31/07/2026
Everyone, meet Winnie❤️🩹
Winnie boi was rescued on 26th July. Like so many before him, he is another dumping case in our area. People abandon cats here assuming someone will eventually help them, but what they don’t realize is that this is probably one of the worst places a cat could be left.
The periphery of our society is home to 15–20 dogs, while another 10+ dogs live inside the society itself. Many of them have an extremely high prey drive, which means absolutely no cats survive in this area. None. NADA. Cats that are abandoned or dumped here almost always lose their lives to brutal dog attacks. Every abandoned cat that ends up in this area is living on borrowed time. Every second could be their last.
The very few who somehow make it inside the society somehow seem to instinctively know where to seek refuge. No surprise, they always end up in my yard.
I first spotted Winnie three days before I rescued him. He appeared briefly in our front yard but vanished before I could get to him. The following day, there was no sign of him at all, and I feared the worst. On the third day, he ended up cornered in our neighbour’s yard by four of the society dogs, all ready to make him their next kill. He had completely surrendered. He was crouched low to the ground, frozen, not attempting to run or defend himself. It was as if he had accepted that this was how his life was going to end.
Thankfully, my neighbour stepped outside at exactly the right moment, witnessed what was unfolding, and immediately messaged me. I rushed over, scooped Winnie up, and that’s how this little boy was rescued.
Sadly, this wasn’t his first encounter with dogs. Winnie already bears the scars of an earlier attack. He has a healing dog bite wound on both sides of his caudal thighs, the unmistakable marks of a dog that had him firmly in its jaws. It was a proper grab, one that could easily have left him paralysed or killed him. Somehow, he managed to escape.
Winnie also has conjunctivitis and has since received his rabies vaccination. He has been started on medications and eye drops and is already on the road to recovery.
My sweet Winnie boi is safe in the loving care of a dear friend who
