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Jill Eckersley is a freelance With so many cats Matt Pearson explains.“If the that is perfect for you!” said
journalist based in London, in need of homes, it cat needs outside space, the their spokesperson.
with a passion for cats, may seem strange owner needs to be able to
especially her Mayhew that sometimes provide it. If we have assessed Wood Green,The Animals
rescue, Mo. rescue centres turn that a cat can only live with Charity, which has centres in
down potential adults, we won’t be able to Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire,
owners. Here we place it in a family with very and London, and finds homes
find out why. young children. for many other animals as
well as cats, says their staff
You are sure you have a loving home to offer a cat. So, “We also need to be will always help prospective
you go to a rescue centre — and you’re turned down! confident that prospective owners to find the right pet
It happened to Susannah (name changed) who adopters are fully aware of for their family — and if their
was told her flat wasn’t suitable because there was what’s involved in looking centres can’t find the ideal
no outside access. She was so disappointed that she said: after a cat. We check that match, they will refer you
“I think some of these charities are much too fussy and are their expectations are elsewhere.The charity said:
passing up the chance of finding good homes for the cats in realistic; some people just “We expect new owners to
their care!”Is this true? want to cuddle their cat all be open and honest with
day without understanding us about their homes and
CHOOSE CAREFULLY If, like Susannah, you that the cat will have its own lifestyle. We need to be
needs and preferences!” confident that the animals we
There is no doubt that rescue live somewhere without a place will have a good quality
Assessing cats’ individual of life where their physical and
charities are choosy about garden, you’ll need to adopt needs before they are put emotional
up for adoption is a vitally needs will
just where they place their a cat who is happy to live important part of what rescue be met.”
charities do.
cats.This is because rescue indoors. A cat that is used Rescue
“No-one is ruled out,” centre
cats deserve a forever home to coming and going as it says a spokesperson for staff do
Cats Protection.“All our a detailed
— a home that’s right for pleases can be miserable if rehoming centres have skilled assessment
managers and experienced of what
them as individuals. Rescue kept indoors, and may exhibit staff who know just how to each cat
match up the cats with the needs.
centres are looking for the problem behaviour, such as right owners and the right
ideal, permanent home for homes.They might steer a
inappropriate toileting, crying, prospective owner away from
Did youevery cat in their care, as Mattor scratching. Of course, there the idea of a kitten to the
know?Pearson, Cat Adoption Officer are cats who are happy to idea of an older cat, if they
felt this was a better match,
at Mayhew in West London, live indoors provided they and we have plenty of
indoor cats which suit
explains: Avent GardehaGvoetehnicough space, toys, homes where there is
“We work on behaBlfooldf - Xxxxxxaxnxdxaxttxexnxtion.There are also no garden or where a
the cats, so it’s incredibxlxxyxxxxxxxxxx xxxxcxxaxxtsxxxwxxxhxo have to live indoors busy road is a risk.”
important to us that we do 8pt/9.i5f pthtey are FIV positive, deaf,
Battersea Dogs and
find the right home for each diabetic, or simply older and Cats Home makes the
same point.“Every rescue
one.They all have individual less adventurous! So what at Battersea has a unique
character, quirks, and
needs and personalities, so do rescue centres look for in lots of love to give — and
it’s our job to find the cat
getting the right match is prospective owners?

paramount. We really want MATCHING PROCESS
to make sure that the next

home is a forever home. It’s “It all depends on the

sad for everyone involved to individual cat, its needs, and

see a cat returned to us if an how well the new owner is

adoption hasn’t worked out.” placed to meet those needs,”

50 Your Cat April 2021

The ideal rescue cat is
out there, it’s just about

finding him or her.

Adopting a cat needs to be
right for the whole family.

The message from rescue helps to make Kittens have specific TOP TIPS
centres is that the right cat the matching requirements.
for you will be out there process a lot WHEN YOU
somewhere, but that you easier for us.” together.
need to trust them to match “We can also advise WANT TO
you with one they know will fit Details of all the
in with your home, family, and cats available for potential owners about indoor ADOPT
life, so that the relationship rehoming from CHAT, cats, including advice on
works in the long-term for you the Celia Hammond the safety of balconies and 1Be patient — your
and the new family member. Animal Trust, which operates windows if they live in a flat. cat is out there
in London and Sussex, can We suggest that children somewhere, you just
WAITING GAME be seen on their website, under five should always be need to find them.
together with the kind of supervised when playing with
Matt Pearson at Mayhew says home which is being sought. a cat or kitten, and that older 2 If a rescue centre
that means a prospective children should be taught to says ‘no,’ it’s no
owner might have to wait. “Our cats are usually either treat animals well. Cats often reflection on you or
“At the moment, we have an unwanted pets who have appreciate having their own your home, it just
extremely high number of simply been dumped or are space in a family home — it means the shelter has
applications but obviously strays,” the trust says.“Sadly, only needs to be a cardboard no suitable cat for you
not all of them are suitable too many people are still box on top of a cupboard right now.
for the cats in our care. It allowing their cats to breed — so that they can enjoy
is always incredibly helpful unchecked. We like to rehome some quiet time. We have 3 Never try to adopt
when people include as kittens in pairs and we often very few cats returned to on an impulse,
much detail as possible in have mum-and-kitten pairs us because they have not always be sure you,
their applications and explain too. Some people breed settled in their new home.” and everyone else in
to us what kind of cat they kittens to sell and are either your household, really
are looking for and what they unable, or unwilling, to find wants a cat.
think they can offer in return a home for the mum. We will
— everything from the size of rehome her with one of her 4 Kittens are
their house and about their kittens, or if she comes to us adorable but are
family members, as well as without them, we try to give not always the best fit
any experience they have.This her another kitten to care for every household.
for and then rehome them
5 Don’t just choose
REHOMING IN 2021 their spokeswoman. a cat based on
Cats Protection’s ‘hands-free homing’ looks, choose one with
Of course, the rehoming process has had to a personality that suits
change during the last year because of the is done online and via several telephone your family.
pandemic, and the home visits which helped calls, emails, and the filling-in of a detailed
to match new owners with cats have had to application form so that cats and new 6 If you’re
be put on hold for the time being. Perhaps families are as close to a perfect match as a first-time owner,
surprisingly, the phasing-out of home visits they can be. Cats are delivered to their new talk to friends with cats
by Cats Protection has resulted in fewer homes by a driver and there are follow-up and be sure you could
cats being given up because the adoptions calls at three, seven and 24 days to make cope with the realities
haven’t worked out! sure all is well. of cat-ownership;
furballs on the carpet,
“We always give advice on how to help a Mayhew arranges virtual video-call home being woken for
new cat settle but we think that when people visits via a smartphone or tablet, and also breakfast at 4am, and
actually come to one of our centres to a virtual meeting between cat and owner half-eaten mice.
collect their cat, they are so excited that they before delivering the cat to its new home,
don’t always take in what we say!” explained with follow-up checks as the cat settles in. www.yourcat.co.uk 51

TRUE CAT TALE

The

COMPROMISE
CAT Yvonne Lang and her cat Roxy are as close

as a pet and owner can be. So, when Yvonne
decided to move in with her partner who is
a pet sceptic, it was always going to be trickier
than your average house move!

Roxy. We recognised that there She loves the dispensing permanent marker.
would be compromises on home life. I conceded and bought a
My cat and I recently both sides, and he has even chair in fabric I knew Roxy
left our home to taken to referring to Roxy as guest bedroom into Roxy’s would like, so we have our own
move in with my ‘the compromise’ — thankfully, bedroom. As well as her cat space in the lounge that my
partner. It sounds this does not upset her, as she bed and various furniture, she partner leaves well alone.
simple enough. However, my prefers not to acknowledge his has her own human bed for
cat is ever so slightly spoilt existence. me to spend time with her and There are now quite a few
and my partner is allergic to it is a room only she and I can things in our home that my
cats, and has never lived with Still, we love each other, and enter so she has some privacy partner gives a wide berth to.
an animal. So, it presented a the cat and I are a package and a safe space. It does When I brought Roxy’s climbing
few more challenges than the deal — as we love each other mean any visitors now have to frame over, he would not even
average couple… possibly even more — so we sleep on the sofa bed in the help me carry it up the stairs,
decided to figure out a way lounge as the cat owns the acting as if I had brought
COMPROMISE to live in harmony, or with guest bedroom. some radioactive waste into
everyone’s sanity intact at his house. All of her wet food
The national lockdown was a least. Still, in Roxy’s eyes it was a must be stored, opened, and
dream come true for my cat step downhill. We brought the cat bowls washed in the
Roxy. She has spent her entire We were going to need a TV across for her (she likes utility room, in case bringing
life unwittingly preparing for to communicate a great snooker) so she can have it on them into the house somehow
a tier 3 lockdown. She never deal as we were coming at if I am not in to help her settle. restarts the plague, or some
goes outside — by choice (her it from completely opposing other inconceivable nonsense.
siblings have always enjoyed viewpoints. My life revolves My partner was adamant
a wander). She was staying around Roxy, while my partner that Roxy should not be Still, Roxy is taking to her new
in her bubble long before has never so much as babysat allowed on the sofa — even home quicker than expected.
Boris introduced them. As the school guinea pig, let if it was to sit on me who was When she was deposited in
well as no longer hosting any alone experienced the joys of sat on the sofa — he didn’t
visitors, lockdown also meant pet ownership. He sees this as want it ruined. He was acting
I was home all the time. It was a bullet dodged, rather than as if her feet were constantly
heaven as far as Roxy was a deprivation.
concerned.
The first stumbling block was
Lockdown kept my partner agreeing on expectations.
and I apart, and the enforced I felt she should be allowed
separation made us realise anywhere, whenever she
we would rather take the wanted, as that was what
plunge and move in together. she was used to. My partner
offered to put some cat
accessories in an outdoor
shed and received such a
loaded look he quickly revised
his offer. So, we converted his

52 Your Cat April 2021

Roxy is adapting working for the UN achieving
to her new home. world peace. Still, I tried. We
moved rugs around (Roxy
My partner has and wailing will continue until had realised if she hung on loves to try to tunnel under
never so much I join her — she puts a lot of until around 7am everyone rugs and is convinced they
as babysat the effort into her performance of was a lot happier. However, are all concealing something),
school guinea pig. a deprived cat and can go on she did not differentiate for said the word ‘No’ firmly (an
for hours. the weekends. As well as unfamiliar word to her but
her new room, she hid in the crying, Roxy can make a door I think she is grasping the
built-in wardrobe for a few Not wanting my partner vibrate like something out of meaning), let her do whatever
hours, but was happy enough to be woken up, or for the new ‘Paranormal Activity’, so I had she wanted to the carpet
to eat, use the litter box, and neighbours to hate me, to get up at seven, but after in her room, and bought
get some sleep. I went to sleep in Roxy’s room. giving her breakfast, I went her a horizontal scratching
All was blissfully silent except back to my own bed instead mat instead of her ignored
Then 4am of the first for her contented purr as of climbing in with her, and scratching post.
morning arrived.The crying she fell asleep on top of me. she did accept this. Slowly,
began.This is something Roxy My partner woke up in the we were settling into a new At the time of writing, the
has done regularly if for any morning to find me gone but routine. carpets are intact, Roxy is
reason she has not been able soon figured out where I was. quite happy, and my partner
to sleep with me and I am in BUILDING TRUST is happily walking around,
the house. I know from bitter The next morning, the crying instead of inspecting his
experience that the crying began at 6:50am, a mere 20 My partner mainly tried to carpets with a magnifying
minutes before the alarm was ignore her antics, to the glass. Roxy has decided to
due to go off, so I got up early point where I could have venture downstairs even when
to have breakfast with her. been convinced there was my partner is there. She is like
We were edging closer to a no cat at all and I have a small, furry version of a shark,
normal sleep routine so I was been having a decade circling the room and keeping
happy to keep changing beds long hallucination about an eye on him. She is coming
until she settled. It was a big an imaginary pet — except to trust him and realised that
change for her but she was when she digs the carpet. he may not be a fan, but he
starting to appreciate her new He mentions this. He takes has no intention of hurting her,
room. It had a much better it as a personal sabotage or even touching her.
view of a street and did not against him and asked me
have blackout blinds like her if I could tell her to stop.Tell We are yet to make it
old room, so she could sit and her to stop? If I possessed through our first month
judge passers-by. such communication and together, but all signs are
negotiation skills, I would be promising. Roxy is adapting to
We hit a stumbling block her new house and learning
on the first weekend. Roxy to her total astonishment that
there is a room she cannot
enter, but is slowly accepting
this. My partner is getting
used to living with a cat.
He still thinks it is about him
accepting her — rather than
her passing judgement on him
— and why spoil his illusion?

Yvonne and Roxy
have a special bond.

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the farm!

Now settled in, Cookie starts
heading out to explore the farm.
Donya Donger tells the story.

With Cookie now firmly established as part of our
family and having had the all clear from the
vet, she was ready to start venturing outdoors
and exploring the acres of the farm.

INITIAL OUTINGS yard, as he was under a Cookie would Rest time!
tractor, Cookie would soon
Cookie is free to come and jump on his back or appear soon jump on on occasion followed us on a
go as she pleases, so we first next to him and do her best to dog walk or a walk to the park.
taught her to use the cat flap get in the way! The most his back... She is certainly confident and
by tempting her through with heart-stopping moments a new challenge or discovery
food. though, she saved for me. sheds, but no one found her. always suits her!
Fortunately, after three days
To slowly encourage her to Each evening, I would go she just returned! She was One summer morning,
do her business outside, we out with my head torch on to fine, with no marks on her so she hadn’t come back for
moved the litter tray to just lock up the gates on the farm. goodness knows what she breakfast and after searching
outside the flap. It worked and I’d often turn and through the had been doing. She has for her, I decided she would
eventually we got rid of the darkness, get the glint of two gone missing since and we come back as she always
litter tray all together. cat’s eyes staring at me from have found her locked in the does. In the afternoon, one
just inches away. She has farm workshop and various of the farm staff commented
When she first started managed to scare me a few sheds.Thankfully, she’s never on how she had noticed
venturing out, we watched times. Sometimes, while I’m gone missing for that long something move out of the
Cookie to check where she concentrating on the padlock, again though. corner of her eye and when
went and made sure she knew she has crept along the gate she looked, Cookie was sat on
where home was and how to and sat right next to me so We had put a collar with a top of the haystack watching
get back. She soon found her that she can either put her bell on Cookie to stop her from out. When I went to look, sure
feet and as we went about paw on me and make me catching birds, but we found enough, Cookie was still sat
our day-to-day tasks, we would jump, or when I eventually look she was constantly losing there and was fast asleep. She
spot her at various places up, she’s nose-to-nose with me! them, so thought it safest that had obviously decided it was
around the farm. she not wear a collar at all. a good vantage point to keep
We often found that when an eye on her territory.
Should my husband Leigh we let Jess (the farm dog!) out She never strays too far from
be fixing machinery in the first thing in the morning that the farm, although she has Follow all the antics
Cookie would be waiting at on the farm by searching
Sat on a combine the front door — even though for @Peacockfarmmuston
harvester. she could just use her cat flap! on Facebook.
It was always nice to know she
was safe though.

One day in the first summer
of having her, she didn’t return
in the morning and we all got
a bit concerned and I asked
neighbours to check their

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