{"id":6842,"date":"2024-07-21T14:08:06","date_gmt":"2024-07-21T13:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/benthampetrescue.org.uk\/newsite\/?page_id=6842"},"modified":"2024-07-21T17:46:28","modified_gmt":"2024-07-21T16:46:28","slug":"how-to-help-bdpr","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.benthampetrescue.org.uk\/?page_id=6842","title":{"rendered":"How to Help Us"},"content":{"rendered":"

Become a Fosterer!<\/h1>\n

Although we have some cats in long-term foster homes, we do our best to find permanent, forever homes for all of the cats that come into our care.<\/p>\n

We need temporary foster homes for cats from our area who need our help, and we are always looking for more short-term cat fosterers to join our team. A spare room, a patient understanding of cats, and a desire to help them find a better life is all that’s needed – we’ll supply the rest. We’ll offer plenty of support and will cover out-of-pocket expenses. If your lifestyle doesn’t lend itself to making a lifelong commitment to a single cat right now, then fostering could be for you. We prefer you to foster a cat for the time it is resident with us (usually 1 to 3 months), but aside from that, we are very flexible. <\/p>\n

If you would like to know more, please get in touch using our contact form<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Fundraising<\/h1>\n

We need more volunteers! Can you help?<\/p>\n

If you can offer some time to help with our fund-raising events, please contact us using the form on our contact page.  We need people to man stalls, bake cakes and help serve at coffee mornings. We also need people with good communication skills to approach businesses in the area (Bentham, Ingleton, Burton, Kirkby Lonsdale, Settle) for raffle prizes and gifts. And we’d be delighted to offer help to anyone who might be willing to organise events on behalf of Bentham Pet Rescue.<\/p>\n

We appreciate donations of raffle prizes and good quality pet bedding and accessories.<\/p>\n

Trapping and neutering feral cats and strays<\/h1>\n

The operation of catching the cats in our Trapping, Neutering and Release Programme (TNR) is done with a humane cage trap.  Every care is taken to reduce the stress and trauma experienced by each cat whilst confined in the trap and during transportation to and from the vet.  Where possible we keep female feral cats in our care for 2 – 3 days to ensure they have healed sufficiently to be released; most males can be released immediately after their operation.<\/p>\n

We normally return feral cats to their ‘home’ territory.  This is (almost) always better for such cats than being taken into ‘care’ which they find extremely stressful.  In our experience it very difficult to find suitable new homes for feral cats and it is not fair to keep confined for any length of time creatures that are used to living freely. If you have a large rural space suitable for rehoming a feral cat (eg a farm etc) please get in touch as e occasionally need to move such a cat. Young outdoor kittens can often be tamed and rehomed as domestic pets. This is highly dependent on capturing them young enough, so please let us know of litters in your neighbourhood as early as possible.  <\/p>\n

The benefits for the feral and farm cat population through this programme are many but the most important is for the females: having no more kittens means their health generally improves.  There can also be a reduction in injuries attributed to fighting amongst male cats.  This in turn can reduce the risk of infection from wounds and contracting diseases such as Feline Immunodeficiency Virus (FIV) through bites.  (FIV – known as Feline Aids – cannot be contracted by humans.) The TNR Programme is the best way to reduce, humanely, the population of cats living wild.<\/p>\n

If you could devote some of your time to help with this valuable work, please contact us via our contact page.<\/p>\n

Other ways to help<\/h1>\n
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  • Donate unwanted gifts for raffle prizes<\/li>\n
  • Make a regular donation by standing order and gift-aid it<\/li>\n
  • Leave us a Legacy in your will<\/li>\n
  • Make cakes for coffee mornings<\/li>\n
  • Sell raffle tickets for our Christmas draw<\/li>\n
  • Organise your own event to raise funds<\/li>\n
  • Monitor a cat trap in your area to help catch a stray<\/li>\n
  • Sell goods for us on eBay<\/li>\n
  • Offer to help on our stall at an event – perhaps just for an hour<\/li>\n
  • Join our fund-raising group<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    If you can help in any way, please contact us via our contact page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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