Goodbye little crumb...
... unfortunately we have lost the battle for your life!
Like so many before her, the kitten Krümel was found completely neglected, emaciated and sick in a field. There was no house and not a soul around. The animal lovers who found Krümel knew immediately that the little kitten needed help and brought her to us.
Her eyes were clotted, she was chilled and weak. This sight reminded us of the many kittens before her that were brought to us in a pitiful state. Just as we had fought for the lives of Jacky, Count Dracula, Mufasa, Sarabi, Simba, Nala, Zazu, Bob, Wendy and all the others before, we wanted to do the same for little Krümel. And Krümel wanted to live, we saw that immediately, but in the end our combined strength was not enough and our brave little Krümel fell asleep forever.
In these moments, you ask yourself how this can happen at all and the question of why becomes incredibly loud. In these moments, you can clearly see the problem of stray cats. Because statistically speaking, one pair of cats can produce far more than 78,000 kittens in seven years. A figure that is sometimes hard for us to grasp and leaves us speechless, because the suffering of the cats is unspeakable.
A misconception that many people succumb to is that cats are self-sufficient and could easily survive on their own in the wild - unfortunately, the reality is often very different. They fight for their survival every day, worldwide. Many kittens starve and die of thirst miserably, get sick, run over or worse. They suffer silently and die quietly.
Every year we receive many emergency cases, many desperate animal lovers and animal welfare activists who can no longer cope with and endure this "flood of kittens". And we are not unaffected by this flood either.
As is the case in life, it is not enough to fight the symptoms - the problem must be tackled at the root.
But what is the solution? The only sustainable and sensible solution is the large-scale neutering of stray and farm cats. For this reason, we have launched the Gut Aiderbichl cat neutering project 2024. We want to neuter as many cats as possible and thus prevent suffering. But for this we need help - people who not only support us financially, but also catch the cats and bring them to the vets.
We must be aware of this: We can only accomplish this task together and only solve it together. On behalf of Krümel, Count Dracula, Nala and all the other kittens who have found their way to Gut Aiderbichl in recent years, we would like to say thank you and hope for your support.
You can find more information at: Our commitment to stray cats - gut-aiderbichl.com
