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So this might seem random but after I explain you'll understand why it's not... It's coming up to the day that marks 14 years after the loss of our beautiful boy Spike.... And lately I've thought about him a lot more. I don't know if it's because I was still very young when it happened or if you jus...

Awwwww!! They're gorgeous. They find any patch of sun to bask in. My Dave hates it when it rains. He loves to 'Lie a basking in the sun' and when it's raining, he sulks and I suffer. :D Thank you :) Haha! Tiger sits looking out the window trying to catch the rain when it's raining. Their lovely war...

Sox & Tiger have been laid enjoying the fleeting British sunshine coming through the living room windows today :) 4th September 2015 (3).JPG 4th September 2015 (4).JPG 4th September 2015 (5).JPG 4th September 2015 (6).JPG 4th September 2015 (7).JPG 4th September 2015 (8).JPG P.S. Is there a way ...

Just catching up - I'm so glad Lily got her furever home, and glad that this lovely boy might get a chance at a brighter future. Good on you for giving him a chance, and hopefully you've laid some valuable groundwork. :) By the way, Sue, "I had a friend who could never catch her horse. She too...

4 weeks is not that long at all & and as you say he was a fully grown tom, so no wonder he is still wary, to gain trust after that time, is going to take a little longer, but you will get there i am sure. As I said, he's going to another foster who has a larger area to give him. As suggested ab...

@ Lilith: I hope he does calm down, I had such high hopes for him after his behaviour towards me outside when he was still a street cat... I was even looking at keeping him! But my OH puts his foot down when it comes to cats... He doesn't want to exceed 3 cats and wants the last one to be his Ragdol...

Even shallow scratches can hurt! Yeah, it's a normal human reaction to pull away but of course the cat then comes after you and has another go; I had to learn to keep still with Ali Kat; he had a head like a rock python and jaws like an Ali-gator (one of his nicknames.) His other nicknames were Ali...

Wow, there's a difference in colour between Cereus and Saffron (my butter) but she's 7 now and I got her when she was 18 months and they do change colour drastically. Love your snakes' names; my corns mostly have 'corny' names (my 'ghost' morph is 'Spooky' lol) but my royal pythons are Shahi, Saada...

Good luck with the lad - it can take a lot of time but they do come round :) Off-topic here but what morph is Cereus? Beautiful snake! I've seen a vid of a creamsicle corn that looked similar but there are so many corn morphs that I've lost track. I have 5 royal pythons, a carpet python, a pine sna...

Bless him, he looks and sounds like a reincarnation of my horrible (and adored) Ali Kat, a mature un-neutered tom who moved in with me (with menaces!) That cat chomped and clawed me to bits (I ended up on antibiotics twice) but he owned me! Neutered and regularly fed he became a most beautiful cat ...

Well done for taking on another cat - but talk about in at the deep end! Unfortunately sometimes those cats are worse in a crate as they don't cope in confined spaces - we had a semi feral who was fine in a room, but when transferred to a pen, she was a lot more aggressive and unhandleable. Unfortu...

Unfortunately sometimes those cats are worse in a crate as they don't cope in confined spaces - we had a semi feral who was fine in a room, but when transferred to a pen, she was a lot more aggressive and unhandleable. Unfortunately it doesn't sound like your fiance realises what fostering really e...

I'm glad your little girl has found a good home. Regarding your other foster, 3 weeks is no time at all for nervous cats to come round, you need to be looking at months before deciding - how much time are you spending with him every day? I'm spending as long as I can with him, which lately has been...

What a beautiful black coat she has, and such good news that Lily has now found her furever home ! well done you ! Really pleased for ALL of you, well done. One down, one to go? Hope your back is better soon. Thank you both, I'll admit I cried after she'd gone. I did the home check yesterday evenin...

Lily went to her new home last night after the home check came back clean. I've had a message this morning saying she spent all night on one of the beds and has eaten breakfast this morning! These are my last photo's of her here with me. She curled up on the bed with me and my fiancé yesterday after...

Marla wrote:Ragdolls are often kept as indoor cats aren't they? So the ragdoll rescues might be fine with that. I'd look for a cat that's has always been an indoor cat and is happy with that.

OK, yeah. That could work.. Thanks again

Crewella wrote:Such a cutie, I hope it all works out for her. xx

Grace56 wrote:What a stunning little beauty. I hope she does get her happy ending and a new home.

Black cats are lovely.

Thank you both

How lovely that you've decided to rescue. :) Here's Cat Chat's list of UK pedigree rescues: http://www.catchat.org/adoption/pedigree.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Some of the general ones may have ragdolls, and there are 6 ragdoll specific rescues listed toward the b...

My fiancé absolutely loves Ragdolls.... He did have his mind set on breeding them for a while BUT he recently changed his mind on that and now wants to rescue a Ragdoll and have it neutered/spayed if it's not already. He doesn't care about gender, age he says preferably young-ish but doesn't have to...

How can anyone not fall for that little sweetie? I hope everything works out for her - and you! I LOVE black cats. :D I really hope she gets this home, she deserves her happy ending after her disaster of a short life... I do like black cats! I have another foster who is, unfortunately, not adapting...

Tonight has been fairly eventful :) My little foster girl, Lily, has had visitors with the intention of adopting her. It was a woman and her son, they contacted me through my adoption advert as they have been thinking of a second cat for a while. Lily being so young was a good choice as she's likely...

Before I joined I had a choice of three usernames that I wanted to use, and one won because I felt it was best lol. First one I thought of was "MissCosmo". I used to have the username MissCosmo12345 on another website though and the amount of times it got misunderstood was annoying... Ever...

I love Orchids but knowing their difficult care requirements I could never bring myself to buy one. That's what I always thought. But I gave in and bought 4 different ones last Christmas. They are flowering again - even better than before. If you like I can send you a PM and tell you how I did it. ...

Ooh another Orchid fan! :) We had a young black cat we called Lily! She turned up, out of the blue, one February, a couple of months before we found Bobby. She took to him straight away and brought him up as her own. We thought they would be together forever. But the following February - she vanish...

Nice to meet you! I am Irish, living in county Meath. I have a small sanctuary with 32 cats, 4 dogs, 3 snakes, four ex battery hens and an evil rooster who was gonna be PTS for attacking children. He now attacks me instead but I can fend him off with my trusty snow shovel most of the time! Your cat...

Hello and welcome! What beautiful cats you have and well done on the fostering. Can I just add one more comment about the collar. It doesn't really matter that your kitties are indoor only. They can still get their collars caught on something - cats do tend to climb and squeeze into tight spaces! N...

@Lilith: He loves stretching out like that, we have a ledge in the living room that goes along and around two walls so he likes to lay stretched out on there lol. I have 7 snakes myself(5 corns, a yellow rat and a hognose) and 10 leopard geckos(plus 6-8 eggs, would have to check that as I'm unsure r...

So I've only had one post on here so far and I think it went down the wrong way. I thought I should probably introduce myself properly. My name is Alishia, I am a young woman living in the UK. I own a fair amount of pets: 17 reptiles(snakes & geckos), 2 tropical fish tanks and then my 2 cats. Bo...

Honestly, if you are going to mix foster cats with your own, you really should isolate fosters for at least two weeks, especially ones with that kind of background as things like cat flu can take up to two weeks to show If she's only recently spayed and was pregnant, her hormones won't have settled...

Hi there, new here and thought this would be a good place to ask(the forum was recommended to me by a friend who also fosters). Anyway, I have fostered here and there before and I house sit, look after friends cats and other animals and so on. But I have experienced something for the first time with...