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Ensure both you and the cat have fun together – “cat quality time” can include exercise with cat
toys, escorting your cat outside to watch the world go past, quiet afternoon siestas, lounging near the heater in winter.
By providing a comfortable, relaxed and loving environment, a cat is more likely to be confident, relaxed and loving.
Thereby, poor behaviours are avoided, and it is less likely a cat will be relinquished as not being suitable.
If you need to relinquish your cat, do as much as possible to find it a new family yourself
– do as much is possible to find a new loving family, perhaps offer “deal sweeteners”, and ensure the new family
really are a good fit. Use your network of friends and work associates, the free internet advertising sites, posters and
flyers and of course have great photos and mention the cat’s positive characteristics. Unfortunately in the large
pounds the surrendered cats are usually on a very short 7 day time period in which to be adopted... and for 50% of
cats, due to the competition, this ends in euthanasia.

SAVE A LIFE!

Adopt from a rescue group, shelter or pound – these organisations ensure each animal is micro-
chipped, registered, vaccinated and desexed. Rescue groups save animals from the pounds (bringing down many
pounds’ euthanasia numbers) and many will guarantee to take back an animal if the owner is no longer able to
continue care, or take back a found micro-chipped animal if the current owner cannot be located by a pound.

http://services.blacktown.nsw.gov.au/petsonline/

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*Aust. sources include: RSPCA report for 2014; Office of Local Government 2013 report on Council Data Analysis.
(on dogs/ cats in pounds); & a 2013 Australian Veterinary Journal article on Cat Admissions to RSPCA Shelters in QLD.