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Finding home for cats
Can someone provide some assistance on how to find a home for two
cats in the Houston area? This is for my son who provided the following info: Searching for a new home in the Houston area for two neutered black cats. The cats are 7 year old litter mates (born approx. December 1996) named Punk and Blue who have lived together all of their lives. Aside from pot bellies, no health problems. Both have been declawed in the front, whilethe back claws remain. We are looking for a new home for them because Blueis not reacting well to a new baby, and we have another baby on the way. Both are very sweet, affectionate cats that we are reluctantly seeking a new home for. Any ideas, suggestions, etc would be appreciated. Thank you. Dee |
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Dee,
There are probably some good ideas on how to help the cats adapt to the new children and avoid letting go of the two cats. If it is entirely impossible the following are some ideas on finding homes for cats - it is kind of trick to find a good home for cats, but is not impossible if a person is patient and screens people well. Note that charging for a cat helps keep the wrong people away, and the general idea is to find people who understand how to take care of cats and who care about cats. Again, if possible, it is best to help the cat to adapt to the conditions - there are probably some good behavioral suggestion that one could elicit from this group (and possibly from a cat behaviorist - veterinarians may be able to refer your son and his wife to a local cat behaviorist). And is there anyone in the group who might know a cat behaviorist in the Houston area? If all else fails, sites with ideas a http://www.petrescue.com/library/place-pets.htm http://www.expage.com/page/petadoptionform The following is a site with suggestion on how to screen people on the phone. http://www.petrescue.com/library/cat-phone-screen.pdf Best of luck to your son, the children and the cats - I bet that there is some means of helping the cats to adapt so that everyone would be happy! Alan "Dee Falt" wrote in message ... Can someone provide some assistance on how to find a home for two cats in the Houston area? This is for my son who provided the following info: Searching for a new home in the Houston area for two neutered black cats. The cats are 7 year old litter mates (born approx. December 1996) named Punk and Blue who have lived together all of their lives. Aside from pot bellies, no health problems. Both have been declawed in the front, whilethe back claws remain. We are looking for a new home for them because Blueis not reacting well to a new baby, and we have another baby on the way. Both are very sweet, affectionate cats that we are reluctantly seeking a new home for. Any ideas, suggestions, etc would be appreciated. Thank you. Dee |
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Dee,
There are probably some good ideas on how to help the cats adapt to the new children and avoid letting go of the two cats. If it is entirely impossible the following are some ideas on finding homes for cats - it is kind of trick to find a good home for cats, but is not impossible if a person is patient and screens people well. Note that charging for a cat helps keep the wrong people away, and the general idea is to find people who understand how to take care of cats and who care about cats. Again, if possible, it is best to help the cat to adapt to the conditions - there are probably some good behavioral suggestion that one could elicit from this group (and possibly from a cat behaviorist - veterinarians may be able to refer your son and his wife to a local cat behaviorist). And is there anyone in the group who might know a cat behaviorist in the Houston area? If all else fails, sites with ideas a http://www.petrescue.com/library/place-pets.htm http://www.expage.com/page/petadoptionform The following is a site with suggestion on how to screen people on the phone. http://www.petrescue.com/library/cat-phone-screen.pdf Best of luck to your son, the children and the cats - I bet that there is some means of helping the cats to adapt so that everyone would be happy! Alan "Dee Falt" wrote in message ... Can someone provide some assistance on how to find a home for two cats in the Houston area? This is for my son who provided the following info: Searching for a new home in the Houston area for two neutered black cats. The cats are 7 year old litter mates (born approx. December 1996) named Punk and Blue who have lived together all of their lives. Aside from pot bellies, no health problems. Both have been declawed in the front, whilethe back claws remain. We are looking for a new home for them because Blueis not reacting well to a new baby, and we have another baby on the way. Both are very sweet, affectionate cats that we are reluctantly seeking a new home for. Any ideas, suggestions, etc would be appreciated. Thank you. Dee |
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On Mon, 06 Oct 2003 21:44:43 GMT, "amp11pleasedontspam"
wrote: Again, if possible, it is best to help the cat to adapt to the conditions - there are probably some good behavioral suggestion that one could elicit from this group (and possibly from a cat behaviorist - veterinarians may be able to refer your son and his wife to a local cat behaviorist). Thank you, Alan, for your response. I'm afraid their space limitations virtually preclude keeping the cats. I'm well aware of the situation and is is with great reluctance (and I concur) that a new environment would be best. I have one indoor cat plus a colony of ferals. The indoor cat was a feral for almost two years, but she is very much a fully domesticated cat although she hob nobs with the others. Dee |
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On Mon, 06 Oct 2003 21:44:43 GMT, "amp11pleasedontspam"
wrote: Again, if possible, it is best to help the cat to adapt to the conditions - there are probably some good behavioral suggestion that one could elicit from this group (and possibly from a cat behaviorist - veterinarians may be able to refer your son and his wife to a local cat behaviorist). Thank you, Alan, for your response. I'm afraid their space limitations virtually preclude keeping the cats. I'm well aware of the situation and is is with great reluctance (and I concur) that a new environment would be best. I have one indoor cat plus a colony of ferals. The indoor cat was a feral for almost two years, but she is very much a fully domesticated cat although she hob nobs with the others. Dee |
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From: Dee Falt
Aside from pot bellies, no health problems. Both have been declawed in the front, whilethe back claws remain. I hope it wasn't you that had the ends of these poor cats' toes amputated. If you did, please never get another cat. Declawing is extremely cruel and inhumane. ________ See my cats: http://community.webshots.com/album/56955940rWhxAe Raw Diet Info: http://www.holisticat.com/drjletter.html http://www.geocities.com/rawfeeders/ForCatsOnly.html Declawing Info: http://www.wholecat.com/articles/claws.htm |
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On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Dee Falt wrote:
Can someone provide some assistance on how to find a home for two cats in the Houston area? This is for my son who provided the following info: I've looked to home five cats over the past two years. Three came to live with me, one with my boyfriend, and one to a very nice no-kill shelter for adoption. Alot of the people here do alot, and have all they can handle right now. Good luck to you. Dee |
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On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Dee Falt wrote:
Can someone provide some assistance on how to find a home for two cats in the Houston area? This is for my son who provided the following info: I've looked to home five cats over the past two years. Three came to live with me, one with my boyfriend, and one to a very nice no-kill shelter for adoption. Alot of the people here do alot, and have all they can handle right now. Good luck to you. Dee |
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I don't understand how people can have 2 cats for 7 years, invest in
their medicals, etc., and presumably really love these pets and then just decide that it's time to have kids now and let's get rid of the cats and move on to something else "more important" (people usually consider humans outweigh animals in the scheme of things). I realize that people's priorities should be addressed before animals' (if I had a kid who was sick and a cat who was sick at the same time, I would take the kid to the pediatrician before I would take the cat to the vererinarian), but if you know that SOMEDAY you might start a family with which the animals could be incompatible, THINK for a minute. Get an older animal, or hold off until you have a place without so many "space limitations". ALWAYS I hear these situations after the fact. I know that some of what I have said may rub some people the wrong way. But I have 22+ cats (all spayed/neutered/rescued/strays), and I always say to people that I won't have kids (I am spayed/neutered myself anyway) because if the kid turned out to be allergic, I would have to give the KID up for adoption. Michele Dee Falt wrote in message . .. On Mon, 06 Oct 2003 21:44:43 GMT, "amp11pleasedontspam" wrote: Again, if possible, it is best to help the cat to adapt to the conditions - there are probably some good behavioral suggestion that one could elicit from this group (and possibly from a cat behaviorist - veterinarians may be able to refer your son and his wife to a local cat behaviorist). Thank you, Alan, for your response. I'm afraid their space limitations virtually preclude keeping the cats. I'm well aware of the situation and is is with great reluctance (and I concur) that a new environment would be best. I have one indoor cat plus a colony of ferals. The indoor cat was a feral for almost two years, but she is very much a fully domesticated cat although she hob nobs with the others. Dee |
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