How do you go about getting/adopting a kitten?

[LOVELYDOVEY05]

Tips appreciated

See if there are any in your area, there should be other cat rescue places in your area too. Just google and see what comes up then see if there are some that you want to meet.

www.cats.org.uk/adopt-a-cat

google cat rescues in your area. Each rescue has a slightly different adopting procedure, so you will need to look at the website x

Look at Cats Protection League. Some of their shelters are doing a hands-free rehoming service.

Google rescues in your area. Please do NOT buy from Gumtree, Pets4Homes, Facebook etc. All you do in that case is encourage irresponsible idiots to carry on letting their pets breed indiscriminately and continue to add to the already overwhelming number of animals in need if good homes.

I googled “cat rescue centres ” and found a huge list of small charities. Looked at a couple of Facebook pages, found my ideal cats and called the number. They then explained their adoption process.

@thecatneuterer works for Celia Hammond IIRC and is full of wisdom about adopting cats

Be aware that sometimes rescues don’t advertise when they have kittens, because it triggers an avalanche of applications. It’s always worth getting in touch with them to find out how they handle kitten adoption.

I would also say that if you are new to cat owning a young cat is much easier than a kitten. Kittens are scratchy, bitey, and wild as well as cute and adorable! A pair of kittens is easier than 1, because they entertain each other and keep each other company.

Not all at once:
Cat 1: acquired randomly from stray farm litter. Free.

Cats 2 and 3: cat in the next street had a litter. Cost a box of chocs.

Cat 4: Local cat rescue - phoned up the moment we saw her on the website and were told ‘ if you can get here in 30 minutes, we’ll reserve her that long. Otherwise put yourself on the waiting list for the next litter.’ Drove like the clappers, whole family were grilled on our good intentions and cat expertise. Cost £70, chipped vaxed and neutered.

Cat 5: Fostered a cat mum and litter. Failed to return quite all the kittens . Cost £80 by that point for chip, vax and neutering.
There is something rather special about having a cat from day 2 of her life.

@GuppytheCat
Cat 5: Fostered a cat mum and litter. Failed to return quite all the kittens

Love this 😂. All 6 of mine are TNRs we never Rd.

[quote Shmithecat2]@GuppytheCat
Cat 5: Fostered a cat mum and litter. Failed to return quite all the kittens

Love this 😂. All 6 of mine are TNRs we never Rd.[/quote]
All 26 of mine are TNRs without the R ... R-ing is just so difficult sometimes when you know the place they've come from is crap, yet you also know they're completely unhomeable.

Anyways OP. You can find a full list of rescues near you on www.catchat.org Kittens very rarely get put on websites. Lost (and I hope most) rescues only home kittens in pairs. This is because kittens get very distressed when removed from both their mother and litter mates, and it's much easier to look after two kittens than one, as they play together and entertain each other.

Lots, not lost ...

Our rescue prefers pairs but doesn’t insist. In the case of our Cat 4, she was recommended to be an only, as she was being bullied by her siblings and rejected by her mum.

Cat 5 was a bit similar - runt of a big (and odd numbered) litter, and her mother tended not to bother with her. As she’d been with us from birth, she had no problems settling in.

Its beyond why someone would only want one kitten tbh.

Kitten pairs are undeniably cute. But twice the cats means twice the cost, and it does add up.

We got ours from a small cat rescue centre I'd never heard of, who I emailed directly. Their Facebook page did not have kittens on it, because they get overwhelmed with applications, but in fact there were some available. I found about about the centre via catchat.org