Nor'West News: January 24, 2017
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NOR’WEST NEWS Tuesday <strong>January</strong> <strong>24</strong> <strong>2017</strong> 19<br />
poached by NRL<br />
ATTACKERS:<br />
Fijian players like<br />
Kevin Naiqama<br />
(left), of the<br />
Parramatta<br />
Eels, and Semi<br />
Radradra, of<br />
Wests Tigers,<br />
are making a<br />
huge impact in<br />
the NRL. Young<br />
Burnside rugby<br />
player Mika<br />
Ravalawa may<br />
one day be like<br />
them. PHOTOS:<br />
GETTY IMAGES<br />
Stray cat problem<br />
on the increase<br />
• By Gabrielle Stuart<br />
THEY ARE cute, fluffy – and<br />
reaching plague levels in<br />
Christchurch.<br />
Cat Rescue Christchurch has just<br />
had its busiest month on record,<br />
taking in 137 stray cats and kittens<br />
for rehoming in December. That was<br />
up from 80 at the same time the year<br />
before.<br />
It has left the charity with more<br />
than $12,800 in vet bills for December<br />
alone.<br />
The numbers show no signs of<br />
slowing, with another 40 arrived<br />
already this month.<br />
Managing director Beki Milligan<br />
said the charity had been working<br />
for more than a decade to try to<br />
reduce Christchurch’s stray cat problem,<br />
so the spike was disheartening.<br />
“I like to think we’re getting<br />
somewhere, but as soon as we think<br />
that, something like December will<br />
happen,” she said.<br />
“It doesn’t take long for a problem<br />
to get out of control, especially when<br />
it’s cats. They can start reproducing<br />
at 16 weeks, so if you’ve got one litter<br />
and in four months they are reproducing<br />
themselves, then you can<br />
have a colony of 50 in six months.”<br />
The majority of the cats had been<br />
living wild for a long time, she said,<br />
often in Christchurch’s industrial<br />
areas.<br />
HOMELESS: Leia, one of the<br />
kittens Cat Rescue Christchurch<br />
currently has up for adoption.<br />
The kittens and some cats were<br />
homed by the network of volunteer<br />
foster families, who socialise and<br />
train them before they are put up for<br />
adoption.<br />
Wild adult cats are usually released<br />
again after they are desexed<br />
and have medical needs taken care<br />
off.<br />
•For more information on<br />
adopting, volunteering or donating<br />
to Cat Rescue Christchurch,<br />
visit www.catrescue.org.<br />
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