Purrs In Our Hearts - Cat Forum UK
Cat General => General Cat Chat => Topic started by: jamesthomsonn on October 18, 2015, 12:13:49 PM
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Hello,
Let me introduce myself, my name is James Thomson and I am a vet student at the University of Nottingham. I am seeking the help of fellow cat lovers!
Shelter medicine is a big interest of mine and I have been involved in local shelter work for a big part of my life. In the interest of keeping this short, I will cut to the chase. As part of my dissertation, I am studying what motivates people to adopt cats and the results I obtain will be used by cat shelters to target and increase rates of adoption.
I NEED YOUR HELP if you have adopted a cat in the last year or are in the process of adoption. If you have the time and would like the chance to win a £50 pets at home voucher, I would greatly appreciate your participation in my survey which can accessed on the following link (it takes approximately 10 minutes and your time would really mean a lot to me)
www.surveymonkey.com/r/cats123
(PS. If you have adopted in the last 5 years and still remember your motives at the time and the process, please feel free to participate from that perspective)
As the questionnaire will be used in person at shelters as well, there may be some questions that do not make sense. Feel free to leave anything blank or answer as if you were filling it in at the shelter you adopted from.
Thank you so much for considering taking part in my survey. I look forward to receiving some of your responses. My contact details are on the questionnaire so any questions or comments, please do not hesitate to contact me.
Kind Regards,
James Thomson.
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Hello James
Welcome to our forum.
Have participated, albeit two years since we last adopted. Nonetheless the motives are very fresh in my mind. There are others on here who have adopted within the last year, and I would say most of us remember clearly our motives for adoption. We're all cat passionate, and as a forum, seek to promote shelters and rescue work.
Good luck with your project. We'd love it if in due course you could share your findings with us. :)
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Hello Sue,
Thank you for allowing me to communicate with your users here!
Thanks so much for your participation, if you know anyone who would be willing to fill in the survey, please share it with them. I really appreciate all your help :) I will be finishing my dissertation later this year and will be sharing my findings with shelters up and down the country and would be more than happy to share the findings with you here too. Thank you for your interest!
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Hi James,
I've just adopted 2 kittens & as they're (finally!) asleep I'll do the survey just now ::)
Be interesting to hear your results
Nic
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Done we have 6 newbies - 1 is blind, 1 is partially sighted and 2 ferals and 2 now tamed down ferals :)
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:welcome: to Purrs James.
Completed the survey.
Good luck with your Uni work and your wonderful career. Hope you can find time to come on Purrs and enjoy all our sections. We have an Auction in November (to raise money for our members who have rescues) that you might like to join in either by donating or bidding. It's great fun.
Mary
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SAdly not adopted a cat for 5 years and he didnt come from a rescue but was saved from backstreet breeders from that unmentionable site!
However all of us on Purrs would love to see the results ;D
Good luck.
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Hi James,
I have done the survey - as I only got my cat Winnie in mid-August.
Good luck for your dissertation, and well done on basing it on Rescues :shy:
Mweekie xx
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Hi James
Job done.
Good luck with the dissertation.
Would be interested in reading the results.
Indies Mum to be! :)