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Magazine of Ten Lives June 2018
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WOLVERINE’S STORY:
THE HEALING FACTOR
INSIDE:
Photo: Rachael Daniels
WORKPLACE WHERE DOES CATS IN THE
VOLUNTEERING YOUR CAT ROAM? CLASSROOM
COMMUNITY
CATCHUP FOR A CAUSE:
FOSTER CARERS ROSE, JUDY, VIKKI, PAM, TANYA & TRISH
WITH THEIR NEW FOGGER!
Our fabulous foster carers have formed their own
‘CATchup’ group, meeting regularly for a coffee
and a chat, along with organising fundraising
raffles and teaching each other to make cat
caves from sheep or alpaca fleece which they card WILLOW DROPS IN
themselves! We had a very special visitor at the Centre on
Their Christmas raffle raised enough funds to February 13th - the one and only Willow and of
purchase a ‘fogger’ machine to thoroughly course her ‘chauffeur’ Rich! We’re thrilled to see them
disinfect their homes between fosters and funds both and they have kindly donated copies of ‘Black
raised from their Easter raffle went towards Cats Tell All’ which Willow features in for us to sell
purchasing disinfectant to use with the fogger. in our shop. Naturally no visit to the Centre would
We are so thankful to have such wonderful foster be complete without a few photos of our gorgeous
carers who put in so much of their time to help us kitties for adoption! You can follow Willow & Rich’s
care for our kitties in need! adventures at vancatmeow.com
INSIDE THIS ISSUE: CENTRE NEWS 4
WOLVERINE’S STORY 6
HOW YOU CAN HELP 8
MARGATE OP SHOP 9
SHOP 10
VET ADVICE 12
EDUCATION 14
ADOPTION UPDATES 16
FROM THE PRESIDENT 18
VOLUNTEERING 19
Every cat has a story. The Scratching Post is published by Ten Lives Cat Centre
Are you part of it? Marketing & Communications Manager: Joel Diprose
Content: Suzy Cooper, Joel Diprose, Noel Hunt, Siobhan O’Brien & Dr Tess Vitesnik
Animal Portraiture: Rachael Daniels
COMMUNITY 3
$ 70
ENTERTAINMENT
BOOKS ARE HERE!
For the fourth year running
we have improved on our
previous years fundraising
INSIDE OUT: efforts through selling
TEN LIVES MANAGER, NOEL HUNT, WATCHING HIS CAT LILY IN HER Entertainment Books and
OUTDOOR ENCLOSURE. LILY IS ONE OF FIVE KITTIES FEATURED IN THE Digital Memberships, last
FIRST SERIES OF INSIDE WITH CATS year raising $2,210!
We are aiming to keep our
walking harnesses, pet runs and
INSIDE WITH using existing structures in the
streak going and you can help
by buying an Entertainment
CATS garden. Book or a Digital Membership
You can find the videos by going through us this year.
Have you seen Inside With
to www.kingborough.tas.gov.au
Cats, the five short films about Still deciding which is right for
‘inside’ cats and their owners in and typing Inside With Cats in
you? Both contain hundreds of
Kingborough? the search bar at the top of the valuable offers for everything
page. you love to do, but the Digital
Our Manager, Noel Hunt,
features in one, with his cat We can’t wait to see the next Membership gives you the
Lily, and his great method for set of videos – they’ll show how convenience of the traditional
keeping the litter tray outside to make your cat an active, Entertainment Book on your
the house in her enclosure. happy and healthy inside cat. Apple or Android device so you
The Inside With Cats project can redeem on the go. Order
Watch how different people
is a collaboration between now so you don’t miss out!
have learned how to keep their
cat safely inside, while giving Kingborough Council, Ten You can place your order via
it fresh air, exercise and lots Lives Cat Centre, Tasmanian the link at tenlives.com.au or
of interesting things to look Conservation Trust and the purchase and collect books
at and do. There are some Bruny Island Environment from the Centre.
ingenious ideas ranging from Network.
Ten Lives Cat Centre Board
ABN 78 883 186 467
President David Rees, Treasurer Bill Harvey, Secretary Roger Viney
Board Members
12 Selfs Point Road, New Town Tas 7008
Suzy Cooper, Prue Horne, Kellie Rathbone, Trevor Sutton & Vicki Tabor
PO Box 309, Lenah Valley Tas 7008
Honorary Life Members Julie Bristow, Leonard Bristow, Colin Dewhurst, Sue Dewhurst,
P 03 6278 2111 | F 03 6278 3111 Kath Fisher, Mona Foster, Sue Green, Tom Harding, Robyn Langridge, Betty Sheperd,
tenlives.com.au Caroline Steele, Ingrid Tebb, Rose Osborne, Lin Weidenhofer (dec), Sheree Bennie,
info@tenlives.com.au Dot Chaffey (dec), Nancy Knop (dec), Nora Wills (dec).
Ten Lives would like to thank the following businesses for their support:
4 NEWS
Photo: Adobe Stock
and local business including cats on threatened and priority
BRUNY ISLAND Pennicott Wilderness Journeys. fauna and how to tackle control.
UPDATE Tackling cat management on In 2019 Kingborough Council is
Bruny it became clear there bringing in a by-law that will
Ten Lives is a key partner were plenty of unanswered allow people to own pet cats
in a whole of island cat questions. How many feral cats so long as they’re desexed,
management program on and what is their distribution microchipped and contained.
Bruny Island. Through the across North and South Bruny? This will be supported by cat
project we will gain valuable What impact do domestic cats containment subsidies and
data, research and science have? What is the baseline advice. Ten Lives will work
that can help us better care number of key mammal and bird with Kingborough Council on
for our cats, the environment populations? Will cat control community promotion and
and community on Bruny and at key sites have a positive education. Ten Lives plans
then more broadly across environmental impact? Could to deliver Edu.Cat on the
Tasmania. there be any adverse impacts? Island. A responsible pet cat
What drives cat activity across ownership program delivered
Partners include Kingborough
the island and what are the by Kingborough Council and Ten
Council, Department of Primary
interactions between cats, Lives is critical to the success of
Industry, Parks, Water and the
rabbits & quolls? the project.
Environment (DPIPWE), the
Federal Government, UTas, DPIPWE and UTas have What can you do?
Tasmanian Conservation been using cameras and
Trust, Tasmanian Parks and sophisticated tracking If you’re visiting or living on
Wildlife Service, Tasmanian techniques in their research Bruny, and have a keen eye
Land Conservancy, Bruny helping to answer all these for spotting cats, download
Island Environment Network, questions and more. The the FeralScan App on your
weetapoona, the Bruny data gathered is helping us smartphone and report any feral
Island Community Association understand the impact of feral cats you see.
Every cat has a story. Are you part of it? FOSTER
NEWS 5
Photo: Discovery Circle/UniSA
TAKE A
PERSONALITY
TEST FOR
to have their cats tracked and
YOUR CAT
CAT TRACKER - we’re looking forward to sharing What type of
WHERE DOES results showing where Tassie
cats go.
personality does your
YOUR CAT cat have? Take the test
Do the Cat Tracker survey for up to three cats at
ROAM? discoverycircle.org.au
Whether you own a cat or
What do Tasmanian cats get not, we’d love you to join the click Cat Tracker and
up to when they’re out? 5000+ people who’ve already scroll down to the
taken part in the Discovery Personality Test
You might have seen TV shows Circle survey to help us to
from other countries showing understand more about cats,
button.
where cats go while they’re
out of the house. Owners are
their behaviours, and their Understanding your
relationships with their owners.
often surprised to see the maps cat’s personality
showing where their cats go, You can read more about the helps you to give
even crossing busy roads and
spending time in unusual places.
project at www.discoverycircle. it all the comfort,
org.au > click Cat Tracker.
security, exercise and
We were keen to bring this entertainment options
program to Tasmania so we can
see how our cats behave, so we it’ll need to be happy
joined the Cat Tracker program, and healthy if you
run by Discovery Circle at the start keeping it in at
University of South Australia.
night, or all the time.
People have been signing up
Our foster care program is an essential part of our work looking after our kitties. You don’t have to foster all the time, fostering even for
a short time - a week or two - helps with our vital work of caring for our kitties – register to be a foster carer now at tenlives.com.au
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SOME SUPERHERO
S...
DON’T WEAR CAPE
SCRUBS)
(OURS WEAR PURPLE
E’S STORY
THIS IS WOLVERIN
ADOPT
A
WOLVERINE WOLVERINE ARRIVED AT TEN LIVES AS A STRAY //
RESIDENT HAD NOTIC ED THAT HE HAD BEEN ROAMI NG
THEY
THEIR NEIGHBOURHOOD FOR AROUND THREE WEEKS //
LOCATION: CTED THEIR NEIGH BOURS AND PUT UP POSTE RS
HAD CONTA
// WOLVE RINE HAD MANAG ED
INTAKE ROOM BUT NOBODY RECOGNISED HIM
HIS FRONT LEG STUCK THROU GH HIS COLLA R AND
TO GET
ED
DATE:TIME IT HAD BECOME INFECTED // THANKFULLY HE ALLOW
REMOV E HIS COLLA R AND DISIN FECT THE WOUND
02/03/2018 THEM TO
IN TO
10:30 // CONCERNED FOR HIS WELFARE THEY BOUGHT HIM
TEN LIVES
IT WAS DISCOVERED DURING HIS INIT
IAL EXAMINATION
THAT WOLVERINE WAS IN FACT MICROCHI
PPED //
UNFORTUNATELY ALL CONTACT DETAILS
FOR HIM WERE OUT
OF DATE AND WE WERE UNSUCCESSFUL
IN BEING ABLE TO
CONTACT HIS OWNER
IT WAS ALSO DISCOVERED THAT HE HAD
AN ULCER THE
SIZE OF A 50 CENT COIN UNDER HIS
RIGHT ARMPIT //
THE WOUND WAS FLUSHED BUT WOLVERIN
E WOULD REQUIRE
SURGERY TO REPAIR DAMAGED TISSUE
ERY TO REMOVE
WOLVERINE WOLVERINE UNDERWENT SOFT TISSUE SURG
GETT ING HIS COLL AR CAUGHT
THE TISSUE DAMAGED BY
ARM // THIS WOUL D NOW ALLO W HIS WOUND TO
UNDER HIS
TEAM WERE SUCC ESSFUL WITH
LOCATION: HEAL PROPERLY // THE VET
VET SURGERY ERY AND WOLV ERIN E WOUL D NOW BE PLACED INTO
THE SURG
BEFO RE HE WOUL D AVAILABLE
FOSTER CARE TO RECOVER
DATE:TIME FOR ADOP TION
06/03/2018
14:24
WOLVERINE WOLVERINE LOVES A CUDDLE AND HIS
FOOD // HE
HAS BEEN RECOVERING FROM A COLLAR
WOUND // THAT
IS, HIS COLLAR GOT CAUGHT UNDER HIS
LOCATION: ARM AND CUT
THROUGH // HE IS JUST ABOUT HEALED
FOSTER CARE AND NEEDS A
LOVING HOME WITH A BIG SOFT CUSHION
TO SLEEP ON
(PREFERRED LOCATION) // I WAS GOIN
DATE:TIME G TO CHANGE HIS
NAME TO ‘CRUISER’, UNTIL HE SHOWED
11/04/2018 US HIS WILD
SIDE // THAT IS, THE USUAL RACING
AROUND THE HOUSE
11:46 WITH A WILD LOOK IN HIS EYE // I
GUESS HE WAS
FEELING BETTER!
K ON 10/05/2018
WOLVERINE WOLVERINE CAME BACK FOR A VET CHEC
D FROM HIS SURG ERY AND HIS
AFTER HAVING RECOVERE
D HAD HEAL ED // HE WAS MADE AVAI LABLE FOR
WOUN
TO BOAR DING ROOM 12 WHERE HE
LOCATION: ADOPTION AND MOVED
BOARDING WOUL D WAIT FOR HIS FORE VER HOME
TO WAIT LONG
DATE:TIME NOT SURPRISINGLY WOLVIE DIDN’T HAVE
TWO WEEK S OF BEIN G AVAILABLE
26/05/2018 // AFTER JUST OVER
ADOP TION OUR BIG BRAV E BOY GOT TO START THE
10:54 FOR
NEXT CHAPTER IN HIS STORY
8 HOW YOU CAN HELP
STARTING YOUNG:
SILAS (LEFT) DIDN’T WANT PRESENTS FOR HIS 5TH BIRTHDAY AS HE WANTED TO HELP OUR KITTIES BY DONATING
FOOD, WHICH HE EVEN BOUGHT IN GIFT WRAPPED! FREYA (CENTRE) AND KAEL (RIGHT) BOTH DONATED THEIR
POCKET MONEY TO HELP US CARE FOR OUR KITTIES WHEN THEY VISITED US! THANKS FOR YOUR SUPPORT!
The Ten Lives Cat Centre is a necessary in the running of the and house a cat or kitten and
self-funded not-for-profit Centre. you’ll receive regular updates
cat welfare organisation. We We need financial donations on your sponsored cat. We
to provide ongoing care for encourage you to come in and
do not receive government visit your sponsor cat too, not only
funding, and we rely on funds cats and kittens as well as the
maintenance of our facilities. do you get some kitty therapy but
generated from our own you also help them settle into their
Donations of over $2 are tax-
operations and the support deductible and donations can be environment and prepare them
of the general community. made via our website, over the for their forever homes.
As we move into our fifth decade phone or in person at the Centre. What we need
of operation, it is heartening to Office Supplies:
note that our support base is ever- $2 will help provide toys and
activities for our cats during
growing and that the community per month their stay with us Copy paper (A4 & A3), pens, post-
as a whole is working together it notes, blu tac, tape, laminating
to improve the lives of animals in $10 can provide treatment for
common ailments such as pouches, staples & tissues
per month
general across the state. digestive upset, fleas and mites
Cleaning Supplies:
How can I help? $15 desex, microchip and vaccinate
a kitten ready for it to find its
per month forever home
Paper towel, toilet paper,
You can help the Centre through hand soap, dishwashing liquid,
donations. $20 sponsor a cat which contributes
to the cats stay with us until we disposable gloves - pref. Medical
per month
We need old newspapers, woollen find the cat a home
grade & latex-free
blankets, jumpers and towels $50 would support a litter of kittens
which ensure our kitties stay that require foster care before For the Cats:
per month being adopted
warm, especially during our chilly Newspapers, blankets, sheets,
Hobart winters. towels, jumpers, toys, heat packs,
Sponsorship
We need practical items like copy pet beds/caves etc, cat trees, cat
paper, toilet tissue, dish liquid, If you are unable to adopt a cat, carriers.
washing powder, hand wash, but would love to have a cat in
paper towels, garbage bags and your life, then why not sponsor one Please note we are unable to
stationery products, which aren’t of ours? For just $20 per month accept donations of filled bedding
very exciting but are extremely your sponsorship will help us feed items such as doonas or pillows.
Every cat has a story. Are you part of it? DONATE
MARGATE OP SHOP 9
MARGATE
OP SHOP
1717 Channel Highway
STACKS OF SLACKS ON RACKS:
THERE’S ALWAYS GREAT BARGAINS TO BE FOUND AT THE OP SHOP!
SPREADING THE These boots were made for …
CLOTHING
“Someone recently stole a brand
LOVE new pair of donated work boots
and left their manky old boots in BOOKS
Our fabulous volunteers their place. We put a note on the
old boots asking whoever stole
squeeze as many donations as
possible into the Margate shop, them to please return them,” says BRIC A BRAC
but there’s only so much room. Robyn.
What do they do with extra Word obviously got around and it
items? seems like our thief felt bad about
Open
Your good quality children’s stealing from a charity – the
Weekdays
books, toys or clothes might end stolen boots were returned the
up at a local crèche or be sent
next week. 10.00am – 3.30pm
as part of the care packages to Get some bargains and drop off Saturdays
overseas charities. Books might your donations
help another animal welfare 10.00am – 3.00pm
If you have things to donate, we’d
organisation or school doing a
love you to drop them off to the
fundraiser.
Margate op shop or Ten Lives Cat
“We want everything to be used.
If we can’t sell something here, or
Centre during opening hours so
we can keep things safe and in VOLUNTEERS
great condition. We’re happy to
don’t have space, we help other
community groups with the good collect donations too, if you can’t NEEDED FOR
come in.
quality donations that come from
our supporters,” says Robyn Tacey, To arrange collections, call Robyn
FRIDAYS
shop manager. Tacey on 0428 292 624
Ten Lives is a self-funded not for profit cat welfare organisation and we rely on funds generated from our own operations along with
the support of the general community. Help a kitty in need this festive season – make your donation now at tenlives.com.au
10 SHOP
Photo: Rachael Daniels
As Ten Lives is a self-funded generated from our shop stay
not-for-profit organisation right here at Ten Lives so your
we rely on funds generated purchase helps a kitty in need!
from our own operations such One of the key messages we
as our retail store. promote for responsible cat
Thanks to your continued support ownership is containment. Along
we have an every increasing range with selling cat enclosures we
for the cat and cat lover alike. also have a fantastic range of
interactive and educational toys
Along with the essentials like
to keep your kitty active!
Hill’s Science Diet food and Food Digger - $28.95
The products in our Cat It Senses
litter, we have a great range of
line stimulate your cat to use its The food digger stimulates your
accessories including bowls, litter
sense of sight, touch, hearing, cat’s instincts by providing food
trays, collars, harnesses & leads,
and smell. Unleash the inner tiger in tunnels for them to smell and
beds, toys, scratching posts,
in your feline as your cat digs, dig out. The tunnels come in two
carriers, preventative treatments,
scratches, pounces and paws! different sizes, allowing you to
traditional and interactive cat toys.
change difficulty levels, and the
We also stock cat-related
sloped surface in front provides a
giftware for humans such as plush
space to place extra kibble that
toys, books, apparel, homewares,
they don’t have to work so hard
games and jigsaw puzzles which
for. When you’re not at home kitty
all make great gifts.
can start off with the easy stuff and
Whether you’re looking for the The Cat It Senses range was work up to the hard, keeping them
basics or exciting new products for specifically designed to be mixed amused for ages! The food digger’s
your kitty or yourself - it’s all here and matched, so you can create design also makes it easy to
at Ten Lives! a new set of toys and change your disassemble and clean, so the only
The best part is 100% of funds cat’s play environment frequently! one working hard will be your cat.
Every cat has a story. Are you part of it? SHOPSHOP 11
Wave Circuit - $29.95
The Cat It wave circuit is an
innovative product that adapts Food Tree - $39.95
Flower Fountain - $79.99
to both your kitty and your home. Cats are predatory animals, their
Made of BPA-free materials, For kitties who like their water
instincts are to hunt for their food.
the wave circuit is a closed track fresh there’s the Cat It flower
The Cat It food tree plays on
rollercoaster-style cat toy. Your fountain. The flower fountain
comes with an adorable daisy these instincts to entice them to
cat will be endlessly entertained work for their meal. With three
and their toy will never get lost. head that provides a constant
flow of fresh water. With a water- different difficulty levels, the food
With variegated height and tree provides fun and play while
softening filter and three types
adjustability, you can customise preventing binge eating.
of water flow options the flower
the track to keep your kitty
fountain encourages your kitty to
interested and adapt it to suit
drink more and stay healthy.
your house or to pair it with other
Cat It products.
Wellness Centre - $49.95
The Cat It wellness center helps
your cat relax and lets it brush
Grass Planter - $29.95
itself! The wellness center has a
Did you know eating grass is good wide variety of textures, brushes
for your cat? It aids digestion and and massage ridges, including
provides them with important two flexible combs that remove
Scratcher Tower - $69.50 vitamins. The Cat It grass planter and collect loose hair.
is a tidy way to bring a little bit
A scratching post with of green indoors for your kitty. To make the wellness center
a difference. With eight With a low, stable design, special even more relaxing you can add
configureable and replaceable grid cover, drainage holes and catnip herbs to the top massager
discs, the Cat It scratcher allows vermiculite instead of soil, the or spray catnip onto the cushion.
you to customise to suit your cat grass planter is designed to Your kitty will love rolling around
perfectly, and keeps their claws prevent mess while providing your on their own personal wellness
away from your furniture! cat with the fresh grass they need. centre.
Our shop stocks a great range of merchandise for both cats and hoomins! 100% of funds raised from our shop stays right here
at Ten Lives so your purchase helps a kitty in need – stay up to date with our latest products on our Facebook page12 VET ADVICE
Photo: Adobe Stock
Common Smells Litter Box Complaints
THE CAT NOSE -
Perfumes, cigarette smoke, and Complaints about kitties not using
SOME INTERESTING air fresheners are all often found their designated toileting area, i.e.
FACTS in or around our homes or on the litter box, are fairly common.
our clothes to varying degrees. The first thing to check here is
While cats are definitely in Cats are very sensitive to these that the box is clean and without
the back seat compared foreign smells and may become odour. Due to their enhanced
to dogs when it comes to reactive. We recommend that sense of smell, a litter box that
sense of smell (sorry crazy people are aware of this when seems non-odorous to us may
interacting with our cats in the actually be offensive to your pet.
cat people), they are still
shelter, remembering that any While trialling different locations,
leaps and bounds ahead of scents will be much stronger different substrates, and different
us humans. to the sensitive kitty nose. Last types of litter boxes all come into
month on Facebook there were play, the first thing is to ensure is
Some like to refer to the cat’s
some posts circulating about pet that the box you want the cat to
sense of smell as its most
owners unknowingly poisoning use is up to their standards. This
important sense, and when
their pets with the use of essential may involve providing two trays,
living in the wild and fending for
oil burners in the home. A long list so there is always a clean one to
themselves cats certainly rely on it use, or cleaning the box multiple
of essential oils was included, and
for a number of essential survival times each day.
it was stated that their use may
skills. They use their sense of smell make your pet very sick. While
for establishing territory, locating Detecting Pheromones
it is known that cats may dislike
a mate, hunting, and for finding the scent of citrus and tea tree Beyond the nose, cats have
food and determining if it is fresh oils, the dose makes the poison. an extra organ specifically to
enough to eat. When it comes to While essential oils should never detect and process pheromones.
the domesticated cats we keep as be applied to the skin or coat, Pheromones are hugely important
pets, there are a few features of normal use of an oil burner in a to cat communication. Have you
cat scents and their sense of smell
Every cat has a story.
that can be useful to understand.
Are you part of it?
well-ventilated home is unlikely to
make your pet cat unwell.
ever seen a cat flehmen?! There’s
a new one for the vocabulary!VET ADVICE 13
It is when a cat gives a raise of shelter we try to keep bedding or
the top lip and slight opening of boxes that a cat may have scent FATAL DISEASE OF
the mouth to expose the cats marked on with that particular CATS RE-EMERGES
vomeronasal organ to the air to cat if it moves within the shelter.
Feline panleucopaenia,
help detect pheromones. This This provides a familiar, soothing sometimes called cat plague,
organ is part of the cat’s olfactory scent in the new space and has been seen in shelters
(sense of smell) system and it thereby reduces stress. Urine around Melbourne this month.
works together with the nose. spraying is often an indicator of The disease is caused by feline
Most animals have one, whereas a potential threat and this kind parvovirus (canine parvovirus
can occasionally cause
humans only have the remnants of marking is generally left in disease in cats too) and causes
of this organ which is no longer response to fluctuations in local vomiting, bloody diarrhoea,
functional. social dynamics between cats i.e. lethargy, and sometimes
social stress. sudden death. Cases have
Producing Pheromones rarely been seen in Australia
since the mid-1970s after being
Cats have scent glands along
a common disease of the 60s
the tail, on each side of their and early 70s. Australia was
forehead, on their lips, chin, and the first country to develop
between the pads of their front an effective vaccine and after
paws, that produce pheromones. widespread administration the
Behaviours such as rubbing disease was pushed back into
Shelter Applications feral and unowned populations.
their face on objects, rubbing up
against furniture and owner’s legs, Within the shelter we use a After almost half a century
the disease re-emerged in
scratching on a scratching post pheromone product that contains
Melbourne in 2014. There
or furniture, or spraying/marking a chemical copy of one of the have been outbreaks in
with urine, are all designed to facial gland pheromones secreted Melbourne each year since
leave a cat’s scent within their by cats. We have diffusers 2014, an outbreak in Mildura
territory. These behaviours deposit throughout the centre and like to (regional Victoria) in 2015,
pheromones on both physical spray it on the blankets of stressy and an outbreak in Sydney in
2016. More than 350 fatalities
aspects of their environment but cats. The product is called Feliway have occurred. All cases have
also on social contacts (other cats, (produced by Ceva) and has been linked to municipal or
humans, and other species). The been shown to reduce the stress private shelters and the cause
social function of scent signals is to of cats. Here we are recognising linked back to inadequate
recognise members of the same the importance of scent to cats in vaccinations and biosecurity
group, and signal to leave non- practices.
feeling safe and secure.
members alone. Here at Ten Lives we take in
In conclusion, being aware of our many feral or unowned cats
Cat Communication kitties super sense of smell and each day, most of whom
their ability to communicate using have never been vaccinated.
Olfactory signals are very New arrivals are carefully
pheromones can help to avoid
important for cats in both quarantined and vaccinations
problems. Whether it be wearing are given as soon as animals
communication with other cats,
less perfume when interacting arrive at the shelter. We
and in leaving different signals
with cats or keeping a cleaner vaccinate our kittens more
for themselves around their frequently than if they were
litter box, helping to minimise
environment. This gives them in a home environment and
stress in order to prevent spraying
some sense of control over their ensure adults are up to date.
or providing cats with calming While we hope we never have
environment. Facial rubbing -
pheromones in order to make to go through what shelters in
when your cat smooches you
them feel safe. Melbourne are working through
or gives you a head boop - is
currently, we remain vigilant to
used in areas of the territory TEN LIVES VETERINARIAN the possibility of an outbreak
where the cat feels comfortable here at Ten Lives.
and unthreatened. Within the
Dr Tess Vitesnik BVSc(Hons)14 EDUCATION
Photo: Rachael Daniels
GETTING THE MESSAGE OUT:
COMMUNITY & EDUCATION MANAGER, ROSE BRAY, WITH OUR NEW EDUCATION OFFICER, THERESA STEPHENSON.
Our Edu.Cat program is best: teaching. Children enjoy the evaluate and build a scale model),
off to a terrific start, with challenging hands-on projects while others design and research
schools embracing the which encourage teamwork, the effectiveness of a cat toys etc.
problem-solving and innovative
program. Our educators The program’s activities aim to
thinking. They also learn cool
will be in schools this information they can share with
engage students and inspire
year teaching Tasmanian families and friends. them in these professional fields,
children about Science, while empowering them to make
In the Year 1 & 2 Edu.Cat program positive choices in cat ownership.
Technology, Engineering students study Science (living
and Maths (STEM) using the things have external features, “… Edu.Cat is so different,
engaging subject of cats. grow, change and have offspring it doesn’t require any
similar to themselves), Technology additional work from our
No wonder it’s popular – Edu.Cat (characteristics and properties
is the only program of its kind in
of materials and components), teaching staff and the
Australia, and possibly the world. program is linked to the
Engineering (the students design
“We’ve even heard from an and construct a model of a cat, Curriculum, it’s a wonderful
interested teacher in Brazil,” says using materials that reflect program.” -- Scott Winkler
Rose. the function of its body parts),
Principal Emmanuel
Don’t pack your bags for Brazil just and Maths including number,
measurement and probability Christian School.
yet, Rose! We need you here in
Tasmania. of offspring in the Kitten Maths Our friendly Edu.Cat educators
Madness Game. recognise that all schools and
Teachers love Edu.Cat because it’s
linked to the Australian Curriculum In other grades students do students have different needs,
and provides them with complete aspects of the Engineering and they can modify the
lesson plans, so they can spend process by drawing plans of a cat program to suit different learning
their time doing what they do enclosure to scale (design, test, requirements.
Every cat has a story. Are you part of it? EDUCATEEDUCATION 15
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Your support helps the Edu.Cat “If we engage children and Please show this article to
message to reach Tasmanians their families in responsible cat your teacher and ask them to
ownership, and change public get in touch with us for more
Thanks to your support of Ten
attitudes towards cats, we’ll information.
Lives, we’ve been able to put in
see fewer unwanted, sick, stray
the huge effort of developing
or injured cats and kittens in
Edu.Cat. We want to create Tasmania as a result.” says Rose.
social change so there’ll be far
fewer unwanted kittens being “Edu.Cat will contribute to
born, kittens and cats being generational change to benefit
abandoned or surrendered to cats, the community and the
shelters. environment.”
Edu.Cat is endorsed by Education
Edu.Cat focuses on issues
for Sustainability Tasmania.
surrounding cat welfare, cat Are you a teacher or principal
management and the positive Meet our new Edu.Cat Educator who’s interested in Edu.Cat?
and negative impacts cats Welcome to Theresa Stephenson
have on Tasmanian individuals, We’ve recently held information
who has joined us as an education
communities and wildlife. It is workshops for teachers in New
officer. Theresa is a trained
designed to create long term Town, Bellerive, Kingston and New
teacher and will be joined by a
social change in how people care Norfolk, and will be holding more
Launceston-based team member
for cats in our communities and in the coming months.
later this year. They’ll be aiming to
to help reduce the impact cats reach all Tasmanian students with To book a session or get more
have on our environment. This Edu.Cat – that’s 44,000 students! information, please go to
is achieved through the subject Get Edu.Cat at your school tenlives.com.au and click
matter of the program (cats) Educate, email us at:
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students. taught at your child’s school? or call on 03 6278 2111.
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He has such a huge an to with this tiny little black kitty so
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also very talkativ really like cuddles, but now she
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Both Sophie and Blackie are spo
s quiet at first but very
their grandparents. Blackie wa
She loves climbing on
quickly came out of her shell.
them. Sophie loves
clothes airers and also breaking
tap in the bathroom.
cuddles and drinking from the
m, adopted 2016
- Sarah, Sophie & Blackie’s Mu
I went to the Ten Lives
Cat Centre to find a black I had been looking
to adopt a kitten fo
kitten after hearing on a little while so I w
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the radio that there was companion to com
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an overabundance of out with. I found Ai
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them. I ended up adopting her for a bit, then
she curled up on m
two! They both settled and fell asleep. I kn
ew she would be
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in fantastically and are purrfect! I brought
her home and she
inseparable. made friends with
our Smithfield Colli
- Christopher, Benny & Sometimes they ge
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Hotchy’s Dad, adopted 2013 jumps in the bathtu
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them, but she is st
ill top dog!
- Kenna, Aiko’s Mum
, adopted 2016
shy in
Anushka was very quiet and
for
the centre. She had been there
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two weeks already an
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because she just wanted to sta
got
basket. However as soon as we
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home she discovered a powerf
ping!
and a talent for furniture hop
pted 2009
- Robyn, Anushka’s Mum, ado
I started looking for a cat in late 2016. Sadly I knew that my
elderly cat Gromit was not going to be around for much longe
r
and I couldn’t imagine life without a cat. I went to the Ten
Lives
Cat Centre with the intention of adopting a tabby like Grom
it,
but as fate would have it a ginger and white gentleman called
Charlie chose me. Gromit passed away soon after and Charl
ie
seemed lonely. I went back to the Cat Centre, again with the
intention of adopting a tabby, but this time I was chosen
by
a tortoiseshell madam called Caramel. Charlie and Caramel
accepted each other quickly and have been best friends ever
since.
- Susan, Charilie & Caramel’s Mum, adopted 2016 & 201718 FROM THE PRESIDENT
I will commence my report by accepted by many schools. The a strong and fully independent
thanking the ongoing support Edu.Cat program is a targeted organisation.
of numerous people in the strategy at today’s youth, so the
operation of the Ten Lives children who will be tomorrow’s Sometimes support comes from
Cat Centre. This support has parents and next leaders in the the most unexpected areas. For
helped us greatly through the community will fully understand example, last year the plumbing
many changes over the last the responsibilities and issues association as part of their
few years, and I remain excited regarding cat ownership generosity projects arranged
about the prospects for the and care for the animals for additional heating to be
Centre’s future. generally. It operates under a installed at the centre. The staff
comprehensive syllabus which and cats who used to freeze in
It has been just 12 months has been developed for primary the winter can now enjoy more
since the Ten Lives name was school students and has been comfortable conditions.
launched. Over that period Ten implemented into various
Lives has developed a significant schools under the guidance of As I have stated in previous
public profile through the work our education officer Rose Bray. reports, the Centre has a proud
that has been undertaken, The children who undertake history of more than 70 years,
and through the various media this course now understand and with Ten Lives we have
outlets. If anyone has seen the that with owning a cat or kitten been able to proceed to a
“every cat has a story” clips on comes responsibility, and with very exciting future direction.
Facebook, or the various TV this education looking after the However, to continue to provide
advertisements, you will fully cat or kitten becomes far more the high standard and to be
appreciate the professionalism of rewarding. It is our hope with leaders with cats and cat
the Centre which has been driven the education and awareness management, we do need to rely
by our centre manager and the that community attitudes will on ongoing community support.
creative genius of the creator of change, and an unwanted litter, We cannot rely on governments
the clips and advertisements, or an unloved stray cat roaming or “others” to do this work. We
Joel Diprose. the streets and attacking native are very wary about being
animals, will be a thing of the
The focus of the Centre has complacent, and therefore, I
past. I would urge for those
changed considerably from would urge that anyone who
interested about the Edu.Cat
being simply the “cats home”, has seen the great work that
program to look at our website
to the “Centre for Cats”. We do Ten Lives is undertaking to
or make enquiries when you
not want to be seen just as the next visit the Centre, and I would give consideration to making
place where unwanted cats are expect you to be very surprised a donation, whether large or
left. With our very experienced and impressed by the program. small, to help the ongoing work
staff, we consider the Centre has of the centre. It can be as easy as
developed extensive knowledge However, it does take a making a provision in your Will,
of all issues regarding cats and considerable amount of time for which many cats will thank
their place in the community. To and effort to change community you!
increase this knowledge, we have attitudes. It also takes
invested time and resources money. At Ten Lives, through As we are entering winter,
into various community projects generous support and careful hopefully not as cold as
into cats, so we can better management over the years previously, Ten Lives will continue
understand the habits and issues we have been able to maintain to be there to care for cats, the
that arise with our feline friends. a relatively strong financial environment and the community.
position. We survive without
In particular the Ten Lives school government funding to maintain President
education project Edu.Cat has our various operations and
been critically acclaimed and projects, and we are proud to be David Rees
Every cat has a story. Are you part of it? VOLUNTEERVOLUNTEER 19
WORKPLACE VOLUNTEERING:
FREYA LANGFORD-SIDEBOTTOM WITH THE 2018 EDITION OF OUR ANNUAL CALENDAR
Raine & Horne Hobart’s pace, stop when I need to do The benefits of workplace
involvement with Ten Lives actual work, then pick up the Cat volunteering goes both ways.
is an excellent example of Centre stuff as and when I’m able “Raine & Horne Hobart values
to. It’s perfect!” Freya said. “In this any contribution it makes to the
ways that local companies
day and age its so easy to send community. There is the feel good
can volunteer to help us in a file or screenshot to someone aspect of making someone’s
a non-traditional way. over email or social media, which day better, but there is also the
For the past 3 years Raine means that I don’t ever have to sense of worth in being part of
& Horne Hobart have been wait long for responses, input or the community. It is the local
volunteering their time and approval on the work I’m doing. communities that help drive
talented staff in assisting with the It’s also great that I don’t have to business and sometimes that can
annual production of the Ten Lives physically go anywhere to do the be forgotten.” Annisa said, “If you
fundraising calendar. In exchange work which allows me to do both can afford some time, even just
for the reception staff working my day job and my volunteer work an hour a week, go ahead, jump in
on the layout and graphic design in the same place at the same and volunteer! You have nothing
of the calendar each year, Raine time. It’s a win for everybody!” to lose and everything to gain.”
& Horne in return are given a full Raine & Horne Hobart Business Freya’s response to knowing that
page advertising space in the Manager, Annisa Burns, said: their contribution has helped us
calendar. “The volunteer work does not care for literally thousands of cats?
Cloud-based technology such as afford too much disruption to our “It’s a privilege and an honour to
Dropbox means that designer work day. We know that Freya’s be able to help out Ten Lives in
Freya Langford-Sidebottom has graphic design talents are quite this way, I know the staff AND the
the flexibility to work around rare in the workplace, and other cats appreciate it!”
normal tasks and not even need team members can pick up some Annisa added “That feels really
be on site at Ten Lives. of the more general duties that good! If we can provide anything
“The good thing about it is I can Freya would normally do during further we are only too happy to
do the volunteer work at my own this time.” help.”
Volunteers are an essential and amazing part of the team here at the Ten Lives. Volunteering is a great way to learn about cats and
their behaviours, while meeting like-minded people and giving back to the community – find out more at tenlives.com.auTake the Edu.Cat STEM Challenge
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more. Bookings now available for 2018 - Call and Book Today!
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