Cats Protection's three main objectives are:

• To find good homes for cats in need
• To support and encourage the neutering of cats
• To improve people's understanding of cats and their care

CANTERBURY AND DISTRICT CP IS JUST ONE OF A HUGE NETWORK OF NATIONWIDE BRANCHES OF CP. We cover the Herne Bay, Canterbury, Whitstable, Faversham areas, under the postcodes of CT1 to CT6 and ME13. There are other branches that are adjacent to our catchment area, and wherever possible we work closely with them.  We do not have one main centre, instead all our cats and kittens are fostered by volunteers.

We have a main branch telephone answerphone that is answered on a rota basis by branch volunteers. Some of our volunteers work so you will not speak to a human being immediately, all calls go through to an answerphone system. Calls are picked up throughout the day and we aim to respond as quickly as we can.  You can also email us, all our contact details are on the “Contact Us” page.

We maintain a extremely efficient Lost and Found register and are able to give you advice on what to do if you have lost  your cat.

We will help and advice on dealing with feral cat colonies. Cats Protection has a “Trap, Neuter and Retrurn” policy on ferals.

We care for cats who need new homes, visiting prospective new owners and matching suitable cats to suitable homes.

We also provide neutering vouchers for owners who are unable to finance the neutering of their cats.

We are able to give general cat welfare advice.

We are able to give advice should you need to rehome your cat.

Canterbury CP has a very proactive team of volunteers but there are never enough of us to keep pace with demand, so we ask for your patience. We have a team of fosterers who care of cats in their own homes until they are fully fit to find ahome of their own. We have several outdoor pens as well as indoor fosterers, but again we never have enough to deal with every cat case we are asked to help with.We network with other local branches.

We  raise funds tirelessly to keep pace with our huge vet bills!

All in all we try out utmost to do what we can for cats in need in our local area.

A few things to bear in mind. Cats Protection is a rehoming charity therefore we cannot help with Vet Bills for owned cats.  Every cat that comes into our cat will be up for rehoming, so we care not able to board cats that are not rehomable. We cannot deal with ferals without co operation from the person contacting us. We cannot relocate ferals unless we have someone to relocate them too. We cannot always help every single person that rings us; sadly this is just a fact of rescue and we encourage responsible animal ownership.