As some of you may have read we lost Suki last weekend, she was an old cat and we gave her a good two and half years with us.
The boys appeared to be ok (they were not looking for her no more) and both my husband and myself could think about our little lady without bursting into tears - and we're aware it's only been a week, but we felt we were ready to re-home another for that reason, but also we wanted to get a 3rd cat in so that it would be slightly eaiser for the boys (they wouldnt get used to being just the two of them).
So, we went to another local cat rehoming centre. Absolutly wonderful place, cats in large pens, mingling amonst themselves so you can tell which cats prefer to be on their own!
Anyway, we went along to have a look at what they had - as we wanted another oldie female. There were 4 which were suitable, but one little cat stood out from the others - and we think it was also partly the case that the cat chose us not us choosing the cat!
Ginny is a friendly cat who the homing centre think is about 12 - 14 years of age. Her previous owner died last year and the family are now no longer able to keep her, and had been there for 3 months. She was such an affectionate cat whilst we were with her and we knew she was right. Whilst we were stroking her, there were two other cats which were having a hissing/growling session, and she just sat there!
Anyway, we said that we'd like to try to rehome Ginny, and were very surprised when we were told we could have her delivered Saturday tea time!
Ginny arrived and settled in quite quickly (found where the food and litter trays were). The boys reacted quite oddly. Jasper I think was very observant and just looked at her from afar, Sully we have a feeling he wondered if it was Suki as he went up to her a miaowed. Unfortunately Ginny replied with a hiss and we're having the usual hisssing/growling between them that we had when we introduced cats 2 and 3 to Sully.
Ginny spent the night very excited. I'd been out round a friends from 7pm, didnt get home till gone midnight and I didnt get much sleep so think I'll need a snooze this afternoon!
My husband spent the night with her, and I've attached some piccies of her, and you can see she's a definete lap cat!
We'll never forget our little Suki, but we wanted to be a 3 cat family as we dont want any of our cats to be left on their own.
The re-homing centre use the policy whereby you have the cat for 2 weeks, and then they will call you to see if the cat has integrated well you then officially adopt them. We think this is a brilliant policy as we have felt when we've rehomed from the RSPCA that they kind of say to you that once you've adopted the cat that's it. We hope Ginny integrates well, the cats have all managed to be in the same room (which we did not get when we introduced Sully to Jasper and Suki to the boys) so we hope that that is a good sign.
Bex
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