Cat Day with Kryšpín will delight cat lovers and bazaars and will help hundreds of cats in 11 shelters.
Shelters save the lives and souls of cats and find them homes. 935 – that’s the number of abandoned cats cared for by 11 shelters on 7/7/2022, thanks to which you can help by shopping at the charity bazaar, complete with a photo exhibition and a cat-themed lecture. The event is organized in Brno on 13 August 2022 by the Kryšpín Charitable Cat Association on the occasion of International Cat Day.
International Cat Day is celebrated around the world on August 8.In Brno, we are celebrating this world holiday for the second year with a charity bazaar that helps abandoned cats in shelters. This year it was released on Saturday 13.8.” explains the organizer Lenka Němcová. The bazaar, where you can buy human and cat things at attractive prices, is complemented by an exhibition of photos of cats from shelters and a lecture by Alžběta Blašková, who has helped more than a thousand cats during her time at the Tibet Shelter.
Few people know that there is no municipal cat shelter in the South Moravian Region, only private ones. (It is similar throughout the Czech Republic.) If it weren’t for them, thousands of cats would be without help, because municipalities hardly set up cat shelters. “It is surprising, because of course there are many times more abandoned cats than dogs. The official capacity of registered South Moravian shelters is 1,342 cats. The majority of places, specifically 1,151, are offered by private shelters, and Kryšpín supports most of them,“evaluates Němcová from the Kryšpín Charitable Cat Association, which helps raise funds for the operation of these shelters.
So if you like cats or bazaars or both, be sure to come to the event. The assortment will include second-hand items, as well as beautiful new handmade products donated to the sale by good people. You will combine the pleasant with the useful and enjoy your Saturday, complete with a visit to a festival, for example Music Marathon Brno or city festivities Day of Brnowhich are events held in the city center on the same day and, like Cat Day with Kryšpín, entry to them is free.
Cat Day with Kryšpín 2022 – bazaar, exhibition, discussion, Saturday 13 August 2022 10.00-18.00, the foyer of Brno’s JAGA cafe in the White House behind the Red Church – Žerotín square
The shelters that the association supports cared for 795 cats as of 7/7/2022. And which ones are they? South Moravian Abandoned Cat’s Paws, Cats at Katka, LuckyCats, Flíček Cat Deposit, Tibet Shelter, Jiřina Skoumalová Asylum and Jana Deposit – A Chance to Have a Home, Znojemsko Cat Asylum and Gaia Hanušovice Asylum in the north of Moravia. Uvrněné kočíčí lásky and Brněnský Max will also be represented at the bazaar, so the total number of cats in shelters that you will support by shopping at the bazaar is 932.
Source: association Kryšpín