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I have received the email below – if you can help, please email [email protected] direct. Thanks



Home urgently wanted for 7 year old friendly tabby neutered male cat.



The owner threatening to have put to sleep as there is no room in any local shelters.



An appointment was made at the vets for it to be put down but I have managed to get him to agree to postpone this. He has agreed to hold on for two weeks while I try to find a place for the cat.



There has been a family split and neither of them will keep the cat.



If you can help, please email me - [email protected]. I can transport it to other areas if necessary. The cat is in the Wirral area at present, nearest cities Chester/Liverpool.

I have known spam mail to focus on human tragedies - for spam to concentrate on feline wellfare is news to me.

There have been emails along the lines of "save this poor kid in Africa who was born blind, deaf, terminally ill with ebola, aids and the Asian flu, and with only two fingers and no feet, but who has stunned the world by surviving this long, even though renegade rhino hunters keep force feeding him with heroine and furniture cleaner. Now his bank wants to cancel his savings account - please send some money so he can buy new life insurance..."

To see e-mail about cats is quite a change, then.

Y.

This is genuine and not for money. A cat needs a home desperately, or it will be put to sleep.This came from a colleague who is above reproach. please take it seriously.

I appologize. I did not think it was about money, but neither did I think it was for real. I am sorry for not taking your request for help seriously.

Y.