Cat Rescue Zim

28/09/2026

Just send us a WhatsApp on 0779 993 157 if you need help sterilising your cats! We want to help you and your fur babies … the earlier the better!

27/09/2026

This weeks’ TNR & Sterilisations:

A crazy week for the girls as they TNR’d a total of 22 cats from 5 different locations.

At the start of the week Katie and Lorna travelled to Goromonzi in partnership with The Twala Trust Animal Sanctuary to TNR 2 colonies on farms in the area. They trapped a mum & her 4 kittens on one farm and 1 female & 3 males from another. Both adult females were pregnant again- but were successfully spayed. A huge thank you to Twala Trust for contacting us before another cycle of kittens appeared at these farms. We are very proud to be apart of this Happy Cat Club project and very happy to have passed on our knowledge of TNR to your team. Thank you to 24hr vet surgery also for performing the sterilisations and to the farm owners for looking after the cats. Teamwork is the only way we can improve animal welfare for future generations.

Back in Harare Lorna received an emergency call regarding kittens that had been found inside an old age home facility - after the surprise rain on Monday night a mumma cat had moved her 10 day old kittens inside for protection. However they couldn’t remain there. A very kind resident safely placed the kittens into a box and put them outside where mum cat was going in and out of the room. Lorna arrived and set traps for the mum - surprisingly she came around the corner very quickly on her way back to her kittens - she was trapped within minutes. Mum and kittens are now safely in our care at Harare Central Veterinary Surgery HCVS . Mum will be spayed next week and once recovered she will be moved with her kittens into our one and only enclosure so she can safely bring up her babies. They will enter our foster system once old enough and mum will be returned home where she is being looked after.

Lorna set more traps at the old age facility and managed to trap another female and 2 big toms. Lorna also TNR’d a female from Borrowdale.

Katie trapped a colony of 9 across 2 properties in Avondale - she TNR’d 3 adult females, 3 males and 3 teenage females. One adult female was pregnant again but spayed successfully.

CRZ also assisted 4 owners this week sterilise their cats - 2 males and 2 females.

This brings our total sterilised to date to 3,980

26/09/2026

Pop into the Harare Spca Hospital in Hatfield tomorrow morning 0730 - 1230 or Monday, RABIES DAY, from.0730 till 1630 for a free RABIES vaccination yor your pets.

23/09/2026

Did you know there is a difference between a stray & a feral?
🐈 A stray cat is typically a cat who lived indoors and/or was socialised to people at some point in its life, but has left or lost its home, or was abandoned and no longer has regular human contact
🐈 A feral cat is an unsocialised outdoor cat who has either never had any physical contact with humans, or human contact has diminished over enough time that the cat is no longer accustomed to touch.

How we define the cat that keeps turning up on your property determines how we proceed with trapping that cat. If you have any questions or need advice on the strays or ferals in your area please contact us we are always happy to help!

23/09/2026

Some of this weeks’ TNR!

22/09/2026

20/09/2026

This weeks’ TNR & Sterilisations :

An unexpectedly busy week this week for the team. Despite the public holiday we managed to trap 22 cats from 8 different locations.

Katie TNR’d a female from Monavale, a male from Parktown and a male and a female with 3 young kittens from Bluffhill. She also TNR’d 2 females and a male from Ridgeview. One female was pregnant but successfully spayed.

Lorna TNR’d a female from Kensington - she decided to uplift her remaining 3 healthy kittens as 1 had been attacked by an aggressive cat in the area leading to irreversible spinal damage. Unfortunately this kitten had to be humanely euthanised - a decision we never take lightly.

Lorna also TNR’d a female and 2 males from Highlands, and a female and her 4 kittens from a church in the Avenues. The mumma cat was back in heat again, so very good timing!! Lorna and Katie teamed up to trap another 6 cats from Belgravia - 2 young females and 4 males.

The team also assisted 2 owners sterilise their 2 females - one from Concession and one from Mount Pleasant - bringing our total for this week to 24!

Total sterilised to date is now 3,954

19/09/2026

THE NEWS YOU’VE ALL BEEN WAITING FOR! Here are the 2026 raffle winners!! We are so incredibly grateful and thankful to each and every person who bought tickets and helped us sell them! With your help and support we raised over $4000!! The BIGGEST amount the raffle has ever raised!!!

Thank you to all the awesome donors of prizes, we wouldn’t be able to do this without you and your amazing generosity.

The biggest thank you goes to Gordon Martin Hair Studio - Gordon, Cody, and their staff for their unwavering support of CRZ and the organisation of this raffle. Your friendship and dedication to this is phenomenal!

Congratulations to all the winners (and yes there is a bonus 10th prize!) and thank you again from the small team at CRZ and all the cats we are able to help because of you 😻

17/09/2026

Caption this! 🙀😸😺

Thanks to Katie Hind for this video 🫣😂

15/09/2026

We had 5 kittens enter our foster system in August - 3 of which were found at a stables - there was no sign of mum and the kittens were in visible distress. A single male kitten also came to us from Greystone Park after being found all alone in someone’s yard - crying from hunger.

The girls also uplifted a kitten from the commercial farm they were trapping at. He was visibly dirty, malnourished and needed some TLC.

Four different families adopted from us during August. One family took all 3 babies from one litter that were raised from 10 days old - we are so incredibly grateful to them for wanting to keep these bonded babies together. Two other families also adopted a pair each - which we always recommend. And a very kind family adopted the kitten who was found with glue all over her body - she is now looking absolutely beautiful.

We can’t begin to express how much it means to us when people open their hearts and homes to rescue kittens - not only from our system but also the other animal welfare organisations in Harare and beyond. When you adopt you are saving more lives than you think - not only do you save the lives of the animals you adopt but also the ones who can now take their place and be helped and rehabilitated back to health. So thank you!!