This Christmas no doubt you are enjoying precious time spent in the company of your loved ones, taking advantage of extensive food and wine, and laughing happily.
But for some there will be no celebration this Christmas – only the ongoing battle to survive. Heathy is just one such individual.
By modern standards, Heathy never had a chance in life. Before he was six months old, when his family were away on holiday, he fell out of a tree and got his paw caught on some barbed wire. A week later he was discovered, thin and not having any fun at all. Fortunately he was brought back from the brink, thanks to emergency medical care and a ridiculous bandage that made one leg twice as long as the other, and that stuck out like a handle when he tried to curl up. Tragically he lost 2 toes in the incident.
Over the years his senses have gradually dwindled – his teeth are weak, his hearing is thought to have completely gone, his whiskers have started coming out in all the wrong places. And this Christmas he has suffered a loss of eyesight, as his retina has slipped off his eye.
As a result he is a shadow of his former self. He can see no prospect of a return to his glorious days of catching mice, then allowing them to slip through the gaps in his teeth.
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But you can make a difference. The Disasters Appeal Committee has arranged a special fundraising activity this Christmas which aims to make a real change to Heathy’s prospects.
Just take a look at the options listed below. Whatever you can afford, it will be richly appreciated. Please.
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1p will buy heathy an oat, which can be used to make porridge, from which he will be able to lick the oat-flavoured milk, nourishing himself for a few more valuable seconds.
5p will buy him a cat biscuit, which he will be able to sniff and then reject, giving him a much-needed boost in self-esteem.
45p will buy heathy a sachet of cat meat in jelly, the aroma from which he will inhale, dreaming he still had the teeth to actually eat it.
90p will enable him to experience life untroubled by fleas, or the eggs of fleas, for 24 hours.
£2 will keep him in drugs for a day.
£5 will purchase the material so that a new cat bed can be constructed in his honour, such that he can ritually disregard it with the appropriate measure of disdain.
£10 will enable Heathy to have reconstructive ear surgery so that he looks like an actual cat.
£15 will provide him with the services of a carer, so that he can be freed when he gets a claw helplessly caught on a chair or some carpet.
£21 will buy Heathy prosthetic toes to replace the missing ones, so that his footprints in the snow don’t give the impression that he is permanently flicking some kind of ‘horns’ symbol.
£36 will enable Heathy to have much-needed eye surgery so that he will be able to see, and not walk into the wall so often.
If you can help, please direct your contributions to Paul Harland, who will be collecting on behalf of DAC.
But for some there will be no celebration this Christmas – only the ongoing battle to survive. Heathy is just one such individual.
By modern standards, Heathy never had a chance in life. Before he was six months old, when his family were away on holiday, he fell out of a tree and got his paw caught on some barbed wire. A week later he was discovered, thin and not having any fun at all. Fortunately he was brought back from the brink, thanks to emergency medical care and a ridiculous bandage that made one leg twice as long as the other, and that stuck out like a handle when he tried to curl up. Tragically he lost 2 toes in the incident.
Over the years his senses have gradually dwindled – his teeth are weak, his hearing is thought to have completely gone, his whiskers have started coming out in all the wrong places. And this Christmas he has suffered a loss of eyesight, as his retina has slipped off his eye.
As a result he is a shadow of his former self. He can see no prospect of a return to his glorious days of catching mice, then allowing them to slip through the gaps in his teeth.
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But you can make a difference. The Disasters Appeal Committee has arranged a special fundraising activity this Christmas which aims to make a real change to Heathy’s prospects.
Just take a look at the options listed below. Whatever you can afford, it will be richly appreciated. Please.
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1p will buy heathy an oat, which can be used to make porridge, from which he will be able to lick the oat-flavoured milk, nourishing himself for a few more valuable seconds.
5p will buy him a cat biscuit, which he will be able to sniff and then reject, giving him a much-needed boost in self-esteem.
45p will buy heathy a sachet of cat meat in jelly, the aroma from which he will inhale, dreaming he still had the teeth to actually eat it.
90p will enable him to experience life untroubled by fleas, or the eggs of fleas, for 24 hours.
£2 will keep him in drugs for a day.
£5 will purchase the material so that a new cat bed can be constructed in his honour, such that he can ritually disregard it with the appropriate measure of disdain.
£10 will enable Heathy to have reconstructive ear surgery so that he looks like an actual cat.
£15 will provide him with the services of a carer, so that he can be freed when he gets a claw helplessly caught on a chair or some carpet.
£21 will buy Heathy prosthetic toes to replace the missing ones, so that his footprints in the snow don’t give the impression that he is permanently flicking some kind of ‘horns’ symbol.
£36 will enable Heathy to have much-needed eye surgery so that he will be able to see, and not walk into the wall so often.
If you can help, please direct your contributions to Paul Harland, who will be collecting on behalf of DAC.
Thank you.
Hilarious! Kept me throughly amused whilst working on a dull tuesday morning in the middle of christmas!
ReplyDeleteAlthough not funny really! Put the poor cat down, dont you think its had enough of life! He'll be trying to commit cat suicde soon enough im sure of it!