Poppy

Poppy came to me via someone at my place of work, her relative was moving and couldn't take Poppy so she was desperately looking for someone trustworthy and a massive lover of cats to take Poppy on - look no further than moi!

Misha

We got Misha from the same Cats Protection as Bunty. The Cats Protection had done another local news plea and if I am honest I said to my husband that we would just go and look as he had said after Bunty "no more cats", but I think he knew we would be coming back with another.

I went with the intention of getting another problem cat or cat who couldn't be rehomed for whatever reason but with Misha me and my husband both fell in love with her - she had no problems, her elderly owner just could not cope anymore!

We brought her home and, well, she isn't problem free and has a right diva personality - lets just say that!

Bunty

Bunty was our first cat from the Derby branch of the Cats Protection.

We saw a plea from this branch on the local news as they were over run and desperately needed homes for cats, turned round to my husband and said "babe" and he knew, the following weekend we were off.

We arrived with the soul intent of getting either an old cat who no one wanted or a problem cat - really my husband picked Bunty out. There were a few old timers that I was torn between but my husband kept going back to Bunty, who had been at the home going on a year and who had arthritis.

A week or so later after a home visit Bunty came home to us.

Freddy

Freddy was the first cat we got from the Cats Protection in Stroud.

We asked specifically for a problem cat and were shown Freddy. Freddy had been on a daytime tv programme with a well known animal behaviourist due to being part feral and very unruly! The animal behaviourist - who will remain nameless - basically gave up with Freddy on camera and that was that, Freddy was set to spend the rest of his life with the Cats Protection - until I came along.

Sylvester

Sylvester came from the Cats Protection in Stroud. We already had Freddy when we were called to see if we would take on Sylvester, which of course we said yes too. Sylvester was the last kitten who no one wanted due to his extreme shyness. My mum and I went to pick him up and we saw this little tiny thing at the back of the shelter and brought him home. We would never of guessed that this little tiny shy kitten would turn into the big bad boy he now is!

Sofa

I found Sofa in the Mayhew Animal Home. I went along purposely to find a cat that the home could not rehome for what ever reason and I was shown Sofa.

Sofa was named as she was found behind a Sofa with her kittens by a nice RSPCA Inspector.

When I was taken to her her kittens had been rehomed and she had already been in the home for over a year. She wasn't nasty but very, very shy and wary of people and basically hid in her shelter. The staff at the Mayhew were worried she would never be rehomed because she needed someone to spend a lot of time with her as she was very nervous.

I stepped up!

Elvis

Elvis is the youngest of the group, the teenager, and boy does she act like a teenager! Half the time we call her chav!

She (yes she) is the only cat we didn't get from a rescue centre - we actually got her from the local Spar shop! The story goes like this............

Late one evening my husband and I decided to go down to the local shop to get a bottle of wine, simple enough you would think, however as we pulled up to the shop we noticed a young women standing just inside the shop with what looked like a very young baby bundled up in a jumper. I made some sort of comment to my husband about this and as we got closer we noticed it was a tiny kitten. When were were closer still I overheard the women saying that she didn't know what to do with this kitten as some women had thrown her out on the street. Well, it didn't take me a second to reply to that......"I'll have her" I literally bellowed! And with that my husband bought the wine, I picked up the kitten and off we went home!

When we got her home and into proper light we saw that the poor little thing was riddled with fleas and ear mites! She did look very pathetic I have to say. I could feel that she had a break in her tail but she wasn't in pain so this must have happened some time before and healed.

The next morning we took her to the vets, got her checked over, got the ear mites and fleas sorted and brought her home. Yes he had to totally de-flea the other cats and house! And thats how we came across Elvis!

Oh, we did originally call her Spar but I stupidly said to my husband who is an Elvis nut, "I'm surprised you didn't want to call her Elvis" - and that was that!

This below is the earliest photo we have of her - she does look thin and pathetic on this one.

Welcome

Welcome to my blog.

I have 6 rescue cats and this blog is all about them:-

Sofa aka Sweetpea - Mayhew Animal Home
Sylvester aka Vesti - Cats Protection - Stroud
Freddy aka Freddy Krueger - Cats Protection - Stroud
Elvis aka Chav - Spar (yes Spar!)
Bunty aka Honey Bun - Cats Protection - Derby
Misha aka Misha Mouse - Cats Protection - Derby
Poppy aka Popster - friend at work