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Calling exper ienced hand-rearers! We are cur rent ly on the look out for volunteers to help us hand-rear young kit tens who come into our care.


Kittens who are just weeks


old and without their mum have to be hand-reared to give them the best chance of survival. It is an intensive job which often involves tube-feeding the kittens every few hours, sometimes as often as every two hours and including throughout the night.


But despite the intensity of


the role, it is incredibly rewarding when the kittens start to get stronger and begin to eat on their own.


We often have very young


kittens brought in by inspectors after being found dumped or orphaned - but there is a shortage of volunteers to hand-rear them.


Joyce Mellor, deputy


manager at Stapeley Grange, said: ?It is a lot of work but it is also rewarding and that makes it all worth it. We have a list of people who we can call on when we have young kittens brought into us, but our list is small and we would like to grow it.


?We are ideally looking for


people with past experience of working with cats and we will


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provide additional training as and when required.?


Currently the cattery has


three young kittens in its care (pictured) who are being hand-reared by an RSPCA inspector. The three black kittens, aged three weeks old,


were found abandoned but are now thriving after regular feeds and cuddles.


This time of year is known as


?kitten season?, when RSPCA centres across the country are bursting with cats and kittens. ?We are in the midst of kitten


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