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Re-homed.
A chance to have a look at some of the cats that have been re-homed
and find out how they are getting on in their new homes.
Milo.
Milo was brought to the sanctuary with his brother Jake when his owner could no longer look after him.
As they were independent cats, they were rehomed seperately.
It didn't take Milo long to settle in. He is so laid back and daft as a brush. Nothing bothers him in the slightest.
He loves to sleep in a washing basket in the kitchen during the day.
At night time,when my daughter goes to bed, he follows her and sleeps on her bed only getting up when she does in the morning.
He would sleep 24hours a day if you let him.
When he is in a deep sleep, he snores quite loudly. If he is not sleeping or eating,
he is on my knee making strange soft 'cooing' noises and purring extremely loudly with contentment.
He even purrs down the phone if the caller talks to him!
His favourite food is ANYTHING! Even donuts, although they are only given occaisionally for obvious health reasons.
I hadn't had a cat before Milo and had debated about becoming an owner for some time.
Now I know for sure it was the best move I had ever taken.
Thanks Milo for being such a great, loving cat.
Woolfie.
I reserved Woolfie (originally called YOYO), the same day he came into the sanctuary.
Apart from his stunning chinchilla coat, his main attraction was his bi-colour eyes. Not uncommon in a white cat but all the same, very appealing.
He was brought in as a stray which is hard to believe as he is so unusual.When he hadn't been claimed after 3 weeks, I took him home.
Woolfie is a big softie. All he wants to do is to be carried around- not easy seeing as he weighs 18lbs.
The minute I sit down, there he is, straight onto my knee, purring and drooling.
He shares his house with 3 other cats quite happily. The only down side of this for Woolfie is that if he isn't quick enough,
another cat steals his spot on my lap. He then sits at the side of my leg waiting his turn.
I'm so glad I rehomed Woolfie, he gives so much love and I know he feels the same as he is so happy and contented all the time.
Ra.
I rehomed Ra about one year ago. He was only a baby then but as you can see he has grown alot.
He has lots of character, is very playful and is a little bit greedy. He loves our dog Kasha and regularly kicks her off the bed they share.
She seems to know he's the boss but my other cat Fang, doesn't seem to have got the message yet.
Ra thinks it's really funny to jump on Fang every time he comes back in from outside but Fang isn't too keen on that
and will give him a quick swipe to put him in his place. Fang's brother TC got run over two months before I brought Ra home
as we live on a busy street so Ra is a house cat for now. He doesn't seem to mind as his favourite pasttime is to stretch out on my bed,
especially if the sun is streaming through the window. His other favourite spot is on the back of the chair in the conservatory where he can watch birds.
He sometimes comes outside with me and lazes in the back garden but I'm too scared of losing him to let him out on his own.
He gets his exercise by chasing Kasha and Fang around the house and attacking my feet while I'm asleep!
He comes when I call him and loves to play hide and seek in the curtains.
I wouldn't swap him, he's brilliant.
Teri. (The Vicar)
Grecia.
Grecia was in the sanctuary for approx 18 months as she was a "little aggressive" when she came in to the sanctuary,
and it was only in the last couple of months of living there that she would tolerate a little fuss.
I have had her for approx a year now and who could have known that inside this defensive cat was also a beautiful loving little soul.
After a few weeks she started coming around to the idea of living in a house (with my other cat Tia - who she now gets on with very well).
Grecia has become such a loyal ,loving ,albeit demanding cat! She is adorable and I can't imagine life without her now.
She has certainly stamped her personality all over my house and my heart. She is amazing.
Hazel.
Rufus & Abi.
This is my beautiful cat Rufus winning best adult tabby in the Manchester and District cat show last month.
I re-homed him from the Heatons about 18mths ago and he is the softest animal going!!!
Not sure what the others really make of him still!
His owners emigrated to Canada and left him at the Sanctuary-I cant imagine moving anywhere without him!
Abi.
Jack.
Hi, my name is Jack !
I was brought to the cat rescue by a kind lady who saved me from some youths who thought it would be fun to throw me against a brick wall.
She wanted to keep me but I was frightened of her dog.
I was adopted in January 2007 and went to live in my new home with three other rescued cats and given a nice new warm bed next to the radiator.
My best friend is Ginge, a boy like me, and we hang out in the garden and patrol our territory,watching out for tresspassers.
That's when we're not asleep in the sunshine of course !
Sydney& Susie.
They are both great fun and very entertaining.
Both have settled in well and get on with our other cat, Sally.
Thanks for all your help.
Regards Pom & Phil.
Max & Lucy.
Hi to all the helpers at the Heatons!
Remember us??!
Max and Lucy were rehomed in Nov 2009. Max and Lucy are brother and sister and were left on the door step to your shop.
Sadly Max lost one eye due to an eye abcess but that hasnt stopped him from getting up to all sorts!
Since they moved out into Disley they have settled in well, taking up such sports as tree climbing and bird watching.
Max wasnt very successful in his first tree climb as he managed to get stuck up a 30-40ft conifer out in the woods.....
a tree surgeon had to scale it to get him down!(he got a big welcome reception when he touched the earth....bless him!)
They are both full of beans and always get up to all kinds of mischief.
They have made lots of friends with fellow cats on our street,
both Lucy and Max will bring in one of their mates to show them round their home!
Keep up the good work that you all do and I hope the other cats are soon settled into a good home.
Lynsey & Martin.
Betty. Tux & Betty.
Hi, Here are some pics of Athena and Viki
I've renamed them Tux (as she is always wearing a tuxedo) and Betty as in Ugly Betty.
Hope you don't mind.
They are settling in well and seem to be getting on really well even when Betty goes into full on kitten attack mode.
The pics are taken outside because its been too overcast to take good shots indoors
please don't worry I'm not letting Betty outside unaccompanied & she doesn't get to go further than the yard.
I've ordered a very expensive microchip catflap so that Tux can come and go without letting Betty out until she is older.
Tux is cautiously exploring further each day and she really likes going outside as long as she can bomb it back indoors when she needs to.
Thanks for all your help & advice choosing these two
I'm really enjoying sharing my home with them & going off all the purring, they like being here too.
Carla.
Desdemona. Marx.
Hi All, Hi All,
this should be me looking calm and nonchalant. this is me looking soppy as usual!
Hi folks, just a line to let you know that since we left you at (Easter 2009) we have settled well in our home.
The madwoman who took us (and her silly man) are totally under our control.
She was looking at the tharg site today and fell for O'Sheen, she loves Siamese it seems.
Anyway it's not coming here as I will not put up with any competition. My status as boss is paramount here.
Would you believe that I was put on a healthy eating plan after a few months! It was decided that as
I found it hard to jump onto a chair and was a "little" overweight that my favoured Royal Canin was too rich and gave me constipation.
I now have to eat fresh meat or canned food!!! I am, as a result slim, very agile, more healthy and I have a shiny coat, apparently.
The downside for them is that I can now jump on anything no matter how high, fools.
It would appear that Marx is either a genius or has profound learning difficulties, they can't decide which.
He really shows us cats up.
It's almost guaranteed that if he jumps on anything he'll slide off the other side!
Last week the birds were singing at 4.30am, he tried to jump out of the bedroom window to visit with them, again.
It took both man and woman to unhook his claws from their entanglement in the (new) curtains,
he's always getting his claws stuck in something!
My personality has changed considerably since I've been here. I no longer run, hide, hiss, bite and scratch the people in this house,
there's no point as they just take it in their stride.
I go to the vets in a normal cat box and the vet thinks I'm lovely now, she's a fool too.
My best ruse is to gripe and moan, I'm very vocal. It's amazing what results loud whingeing can get you.
This morning after my breakfast I fancied a bit of toast, she loads it with best butter.
Managed to get three small bits off her!
I'm not healthy eating permanently.
we went to the vets, again, last month for our annual boosters and check ups and were both weighed.
Silly vet said we were both the perfect weights for our genders, ages and overall builds!
Woman was very pleased with herself and her healthy eating regime.
I'm 3.55kgs. and Marx is 4.4kgs. Vet also said I was much calmer and pleasant, little does she know, it's all an act.
I still have my moments e.g. when woman talks to Marx or lets him sleep on her knee, I soon see him off.
For some reason he's never around during the night when she goes to bed,
I don't know where he sleeps but I have the man's armchair in the living room at nights now.
I have a large area to patrol so I'll get gone and do the rounds of the garden for a while 'till tea-time.
She's sending a couple of photos of us separately, useless at technology!
Very best wishes to you all especially Bob, from Desdemona and Marx, now 4 and 7 respectively XXX
Speak to you soon, love to all from Desdemona XXX
P.S. The king sized bed is lovely and peaceful! Marx X
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George.
This is George, he was rehomed 2 years ago.
He has settled in very well and now thinks he owns the place!
Hope all of the other cats get the homes they deserve.
Sally.
Charlie.
This is Charlie. We adopted him around the beginning of April 2010.
Charlie is the most affectionate cat I have ever met! He is also very playful and loves to chase a laser light.
He is settling in very nicely. He follows me around the house, always coming for nuzzles and cuddles!!
If my son and I sit together, Charlie is never far behind.. He has to be included.
He has been taught to wait at the side until you finish putting his food in his bowl
and he has even recently learned that I do not get up before the alarm goes off.. HA!
Needless to say, as soon as I switch it off he is there on top of me asking me to get up and feed him -haha! He is a lovely lad and such a sweetie..
We love him so very much!! We can't thank you enough!
Paul, Lindsey and Drew.
Dinah.
Dinah came to live with us a couple of weeks ago.
We had found it so difficult to choose which cat to make our own, but in the end Dinah chose us.
The first few days must have been quite stressful for her,
but she soon settled into a routine of sitting on the windowsill and gazing out at her new garden,
eating everything that was put in front of her and taking on an exhausting exercise regime of washing herself.
The recent 3 day heatwave brought her out of the house, with me securely attached to a lead in case I decided to try and escape.
She now knows her way around her territory.
Dinah has settled in well in a short time and although she was a nervous size zero cat she is now gaining weight by the day.
Her favourite things in life are being hugged and eating. She also loves neck rubs, preferably on the hour every hour.
Amanda.
Milly (AKA Wookie).
We rehomed Milly (AKA Wookie) from you about a year ago. We originally thought she was about two, but the vet thinks
(on the basis of a distinct lack of teeth!) that she is about 8. However, she definitely doesn't act her age and is very playful,
especially when she is a bit high on cat mint! We wondered why she was called Wookie, and originally thought it was because she was so furry.
However, it soon became apparent that it was due to her incredible cat talking-she sounds just like a wookie!
She is very set in her ways and insists on only the expensive food, and does not tolerate me or my husband sitting on her spot on the
sofa (the spotty cushion in the picture). She loves being brushed but also spends most of her day and night preening herself
-our cream carpets and white bedlinen will never be the same again! Milly ran away within the 1st couple of months of us getting her.
Fortunately due to lots of searching and a very kind lady who spotted her we found her a few blocks away, scared and hiding in a garage.
Hence the rather attractive pink collar she now wears! However, since her time on the streets she's definitely gained some street cred
and despite her small size she will see off any cat that dares enter her garden!
She's the perfect little toothless cat and I'm pleased to have her join us...despite the amount of hair she leaves everywhere!
Keep up the good work,
Clare.
Felix.
Hi, we re-homed Felix from you back in September From the first moment we saw her we knew she was the cat for us,
she was so affectionate when we first met her and settled in with us instantly.
She loves attention and gets very annoyed if we don't pay her enough of it, miaowing constantly until we give her a tickle or a cuddle.
Whilst I hope she loves us both the same, she does tend to favour my other half more -
he's the one at home more and over the months he's turned her into a complete softie with all the time and attention he's given her.
She is a very playful cat and often has a mad half hour after eating when she hares from room to room and attacks her toys.
She does love to sleep though - she claimed the bed within a few days of being here and loves to snooze on it day and night.
She loves her food and is very vocal when it's mealtimes - she makes sure we definitely know when she's hungry.
We can't imagine life without her and still find it difficult to understand how someone could abandon her
(on a number of occasions!), but in the grand scheme of things we're glad someone else couldn't live with her
as it meant we have her in our life and she is guaranteed a safe and loving home for the rest of her life.
Vicki and Adam.
Jasmine.
Hello. Just thought we'd let you know that Jasmine has settled in nicely and our existing cat,
Moo, is trying very hard to tolerate her, even when she's whizzing madly around the house!
She is completely bonkers and is very affectionate.
Love her to bits! X
Jill.
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