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V_Chic_Chick

Norbertsmum wrote: »

Get two!
Not only will they keep each other company but the kids will have double the fun:j

Not to mention that two cats are not twice the work of one cat - you just have a larger water bowl and scrape out a little more cat food each day.

tealady

I always say my breed is a BSM (sounds posh doesn't it). It stands for Bog Standard Mog.
Currently I only have one, he delights playing at being Lord of the Manor with me as resident footman for the front door.

wherediditallgo

Norbertsmum wrote: »

Get two!
Not only will they keep each other company but the kids will have double the fun:j

I might have to do that myself. When I was a child, my border collie was one of 3 brothers, but one of Mum's colleagues insisted on having the other two though we saw them first, & Mum wasn't prepared to argue about it despite my wailing. A few months later, the other woman told Mum she'd given her two away as she couldn't cope with them. :mad: I've not been keen on splitting up brothers/sisters since then. I'd love two kittens - I'll be working part-time so they'll be company for each other while I'm out, & I wouldn't like to think of them being split up on top after having gone through being rescued.

Supernova

Thanks for all the replies everybody.

I did have a cat here about 15 years ago and he used to go outside via the bedroom window, neighbour's downstairs extension and garden shed. Died from smoke inhallation in a fire I had here :-(

I could have a flap installed in the window couldn't I? Is that expensive? But then the neighbour might decide to move the shed.

Still mulling over the indoor cat idea, though.

bindiboo

cpl coming to do home visit this saturday... been virtual shopping for bits n bobs as well............me gettin excitied

bulchy

bindiboo wrote: »

cpl coming to do home visit this saturday... been virtual shopping for bits n bobs as well............me gettin excitied

I bet you are. We rescued 2 kittens 3 years ago, brothers that rescue said they just didnt want to seperate, we've never regretted getting the 2, as they are so entertaining. We just rescued kitten, a girl this time, and shes a little minx,I had forgotten what a handful kittens can be, but I wouldnt swap her for the world. Good luck for saturday.
Sue

bindiboo

well went fine on saturday. Was given directions to the cattery/rescue center. BUT neither the local rspca or cpl have any kittens...maybe we should wait for the after xmas intake!!! I was so looking forward to having a kitty kat

ictquizzer

be patient, it'll be worth it! I got a cpl one whivch weas handreared from 2 weeks onwards, was petrified when they actually let me take it home when it was just 6 (?maybe 8?) weeks old as was the runt of the litter and literally still the size of a mouse! was even worse when they told me he had nappy rash due to being so small and longhaired - had to literally wipe his !!! every time he went to the toilet, the thought of which still haunts me to this day... We had baby wipes, nappy bags, the works!

You'll get so much pleasure out of knowing you got the cat from such a worthy source, far more so than getting it froma breeder/shop. Didn't actually know you still got shops which sold them, haven't seen that in many a year. As was previously mentioned, RSPCA ones come already treated which is very worthwhile. If you get a cpl one then you have to get a certificate of it being neutered and send it to them, if i remember correctly. You have to do something anyway to show you have had this done.

As people have already said, the simplest things keep them happiest - a cardboard box is perfectly sufficient at first (and keeps them safe at night when still at their smallest!) and to this day, my cat's favourite thing to play with is a crisp bag folded into a triangle!

Good luck - and enjoy iy when it comes!

spookylukey

Here's a link to shelters/rescues in the Derbyshire area - may be somewhere you're not aware of

http://www.catchat.org/adoption/derbys.html

Hope you manage to find one two, even if you have to wait until after Xmas. Please don't be tempted to try and get a kitten from a free ad/website. There are literally hundreds of thousands of unwanted cats, who were once kittens, sitting in rescues up and down the country. If backyard breeders who breed their moggies over and over again to sell for up to £100 a kitten could be stopped then there wouldn't be so many homeless cats.

bindiboo

spookylukey wrote: »

Here's a link to shelters/rescues in the Derbyshire area - may be somewhere you're not aware of

http://www.catchat.org/adoption/derbys.html

Hope you manage to find one two, even if you have to wait until after Xmas. Please don't be tempted to try and get a kitten from a free ad/website. There are literally hundreds of thousands of unwanted cats, who were once kittens, sitting in rescues up and down the country. If backyard breeders who breed their moggies over and over again to sell for up to £100 a kitten could be stopped then there wouldn't be so many homeless cats.

thanks have already been on this website..... will have just have to wait for cpl to ring..