Hi everyone,
Our friends from Cats Protection are once again looking for us humans to enter our feline companions for their annual awards!
If you think your cat matches one of the categories below be quick and enter them via the Cats Protection website before the 8th of March.
Full details below!
Thanks,
Marc
Cats Protection Launches the 2019 Search for the UK’s Most Marvellous Moggy
One of the UK’s leading feline welfare charity Cats Protection is calling on cat owners nationwide to nominate their furry friends in this year’s National Cat Awards.
For over a decade, the Awards have celebrated the difference cats make to owners’ lives by highlighting heart-warming stories of devotion, companionship and courage.
Entries open until noon on Friday 8 March to nominate their cat for one of five categories:
- Hero Cat– Cats that save the day
- Most Caring Cat– Cats that positively impact a person’s health or wellbeing
- Furr-ever Friends– Tales of friendship between children and cats
- Outstanding Rescue Cat– Fabulous felines adopted from animal charities
- Purina® Better Together– Celebrating the special bond that has transformed and enriched the lives of both a feline and human
The National Cat Awards is sponsored by PURINA® and a panel of celebrity cat-lovers will select the winners. The winning cats’ owners will then be presented with their trophies at a star-studded ceremony at London’s Savoy Hotel on Thursday 8 August – coinciding with International Cat Day.
Cats Protection’s Awards organiser Kate Bunting said: “This event is the highlight of the feline calendar and gives us the chance to celebrate everything we love about cats.
“Every year, the entries we receive go to show why cats make such great pets – whether it’s for helping their owners through times of sadness or loss, heroic moggies who come to the rescue, or brave felines who survive against the odds.”
The overall winner will inherit the title of National Cat of the Year from Theo, who helped his owner Charlotte Dixon survive a potentially fatal blood clot.
Theo followed in the paw prints of a long line of feline heroes honoured by Cats Protection. They include Genie, who helped schoolgirl Evie Henderson battle bone cancer; Tink, who saved her owners from a house fire, and Jessi-Cat, who was celebrated for helping a seven-year-old boy cope with Selective Mutism.
Broadcaster and writer Andrew Collins, whose own cat Gerry was previously a stray, will be one of a panel of celebrity judges selecting the National Cat of the Year.
He said: “Cats make a house a home and whatever stage of life they join you, it improves everything. The National Cat Awards honour acts of extraordinary bravery, empathy and loyalty. Humans are lucky to be chosen and adopted by cats of all ages.”
Anyone wishing to nominate their cat should visit www.cats.org.uk/national-cat-awards .
Looks like I missed adding my cat shame he is the loveliest cat, so gentle.
You can enter until the 8th of March 🙂
I love my cat Claudia too.
Assuming UK kitties only. My kitty saved me from suicide. But, I don’t think I can enter. I’m in the US
Hmmmm that’s a very good question sadly you are probably correct. Tho I wonder if they’d consider it if it was an amazing story.
I would certainly not wish to be the judge. In my book, they are all winners! Imagine being a feline and having to deal with such irrational creatures as humans?
Ha. I know what you mean as our lot often gives me that glare of don’t you know what us felines need.
Thanks for sharing, cats are amazing. Look forward to hearing about the winners.
We most certainly will. 🙂