Welcome to our Spring 2023 E-Newsletter! 2023 is proving to be a busy year already for the Shelter and we are seeing lots of animals coming through the doors of the El Verger centre, since the New Year. Things move at a fast pace and we are shortly leaving to take another group of animals to our friends in Guernsey, where they will start new lives with loving families.
HIGHLIGHTS FROM 2022 Adoption News - Cats The amazing cat team has had a brilliant year, through their hard work and dedication to our shelter animals.
We are also busy organising many fun social events to raise extremely important funds, to support the work of the charity. See the dates for your diary section for further details. (Page 8) We will also look back at some of the incredible events that took place in 2022 and some of the key moments for the shelter and volunteers. We have been delighted to welcome many new volunteers in 2022 and sincerely thank our existing teams for their continued dedication to our animals. There have been some exciting developments within SCAN; we have opened a new Charity Shop premises in El Verger and now have two units and we have organised a huge range of events with our new “Events Team”. Animal Training and welfare continues to improve through dedicated training sessions and we have seen further physical improvements to the Centre in El Verger. We are looking forward to another successful year in 2023 and thank all volunteers and supporters for their generosity and love.
It’s been another busy year for SCAN Cats in 2022. In total, 135 cats and kittens arrived at the shelter and 127 feline adoptions took place during 2022 We often get asked where so many cats and kittens come from; the simple answer being from lots of different sources. • Many cats are sadly abandoned and an abandoned domestic adult cat will usually be found trying to get into a garden, or a house for food (family cats have no idea how to hunt well enough to survive). Many come our way; • Some cats come via the Police; • In 2022, 8 cats arrived because sadly their owners had died; • We have kittens left in bins, or in boxes, sometimes outside the shelter (sometimes with mum) or dropped over fences into gardens;