Rehoming Feral Cats

[nic531]

If you live in the sticks and are thinking of getting a feral/farm/working/mouser cat, then think of using Battersea Dog and Cat home....

I contacted them as I am only 90 mins from their nearest place near Windsor and found out that they re home almost to anywhere especially for these types of cats.

This is due to them often not being found homes and end up being put to sleep. The driver was in the Brecons last week!



Battersea could not have been more helpful.

They DELIVER!

They gave me food, bedding, cat bed, waterproof cat house, 2 bowls for food, one for water, litter tray and litter plus 4 weeks insurance for each cat.

As to cost... £40 per cat!

Compares very well to a local place that wanted double and a cotswold wide charity that wanted 150 quid each cat... (but they would give me a 25 quid voucher to spend in their shop!)



When they ask me to pay, I will be giving them a bit more than the £80 for the two cats that I now have.

Let's hope that they do as good a job as my last cat, that unfortunately took on a car after 6 years here and lost.

 

[Dr. Strangelove]

Great to know!

Lots on here aren’t fans of cats but I most definitely am; thanks for doing what you’ve done!

 

[baguio]

Shame they don’t only catch mice.

 

[MAH]

Shame they don’t only catch mice.

True. Putting bells on their collers gives birds a better chance. Since we put them on our cat, the number of birds caught is very low. Whereas the mice and rabbits keep coming and there no damage to our feed stores.

Or were you thinking burglars!

 

[shakey jake]

should be illegal to have them out side, please think of the environment befor eyou allow your outside

 

[foxdropper]

I give it two more pages then ^^^^^^^………………

 

[csl]

If you live in the sticks and are thinking of getting a feral/farm/working/mouser cat

Not if you have cows on the farm though, they can carry TB I believe!

 

[Jon P]

We had a farm cat from a rescue who said the cat was not suitable for domestic setting as it was so nasty- we never had such a friendly cat and was great on the rodents.luckily it did not bother the birds to much.

 

[Jon P]

Not if you have cows on the farm though, they can carry TB I believe!

Any mammal can carry TB.

 

[camodog]

At my reckoning @ £40.00 'a cat' that's cheaper than driven pheasants...!...just saying !

 

[camodog]

You'd still have to dig a hole mind !

 

[shakey jake]

You'd still have to dig a hole mind !

bin bag would be fine

 

[Jgray]

We had a farm cat from a rescue who said the cat was not suitable for domestic setting as it was so nasty- we never had such a friendly cat and was great on the rodents.luckily it did not bother the birds to much.

Great picture

 

[nic531]

Didnt realise that there was so much anti feeling regarding cats!

Before the last feral i didn't have much to do with them, preferring the dogs i have had most of the time.
however when you live in the countryside with poultry and pigs to be fed, you get more rats and mice attracted by the feed.

The risk to my neighbours herd is not that great from my feral cat compared to the healthy head of badgers around here (despite the cull) or the farmers own handful of cats.

In regards to the 'it should be illegal' it is not so write to your MP not on a forum, nothing gets changed from here.

The last one i had was a killing machine but didn't seem to eat the heads so we often found remnants of rats mice, weasels, and rabbits but very few birds, less than a handful over the 6 years he was here. The hedgerows are absolutely full of birds all year round.

Post was only put up to suggest that even if people had the good fortune to live a fair way from London, they could still save money by going through Battersea to get a moggy.

 

[Oracle]

I’d rather have a 6.5 Creedmoor than a cat....

 

[User00053]

Very efficient killers, kill for fun like us. Could /would not keep for many moons for those reasons and where I lived. Now have been adopted by a stray, sleeps on beds, asks to go out, real dude. Plenty rabbits close to house, spring and summer brings back rabbits almost every day total killing machine.

 

[baguio]

Sorry but my next door neighbour 'rescued' a black farm cat last year. It's a fkin killing machine. Fortunately the dogs keep it out of my back garden where I now have to feed the birds. My front lawn has feathers from kills on it almost every day though! They have called it Lucky. The birds certainly aren't!

 

[camodog]

Sorry but my next door neighbour 'rescued' a black farm cat last year. It's a fkin killing machine. Fortunately the dogs keep it out of my back garden where I now have to feed the birds. My front lawn has feathers from kills on it almost every day though! They have called it Lucky. The birds certainly aren't!

Maybe it's 'luck' will run out eh ?!

 

[Warren79]

There was 46 feral cats collectively rehomed, on the half acre pony plots behind our farm, not a single nesting song bird left In our hedges.

 

[Goingback]

I believe that the RSPB estimate for wildlife predation in the UK is around 78 million. That loses them quite a few votes on the cute and cuddly front