Marmaduke (RIP)

Marmaduke was trapped at the Ulverstone beach in 2011. A kind lady removed all the feral cats from the beach and brought them to Big Ears. It was soon recognised that although he was timid, he certainly wasn’t as feral as the others from that colony. Because of this he was placed in a friendlier pen where he has slowly come out of his shell. He will enjoy a pat from the volunteers and gets on well with his fellow cats.

We noticed he was getting skinny and tests revealed he had hyperthyroidism. He had surgery and half of his thyroid gland was removed.

Mabel

Mabel the Cat

Mable is one of the ‘feral’ colony that came to Big Ears after being captured, de-sexed and vaccinated.  She lives in a special outdoor enclosure where she cannot harm any wildlife and because she and her other family members are not very friendly, she can safely get away from the humans when we are in her enclosure cleaning and feeding.

Miss Mog (RIP)

Miss Mog, put to sleep on the 23/5/11.

Major Tom (RIP)

Major Tom, pu to sleep on the 23/5/11

Ziggy (RIP)

Ziggy the cat is the son of Twiggy. He was one of the original ‘ratter’ cats kept at the old Origin Energy building. When they moved premises about 5 years ago, they needed a new place to live. Not friendly cats as they were only kept for keeping the rat population down, a new home was going to be difficult for them.

Big Ears built them a purpose built outdoor enclosure with lots of things for these cats to do.

Twiggy the mum cat became friendly after a few years. Ziggy took 5 years and can now be petted, he actually seeks it out. They live in their own enclosure and enjoy each others company.

Ziggy passed in 2016.

Ivy (RIP)

Ivy is one of the Ulverstone Beach colony of feral cats that we agreed to take in. She lives with her colony friends in a specially built outdoor enclosure. Ivy is slowly becoming more settled with humans and tolerates them moving about her enclosure and feeding her without running and hiding.