Rescue Cat Hopefully Coming Home Tomorrow

[francis223]

We have passed a home check with Cats Protection and we meet the cats tomorrow to hopefully bring our new family member home.

I need some advice on a safe room to help the cat settle in. We have a three bed home (our bedroom, baby's bedroom, husband's office), and downstairs we have a kitchen with double doors into garden, living room and small downstairs loo. So I have no idea which room we can use as a safe room. Has anyone got an ideas?

It might not need a safe room, some of them own the house straight away.

What time do you go to meet the cats?

We're on our way! Should arrive at 10.30am!

I hope that camera is charged.

Good luck!

Thank you! Will hopefully have an update later!

Good luck 😀

So she's home! An 18 month old tortoishell who's already had two litters, she's recently been spayed and is so dainty and delicate bless her.

She's quite at ease, spent the first few hours hiding but is now quite confidently wandering around the downstairs of the house. She's miaowing a lot, she purring, coming over for strokes, has wee'd in her tray and has had a nibble of food.

Will try taking a photo later, she won't stay still long enough yet!

I think that Fluffy had the right of it. It sound as if she's in charge already.

Torties are feisty girls, they have tortitude. Poor thing having litters early though.

Here she is, asleep at my shoulder on the top of the sofa cushion!

She's purring so loudly in my ear

She already looks like Queen of All She Surveys. You've got a one there, I think.

She's beautiful, she looks very content.

Awww... she is so beautiful! Enjoy that purr... and give her a little head rub from me. You can't beat having a cat purring at you.

😻

Have you thought about where she shall sleep tonight?

We co-sleep with our toddler and am not sure my husband is open to giving up any more room on the bed, we were thinking of giving her the run of the rest of the house. Any advice is gratefully received.

She's following both me and my husband if we get up from the sofa

Our first night with new kittens they slept in the kitchen. They were only babies and threw up/had diarrhoea on the way home.
If you let her on your bed whilst co sleeping she may pounce on you at 3am.
If you shut the bedroom door she may scrabble at it.

Like a lion!

In our house, any new Siamese have inspected and approved the(ir) bed before anything else. I wouldn't even think of getting them a cat bed these days. I'm properly trained.

She's gorgeous! It's looking like she's starting to rule the roost.

Gorgeous gorgeous gorgeous. How is she today? What colour are her eyes? I too have a rescue girl who'd had a litter very young (she was only about 8-9 months when I got her!) and she is the absolute boss, highly intelligent, rules the house.

She has beautiful green eyes.

We kept her confined to the kitchen last night, we could hear her scratching away at the cardboard box I left for her, she miaowed a little during the night but it was more of a 'attention please' rather than fearful cry. I came down at 6am for her and she was lively and happy.

She ate all her breakfast and is absolutely wonderful with our toddler so far. She's fast asleep upstairs now.

All sounds good so far.

Is she to be an outside-going cat?

I think so, yes.
She's been up against the windows and patio doors for a nosey outside.
We've been advised to keep her indoors for two weeks.