A group of Hunter residents who have formed Stockton Breakwall Cat Rescue is putting on a barbecue next month to raise money to desex the stray cats living along the harbour.
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Founder of the group Muswellbrook's Tahlea Denning said she hoped the event, to be held on the wall on May 4, raised enough money to make a signficant difference in the kitty population.
Ms Denning said there had been strays living between the wall's boulders for decades.
"We're hoping to raise enough to fund a massive catch and desex all the adults on the wall to limit the amount of breeding," she said.
"I think there's close to about seventy on the wall at the moment. Kitten season has just hit so we won't really know yet."
Since finding out about the cat hide-out a year and a half ago Ms Denning said the group had rescued and re-homed about 80 strays from the wall, including her own cat Echo.
"We just started it up ourselves," she said.
"I come down every second weekend. We take whichever go into the trap or whichever ones we can grab with our hands. If there's an injured one or a pregnant one we try target those," she said.
"They are not tame when you first get them but it doesn't take very long to come around.
"We do have a vet near me that does cheap micro-chipping and vaccinations for us."
Ms Denning has transformed her garage into a safe house for the rescued animals, providing a place for them to stay while they are tamed and their health is checked.
"I pay for everything out of my own pocket. At the moment I'm feeding 27 cats. It does get a little much sometimes," Ms Denning said. "But we've adopted out six in the past three days."
Ms Denning said that due to the unprecedented amount of attention the barbecue event had received on Facebook, the Stockton Breakwall Cat Rescue group was looking for more volunteers to help out on the day.
PEGMAN COMES TO LIFE
If you are a frequent Google Maps user you have no doubt clicked on pegman, the little yellow figure that lives in the corner of Google's maps. He allows you to see in "streetview" pretty much anywhere in the world through his little yellow non-existent eyeballs.
Last week, Google's real-life pegman, or peg woman, as far as we know it isn't a gender exclusive role, was spotted walking along Newcastle's foreshore wearing a very unique piece of technology.
Google's "trekker" backpack allows Google to map and photograph difficult-to-access places like bike paths and walking tracks in a 360 degree format, while its wearer goes for a seemingly casual stroll.
Jacqui Daley, director of digital marketing company The Measured Marketer, shared a video of the trekker on social media.
She said it was "super cool" to see Google's technology in real life.
"I started stalking him, it wasn't really clear what he was doing," Ms Daley said.
"But then I saw he was actually mapping along the waterfront. He was catching a lot of attention.
"Google Maps helps businesses get found. It's a really important part of the mix for us."
For those of you who are still pining over the loss of Queens Wharf Tower, Topics suggests you hop onto Google Maps as soon as possible.
The tower is still standing in Map's streetview, and the light rail has not yet been built.
Pegman's trip to the city will no doubt take care of those anomalies soon.
It's all just part of Newcastle's latest update.
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