Cat Protection Society

How can you help

There are many ways you can help us:

by raising funds

by raising awareness of us by telling friends and colleagues who we are and what we do

buying your cat food, flea and worm treatments and other merchandise at our welfare office

buying at our Op Shop

volunteering your time in our Op Shop

or volunteering at our cattery.

Donations

The Cat Protection Society is a non-government, not-for-profit, community-based charity. We rely on donations and bequests so that we can continue to work to improve the lives of all cats and kittens.

Your donations help us meet the costs of:

Veterinary care, shelter and rehoming of cats and kittens
Providing Education
Promoting responsible pet ownership
Desexing cats in the community

If you wish to donate to the Cat Protection Society of NSW, you may do so in the following ways:

Download a Donation Form and make a one off donation.
Phone us on 02 9519 7201
Become a Regular Donor - becoming a Regular Donor means that a nominated amount of money will be debited from your credit card on a regular basis.

Donations of $2.00 and over are tax deductible

Thank you for supporting the Cat Protection Society of NSW

Op Shop

To help raise funds for our work, the Cat Protection Society has an Opportunity Shop next door to our cattery and office. The Op Shop is located at

105 Enmore Road,
Newtown,
just opposite the Enmore Theatre.

The Op Shop relies entirely on volunteer staff and donated goods such as second-hand clothes and bric-a-brac. If you want to volunteer you can register for a half-day a month or a day a week... whatever suits your schedule.

If you want to donate goods, please phone the Op Shop on 9516 2072.
(Please note: Our Op Shop is unable to accept large items, such as furniture, or electrical goods).

Of course, you can also help by shopping at the Op Shop! You never know what bargains you might find...

To find out about volunteering at our Op Shop, please download an application form.

Cattery

Looking after all our cats and kittens is a huge daily task. Volunteers help with cleaning and importantly, socialising the cats and kittens. Time spent playing, patting and grooming the cats is enjoyable for volunteers and cats alike! It helps the cats learn to interact positively with people, and a happy cat is more likely to find a loving new home.

To find out about volunteering at our Cattery, please download an application form.

Foster Care

Every year the warmer months bring 'kitten season' and every year we have more kittens brought to us than we can look after at any one time. Foster carers look after litters of kittens, or mothers and kittens, until they are old enough to be desexed and rehomed. As a foster carer, you need to have a quiet secure room at home where you can keep the kittens, and you need to be willing to invest your time and emotional commitment to raising kittens for rehoming. We provide food, litter, bedding etc and you provide the care and love.

To find out about volunteering as a Foster Carer, please download an application form.

Help to stop the cycle of feline overpopulation

How many times have you seen flyers or newspaper ads promoting ‘free’ kittens? Sadly, too many people don’t desex their cats and then hope that by giving away the resulting offspring the problem is solved. WRONG!

Every year in New South Wales alone there are thousands and thousands more kittens than there are good homes for them. The abandonment and destruction of innocent lives must end and the only realistic long-term solution is the desexing of all pet cats prior to sexual maturity.

You can help solve feline overpopulation.

When you see an ad or hear about someone offering ‘free to good to home’ kittens, phone them and tell them about the discount desexing programs offered by animal welfare groups such as the Cat Protection Society and National Desexing Network www.ndn.org.au. Tell them to call us or a local organisation for assistance or referral with desexing their cat. Encourage them to surrender the kittens to a shelter like CPS where they will be desexed before being rehomed. Remind them that it is illegal in NSW to sell or give away kittens that are not microchipped. Let them know that tens of thousands of cats and kittens are euthanased every year because there are just too many kittens and not enough homes. Or you can drop this notice into their letterbox to remind them of their legal responsibilities.

Help them to be part of the solution, not the problem.