Jingles had been with us since April 2009! She came into our care under threat of pts by her original owner. He was going to take her to a national animal charity until I told him that they were full anyway and had no spaces for her. Then he said if he had his gun he could shoot her and feed her to his snakes.
Poor Jingles was not allowed in the home probably soon after they got the puppy. He told me that he used to have a cat but put it on the noticeboard at work, and found a home that way. He had come knocking my door in a very threatening way, asking "Do you want a cat?" He told me that it had been up and toileted on their bed, and he was just going to get his wife out of work to come and sort it out.
When I eventually said we would take her in, he told me that she had scratched and bitten his mother in law and that she was not to be trusted.
The same day some friends of ours were round here, and when I showed her to Margaret, she said that cat looks like Jingles. I asked her the name of her neighbour, and it was the same as the one on the sign over form.
Jingles used to hate being indoors as she was not used to it, and she used to sit at the back of the cat lounge. I purchased a cat tree so she could see out of the windows at least from where she used to like to peer from, and gradually brought the tree further into the body of the room although still on the outside edge. She progressed to always being fed on the mantle piece, so at least she was further into the room when she was associating that position with feeding time.
She has gone to live with no other cats, no children, just one springer spaniel, who is well behaved and not a chaser. Early introductions will be done on a lead until they are used to each other. The lady has had cats previously and the two seem to like each other.
Jingles was looking round the large lounge (where she will be for the first few days) and even thinking about looking down the garden from the back of the chaise lounge and nearly venturing onto the window ledge to do so. She was purring and generally looking relaxed. She was acting in a relaxed and happy demeanour as she did on her more comfortable and happy days with us. But now she didn't have to worry about other cats around her which she clearly didn't feel happy with even though we permanently have a Feliway plugged in.
