FAQ

We have volunteers and fosterers throughout the East Anglian region in the UK.

Our adoption fee is £150 for a neutered cat and £200 for kittens: kittens come with their first and second vaccinations. We take £50 of the fee and hold it as deposit against their neutering as it is vital that they are neutered before they are 6 months of age.

We can pay this fee to a vet of your choice where you will be expected to pay the difference, or take to our vets at Linkswood where there will be no extra to pay.

Honestly, we really do try to make rehoming a mog as viable as possible for everyone involved.

We have a lovely team of volunteers willing to give up their skills, time and space for free to run our core processes like fostering, adoption, accounts, social media and the website, and we could not operate without them.

However, many of the other things between the rescuing of a cat and it curling up in its forever home are anything but free.

Here’s the reality of just some of our costs…

• £10 a week per fostered cat for litter and basic food
• £4-£5 for every 10 miles travelled in getting cats to/from fosterers and vets.
• £65-£140 to neuter a cat, depending on the gender of the cat and which vet performs the operation.
• £75-£90 for a set of 1st and 2nd vaccinations, or £45+ for a booster vaccination
• £20-£25 for de-fleaing and de-worming
• £15-£35 for a microchip implantation
• £17-£20 for the registration on the microchip database
• £20 for a standard health check and certificate

With all animal rescues, it’s all game of statistics.

Some cats do genuinely cost us very little. They are healthy, clean and friendly, come into foster with an existing microchip and current vaccination record, will eat anything put before them, and they find a forever home in a week or so. If most cats were like this, cat rescues around the world would be almost empty and their coffers would be full.

That’s just not how it is though.

Unfortunately, for every comparatively lucky cat like that, there are literally dozens that come to us scared, dirty and flea ridden, need urgent and sometimes extensive vet treatment, require special diets, have to be microchipped and vaccinated, and despite all our work still don’t get rehomed for months or sometimes years.

For those poor kitties, the £150-£200 adoption fee doesn’t even scratch the surface.

We really wish this wasn’t the case, and that money wasn’t such a huge factor in helping us find every rescue cat a forever home.

But it just simply is.

Cards on the table? 

With kittens either born at a shelter or in foster, or who are very young, we can tell their age within a few weeks, as they develop so rapidly. Sometimes we get adult cats whose previous owners know their age and that's great...but it's not the norm. 

99% of the time we have zero information about a cat, and their age can therefore only be a "Best Guess", based on factors like their condition, overall appearance, and the state of their teeth.

We completely understand that you want this information, and you will need a date of birth for insurance, so we will do our best. But it is generally only going to be an educated guess. 

With regards to the adoption process, we categorise any cat that is 1 year old or older as a "cat", whereas "kittens" are under 1 year old at the time of adoption. 

All of our cats have a vet health check and are neutered, microchipped, de-wormed and de-fleaed before the adoption process begins.

It is not a good idea to let your cats meet immediately.

Cats are sociable and will usually take to new ones, but they are wary and like to do it at their own pace. If a cat is hissing or growling at another it does not mean that they will never get on. Most of this noise is dialogue, and tells the cat it would rather have some more space right now if possible

Start your new cat off in a room of its own and after a few days allow the cats to see each other but not meet by putting up a barrier. A net or babygate across the door is a simple solution and it allows the cats to see and smell each other without meeting, which usually gives them confidence. 

For more advice, please see our page "Introducing your cat to others".

Absolutely!

We would provide all food, litter and vet bills etc for the time the cat or kitten is with you.

The last thing we want is any one of our wonderful foster families to be out of pocket when they are looking after a cat. 

You need so little space to help an animal in need.

All you need is at least one room that is completely secure where the cat can have its own space and stay safe.

Please call Alice on 07506 666416 if you would like to discuss Fostering.

We would love to hear from you if you would like to volunteer in any way. 

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Thank you so much!