00:00A shocking phone call which left this cat rescue in utter disbelief.
00:07I was almost in tears because I was like, surely no one could dump the cat that fast.
00:12Eight-month-old Pierre adopted just 12 hours earlier,
00:16found by a passerby and taken to a local vet.
00:19The lady who found him found him in the middle of the road in his carrier.
00:23He was soaking wet, he was covered in urine.
00:25Likely he'd been in the carrier for a while.
00:27Adelaide kitten rescue founders, mother-daughter duo Chantelle and Janine contacted the adopter.
00:33She called her brother who was looking after him because she was at work,
00:36had apparently decided he didn't like the cat anymore
00:39and decided to put him out in his carrier outside.
00:42It's an outcome the rescue has never seen before
00:45and one they say serves as an important reminder for people to carefully consider adoption
00:51and if it doesn't work out to contact a rescue rather than dump an animal.
00:56For now, Pierre is recovering here at the rescue.
01:00But there's no shortage of applicants wanting to take him home.
01:04And this time, hopefully, it'll be a happily ever after.
01:08Pierre is one of thousands of stray cats which end up at rescues every year.
01:12More desexing, less stray cats. That's the goal.
01:16It's a message echoed by other advocates, including this cat rescuer who manages a community cat desexing program.
01:24But she says rescues can't do it alone.
01:27It needs to be taken on board by state government, council, rescue, shelter, any stakeholder on board
01:34and take a global approach to desexing.
01:38A community of cat lovers working tirelessly to address a complex problem.
01:48It's the problem, it's a problem.
01:55In that moment, we went to the water, the energy of water, the water, the water, the water.
02:01The water'swater, the water'swater, the water, the water.
02:03And this is a problem.
02:05It's predestined from the water.
02:07It's a problem.
02:08You can look at the water and the water.
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