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Malmesbury, South Africa – 9 March 2025
1. Cats at the Lucky Lucy Foundation cattery
2. Pan inside the Lucky Lucy cattery
3. Cats relax on chairs at the Lucky Lucy Foundation
4. Close up cat relaxes on a chair at the Lucky Lucy Foundation
5. A cat jumps off a bed at the Lucky Lucy Foundation
6. Wide volunteers at Lucky Lucy Foundation sitting talking
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Malmesbury, South Africa – 15 March 2025
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Patrys Niemand, board member, volunteer, Lucky Lucy Foundation:
“We saw that some of the older cats struggle in the main population. Cats that are on chronic medication, especially with arthritis and illnesses like that where they get agitated with the younger generation cats. And that’s when we decided that when we do get the funding, we would like to start a retirement home for these cats, where they can come, it’s not as many as in the general population. And here they will have all the comforts from home and where they can stay out their life.”
8. Cat retirement home building and garden
9. Close up retired cat in den
10. One-legged cat meowing in its basket
11. Pan of retired cats
12. Three cats relaxing on cushions
13. Close up retired cat Alicia washing herself
14. Mid shot Alicia
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15. SOUNDBITE (English) Kerry-Jean Green, Lucky Lucy Foundation volunteer:
“So Alicia joined us, she came to us, we received a call to say that she had been poisoned and when she came in to Lucky Lucy she was unable to walk she was treated for poisoning and we rehabed her here at the foundation and obviously the poisoning caused her to have diabetes insipidus. And so she has her special medication every day.”
16. Various of retired black and white cat (oldest cat at 16 years old)
17. Retired cat Clover
18. SOUNDBITE (English) Patrys Niemand, Board member and volunteer, Lucky Lucy Foundation:
“This is Clover. She came to us from Woodstock. A family saw a homeless person trying to push a cat down in a bag into a drain.”
19. Retired cat Clover relaxes on a seat
18. Over shoulder volunteer Andrea Conradie dishes up food for the retired cats
20. Pan of retired cats eating a meal
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21. Wide Veterinarian Duandri Botha in her office
22. SOUNDBITE (Afrikaans) Duandri Botha, Veterinarian:
“If we phone them and say, listen we’ve got an old cat, her elderly owner is going to an old age home and she can’t keep her cat, the cat is almost as old as her elderly owner, they say to us, don’t put the cat down the cat can come to the retirement home. They help in those cases where any other place… the SPCA is full, they don’t have place. To rehome an adult cat is difficult, whereas Lucky Lucy is geared towards these kind of elderly cats and they live the good life there. Sometimes I think they live better there in the retirement home than my own cats do.”
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23. Elderly cat black and white cat relaxes in the Lucky Lucy retirement home
24. A three-legged retired cat relaxing at the Lucky Lucy retirement home
25. Close up three-legged retired cat relaxing at the Lucky Lucy retirement home
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26. Wide retired cat Clover relaxes on a seat
27. Retired three-legged cat walking and sniffing the grass
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Riverlands, South Africa – 15 March 2025
28. Pan Lucky Lucy Foundation volunteers arriving at a Riverlands dwelling
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33. Cats relaxing
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