Readers of my petition have asked what can be done to save/help the solitary cat living at Camp Kitty under awful conditions.

Well, I have previously written to all State MPs and to past local member Katrina Hodgkinson, who I might add did her best to help. Hon M McCormack, Federal Member for the Riverina (my constituency) has not responded to my emails regarding this matter. I have well documented the responses from the RSPCA NSW and Cowra Shire Council. It should be noted that in 2016 this Council knowingly approved the animal abuser R. McCudden, owner of Camp Kitty to retain 33 cats! Things did not improve for those cats in spite of infrequent monitoring from Council.

For those of you who wrote to Cowra Council and to date have not received a response, I should like to say that this seems to be standard operating procedure for this Council. For example when I applied under GIPA for information from Council it took 3 attempts via the NSW Civil Administrative Tribunal before that information was forthcoming.

Some readers have asked why I cannot just release this poor unfortunate animal. Please remember it has been all alone for many years now and any stranger approaching it will make it run away. There is a large tree in the enclosure, so catching it would be very difficult. The entrance gate is padlocked and if the enclosure fence is breached then the foxes would then be able to enter the area. If the cat makes an escape it would be entering the forest at the rear, the habitat of the foxes! Apart from the logistics as stated, this would involve trespass and criminal damage, which cannot be condoned. The recent activities of animal activists in Melbourne highlights how politicians would soon highlight the supposed damage and distress those activists have caused to the local community, and therefore their attempts to prevent animal suffering do not get highlighted. No taxpayer should have to face those sorts of legal charges simply to get an outcome when he has already paid the Government to rectify these matters.

I shall continue to write to other organisations in an attempt to save this cat. I certainly shall not be trying to get public company RSPCA NSW to help as I am not convinced their actions are not severely constrained by financial motivations. It all seems pretty easy that either the Council or the RSPCA NSW would rescue this cat but it appears not. Both organisations seem indifferent to the plight and suffering of this animal. Council officers responsible for POCTA seem to have risen to their own level of incompetence and in my opinion this may have resulted in part to the cats’s plight.

Today’s photo shows rubbish that has stood for 2 or more years right next to the cats enclosure.

Regards Keith