Catmint Cottage Rescue

Catmint Cottage Rescue Private rescue and rehabilitation of cats. In 2006 we began saving cats from the street. We didn't get up one day and decide to do this.

It was decided for us: a colony growing bigger in the street we lived in, the houses around us, kittens left behind from a rental property with their mother and at the height of the problem there were over 30 cats and kittens breeding, fighting, sometimes dying. We systematically trapped, spayed and neutered whilst holding down full time jobs and admittedly not much money but we had some excellen

t help from one person and a voucher system to help us pay for the veterinary work. Into the equation came a huge stray problem at the factory John was working at, more kittens into care and more trapping and desexing. Last year we became involved in the pound cats and after fostering some of those, began taking in cats with no chance of being saved, the feral, the scared, the wild in the hope that these cats will one day have a future too. Some of their stories will be here.

So many memories of cats we rescued that have passed on are coming up these days. Poppy was one of these.
30/01/2026

So many memories of cats we rescued that have passed on are coming up these days. Poppy was one of these.

Lisa Pitt, pictured here, was having a bad day. Lisa rescued rabbits from Renbury Pound and although I did not hear the full story it was something about rabbits lost to illness that day and how...

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1DRGwZEXSM/RSPCA under the program Straycare is doing free desexing of stray and colony...
22/01/2026

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RSPCA under the program Straycare is doing free desexing of stray and colony cats in the suburbs mentioned on this post.
Our suburb, Fairfield is one of these.
If anyone needs the details to connect to this program please send me a pm here.
Margaretx

24/12/2025

Wishing all our readers and followers a Safe and Happy Christmas.
I have just changed the header to one I have loved for many years, a painting that was done for Arnott's Biscuits called Santa and the Drover.
More information here:

"Santa and the Drover’ by commercial artist and illustrator Jack Waugh (1910-1996).
Jack Waugh’s 1964 painting of Santa pausing on his travels to share a cup of billy tea with an outback drover, whilst the drover’s horse and Santa’s reindeer tentatively become acquainted, was painted for Arnott’s Biscuits and was featured on the lid of their Christmas biscuit tins. So popular that it was repeated year after year, it also appeared on the rear page of The Australian Women’s Weekly for a number of years each Christmas. Waugh, born in Lakemba and raised in Glebe, used himself as the model for the drover."

Honey was born with a condition called Cerebellar Hypoplasia.These cats are often called 'wobbles' due to their inabili...
17/05/2025

Honey was born with a condition called Cerebellar Hypoplasia.
These cats are often called 'wobbles' due to their inability to balance and co-ordinate. Honey came from a litter of three that we trapped in a friend's yard and that was our first experience with it.

Honey has been with us for eight years now. Her brother was adopted a few years back and very sadly her sister died of renal failure before that.
Honey was the worst afflicted of the kittens and she was also affected by a nervous nature but these days she is more settled although she can still take fright and is surprisingly fast at escaping, especially if she thinks I am going to try to do anything to her!
She loves a pat and she is often seen curled up next to our dog Abby. It seems like a mutual friendship has developed after all these years! Mind you Abby is warm and fluffy!

Honey seems to favour sending thought messages to me by way of communication. She approaches me to ask for something just the way she did here. A long look is how it is done and yes, it is all about food! not many subjects are more important.

Life has been somewhat more hectic than usual over the past two plus months. Desexing and vaccinating a number of colony...
10/05/2025

Life has been somewhat more hectic than usual over the past two plus months.
Desexing and vaccinating a number of colony cats on private land, removal of eight kittens of various ages up to the age of five months and their intensive socialisation has taken a lot of my energy. The bottom line means lives saved.
Meanwhile we took on two other older boys aged around eight years and will give them the help they need for as long as they are here. Their story is coming :)
And that's just me and my partner in crime John!
Meanwhile once more our member Linda has been trapping and desexing more cats, more kittens that were colonising private property! Our member Tu has been co-cordinating with our network on trapping and desexing of street cats.
If you agree we do a worthwhile job please consider donating. Funds are very weak at present. BTW thank you enormously to our followers who keep us going. We need more supporters of the kind you are.
Margaret

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