New home / help request for 2 brothers, Prince and Tiger Options

[Josie]

I read about a ten year old cat that found a new home on a post and was so happy to hear about the happy ending for such a beautiful cat. I am in need of some help myself as I have two cats who are brothers in need of a new home hopefully together as they are very close. They eat together, sleep together hang out together. I have to move interstate and will be unable to have them with me. I have tried finding homes for them locally but no luck. They are so loving and really just want a new home where they can be cherished. They have gentle natures, and are lots of fun, Prince is very talkative at times and Tiger will sometimes ambush Prince and run off!! They were born on the 10th December 2008 so are now 3 years old. Prince is Black and white and Tiger is Ginger and white. They are dog friendly as they love Priscilla the cattle dog, they often rub up against her and kiss each other. I am so sad our family has to separate but I have to make the move. I am very willing to transport them anywhere for a good home. I just want to find someone to love them. In desperation I did phone a few no kill cat shelters but they were all full. Any ideas??

[love.my.cats]

They both look very sweet. I hope you are able to find them a good home together. It's sad that they can't go with you :(

[Josie]

I really hope so too!! The more people that see them the more chance they have of finding a good home. Do you know of any other web sites I could try?

[Catsfriend]

Josie, the most important information in such a case is the location where you & the cats are. With that, advertise locally. Good free websites where people look for cats to adopt are, for example, www.petrescue.com.au (you have to write to an administrator first to become a member, but it is worth it because this website has the highest success rate) or www.gumtree.com.au > your local area. There might also be local facebook sites specialising in rehoming pets - just enter your region and keywords such as "pets sale adoption" on facebook and see what comes up. Good luck!

[love.my.cats]

I have to agree with both Pet Rescue and Gumtree.
PetRescue is a very popular website and it's really easy to navigate as well.

[Josie]

Thank you to both of you for your advice. I will post some photos of them. May have a home now for one of them :( which is good and bad. I am trying to convince them to take both puss cats. At the moment Prince and Tiger are living in Lightning Ridge being looked after by my best friend. In Lightning Ridge I have just about asked the whole town I am currently in Brisbane trying to find a house that is pet friendly and under $320 per week!! As the price seems to go up when a property has a garden for pets.

[love.my.cats]

Ohh I really hope they are able to stay together.
Renting with pets is a nightmare.. we ended up saying we had no pets in order to get the place we're in now. Our 3 are indoor only so they're relatively easy to hide. We know this is really risky but we said from the start if we got busted, we'd move out with the cats and stay at my mums short term if we really had to.
Did you have a look at the pet rescue site? That one's national so if you can get them between nsw and qld, that would be more potential owners as well.

[Catsfriend]

... Renting with pets is a nightmare.. we ended up saying we had no pets in order to get the place we're in now ...

I just can't resist to share a story on the topic "Renting with pets". I am renting out a holiday house next to my own house which I advertise explicitly as 'pet-friendly' (see takeabreak.com.au under Berri) and I have had many extremely happy and grateful short-time tenants here already. I write in my ad that "not only dogs and cats, but all sorts of pets are very welcome and can be also looked after, when you are away, and they may jump on the sofa and sleep with you in the bed, too." The house is equipped with a dog sleeping kennel, a huge cat tree, a freshly disinfected and filled litter box, bowls, and even treats for our four-legged guests. This idea has been extremely successful in attracting pet-owning visitors - until an elderly couple came over for a weekend without pets!!! These people found some cat hair under the bed, and scratches on the sofa, and then - to top it all up - a cockroach ran through the kitchen! (The house is next door to the bush and has a huge grassy backyard.) Well, those "absolutely shocked" city people would spread their towels over the beds and sleep on top of those towels, and next morning they forced a committee of council representatives to inspect the house and showed them that little bushle of cat hair which was hanging down from underneath a mattress. Sadly, the City Council must respond to all such complaints, especially when they come from precious tourists ... so, I had to run a pest control treatment to make the Council happy again and promise that I will in future also thoroughly check the underside of our mattresses after every pet visit ... The council officers also checked my Internet ad and "raised their serious concern about animals being allowed to sleep in the beds". My reply to their concern made them certainly laugh: I listed all the residues up which HUMAN BEINGS had left on our bed sheets, starting with headlice and ending with brown and yellow stains which I'd better not describe in further detail... ;) End of the story: I now even have my City Council's approval that we are allowed to accommodate all sorts of pets in my holiday house - with some restriction such as that farm animals such as goats or horses will stay in the backyard and not come indoors and roosters or parrots will be prevented from waking up the neighbourhood before 7am, and dogs will be prevented from excess barking, etc.

Wouldn't it be nice if more houseowners would follow this example and offer pets and their owners decent homes?

[Josie]

Ah that is so funny!! Thank you for the story its really cheered me up!! What a fantastic service you are providing, its good to know. Why those people would do such a thing is beyond me? I was brought up with pets and have a huge respect for all animals. That is why I could never let my cats go anywhere but to a new good home. I am feeling positive that they will land on their feet, as cats do!! I will make sure.