Would you write to Cats previous owner?

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Cheddar was not a cruelty case as far as I know. And it must have been a huge wrench to give her up. I was wondering weather to write a letter to her previous owner, to tell her how well cheddar has settled and how much she's loved. I keep in touch with the rescue anyway and have asked them to post photos of her. It they've not done so yet.
I just feel so lucky to have her in my life!

Aw, she's gorgeous! She looks so peaceful in that first pic.

I think it would be lovely to write a letter and send some pics to her previous owner. Would the rescue pass them on? If Cheddar was gentle when she came to you she must have been loved in her first home.

Presumably the rescue wouldn’t give you the details of the previous owner as those are confidential.

That aside, I adopted a cat around three years ago who had been given up due to allergies and I guessed she can’t have been a cruelty case either due to her nature condition, the fact she’d clearly been well looked after/socialised, and I asked the rescue about whether the former owner would be. Notified and they said no as often giving up the cat is very hard and they need to be given the opportunity to move on from that but that if the owner contacted them they would let them know the cat had been re-homed. But she said that former owners almost never get back in touch.

As it happens the cat was sadly hit by a car just a few months down the line and killed so in hindsight I’m sort of glad I didn’t contact them after all. Also, while she was an adorable cat she was extremely spirited and I suspect that the reasons for rehoming were probably due to her temperament and the fact they had recently had a baby than allergies so I do wonder what contacting them would have achieved iyswim.

I did. IIRC (it was a few years ago) the rescue got in touch saying the former owner was wondering how they were - they had been given up due to a drastic change in personal circumstances. We exchanged a couple of emails and left it at that but former owner was very pleased to have heard from us.

Yes. She was clearly well lived and socialised. It really showed the difference between her upbringing and Fatty and Snorgs. The reason the rescue were given for re homing was that the owner worked away a lot and couldn't give her the time she needed. She was also bullied by the other cat she came with. I can well believe that that is true. She's incredibly needy. I just can't believe my luck in getting her. I think her details are on the vaccination certificate.

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I'd like to write another letter to Fatty and Snorgs previous owner a d give her a piece of my mind. For running a kitten farm and keeping her fats in a chicken coop cattery. And breeding from a cat with severe heart disease. I feel for the owners of her kittens who will now have probably seriously ill cats.

I’ve no idea who my cats previous owner was as I adopted him through the Blue Cross whe he was 18 months old ( and it turns out he’d been transferred across the country!) On the first anniversary of his adoption last year I sent an email and some pictures of him to the rehoming centre and got a lovely reply from the staff who looked after him. I will do the same this year. I’ve no idea if his previous owners are in touch/ care/ are even interested in him at all ….. but the Blue Cross near me is very small and the staff/ volunteers remember all their cats (they remembered his previous name and the fact I forgot the cat carrier when I went to pick him up! ) so it’s my way of saying Thank You to them for looking after him.
Maybe write the letter anyway and keep it and if the time comes when they want to get in touch it is there.

Cheddar is gorgeous!

I send photos to the lady who rescued Magic and Maia as she's still traumatised by the conditions they and the other cats were kept in. She met them both again when she came up to deliver a car for onward transport to the rescue. And it was lovely!

I send updates on DCats to their human foster mother at the rescue charity every year, around their birthday - mainly photos and a bit about their personalities. I would have found it hard to give up kittens, I hand reared!

We adopted our cat directly from a family who had a very boisterous toddler, and another baby on the way, so she wasn’t getting enough attention. We keep in touch regularly by text, and I consider her previous “mum” a friend - sometimes our chats have nothing to do with the cat, and we’ve met up for coffee. Giving her up was a difficult decision for them, but they know she is so, so loved here. She was previously a house cat, and while she still doesn’t roam much now, she loves being in our garden, climbing trees, and sitting up on the shed roof surveying the neighbourhood!

I did. Rescue cats with loving owners whose circumstance changed. They loved hearing from us. It was very clear to me my cats were loved by previous owners.

I happened to speak to the rescue yesterday asked if the owner had ever been in touch. She said that she tells previous owners that they won't get updates on how they are doing. I think that's sad. I hop she's seen the Facebook updates I've posted.