Over the past 10 years we have had great satisfaction and rewards from re-homing older cats. 

 Harry Cat. He was our first ‘re-home’ …….. ‘we’ re-homed Harry from an older owner who was going blind, and could no longer cope with Harry under her feet.

 He was stated as being 8 Years old, but once we got him home, it was obvious he was older (in his mid teens even).

 We had never re homed a cat before. He took time to settle. He also had behavioral problems. That said, he had a fantastic personality, and was soon loved by all.  

 We once saw our neighbours cat who was badly beaten up, after a discussion it was clearly the fault of our cat Harry.

 Harry not only ruled the neighbourhood but also our house.  My husband worked away from home all week and came home at weekends.  Each time he came home Harry would sit on his knee, lull him into a false sense of security and then bite him as if to say I am the boss of this house.

 The reason for this dominant behaviour was that he was neutered late.  This often brings out this sort of behaviour in tom cats.

 Due to all the fights he used to get into with other cats,  visits to the vets were frequent.  He even managed an abscess on his behind at one point.

It took us 18 months of patient coaxing to re train him to stop biting visitors.

 I have purchased many Cat behavioral books over the Years, but the best I have seen to date is available from the following link :-

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 Go check it out, and use the knowledge to give an older cat a 2nd chance. You will not regret it.

 We had Harry for fours years before he died from kidney problems.  On the day he died some of the neighbourhood cats popped their head thru the cat flap looking for him. I don’t think the cat neighbourhood was quite the same once he was gone. Even my long suffering husband missed him dreadfully. What this taught us, was that you should never write a cat off. They can be re-trained, and in fact become

 In reality a cat with behavioural issues normally shows individuality, character and more often than not high intelligence. For instance, Harry new that by scratching the radiator thermo valve, he could turn the radiator on in the hallway. The amount of times ‘we’ have come home to find the hallway red hot, and Harry curled up under ‘THE’ radiator just isn’t worth counting……….

 Due to the great joy that he gave us it wasn’t long before we were on the search for the next cats we were going to re-home.

 Our next Cats were ‘Mork’ and ‘Mindy’ a pair of older snowshoes (brother and sister).

 Keep posted and I will tell you all about them.