Welcome to the SNIP Newsletter, where we invite you to our AGM on the 30th October 2015 which we hope you will attend and renew your membership. We don’t receive any official or lottery funding so individual donations are our lifeline. Without your vital support we could not help so many strays and feral cats in urgent need.

SNIP Newsletter Summer 2015The Society for the Neutering of Islington’s PussiesBox 145, 2 Lansdowne Row, London W1J 6HLTel: 07557 118 484

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A very warm welcome to all of our friends old and new. Since our last newsletter we have continued the hard work of our rehoming programme and we have found new homes for even more cats in the last year.

Sadly the need for our charity is pressing as ever. We have expanded our reach to help more London branches of the RSPCA and we are taking cats from Cats Protection and Battersea Dogs Home.

You may also remember that last year we were appealing for help in funding a 4x4 because of the country terrain we often need to drive through to deliver our cats.

We are delighted to announce that through an RSPCA scheme and commercial sponsorship we were able to acquire a Land Rover Discovery with lots of room for release cages, hidey beds, litter and food that we deliver along with the cat’s sideloader pens. It has come into own on several occasions this year and got us out of some boggy fields!

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To find more suitable homes we have expanded our marketing effort and we are getting good results from our new website and our Facebook page. We have also expanded our advertising. In addition to our long term relationship with Horse and Hound, we are now advertising with British Horse, Horse & Rider and Your Horse & Country.

These are all recent additions but we are hopeful that this will extend our reach across the horse riding community throughout the UK. To increase the amount of potential homes we have also extended our delivery are up to 4 hours drive from London

At last, an update from me regarding the three GINGER NINJA puss cats! I renamed them Brad (the smaller one and the most inquisitive of the three) Toby and Trace! They're named after country singers from the USA.

Toby over these past six weeks has been the one that lets me stroke him and rub his face on me, he loves the fuss when I have been feeding them, but finally last night I released my precious boys and had a very sleepless night worrying that they would have vanished by this morning.I am happy to report that all three were present and correct in the barn this morning!

The two big guys (that's toby n trace) snuggled together on a bale of straw, and little Brad sitting inside the cages on top of one of the snuggle hidey beds! I started getting the food bowls sorted and all three took themselves BACK INTO THE CAGES to eat their breakfast! Gave Toby his normal stroking and fuss, and then they all pootled off to explore the barn again! 

By the time I had finished my stable duties and had been popping back in and out of the barn with the three cats doing their own thing exploring some more, one of them (I think it was Toby) was fast asleep curled up in a dog basket in a blanket, the other two were asleep together up on the straw bale they seem to favour!

Anyway, just wanted to say a HUGE THANKS to you all for these gorgeous cats! JB, Surrey

We know you like to see how our rehomed ferals are doing. We thought we would share this lovely note - its shows the love and enthusiasm our new owners have for their animals. We delivered these boys in February 2015.

We took delivery of these two cats from yourselves a few weeks ago - they were relocated from a farm in Oxfordshire.

As suggested, they stayed in their cage for the first 10 days and we released them early evening - they came out after a few m i n u t e s a n d w e n t m o r e o r l e s s straightaway to the hay where we know rats have been hiding ! They have also been keen on other spots where we have seen rats so they know their job :)

They have settled in well and are exploring but don't go too far away and are always waiting in the morning for their breakfast !

We have called them Bert and Ernie - Bert has the more black on his face.

Many Thanks,

T&A D, Reading

Our AGM will be held in the Emergency Fostering Unit of the RSPCA Central & North East London Branch with whom we work very closely and whose staff trap most of the ferals that we resite. Date: 30th October 2015 Time: 7pm for 7.30pm start. Venue: RSPCA Fostering Unit, Unit 1G, 1 Thane Villas, Holloway, London, N7 7PH. Please see directions below: Phone: 07557 118 484

SNIP SLIDES

During the evening there will be a slide show of the cats we have resited to stables and a tour of the animals at the unit (50-60 cats plus rabbits and small furries).

WHITE ELEPHANT STALL

We will have a White Elephant stall selling new and high quality goods to raise much needed funds. PLEASE BRING ALONG YOUR UNWANTED BRIC A BRAC FOR US TO SELL.

SNIP SNAPS

There will be our usual photo competition. Whether they are funny, heart warming or just your favourite snap, please bring along yourpet pictures.

BRITAIN’S GOT CAT-TALENTS

There will also be the ever popular cat modeling competition.

SPARE A COPPER OR TWO

There will a prize for whoever brings the heaviest bag of copper coins to donate.

RSPCA SHOP

The RSPCA unit also contains an ethical pet shop where you can buy very good value cat food and litter, cat toys and treats and safe baskets and collars.

DIRECTIONS

We hope you can join us and give your support for this fun evening. Please note this unit is not marked RSPCA as it is not open to the public. It is marked as UNIT 1G. If you ask for the RSPCA locally they will wrongly direct you to the Harmsworth Animal Hospital almost opposite.

To find the venue get to the junction of Thane Villas and Seven Sisters Road, where there is a café called The Atlas. The Emergency Fostering Unit is next door, behind a car park, with a big yellow industrial bin outside. It is between The Atlas and Regents Studios. There is a buzzer youneed to ring to gain entrance. Please bring proof of ID at the meeting

AGM 2015

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