet a cat in a home environment and see whether

00:22you bond, basically anytime, anywhere.

00:27One of our main focuses, as well as adopting out cats, which is great, every cat that finds

00:32a home we're super happy about, but one of our main focuses is also our trap, neuter

00:38and release program.

00:39What that is, is we go out there with a few core volunteers who will go out, find colonies

00:46of cats that are living in a park, in a school, in a business, and we will take them, trap

00:55them, take them into a vet, have them neutered, health checked, and then if it's a safe environment

00:59where they were living we have them released again so that they can live without breeding

01:05and adding to the problems already.

01:07Cats are very clean animals and they automatically go to litter trays, even when they're little

01:14kittens they'll go to litter trays.

01:16They're so welcoming when you come home at night from a hard day's work and they just

01:21relax you, it's great.

01:23Having cats, I feel, is very therapeutic.

01:27I'm single so I work all day, when I get home at night there's somebody to greet me, all

01:33three come and greet me at the door, they're companionship, they play with me, they sleep

01:39on my bed at night, it's great having animals.

01:42And also I think that animals represent who you are as a person as well, if you're kind

01:47to animals, generally you're a kind person.

01:51Cats are very independent, so most of them are perfectly happy to be on their own during

01:54the day while you're out at work, but when you come home most of them are quite happy

01:59to shower you with love and affection and that's where you can really get to enjoy the

02:04time you spend with your cat.

02:06There's lots of animals out there that need our help and even if you can't adopt, even

02:10just foster for a little while to just give them a bit of relief or help us with our trap

02:16neutering release programme would be fantastic.

02:19Play with your cats, treat them like they're your children because they will love you no

02:24matter what you do.

02:26Cats always just love you.

02:32I work at the RAC Animal Welfare Centre since December 2010 and I'm the manager.

02:39On average we have 15 cats looking for a home and we have 15 dogs looking for a home.

02:46All our animals, both cats and dogs, they are all fully vaccinated, they are microchipped

02:52and they are de-sexed and they have been health checked regularly by our vets and these vet

02:59nurses.

03:00So you are quite certain that when you adopt an animal from us it's a healthy animal.

03:05They have been de-wormed and de-fleed regularly.

03:09The cats, we make sure that we socialise them plenty, so we put them together with other

03:15cats in the room, but they learn to live with other cats which increases their chances

03:20of finding a home and the dogs, we do a basic training programme with them.

03:25So all the dogs get walked twice a day and then once a day they get to play with other

03:30dogs for the socialising and they also get training.

03:33So all of our animal caretakers, they can handle dogs, they can teach them how to sit,

03:39go down, stay, wait.

03:41So all the basic commands are known to our dogs and even more importantly they have learned

03:47how to deal with people.

03:50If you want to adopt one of our animals, we want them to go to a home.

03:54So if they get adopted now, it needs to be for the rest of their lives.

03:58They are really your best friend in life, they are always happy when you come home.

04:03I think for children it's very good to grow up with a living being in the home that they

04:08have to care for.

04:09I think it makes them better people and I have three dogs myself.

04:15My house feels very, very empty when my dogs are not there, it's just, like I said, they

04:19give you a lot of love, they are friends for life, so I wouldn't be without them.

Category

Transcript

Recommended