Western News: February 05, 2019

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Tuesday February 5 2019
Your Local Views
•From page 8
Andrew Foster – They move
there because the housing is
cheap because of the racetrack
then complain hoping it will get
closed and their house prices
will rise.
Andrew Lawrence – Listening
to their whinging is more
damaging than the sound of
the burnouts. Just shut your
windows and turn the air conditioning
on. Then you won’t even
hear it.
Matto Croton – And you
wonder why people do it on the
streets.
Jayme Simpson – Don’t live
near a racetrack if you don’t like
stuff like this.
Jax Kearvell – It’s a controlled
environment. I bet if you
did a petition more would be for
it than against.
Frank Wood – You want
them back on the streets?
Readers respond to the
article on the Halswell
Residents’ Association
fighting against a bottle
store on 29 Ensign St
Ange J Rush – First I’ve
heard about it and I live just up
the road. There’s no need for
another bottle store, there’s one
already five minutes around the
road plus the supermarket.
Jamie Rossiter – I live in
Halswell and I never objected
or opposed this. These so-called
concerned residents’ association
only represent a small minority
of residents, not all of us.
Karen Drummond – There
are far too many bottle stores
now.
Chrissy Cacot – All is not
well in Halswell. I seem to
remember they were fighting
something else recently.
Rob Dickinson – Do none of
them drink then?
Jo Maraki – Put it in
Fendalton
Hayden Johnson – Maybe
if they pay for the speed bumps
down Ensign St that are wanted?
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Desexing pets is responsible
SPCA
southern
region
general
manager
Barry Helem
writes about
problems
the centre based in Hornby
faces when people don’t
desex their pets
In April last year, a little kitten
named April Penny arrived at
the SPCA Christchurch Centre.
The vets noticed an
abnormality in her chest, and
an X-ray showed her sternum
growing inwards towards her
vital organs.
She would have eventually
died from internal bleeding if
she didn’t receive urgent care.
A surgery like this hasn’t
always been possible at SPCA
due to limited resources, but
fortunately for April Penny, she
arrived at our centre just after
our SPCA hospital opened up.
It was a great feeling when she
received the surgery she needed
to live a happy and healthy life.
In 2018 we also began building
our new ringworm unit that will
open in March this year.
After years of fundraising,
we will finally have a facility to
properly manage the extremely
infectious disease, that affects
numerous cats and dogs each
year.
But even with new facilities,
our centre still struggles over the
summer period – kitten season.
This summer has been particularly
busy in Christchurch,
with hundreds of abandoned
and stray kittens like April
Penny needing our help – all
because people don’t desex their
pets.
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When Ollie the kitten arrived
at SPCA, he had such bad cat
flu he needed surgery to remove
his eye, and Popeye the kitten’s
conjunctivitis was so severe, it
looked like he had already lost
his eye from the infection.
There are countless other cats
and kittens with similar stories.
Every year the SPCA’s main
goals are to educate New
Zealanders how to be responsible
pet owners, break the cycle of
cruelty, and hopefully see fewer
animals like April Penny, Ollie
and Popeye needing our help.
It’s not small feat trying to
achieve this change, and we
can only do it with help
from you – our Christchurch
community.
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