This is an urgent one – please sign the petition against the persecution of cats on the London Olympic site.
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/2/2012-olympic-site-cats-at-risk-of-starvation-and-death Some of you may not be aware of the enormous opposition Celia Hammond is facing from the authorities on the Olympic site. You can all help her by signing the petition, she desperately needs as many signatures as possible. The story is this: A very long time ago when it was learned that the site at Stratford, East London,was to be developed for the Olympics, Celia quickly realised that such sites would be teeming with homeless cats. She contacted them re trapping the cats before work actually commenced, but they assured her there were no ( or hardly any cats) there, and they were handling it themselves. She was not convinced, but could not act without their permission. A couple of months ago she received a phone call from them one Tuesday, acknowledging that there were indeed a number of cats there, and was told that demolition work would commence the next day. If she wished to rescue the cats it would have to be that very night. Of course, this was an impossibility. Trapping cats, just a couple, can take many nights of patient waiting,observing and leaving out food to tempt them. She went that night, and was horrified to learn of the enormity of the problem, she quickly assessed there were many hundreds there. Consequently she asked for an extension of time, which was granted for just a couple of weeks, but much time had to be spent doing a safety course...not just Celia but a number of helpers.
Celia has spent every night out trapping, getting to bed towards 6 a.m every night (morning!!) and she is completely exhausted. To date she has rescued over 150, many of them now at the Canning Town centre where I am a volunteer. Mothers and little kittens. Cats and kittens coming out of our ears, one could say. But the blow delivered to Celia is that she is now forbidden to enter the site any more, and that the remaining hundreds of cats will have to face a terrible death. Celia needs as many people as possible to sign a petition that she can continue her good work till all cats are safe. So, please, please spare just a couple of minutes to sign her petition...a modest 1000 signatures is what she wants...but more than that would be even better. A letter to Ken Livingston, or whoever else might be of influence, would also be an enormous help.Tell all your friends and family...time is of the essence.
Go to
www.celiahammond.org and click on to the petition.
Thanks very much to every person who does this.
