Homing afternoons will be held most Sundays during 2008 (see home page for current dates).  If you live outside the PE1 to PE7 postcode areas please contact us first. If you would like to find out more about adopting a cat please call Karen Baldock, homing officer, on 01733 243187 or email. 

We are looking for good, loving, safe homes for cats and kittens that come into our care.  All adult cats are neutered and vaccinated before being rehomed and to cover this cost  we suggest a minimum donation of £50 for an adult cat or £40 for a kitten to help us continue our work.
 

Give a cat a second chance.......................

An 8 week old kitten is a lovely bundle of fluff, so cute and cuddly but that baby will be a cat within a few weeks.  Its personality will have developed but you won’t know until then, what that personality is and meanwhile it will have run up your curtains and generally have wrecked the joint!

However, an adult cat will have gone through that stage and is more likely to want to lay on your lap or chase leaves around the garden; and because its personality is already developed, you more or less know when you see the cat, what you are getting.  They can be a bit nervous in the CP runs, but will settle down within a few days of being in the home with you.  A cat over 4-5 months will have the health benefit of already being neutered, which makes the suggested donation of £50 quite a bargain – some vets charge up to £80 for a female neuter!

Some people choose kittens because they have just lost a cat and don’t want to go through that loss again so soon.  The average life span of a domestic moggy is around 15 – 18 years and if you are really lucky, 20 years +, so adopting puss when she’s just a couple of years old really won’t make that much difference.  Cats are like us, they come in all shapes and sizes, and depart at any age, and so buying young isn’t always a guarantee of longevity.

And don’t always pick the chocolate box cat, ask the fosterer about its personality and its previous life.  You need a character that will fit in with your lifestyle, so if it’s earlier life was sitting on the knee of a little old lady, it’s not going to be happy if you have a busy family household, or are out at work all day.

So go on, think about giving an older cat a second chance, most of the time they are so grateful for that second chance that they will be a companion for life.......so as long as you give in to the demands of the odd piece of tuna or fresh chicken!

Before you can adopt one of our volunteers will carry out an assessment and possibly come and see you for a home visit.  This is to ensure that we match our cats with a new home that is suitable for them and so we can answer any questions you may have.

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