Advice - RSPCA

[soulfuleyes]

Hi,

I am looking for some advice re rehoming with the RSPCA. The situation is that one of my partner's neighbours has been evicted. He has left behind two indoor cats. The housing association is feeding them at the moment as they are now their responsibility, they have tried several rescue centres for rehoming but they are all full. The RSPCA are now going to take them in a week's time. They say that they will be rehome do but how likely is this? Will they be more than likely be pts? I don't have many details about the conversation. The cats are in good health and 4 years old.

Unfortunately, I can't take them as i have two who wouldn't accept them and my partner can't for various reasons. I just want to make sure they have a chance of finding a good home.

Any advice would be very welcome,

Many thanks

It's very hard to know. The RSPCA certainly put a lot of cats down. I've often attended almost identical situations to the one you describe where the housing association has contacted the RSPCA and they have explicitly said they would be put down, so the HA called us instead. Then again they do have rehoming centres and they do home cats. If there is literally no other choice then - well there is no other choice and you will just have to hope they'll be ok.

Where in the country are you?

I suspect it varies by area, then. They certainly try to rehome even quite elderly cats round here (we adopted one aged around 8-10 last year).

The RSPCA doesn't have a "No Kill" policy the way many other rescues do... Some branches seem better than others though, and indoor only cats are usually in demand and they are young so I would think they stand a good chance of finding a new home.

Many thanks for the replies.

I was hoping that because they are young and indoor would go in their favour. They get on very well too (brother and sister). I'll try and find out more.

Catneuterer, I'm in London, W4.

OP, we (The Celia Hammond Animal Trust) are in Canning Town. Indoor only cats are in great demand and there aren't that many of them, so we are managing to home all the indoor only cats that come our way at the moment (as long as they are friendly, not too old etc), so if you can get them to us we can perhaps help.

However, as you say, as they are indoor only and young then probably the RSPCA will be able to home them. Can you have a candid chat with someone in the centre where they would be going (rather than the switchboard)?

Please pm me if you would like to discuss bringing them to us.

Hi Catneteurer,

I've pm'd you

Seems like TCN is on the case. Cats Protection have an Ealing and West London branch (they won't PTS either unless of course a cat is seriously ill which I doubt with 4yo).
I agree some RSPCA branches are better than others. The one near me sends a lot of cats to the nearby CP adoption centre including the battered Iooking FIV positive ones.