Helping Purrfect Companions

By Anna Nocente

The Haldimand Press

DELHI—Purrfect Companions of Norfolk is a non-profit group of local citizens that have come together to help the many stray cats and kittens in the area. They are dedicated to finding loving homes for the cats and rely solely on donations, volunteers, and local fundraising efforts.

The group has about 120 volunteers and is currently housing 466 cats – 200 of which live in the Delhi shelter and the remainder are at foster homes in and around Norfolk County, including a few here in Haldimand.

Its founder, Brenda Cameron, started doing it on her own about 16 years ago.

“I would walk my dog at the fairgrounds in Simcoe and I would hear the kitties crying in the barn. I went and talked to the people who had their horses in the barn and we started fixing the cats and I started finding them homes,” says Cameron. But after many years of fixing and rehoming cats in the barn, she needed a dedicated space.