How do!

Me and my gf have finally purchased a house in Sheffield and we move in soon. One of the things we are most looking forward to is getting cats, but we are having trouble finding rehoming places in sheffield.

Can anyone recommend some places that are good for obtaining kittens that need a good home?

you need to ask Olliekitten see here (http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=106610)

I have a number of someone who rehouses kittens with the cats protection league. It's where I got my beutiful pair from :thumbsup:

They are now strapping three year old Tigers, Hills Science Diet all the way!

PM me for the number when you have enough posts.

And welcome to SF!

Hi there

Congratulations on buying your house- and good luck on adopting your furry soul mate to share your space.

You're a little bit too early for kitten season- there won't be many tinies available for adoption for at least another couple of months, but there are older kittens and young adults available (in fact lots and lots of them!) at the Sheffield Cats Shelter- I'm the groomer there and seen plenty of them today while sorting out tangled coats.

If you want to pop down for a visit, we're at 1 Travis Place, Broomhall, S10 2DB, and we're open every afternoon including weekends, from 1.30-3.30. Try to come earlier rather than later as it can take an hour or more to cuddle all the cuties that you fall in love with. We're on 2724441 if you get lost.

Adoption fees are £60 for each cat or kitten- that covers vaccinations against all the normal things and Feline Leukaemia Virus, and neuter or spay (or a voucher for that if the kitten is too young to have been neutered in our care). All cats have medical sheets to make sure that you know about whatever problems they may have had- make sure that you get that from wherever you adopt from, so that you're aware of any ongoing health problems before you commit to adopt the cat.

lots and lots of them... at the Sheffield Cats Shelter

I've no doubt whatsoever that the Sheffield Cats Shelter is a fine and great organisation. But they wouldn't let me adopt a cat because I live on a main road (Chesterfield Road, as it happens) - it's on their list of roads that are too busy to allow adoptions. This was a couple of years ago but I assume the policy is still the same?

It always seemed a bit odd to me because for every cat taking up a space in their shelter, there's a dozen cats living wild. I would've thought it was better to send a cat to a loving home and let it take its chances with the roads, and get another cat into the shelter that's already taking its chances with the road but doesn't even have a loving home. Thankfully the RSPCA take a different line.

So if you live on a busy road I'd suggest contacting the shelter first to see if you're on the banned-roads list. It would be helpful if the list was on their website - I don't think it is but since the website is down at the moment I can't check.

Disclaimer - I support anyone and anything that helps find cats loving homes, even if they do discriminate against the traffic-impaired...!

We do check all homes for their suitability for cats as a home, and there are a number of reasons that a home may be determined to be unsuitable- busy roads being one of them. You may think that this is the Shelter being overly cautious with where cats are placed, but you have to remember that cats' inability to beat cars in a one to one contest leads to pain and suffering (for both cats and their humans) so we try to discourage people living on very busy roads from having cats who go outside.

There is an alternative to this- we regularly have cats who can't go outside for all sorts of reasons. If you're prepared to keep the cat indoors (and that can be a lot harder than you think sometimes) then it doesn't matter where you live really.

You will find that all organisations have rules about who can and who can't adopt animals from their care. These rules are intended to keep the animals that are entrusted into your care as safe and healthy as possible for as long as possible. None of the charities would place an animal in a home where they believe that animal is at an unacceptable risk of suffering harm- irrelevant of how many other animals they can't take in to the shelter.

Many (or most) of the cats living wild in the city are actually feral cats, who would not cope with being brought into a human environment such as a shelter and whose needs are far better served by being managed and having their health needs addressed by people like the Cats Protection teams who are speciallists in this field.

I appreciate what you say, Medusa, but even so I think some of it is unarguable:

1) your banned roads list isn't well-publicised or on your website, I believe. This causes avoidable disappointment and to be honest is my primary gripe with SCS. You can't defend this - it would not be difficult to arrange and would surely save a lot of heartache. You could post the list to this thread, it would be a step forward over where you are currently. Then people would know how you guys felt about them adopting when they live on a busy road, and wouldn't need to waste your valuable time trying to care for animals you don't want them to have!

2) the RSPCA - just for instance - disagrees with your views on busy roads; they have no such list. That doesn't mean they're right and you're wrong, but it is still a fact that there is disagreement among the professionals, never mind the rest of us. It suggests that you might, or might not, have drawn the line in the right place. I respectfully tend to agree with the RSPCA on this one (you'd never have guessed, would you!).

3) if "most" of the cats living wild are feral, then I guess I was speaking about the rest of them! I'm sure you have more non-feral cats than spaces available - or am I wrong about this? Are you the world's only over-funded animal welfare organisation? * I'm sure that can't be the case :-D

Ultimately it still seems a shame to me that you won't place a cat with people who live on a busy road because you "believe that animal is at an unacceptable risk of suffering harm", when other welfare organisations would disagree. It seems a greater shame that you don't publicise this policy more widely.

:edit: "world's only over-funded animal welfare organisation" - I forgot about the Battersea Dogs' Home!

my best friends cat is pregnant & ready to give birth & i'm sure you could have one of those. the kitty in my aviator is my cat pisces, my mates cat is my cats sister, they are lovely cats, very sweet natured. if your interested PM me.

congrats on the house by the way, hope you enjoy sheffield.

I appreciate what you say, Medusa, but even so I think some of it is unarguable:

1) your banned roads list isn't well-publicised or on your website, I believe. This causes avoidable disappointment and to be honest is my primary gripe with SCS. You can't defend this - it would not be difficult to arrange and would surely save a lot of heartache. You could post the list to this thread, it would be a step forward over where you are currently. Then people would know how you guys felt about them adopting when they live on a busy road, and wouldn't need to waste your valuable time trying to care for animals you don't want them to have!

2) the RSPCA - just for instance - disagrees with your views on busy roads; they have no such list. That doesn't mean they're right and you're wrong, but it is still a fact that there is disagreement among the professionals, never mind the rest of us. It suggests that you might, or might not, have drawn the line in the right place. I respectfully tend to agree with the RSPCA on this one (you'd never have guessed, would you!).

3) if "most" of the cats living wild are feral, then I guess I was speaking about the rest of them! I'm sure you have more non-feral cats than spaces available - or am I wrong about this? Are you the world's only over-funded animal welfare organisation? * I'm sure that can't be the case :-D

Ultimately it still seems a shame to me that you won't place a cat with people who live on a busy road because you "believe that animal is at an unacceptable risk of suffering harm", when other welfare organisations would disagree. It seems a greater shame that you don't publicise this policy more widely.

:edit: "world's only over-funded animal welfare organisation" - I forgot about the Battersea Dogs' Home!

OK- let me answer these points specifically

1) Due to the fact that location is not the only criterion on which the Shelter may refuse to rehome a cat, it was decided at the last review that the official policy was not to print the list of roads to which cats would not be homed on the website. One possible implication of printing this list would be that people living anywhere else could assume that they were guaranteed to be accepted- this is not the case. Homing of every cat is at the warden's discretion- certain cats are not suited to certain areas or types of home. The official policy is for people to attend the Shelter and fill in the registration forms before any indication of acceptance or denial is given, and before they see and hope to take home any cat.

2) The RSPCA are entitled to hold their own opinions on this matter- and we are entitled to disagree with them. There are differing views on many aspects of running an animal charity. We naturally believe that we are applying the collected learning on this topic the best we can- you too are entitled to disagree with any of these policies, but that doesn't mean that any one set of learning is right to the exclusion of any others.

3) When it comes to the taking in of stray cats living rough, we endeavour (and most of the time achieve) to admit these cats into the Shelter within 2 weeks of being informed of their plight, or earlier if an immediate space can be found. We cannot admit cats that we don't know about, and for that we are reliant on members of the public. We aren't just going to pick up cats off street corners without having reports that these are indeed homeless cats.

We are limited as to the number of cats we can afford to treat and vaccinate- this is not just a space issue. Every cat or kitten costs the Shelter at least twice what we raise in adoption fees, just for their vet fees- this takes no account of staffing costs, overheads or food costs during their stay.

Could I please ask that any future criticism of the Shelter policies are directed to the Shelter committee, as this thread was not originally intended to be about the differences between organisational policies.

this thread was not originally intended to be about the differences between organisational policies.

I think it's very relevant to the thread as it has a direct bearing on where one can, and cannot, adopt kittens!

Could I please ask that any future criticism of the Shelter policies are directed to the Shelter committee

Maybe a new thread would be appropriate but I think I have every right to comment on Shelter policy in public. Since I've made all the points I wanted to make I'll leave that decision for others, and I reiterate that SCS has my support in terms of its broad goals if not some of its specific policies.

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How do!

Me and my gf have finally purchased a house in Sheffield and we move in soon. One of the things we are most looking forward to is getting cats, but we are having trouble finding rehoming places in sheffield.

Can anyone recommend some places that are good for obtaining kittens that need a good home?
go to thorneberry animal santuary they usuly have tinies now ive seen em hop this helps ps thorneberrys nr aston i think serch google 4 da address

Hello sugarlump and welcome to the Forum ... love the avatar!!

Thornberry is a good suggestion, also there's a couple of different people on here often wanting to home kittens ... do a search for Graham and PIF_Tails. or just type in "kittens" and see what comes up.