Cat goes on 5-year walkabout
Help the Kloof and Highway SPCA continue its work by supporting its Dog Box Champions event.
FOR Sam Rist, miracles do happen. She was reunited with her cat, Gafford, after he went missing five years ago.
“On Monday, 9 May, a stray ginger male cat was brought into the Kloof and Highway SPCA. He was immediately scanned for a microchip; one was found and we were able to contact his owners straight away. When we contacted Sam Rist and told her that her cat had been brought in as a stray, she told us he had been missing for five years! It was a wonderful reunion between pet and owner,” said Lisa Mörck, the PR and outreach officer at the Kloof and Highway SPCA.
She encouraged every single pet owner in the Highway area to have their pets microchipped and, should a stray be found, to take it to be scanned at a local vet or SPCA.
To help the Kloof and Highway SPCA to continue to create more happy endings, support its 2016 Dog Box Champions event.
“This is certainly one of the most sociable and fun events of the year. We challenge local companies, organisations, schools and individuals to ‘adopt’ one of our socialisation runs for 24 hours and raise your ‘bail’ money to secure your release.”
The chosen champions will be locked away for 24 hours from noon on Friday, 27 May to noon on Saturday, 28 May.
The funds raised will be allocated to outreach clinics during 2016, and this is where Highway residents can make their mark and be a part of the NPO’s team that reaches out to animals living in underprivileged and very poor communities in abject poverty. “Help us to alleviate their unnecessary pain and suffering and improve the quality of their lives,” said Lisa.
If you would like to be a part of the annual event, contact Lisa or Tersia on 031 764 1212/3 or e-mail fundraising@kloofspca.co.za to book your space.
