Do you need MORE HOMES for cats in your care?
A FREE Rehoming Web Page on Catchat.org could help!
Our homing pages are available to all UK Rescue Centres and Rehoming Groups, large or small.
If your rescue group doesn't currently use the web to feature
cats seeking homes, you are missing
out on many potential new homes, as an increasing number of people
are using the web as a first step to adopting a rescue cat. Even if you do already feature cats on the web, you are still welcome to have a Cat Chat Homing Page.
We are a Registered Charity, and we are here to help YOU! Cat Chat offers every rescue group
in the UK, large or small, the opportunity to benefit from this
valuable rehoming resource, by offering a free Rehoming Web Page
to all UK rescues. You don't have to be a registered Charity yourselves to get a page.
This is an important part of what our Charity is set up to do.
The first Object in our constitution is "To promote the efficiency
and effectiveness of charities whose purposes are to promote animal
welfare, by the provision of an internet web site, IT support and
facilites". In short, if you are a rescue, we're here to help
you!
If your rescue would like a page, or further information, please Email: 
Love & Purrs, Gemini Cat ('Top Tabby' at Cat Chat), x x x x
QUOTE from Animal Concern, Cumbria:
"I would say to any rescue, if you are not using catchat, why not? There’s only one loser, the mogs, if you don’t."
About Our Free Rehoming Web Pages:
Unique to your rescue: Your rehoming page is unique to your rescue group or shelter,
headed up with your rescue's name, contact details and logo (if you have one).
- Got lots of cats to home? You can feature as many cats seeking homes on the page as you
wish, including photos of each cat, if you have them available via
your computer.
- Easy to update: The pages are easy to update yourself, just from your own web browser. No web design knowledge is required, and we supply simple instructions. However, if updating it yourself is a problem, we have a small volunteer Help Team who can help with your updates if needed. Please note, you will need to update your page regularly - the most up to date pages get the most homes offered!
- Publicise your rescue! If you wish, you can use the page to publicise other aspects
of your rescue, i.e. items needed, fundraising events, cats needing
sponsorship, volunteers needed etc.
- You have total control: You have complete control over all aspects of rehoming - we don't get involved in your rehoming procedures at all. Our job is to get your cats seen, to promote your page, and to direct more prospective new homes your way!
- We'll get your page seen! To maximise visitors to your page, we include active links
through to your page from the relevant Cat Chat pages. We are very well indexed by Google and other major search engines, so your page WILL be found! Also,
because of the way the pages are set up, after they've been 'live'
for a short while, they will also be picked up individually
by search engines. If you have a website of your own, you could
also add a link on your website pointing to your Cat Chat rehoming
page.
Cat Chat currently sources homes for over 5,000 cats per year!
How Rehoming Pages Work:
- No hassle, and no cost: We set the page up for you, and host it and promote it on the Cat Chat Charity's
web space, at no cost to you. All you do is input the cat's details... and wait for offers of homes to start coming in.
- Updating your page : You will need a volunteer to input cat's details to your page,
on a regular basis, adding new cats on as required,
and deleting cats once rehomed. The pages are most effective
if at least four or five cats are featured, but experience has
shown that the more cats that are shown, the more responses
you'll get! (NB: if updating your page yourself is a problem, we have a small volunteer Help Team who can help with your updates if needed). To maximise the number of homes offered, your page must be updated regularly - ideally weekly or fortnightly, or at the very least monthly. (To maintain our homing standards, Homing Pages are closely monitored, and we may remove pages which are not updated for 3 consecutive months).
- No special software needed: No special software is needed to update your page, all your volunteer will need
is a connection to the web.
- Logins and 'How-to' : We provide you with a unique password to access your page,
and full (easy) instructions.
- Test drive your page: You can test your page out until you are
happy with it before it goes 'live'. We will not link it up until
you are ready.
- Website? No Website? These pages are ideal for rescues who do not have their own
web site, or who have a site but do not use it to feature cats
seeking homes. However if you do use your own site to feature
cats seeking homes, you can still have a Cat Chat homing page
as well - doubling the chances of each cat featured!
If your rescue would like a free Web Homing Page on Cat Chat, please email us...Just tell us the name and location of your rescue, the contact details you wish to be displayed on the page, and any other information you'd like included. Also helpful, is a list of main towns that you rehome to, so that we can better reference your page for search engines. Please Email us at:  |
SEE SOME SAMPLE PAGES:
Click these links for examples of a few of the rehoming pages
that already up and running:
Burton Joyce Cat Welfare & Kirkby Cats Home - Click
Here
Bedford, Biggleswade & District Cats Protection - Click
Here
Paws for Life / 9 Lives - Click
Here
Middlesex North West RSPCA - Click
Here
Bristol and Wales Cat Rescue - Click
Here
HOMING SUCCESSES »» Check out our Rehoming 'Roll of Honour' to see how successful the Cat Chat pages are.
Do you already use the Web to rehome?
Even if you already use the web to rehome - by having a Cat Chat Homing page too, you will DOUBLE their chances!
If your rescue has a website, please
let us know
the web address or page address,
so that we can add a link to it from your shelter listing.
What Rescues say about their Cat Chat Homing Pages:
Wonderful news... within one day of our cats photos appearing on Catchat, Tilly the kitten had a lovely new home and then 3 days later, Winnie the cat (who'd been with us for five months) had got a home too! (RSPCA Craven & Upper Wharfedale)
We are having a truly great re-homing week thanks to Cat Chat. Your site is working absolute wonders for us and we are extremely grateful for your continued support! (Cat Action Trust, Carmarthenshire)
Hi guys,
More good news - 3 more of our cats have found new homes after being spotted on
catchat - Beattie, Snoopy and Jasper all say a huge thank you! We can't
believe how good this website is! ( Bristol and Wales Cat Rescue)
I have to say we do so well with rehomings because of your site,
you are a god send!
(RSPCA Manchester & Salford)
Well - you've done it again!! Both Splodge and Fluffy have got brilliant
homes thanks to Cat Chat! We are delighted - homing is soooo hard but
people seem to go to your virtual shelter thick and fast!! Thank you and lots of purrs from those lucky cats settling into their new
homes.
(Belfast Animal Rescue)
Hi everyone,
Just to let you know that you have yet again helped to rehome 3 of our lovely cats. I just don't know how to thank you for the service you provide. Your website must be one of the most popular around for cat lovers to sign into. Thank you once again.
(Dornoch & Cromarty Firth Branch Cats Protection)
This week we have had several calls and are now looking at homing up to six cats once we have done the home checks.
Your service is utterly brilliant, Thank you so much for this opportunity it is unreal seeing these cats go to lovely homes thank you.
(Team Cat Rescue, Birmingham)
Thank you so much for all the interest we have had via the internet since we set up on your site, a high percentage of our cats have been homed after people have seen them on Catchat. I don't always get the details through of exactly which cats were homed as a result of Catchat but I know it's a lot.
Thanks very much,
(Reading and District Cats Protection)
What a month! I can't believe how quickly our cats are finding new homes at the moment, it's absolutely brilliant. In the last week through Catchat we have rehomed 6 cats. What would we do without you!
Thankyou from all at Oak Tree Farm and all our loved-up pussycats.
(RSPCA Altrincham)
We have had an enormous response from our Cat Chat homing page.
The response has been great, and we have re homed sooooo many cats due to the site. Thank you! (The Heatons Animal Rescue Group,
Stockport)
We're happy to report two more homings through our Whinnybank
catchat page this week. Thanks again for our page as it has
surpassed all our expectations! (Whinnybank Cat
Sanctuary, Fife, Scotland)
We just dont believe the success we've had with your free
web pages this week .First to a new home on Sunday was Scruffypuss
and Fussypuss. Then it was the turn of Lovealot quickly followed
by his brothers Noshalot and Munchalot . This morning Lydia
and Lark went off together and Purralot and Rascal are off
in the next couple of days. Nine of our cats have really
landed on their paws this week all thanks to your pages.
Thankyou yet again. (Paws Inn Cat Rescue, Cheshire)
Just wanted to give you some feedback, I was helping at
the Yorkshire Animal Shelter yesterday and even though
our rehoming page has only been up since last week, they
have had lots of people coming via your website.
This is great news, more people and potential homes. (Yorkshire
Animal Shelter)
Georgie has now been rehomed via our
rehoming page. Benny has also got a home pending home check
and Dusty is having
someone coming up to see her next Sunday so hopefully she'll
be rehomed as well. Dusty and Benny is via your rehoming
page as well so it's really working.
Thanks once again. (Flintshire Cat Rescue)
The Trust receives many referrals from your site, which
is fantastic, and Cat Chat really does play a key part in
the rehoming of our cats not only from London, but Tunbridge
Wells and our Hastings branch too, and we can never thank
you enough for that. You must be one of the top rehomers
in the country, with all you do for all cat rescue centres
all over, you must have helped home so very, very many cats
which is a truly fantastic achievement, cats all over the
country are purring contentedly in their new homes thanks
to you. (Celia Hammond Animal Trust)
Just wanted to say a huge thank you for such a fantastic
website. Since July when we added our first cats to it, we
have had the best interest in our charity we have ever had,
and rehomed many more cats than we usually do, and it's all
down to your fab site! (Pets Alone, Stockport)
Dear Cat Chat, Once more we have
homed another cat through our homing page. A family
browsed through their internet, and after
2 hours decided on Merko, visited him yesterday, and I delivered
him this morning. I only gave him a small breakfast ration
so that he would REALLY like his new home and I'm sure he
will settle with them - his empty pen is already spoken for
by a little female. (Kingsdown Cat Sanctuary, Kent) |