Homeowners throughout the UK have beneath two weeks left to enter their extraordinary cat into this 12 months’s Nationwide Cat Awards.
Run by the charity Cats Safety, the annual occasion celebrates the nation’s most marvellous moggies, with heartwarming tales of devotion, braveness and companionship.
Homeowners have till midday on Tuesday 26 March to appoint their cat in one in every of 4 classes. Homeowners or colleagues also can nominate a veterinary skilled who has offered distinctive look after a cat within the Vet of the Yr class:
Household cats: For cats who make a household full – whether or not it’s being there for companionship, offering consolation and help in robust occasions, or just protecting everybody amused.
Unimaginable cats – From heroic cats who save the day to those that have executed one thing actually extraordinary. They may have survived towards the chances, returned house after an epic journey or perhaps even saved a life.
Senior cats: Celebrating cats over the age of 11, who is perhaps thriving of their older years or just having fun with the quieter facet of life.
Related cats: Recognising cats that make us smile. From nicely related cats with their very own social media following to those that pop up in the area people.
Vet of the Yr 2024: For veterinary professionals who’ve offered excellent cat care.
Cats Safety’s Advertising and marketing and Revenue Era Director Catherine Cottrell mentioned: “From heroic to heartwarming, we love listening to how cats have such a constructive impression on individuals’s lives. With beneath two weeks left earlier than entries shut, we’re trying ahead to listening to much more tales that we hope will encourage extra individuals to undertake a rescue cat.”
Winners can be chosen in a public vote and by a panel of judges earlier than being introduced throughout a ceremony in London on 18 September.
Creator and journalist Daybreak O’Porter hosted the occasion final 12 months and can be returning.
“I’m thrilled to be again to current the Cats Safety Nationwide Cat Awards once more this 12 months, it’s the last word occasion for cat lovers,” she mentioned. “It’s an opportunity to recognise the UK’s most extraordinary cats and have fun the connection with the cats in our lives, as a result of they actually do make life higher and I’m positively up for supporting that.”
The Cat of the Yr 2024 can be chosen from the 4 class winners. Final 12 months’s winner was Zebby from Chesterfield, Derbyshire, who received the title Nationwide Cat of the Yr in recognition of the help he provides to his deaf proprietor by alerting her to sounds and noises across the house.
To appoint your cat, or for additional details about the Nationwide Cat Awards, go to www.cats.org.uk/national-cat-awards.
To seek out out extra about adopting a cat from Cats Safety, go to www.cats.org.uk/adopt-a-cat
