Tameside Rotary have been busy delivering more robotic pet cats to care homes in Ashton especially for dementia patients.
The robotic pets are soft and purr, move and react to sound and touch and as such have proved ideal for bringing added comfort to those with the condition.
On Shrove Tuesday, John McMillan from the Tameside Rotary Robotic Cat Campaign and Tameside Rotary President Elect, together with PR Chair Angela Robbins, presented a silver cat to Downshaw Lodge activity co-ordinator Adrianna Barker. The Rotarians nicknamed the cat ‘Pancake’.
Downshaw Lodge Care Home has 45 male only residents and John joked: “That’s another cat flipped for Pancake Day, but it, of course, has landed on its feet!”
Shortly afterwards on the same day, Tameside Rotary President Maria Bailey delivered a robotic companion cat to St Lawrence’s Lodge Care Home in Denton.
Currently they have 14 residents and Nicola Long, senior nurse, said they would look after their cat which they had christened ‘Tuesday’.
Meanwhile, Tameside Rotarian Steve Knowles, also from the Cat Companion Campaign, presented a cat to Debbie at Hurst Hall, Kings Road, in Ashton.
If you would like to donate towards this very worthwhile campaign, visit the link justgiving.com/campaign/catcompanions.
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FELINE GOOD: Tameside Rotary team members present the robotic cats to local homes.
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