TIGER LILLY
 
Regretfully we are looking for a new home for our beloved 12 year old brown spotted Bengal cat, Tiger Lilly.
 
This is because I am now in my late Sixties and need to downsize my living accommodation, while my daughter is off to find her own flat. As I don’t know how long it will take me to get myself re-settled, and I don’t want to stress Tiger Lilly unnecessarily, I've reluctantly decided there’s no other way. My plan is to put my flat on the market at the end of March, which gives us a couple of months to find the perfect new home for her.
Born June 13 2009 at the home of Swindon-based breeder Jan Barber, Kinyozi Tiger Lilly has a pedigree a mile long.
 
I understand that her father was imported from the United States in order to strengthen her gene pool, and it’s true she has proven a delightful, well-adjusted companion ever since we picked her up as a wee kitten and brought her home to Highbury, London N5  - loving, lively, curious, affectionate and funny, as well as a mean mouse-and-bird-catcher (cue mixed feelings on both my daughter and my part!)  She’s also very much a typical Bengal, being a prima donna when it comes to demanding attention.
 
Tiger Lilly’s always been an outdoor cat, zooming up and down to the garden via the special zig-zag ramp we have attached to the side of the house from our bathroom window on the  first floor. She is fascinated with water, playful, a great climber and jumper, and as confident as can be. She’s had a great deal of experience of children aged 7 and upwards, and is very relaxed with them (although I was always on red alert for bad behaviour on the part of the children, and she’s therefore never been tormented by them).  For quite a few years she used to play with the cockapoo dog that lived downstairs, the two of them racing around the garden and jumping onto each other’s backs, but my former partner’s Jack Russell terrier which lived here a few years was terrified of her, due to her habit of merrily pouncing on him on the stairs.
 
Tiger Lilly has only had a handful of scrapes during her life, as follows: a cut to a hind leg in June 2010, a dislocated carpus in November 2011, six (?) teeth out a couple of years ago, and a minor cut on her neck in 2019 from a territorial skirmish in our garden. 
 
She also had non-specific gastrointestinal problems in 2013 during which she stopped eating altogether for a while, but this problem was resolved when a clever vet figured out that she was allergic to meat. Since then, we have always fed her fish-based food - nothing but the best, until Covid came along and cat food went into short supply. Once started on Whiskas and Felix, she’s adamantly refused to look back! For six months, she’s been signed up for the new geriatric cats scheme at the Beaumont Sainsbury Animal Hospital in Camden, where, as well as receiving her regular gamut of cat injections, they monitor her general health. So far she’s come out with flying colours, and no health issues to speak of.  She is insured with Animal Friends
 
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A rehoming fee of £75 applies and is welcomed as a donation to the BCA Welfare fund