Our lovely, lovely cat died the other week. We'd had her for 8 years, but as she was a stray who'd turned up and adopted us, we know nothing of her history and suspect that she was reasonably old when she died.
We were going to wait a while but the house is so empty. There will be no replacing our lovely Bu - she really was wonderful - but very much want to share our home with a feline again.
But I've never had to choose a cat before. How do I do it?
I've visited the local rescue centre and spotted a lovely Siamese boy who is apparently a bit of a handful and probably totally unsuitable for us but I completely fell for him. I'd like a cat (or cats) with a bit of character and I just loved the way he came up to the window of his pod and shouted at me about how truly outrageous the situation was and what was I going to do about it (I have officially become Mad Cat Lady I think).
I doubt tbh that they'd let us have him anyway - I imagine there are experienced Siamese owners who'd have first dibs on him. Having said that is was very, ahem, odd. I can see a lot of people really not liking him at all. There were two reserves on his sister, but noone seemed to want him.
OTOH Bu was a moggy and moggies are lovely too. I've thought about having one older cat and one younger, would that be a good plan?
OK, so this has become a ramble - in a nutshell: how on earth do I choose? What questions do I ask the Home?