{"id":37467,"date":"2021-05-20T15:03:27","date_gmt":"2021-05-20T14:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shefnews.co.uk\/?p=37467"},"modified":"2021-05-20T15:03:27","modified_gmt":"2021-05-20T14:03:27","slug":"high-school-teacher-feeds-300-cats-on-her-own-every-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2021\/05\/20\/high-school-teacher-feeds-300-cats-on-her-own-every-day\/","title":{"rendered":"High school teacher feeds 300 cats on her own every day"},"content":{"rendered":"

An English teacher in UAE has been feeding over 300 cats every day for two years.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Inocente Sebastian, a Sharjah-based expatriate who teaches the O-level and American curriculum in Al Maarifah International Private school, rests after work only to embark on a 3-hour journey of making sure all her neighbourhood cats don\u2019t go hungry.<\/p>\n

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Inocente Sebastian, High school English teacher in Sharjah<\/p><\/div>\n

She said: \u201cI use about 10kgs per day of dry cat food and 11 cans of wet food, because there are kittens and some of them are old and have gum issues or mouth infections.<\/p>\n

“It is difficult for them so I give a mix of soft and dry food.\u201c<\/p>\n

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Ms Sebastian at one of her routine feeding stations in the evening<\/p><\/div>\n

Although originally from a family of rescuers, she said this really began five years ago when she rescued a two-day-old kitten on the road.<\/p>\n

She said: \u201cEver since then, every time I saw a cat, I just felt so bad \u2013 I started feeding them, so one, then it was two and slowly it kept increasing. Right now I\u2019m actually feeding about 275 cats every day.<\/p>\n

\u201cI also trap, neuter and spay as many as I can.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Jackson, the rescued kitten, 5 years ago<\/p><\/div>\n

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Jackson now<\/p><\/div>\n

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However, the journey wasn\u2019t always smooth for Ms Sebastian.<\/p>\n

Barring the great expenses and time commitment, fake profiles on adoption groups and animal abusers on the streets meant horrible things could happen to cats looking for homes if they didn\u2019t take extra precautions.<\/p>\n

She recalls: \u201cThere was one such case on the rescue group when the lady took the kittens, \u00a0without an adoption fee \u2013 she took them from a rescuer, free, and then she actually posted a video of feeding them to a snake and said, \u2018oh they worked out perfectly\u2019.<\/p>\n

UAE\u2019s cities have long had what\u2019s been called a \u2018street-cat epidemic\u2019, with the National estimating<\/a> that 100,000 cats lived on the streets of Abu Dhabi alone, with tens of thousands in Dubai.<\/p>\n

Ms Sebastian\u2019s aim is to neuter all her cats. She said: \u201cI don\u2019t want to see any kittens dying because of the heat or while they\u2019re sleeping under a car because most of them are in parking lots. \u201d<\/p>\n

She carries on her daily feeding despite the challenges and cruelty, and\u00a0tries to find homes for the most vulnerable, physically handicapped ones.<\/p>\n

She said: \u201cFor me, it\u2019s all about when I\u2019m there \u2013 some of these animals, the gratitude that they show. Some of them will just walk away after they’ve eaten. But there are some that will follow you and want to be carried and they want you to pet them, and it\u2019s very fulfilling.\u201d<\/p>\n

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