VOKRA, the rescue I volunteer for, was founded by two ladies, Karen Duncan and Maria Soroski, when they recognized a need for helping the unspayed strays and their kittens inhabiting homes and hidden locations across the municipality of Vancouver. This organization has grown to be the main place in Vancouver, BC, where lost and pregnant strays end up being fostered, spayed and adopted into indoor homes. Most official government organizations do not, in their mandate, include locating and trapping these lost souls but VOKRA is there trying to reduce the population of frightened, feral or abandoned cats and kittens.
This year already, I have responded to a kitty hiding in a drainpipe for days, in a park, cats and kittens hiding in industrial areas where some kind employees are feeding them, several badly injured unneutered male strays, helped persons living in a Marina neuter some young males and find a home for the pregnant female who is mom to all the strays, to mention a few. VOKRA has a group of volunteers to do this work and through donation and fundraising are able to provide foster homes, food, litter and medical care for these homeless felines. Last year they provided this help for around 1600 cats and kittens in the lower mainland. It is a great organization dedicated to helping the army of homeless cats in Vancouver and suburbs.
If you are interested in helping the kitties please visit their website, vokra.ca, and consider donating.
This little guy was found with 10 other kittens and 2 Moms living in the blackberry bushes behind a store in Coquitlam, eating out of the store’s dumpster. He had a very infected umbilical cord hernia and wouldn’t have made it without weeks of care and medications provided by VOKRA. My friend and I had to trap for almost a month to gather all the kittens and Moms.