There's a cat shaped hole in my life

[BabeRuthless]

We lost our boy to a car two months back. We'd gone a long time between our last cat & this one because we were waiting for ds to be old enough to handle a cat. When we got him I realised how much I'd missed having a cat. He was perfect, really laid back, liked to go in and out & was really affectionate. I really miss him and I also really miss having a cat around the house. I think I'm stuck though. I can't go back to Blue Cross and a neighbour was telling me RSPCA wont allow adoptions in our area as its classes as being by a main road.

Do I just resign myself to a cat free life? I feel cheated in a way because we took such good care of him & it feels like he's been snatched away. Sorry for the maudlin rant but I don't have anyone else to talk to about this. I can't even bring myself to cancel the pet insurance.

Try RSPCA anyway. I live on a horrible main road and got 2 off them. Also try smaller rescue places. They are less
-fussy- precious.

You can but try really, if you promise to keep them in overnight and they are neutered hopefully it wont be too much of a problem.

That might work. Our boy was a year old and I think too adventurous for his own good. I don't know if there's any independent shelters round here. Really unsure about going down the gumtree route. Could you even get proper pet insurance for a cat who isn't from a shelter?

Why can you not keep an indoor cat? Adopt a young cat that does not have experience of wandering, or an older cat that the rescue knows was kept indoors. Simples.

This will also avoid the horrible occurrence of your pet being run over by a car...

I also second the idea of an older cat. We lost one of ours to a car too and it's awful. Do try a shelter again - they'll be able to guide you to one that will suit.

Thanks for the advice, good to know all is not lost. I know the RSPCA shelter is chock full at the moment so I'll give them a call.

You can fight your corner over the road with the RSPCA I live on a main trunk road that has artics day and night. I pointed out that the cats are much less at risk because they hate the front of the house due to the noise. I also pointed out cats much more at risk on road where occasionally one car comes along very fast. I put this point to the home visit assessor and won - so the tail less wonder came to live with me bless her rat murdering little white socks.