Canberra Street Cat Alliance secures new facility for stray cats

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The 'Canberra Street Cat Alliance' is celebrating the opening of its new facility in Gungahlin. The charity says it will expand its work desexing, fostering and re-homing the capital's strays under one roof.

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00:00The Canberra Street Cat Alliance has spent more than three years fundraising for more

00:08space and now they have it.

00:11This is a dream come true for us because we've now got a bricks and mortar building so people

00:16can come and see our cats and adopt from this facility.

00:20The property in Crace is allowing the volunteer group to increase the number of street cats

00:25they can de-sex, treat, vaccinate and re-home all under one roof.

00:30We've got capacity here to take about 60 to 70 cats at a time.

00:34Already we've been here three weeks and we've had 54 cats through the facility already.

00:38The Alliance was started in 2014 by a single cat lover and is now 50 volunteers strong.

00:44A lot of the street cats that we work with are in industrial areas.

00:48They have either an indirect or direct dependence on humans.

00:51So where you will find them is where they can find food scraps.

00:56But their rescue work isn't just on the streets, it's in foster homes nurturing kittens for

01:01adoption.

01:02Generally it's with smaller kittens that are either in ill health and need to be nursed

01:08back into health or socialisation so that they're ready to be taken to their forever homes.

01:15And this isn't the end with plans for an on-site vet clinic.

01:18Where are you going?

01:19A new start for an established organisation.

01:22Where are you going?

01:22I can't very much.

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