Feral Cat Information - Mid Cheshire Animal Welfare • Northwich • Cheshire

For many years Mid Cheshire Animal Welfare has cared for unwanted, abandoned, and injured domestic cats and kittens. In addition we have also taken care of several colonies of feral cats, not only feeding them but carrying out programmes of neutering, worming and treating them for fleas. We also provide veterinary care for the cats in these colonies.

Like many other charitable organisations, our funding has been diminished by the lottery and more recently by the current economic crisis. In order to drastically reduce our overheads we have re-homed all of the cats and kittens at the Centre, which includes all of the long-term Residents. Since there are a number of animal welfare organisations in Cheshire who provide care and shelter for domestic cats and kittens, the Trustees have decided to concentrate on taking care of these feral colonies. At present these colonies contain over 120 cats/kittens, but more seem to creep in whilst we're not watching! As you can imagine, this takes a large proportion of our available funding. From time to time there will be feral kittens which we will calm for re-homing, so please keep your eye on our page where we will post photographs and descriptions of some of our feral cats/kittens.

PLEASE CONSIDER SPONSORING ONE OF OUR FERAL CATS!

CONTACT - Tel: 07967 977232
CONTACT - Email: mcaw@live.co.uk

Registered Charity no: 1039114.
When contacting us, please mention that you found us through our Cat Chat Homing Page - thank you!

Date: 29/12/2009

OUR RE-HOMING POLICY,

IF YOU ARE MAKING AN ENQUIRY WITH THE HOPE OF ADOPTING OR JUST THINKING ABOUT ADOPTING A CAT OR KITTEN FROM US, PLEASE KINDLY UNDERSTAND WE NEED THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION BEFORE WE WILL GO ANY FURTHER WITH YOUR ENQUIRY.

YOUR FULL NAME, ADDRESS AND POST CODE - THIS IS FOR OUR ROAD CHECK - WE DO NOT HOME CATS OR KITTENS TO ANYONE WHO LIVES ON OR NEAR A MAIN ROAD, RAILWAY LINE, RIGHT NEXT TO THE M6 OR ANY OTHER SITUATION WE WOULD NOT BE HAPPY WITH.
WE GOOGLE EARTH YOUR PROPERTY SITUATION, PLUS COME OUT AND DO A HOME CHECK. IF YOU ARE NOT HAPPY WITH THIS, THERE ISN"T ANY POINT IN PROCEEDING WITH THE ENQUIRY.

THE DETAILS OF YOUR VET (IF APPROPRIATE). WE ONLY NEED THIS TO ASK A FEW SIMPLE QUESTIONS I.E. WAS OR IS YOUR PREVIOUS CAT NEUTERED AND VACCINATED? IF YOU ARE NOT HAPPY FOR US TO CONTACT YOUR VET, WE WILL NOT HOME TO YOU.

CHILDREN IN THE HOUSEHOLD - WE NEED THIS INFORMATION AS SOME OF THE CATS/ KITTENS MAY NOT BE SUITABLE WHERE THERE ARE YOUNG CHILDREN. OFTEN OUR KITTENS ARE BROUGHT IN FROM FERAL COLONIES AND UNTIL THEY ARE USED TO BEING HANDLED MAY NOT BE SUITABLE FOR CHILDREN. THEY MAY SCRATCH THE CHILD, WHICH OFTEN RESULTS IN THE KITTEN HAVING TO BE RETURNED TO US AND UPSET AGAIN!

WE DO NOT NEED TO KNOW YOUR OCCUPATION - EVERYONE IS TREATED THE SAME.

WE HAVE VERY OFTEN HAD PEOPLE WHO DO LIVE ON A MAIN ROAD I.E. THE A49 OR VERY CLOSE TO A MOTORWAY WANTING TO ADOPT. WHEN TOLD SORRY THE ROAD IS TOO BUSY WE ARE JUST INSULTED WITH "WELL IF IT GETS RUN OVER WE WILL JUST HAVE TO GET ANOTHER ONE"!!

REMEMBER - WE DO NOT KNOW YOU AND WILL NOT CONSIDER HOMING ONE OR MORE OF OUR BEAUTIFUL CATS/KITTENS TO YOU WITHOUT THE ABOVE INFORMATION.
WE WOULD ALSO ASK YOU TO CONSIDER THAT WE DO NOT DO THE WORK OF BRINGING AN ANIMAL OUT OF A POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS SITUATION, TO PUT IT BACK INTO ANOTHER ONE!!

WE ASK A DONATION TO AT LEAST COVER VACCINATIONS.

WE ALL WORK ON A VOLUNTARY BASIS - NO-ONE IS PAID WE ARE GIVING OUR TIME FOR FREE AND WOULD ASK PEOPLE TO RESPECT THIS!

WE HOPE THIS MAY MAKE PEOPLE UNDERSTAND WE ARE NOT BEING INTRUSIVE - JUST CAREFUL, WHICH IS OUR RIGHT. YOUR DETAILS ARE NOT GIVEN TO ANYONE ELSE.


THANK YOU FOR TAKING THE TIME TO READ OUR RE-HOMING POLICY
MCAW

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