If you’re looking for a new feline companion, please choose a rescue cat. Please don’t adopt from places like gumtree and preloved – it encourages people to breed from their cats irresponsibly in the hope of making some easy money. In the short term and in a difficult economic climate I have some sympathy for the humans, but in the long term it’s not good for the cats and puts more pressure on rescues who are already mainly overwhelmed.
If none of my foster babies are what you’re looking for please check out the links to other rescues in this area who may well have the ideal furry person, just waiting for you to come and share your life with them.
accidental fosterer 
Hiya,
We are looking to add to our family by making a cat welcome in our home. We have a dog and live in set back from but still on chesterfield road at meadowhead. The cat would have company for a large part of the day and could have limited supervised access to our large back garden. Would be potential owners for one of your foster cats
Hi Helen,
Could you give Karen a ring on 07940792205. She manages the rescue – I’m just their foster carer.
Thanks
£65 is so expensive you get new for £10 on gumtree- money grabbers
You can get “new” for NOTHING on gumtree tutut (you need to shop around more maybe if it’s just the initial cost you’re interested in) …
The kits we take in are usually ones that someone has got for free then decided they don’t want, or they want a dog instead, or they’re just a bit inconvenient, or they’ve realised the cat is ill / has fleas and they don’t want the cost of treating it. Or having got it cheap or free they’re horrified to realise just how much it costs to have neutered, vaccinated, insured, micro chipped and keep its flea/worm treatment up to date and even simply to feed them. Their fate usually seems to be that they’re dumped on the street.
So we pick up the poor sods who are living rough, often starving along with a litter of kittens and unwell. We treat their illnesses, nurse them back to health and confidence again in humans, we get them spayed / neutered, make sure they’re health checked, vaccinated and good to go.
The cheapest cost of spay I’ve seen recently is about £40, primary course of vaccinations £35 and micro chipping £5 (most vets charge considerably more). One flea and worm treatment would be about £5. So you’ve immediately got £85 worth of treatment. If we were to add in the cost of food, cat litter, other vet treatment, fuel expenses to get them to foster care and for vet appointments it would of course be considerably more.
Largely I think you get what you pay for (or don’t pay for)
You could add into that the cost of litter trays, feeding bowls, carriers, scratch posts, toys and treats. And then add in the cost not just of wear and tear on the house but the actual damage done to carpets, curtains etc by a continual stream of kittens living in a foster carers house And the cost of cat safe cleaners, disinfectants of course.
If you also wanted to add in the time and heartache involved … you just couldn’t afford them.