An impoverished lady from Clairwood loves cats and feeds three ferals and kittens. She has no telephone, but on Saturday evening needed assistance. A call was received by us on Monday. She had managed to flag down a passing motorist and asked him to contact us. The area where she lives is pretty derelict.

Two ferals, wild with fear at firework noise, had run under her bed, and another feral had darted into a cut-off rusted drum in a rubbish dump and had become wedged in tar left in the drum. Only its face, chest and front paw were not caught in this awful black trap.  

Alfred went out to assist and found that the cat was so deeply embedded in the tar that it was as if it had been glued in with Bostick. Despite all efforts, he couldn’t get the cat out. The fumes in the drum were making it difficult for the cat to breathe. The little creature had to be euthanased in the drum. Photographs show the extent of the tar in which it had become virtually entombed. We spare you the sight of these.

Thank goodness for the loving concern of people like this lady who has so little herself and yet shares whatever she can with these feral animals and did her best to help this poor little trapped creature. ... more reports »