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The Adoption Process
Please read this section to see how we go about rehoming the cats in our care.
All the cats we have are health checked by the vet and treated for fleas/worms etc. All cats in our care that are old enough will be neutered. Some of our cats have now been vaccinated as we have now started to do this as a routine to reduce the possibility of infection in our homes.
Donations
We have recently simplified the adoption fee. We now ask a MINIMUM of £75 per cat or kitten. These fees help towards our continuing to rescue and rehome cats and kittens.
Each cat will either be chipped, vaccinated and neutered with us , or if this has not yet been done (as in the case of a kitten for example) will be homed with a guarantee that a payment will be made towards these costs of
vaccinations – £22 each for first year (£44 for course)
Microchip – £16
Neuter – £30
Home Visits
We hope to provide all our cats with good new homes, therefore a home visit is required for all cats. This restricts adoptions mainly to Coventry and the surrounding area (within 20 miles). In exceptional circumstances we can rehome further afield if a home visit can be arranged with a local rescue group or a reference from your vet.
We will normally not rehome to -
Homes on busy roads.
Homes where there is no safe garden for the cat to escape to.
Kittens to homes with children under five years old.
Kittens to homes where there is no-one at home all day.
but these are guidelines and we assess each request we receive individually.
If you are interested in adopting then please email or ring to arrange to visit the cat(s). When you first contact us we will need to know some basic information about you , we want the homing to be a success and it is rare for things not to work out. We will always accept a cat back if there are problems.
The information we need is -
• Name
• Address
• Telephone number
• If the property is owned or rented. If rented we need to know who the landlord is and may require a letter of confirmation
• How long you have lived in the property
• Who lives in the house with you
• Other pets
• Working patterns (what times will the cat(s) be left alone)
• Your cat experience – have you/do you have cats, what were they like, where are they now
• Which vet do you intend to use
• What sort of cat you are looking for – sex, colour, temperament or if you have seen one on our website
There is an email link with each of our cats. Please be patient with us if you do not hear back straight away as we are all volunteers but do chase us if you have heard nothing after a couple of day.
The fosterer will then be in touch to arrange for a time for you to visit and meet the cat(s), we like to see any young children at this point to see how they behave with the cat.
You should take your time with this meeting and spend as much time getting to know the cat as possible as it is a new family member who may well spend the next 20 years with you.
If the meeting goes well then the next step is for us to arrange the home visit, this can sometimes be combined with us taking the cat to you.
We do not rehome kittens before they are 9 weeks old. However the adoption process can be done beforehand and kittens reserved so that they can go to their new home as soon as they are old enough. We normally start letting people visit kittens when the kittens are about 6 weeks old.
Email Homing Co-ordinator