As recently as last week, she experienced being handed in three kittens that were found in a garbage bag between Hobro and Vebbestrup.
In the same week, we managed to find new homes for 42 of the boarding house’s cats.
But unfortunately the new week has begun before the boarding school can start over.
On Wednesday, a moving box with four starving kittens was found by a family from Randers who were visiting Mariager Church. Soon after, they were delivered to the boarding school in Handest.
There were strong scratch marks on the outside of the moving box – as if a larger animal had tried to get in to the kittens left behind. Private photo
– Today I could hardly contain it, says Anita Sønderup.
After sending 42 cats out into the world last week, there are already 27 other cats at the boarding house waiting to be seen by the vet before Anita Sønderup can start looking for new homes for them.
– It’s hard to think that this voluntary work is fun right now. It just pours in and I’m so full of it that I didn’t even listen properly when they called and told me the kittens were in a box. I was just as upset, says Anita Sønderup, who has had to take the four little kittens home to the private house to give them bottles.
– They were sunken in the stomach. They weren’t about to die, but we could tell that it had been a long time since they had been fed, says the board manager.
Anita Sønderup, manager of the cat shelter MinVenKatten, feels almost powerless about the task of taking in neglected cats that need new homes. Photo: Henrik Bo
In the ten years that Anita Sønderup has been involved in boarding work through MinVenKatten, autumn has always been high season for abandoned cats.
– But that’s not usually the case so crazy as it is now. We run campaigns and neutralize at will, but still it gallops on. It shouldn’t be like that, she says.
In addition to the boarding school in Handest, MinVenKatten also has premises at Odder. After a year’s progress through increased cooperation, the boarding school will from New Year become part of the larger organization Inges Kattehjem, which will therefore come to Jutland for the first time.
For Anita Sønderup, however, it will not be a farewell to work with homeless cats. Everything points to her being employed as daily manager of Inge’s cat home in Jutland.
Alongside a large number of private cat shelters, there are also thousands of stray cats in the shelters run by Dyrenes Beskyttelse.
The guard center 1812
- In 2023, Animal Protection received thousands of calls from all over the country from concerned citizens telling about cats in need.
- This is how many calls about cats in need received in 1812 from citizens in the 11 North Jutland municipalities:
- Aalborg: 646
- Frederikshavn: 281
- Horn ring: 266
- Jammerbugt: 198
- Brønderslev: 193
- This place: 185
- Mariagerfjord: 143
- Vesthimmerland: 103
- Reimage: 95
- Morsø: 80
- Læsø: 4
Source: Animal Protection
In 2023, concerned citizens contacted Dyrenes Beskytselse on the call center number 1812 and reported no fewer than 18,317 cats in need.
2024-10-23 18:45:00
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