Jubilee’s Covert Cover
Jubilee caught on camera!
A few days before Canada Day, VOKRA was called in to help a mama cat and her six kittens. People living in a Vancouver basement suite could hear meowing coming from under the stairs of the home’s front entrance. When VOKRA co-founder and master trapper Maria arrived on the scene she found a very small entry point into the basement walls. She proceeded to check the crawl space and found the ceiling was lined with foam insulation so she made a hole and snaked a camera into the space to investigate. Success! The family was spotted.
Unfortunately, there was no way to enter the space to rescue them so food and a motion detection camera was set up under the front stairs. By the next morning, the mama cat was seen carrying a kitten in her mouth down the back lane. She didn’t like her secret space being invaded and was moving the kittens to a new hiding spot.
Volunteers searched all the yards in the area, made posters and spoke to everyone in the neighbourhood letting them know to keep an eye out and call us immediately if they saw anything.
Jubilee and kittens after their rescue
“It wasn’t until July 1st that I found the kittens in a box under a porch I previously searched,” said Maria. “I snuck up on them and closed the box flaps. We got all six kittens who were about three weeks old”.
A trap was set for the mom and happily within two hours she was safely caught and reunited with her kittens. As it was Canada Day, she was named Jubilee in honour of Queen Elizabeth. She’s a very tame, loving cat and a wonderful mom to her babies.
Thankfully this family was rescued when they were as five of the kittens were diagnosed with having feline panleukopenia, also known as feline distemper or feline parvo. Panleukopenia is a highly contagious viral disease of cats with an especially high mortality rate when contracted by kittens. The wonderful news is, thanks to the dedication of our medical professionals, volunteers and their foster, the kittens have beat the odds and all pulled through!
Panleukopenia is considered one of the deadliest cat diseases in unvaccinated cats and is an excellent reason why vaccination is so important. We encourage everyone to talk to their vet about vaccination.
