Before we invite people to come down and meet our kittens, we ask a few standard adoption questions. Please take the time to read and find the answers to these questions as if you do not supply the information we will not be able to proceed with the adoption.
- What is your address (preferably incl. house no and postcode)?
- Unfortunately, we cannot rehome to houses on, or near to, a busy or main road, railway lines etc. This is because the risk of the cat being killed by traffic is too great. Similarly, we do not rehome to areas where we have picked up lots of abused and neglected cats from. Please note that we do not rehome 'house-cats'.
- Do you own the property or rent it?
- If you rent the property, we will need permission from your landlord / landlady before we can progress your application. We will also be looking for assurances that the cat will not be thrown out next time you move house ('my cat needs rehoming because I am moving house and the new landlord doesn't allow pets' is a very common phonecall we get at SHUA)
- Do you have any children and, if so, what ages?
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We ask this for two reasons:
- We would not home a small kitten to a family with toddlers because the kitten is unable to defend itself when it is so small - which is not to say that toddlers are malicious, but that they can hurt the kitten without meaning to. We would home a kitten from around 6 months old.
- Some of our cats are not suitable for homes with children at all, for a variety of reasons.
- Do you have any pets and, if so, what type of pet and if, e.g. dog or cat, how old?
- Again, we ask because some of our cats are not suited to homes with certain types of other animals. e.g. some cats hate other cats, some hate dogs, also for example some snakes can swallow kittens whole and so we wouldn't home a kitten to someone with a big snake!
These are our standard adoption questions which we ask purely because we want to make sure that we introduce the right people to the right pussy cats. It would be madness not to, really!
