Feline friends run 'nursing home' for stray cats

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Financial consultant Camellia Abd Gani, who volunteers with Love Kuching Project, joining Mr Liew Thean Ann from Mindsville to play with four-month-old kitten Russ during a cat therapy session. ST PHOTOS: ALVIN HO

Above: Love Kuching Project volunteer Amanda Lim teaching Cedric Ang from Mindsville how to feed a kitten as part of a cat therapy session. Left: Aiko, one of the cats from Love Kuching Project, in its carrier at the Mindsville occupational therapy r — Aiko, one of the cats from Love Kuching Project, in its carrier at the Mindsville occupational therapy room.

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Apr 18, 2018, 05:00 AM

While pet cats often have their owners to take them to the vet and nurse them back to health, their stray counterparts are not so lucky.

But these felines have hope, in the form of community cat-based rescue and care group, Love Kuching Project, which runs something like a small nursing home for stray cats, providing intensive rehabilitative and palliative care.

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