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Hi, Sorry to hear about Backy's issues. Hopefully some of our experienced posters on here might have some ideas, or had similar experiences. As you asked about websites or advice lines, I thought I would just mention our Useful Links section, in particular the last page of our Health & Care link...

Hi Lilynmitz, Good idea to mention the 'Car-Pet' hair remover... did you know we sell those on the Cat Chat webshop? We have them available singly, in orange or pink, or as a Twin Pack (Save £1 if you buy two). So thought I would nip in here with a link: https://www.catchat.org/shop/index.php?route=...

Hi Ruth,

The final 'purple' colours have been re-instated today on the front menu screen of the forum. If it still shows as blue to anyone, you will just need to refresh your browser to make it show the latest version.

Cheers!
Yogi
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Hello! We carried out a much-needed upgrade to the Cat Chat forum today (11 December), so it was offline for a few hours while that was being done. Apologies to anyone who wanted to post during that time. This was quite a major upgrade, so as you can see (as at 5.30pm) we still haven't got all the c...

Well done to our friends at Purrs in Our Hearts Forum for arranging another great Christmas auction to help cats in need... PURRS CHRISTMAS AUCTION 2018 - NOW ON - Ends Sunday 9th December Purrs In Our Hearts Annual Auction is underway, where you can auction and bid on a variety of interesting cat ...

VOTES NEEDED to Help Celia Hammond Animal Trust Celia Hammond Animal Trust do fantastic work in the London area (and beyond), not only rehoming many cats (and dogs), but also with their low-cost neutering clinics, and their work neutering feral cats. They have made the "Final Three" in th...

Hello, I don't know if you have rehomed your cat yet, but I just wanted to add that it would honestly be best if he were neutered, particularly as he is allowed outdoors. All the reasons why, and how to get low cost neutering if needed, are on our Neutering Information page here: https://www.catchat...

This Sunday, 14 October, Peter Hanson from The Cat Gallery will be running 26.2 Miles in the Yorkshire Marathon - in aid of two charities: Cat Chat, the Cat Rescue Resource (yes, that's us!) and International Cat Care. Peter has been pounding the streets of York training for this, so please sponsor...

UPDATE to this situation (as at lunchtime Weds 26 Sept). Cat Chat has now been in touch with Marlene to offer help if needed, and found out that she has re-homed all the cats that are looking for indoor homes and only has 9 feral cats left to place. She is amazed at the offers of help she has had. ...

Hello, Apologies for the late update. Here is one of Spyro's X-rays, that he had done on Monday. spyro-x-ray.jpg His owner posted this update on Tuesday: " Spyros xray went well yesterday. His two main leg bones (i forget their names) have broken off their growth plates, which is why his leg ha...

Just a brief update - the GoFundMe page for little Spyro has already reached £205 as at this morning. His owner posted this update on the page: " I am overwhelmed at how many people have helped Spyro so far. I can't say thank you enough. You are all amazing! Will be contacting the vet again tod...

Hello, spyro-forum-cropped.jpg We don't usually promote funding posts on the forum, but little Spyro (and his owner) need any helping hands they can get. Spyro (pictured) has a fractured leg, it needs amputating, but the vet bill is beyond his owners' means, and they face possibly having to give him...

Hi Mark, Firstly, well done on caring so much for this little fella, despite the issues!! Just a few thoughts to throw in here for you - in no particular order: As has already been mentioned, I assume all the cats are neutered? If not, that is the first thing to do. Not just the cat who is spraying,...

Remember the fabulous life-size cat mannequins in the River Island window displays at Christmas, in support of Cat Chat? Well, if you didn't manage to get one, here's a chance to win one! win-river-island-cat.jpg This lovely River Island cat mannequin (pictured) is the prize in the current Friends ...

Hi Emma, First of all, well done to you for caring! Marla is right, he is most likely lost or abandoned. Please do try the "paper collar" idea, given on the link in Marla's post to the 'Found Cats' advice though, just in case he does live locally and is just taking advantage of a nice warm...

Hi Aruna, I just had to put a mention in here for some of Cat Chat's feline friendly page sponsors, who have gift ideas for cat lovers - and cats! Supporting our supporters helps us too, so you might want to check them out here: https://www.catchat.org/index.php/shopping/shop-catchat-sponsors Happy ...

One of our volunteers took this photo (below) of the cats which she spotted in one of River Island's Oxford Street stores! The cats all go on sale this Friday (1st December), so if you want one, pop along to the store on the day, as they are being sold on a first-come-first-served basis. See the lis...

Fabulous Feline Figurines promote River Island's 'Give a Cat a Home' campaign Cat Chat and River Island have got together this Christmas to find loving homes for 600 very special limited edition cat mannequins (pictured). These stylish figurines are currently appearing in River Island's 'Give a Cat...

Breaking News! Marathon Man... Peter Hanson (from The Cat Gallery, York) will be running 26.2 miles for cats in the The Northern Jumble Marathon tomorrow Saturday (14 October). Running in memory of his much loved cat Ethel (RIP little lady), who sadly died at age 21 a short time ago, Peter will be ...

Hopefully a final update on this issue of being "Challenged" with a robot-tick-box etc... We have today put in an extra 'rule' on our security programme that should hopefully stop you from getting 'challenged' when posting. However, please do post here if you still find a problem with this...

Hi Mark, Sorry to hear you are still having this problem! After testing and re-testing this over the last couple of weeks, we haven't been able to reproduce this, and just stayed logged in. We've checked all the settings that affect "session times" both on the forum and the server and ther...

Hello again, I should add that you may still get 'challenged' once initially, even after our change of setting earlier - but then it should see you as OK after that, and maybe only challenge you once every few weeks, or something like that. This is what we hope it will do now, anyway!! Thanks for ev...

'Robot" box Update! Regarding the "I am not a Robot" tick-box and the CAPTCHA picture challenges that some users get when making a post - as at 10am this morning we have adjusted one of our security settings, which we hope will mean that you won't get these challenges so often - or p...

Hello, We are still trying to work out why some users are being logged out. There are several possible reasons that we have identified so far, so we are looking at each one in turn to see if it helps. Just now (about 2.30pm Friday) we have changed the 'cookie' that the forum uses to remember you whe...

Thanks all for your patience yesterday. All is back to normal now, thankfully! If you still see any odd symbols or strange layout on the forum, this will purely be that your browser is retaining that layout from if you visited the forum yesterday during our maintenance (approx 5pm - 8pm). Refreshing...

Hi Bobbys girl, If you are still seeing the weird symbols, try refreshing your browser - pretty sure they are only in your browsers cache memory from when we were still 'sorting out'. We are aware there are some colour issues (blue / purple mix!?) on the forum menu page, we'll have a closer look at ...

Hello! We needed to do an urgent update to the forum today (Sunday 25/6) which meant that the board was inaccessible for a while. Apologies for the inconvenience, you will be able to post again now (8.45pm) If you notice anything different, or not working as it should, please let our Forum team know...

Hi Cheryl, Sorry to hear about your situation. Firstly, this page might help whether you are considering rehoming or trying to avoid rehoming: https://www.catchat.org/index.php/rehome-pet-cat Also, please drop an email to our Help Desk as they will be able to email you with other suggestions about t...