There are very few people and organizations in the world that help abandoned animals find homes. It is also not easy to place kittens in good hands if the cat has had offspring, or you are leaving for another country and cannot take your pet with you. But there are no hopeless situations - there are ways that will help you quickly give your kitten a new home and a comfortable life.
Why is there such a need?
Approximately 46% of Russian families buy cats. These animals are unpretentious and feel great in an apartment, regardless of how busy the owners are. People most often buy a pet in the hope that it will be with them all their lives, but circumstances sometimes develop such that the animal has to be given away. The need for this arises for the following reasons:
- Allergies often cannot be cured, and this problem forces the owner to say goodbye to the kitten forever. This is difficult for an animal if it has already lived in the house for some time and is accustomed to the environment.
- Moving – often when changing their country of residence, people have to leave their pets in good hands. This is due to the reluctance to bother with quarantine and paperwork. Also, renting an apartment with a pet sometimes turns into a real adventure, and people prefer to give their pet to those who have all the conditions for keeping it.
- Death or illness of the owner - in this case, a new owner is sought for the kitten, otherwise the animal will end up on the street.
- The appearance of kittens in a cat - if the animal is not sterilized, it produces offspring that will have to be given away for free or tried to be sold.
Search among your surroundings
Finding a new owner among well-known, close, and dear people is the best option possible. Especially if the animal knows the potential owner, there is already mutual sympathy between them. A friend or loved one who will take responsibility for the maintenance of your favorite animal will treat it with love and attention. In addition, he will be able to contact you in any situation, clarify any questions that have arisen, and tell you about the pet’s condition and mood. A familiar person is your protection from several moves, when the animal can be taken/returned more than once.
A loved one will treat your cat with love and attention
Please take into account the presence of other animals in the new family. This can be a real problem, because interspecies relationships (between cats, dogs and male cats) are rarely without conflict. Old-timers may not accept the newcomer at all, or they may accept him, but constantly bully him. After all, no one wants to share the territory, the owner’s attention, or food with a new member of the animal community. If you are looking for an answer to the question of where to put a cat if you don’t need it, and settle on friends who already have animals, try to visit them with your pet in advance, introduce the animals, observe their relationships, and give them the opportunity to get used to each other.
If your friends already have a pet, introduce your animals in advance
You might even leave your pet in the new home for a few hours. If the host animal categorically does not accept it, you will have to look for other options, other people. But if the animals have found a common language, you can rehome your pet long before you leave. This way you can stay informed about his new life for some time and receive reports daily. But it’s better not to visit your pet in a new place, so as not to upset him, and not to upset yourself. Then the adaptation process will take place for everyone with the least psychological damage.
Optimal time to search for a home
An already grown-up pet will more easily tolerate changes in its usual lifestyle than a small kitten. Before looking for a new owner, it is important to teach your baby to feed himself, use a litter box, and treat people without fear.
Also, the animal must be in good health, it must be treated with special flea products and checked by a veterinarian. After 8-10 weeks, vaccination is mandatory. Now you can start looking for a new home for the kitten.
Prepare your ad wisely
If you craft your ad correctly, many more people will respond to it. Take several beautiful and high-quality photos in which the kitten will look cheerful, cute, and active. Add text to them - it should be exciting, creative, but truthful.
Tell us about the character of the animal, its external characteristics, try to find a lot of advantages. In the ad, be sure to indicate the breed, age, birthday, color (since not all users can download photos from the Internet). Be sure to indicate whether the kitten has a pedigree, whether it is vaccinated, whether it is trained to a tray or scratching post.
Competently compose an advertisement for the adoption of a cat
In the text, be sure to tell not only about the age and origin of the baby, but also that he is completely ready for a new home, that is, he has undergone all the necessary veterinary procedures. Also be sure to post an advert on your area's website - hundreds of people look at their area's news every day, especially the classifieds section. Finally, do not neglect the printed advertisement in your own entrance. Oddly enough, there are just as many cases where neighbors decide to adopt a pet as there are stories of owners finding owners via the Internet.
Preparing the animal for transfer
If you did everything correctly, applications from potential owners will begin to arrive very soon. Make sure the kitten is in good hands. Sometimes people who resell animals look for kittens through advertisements. They often ask to reduce the price. If something confuses you in a conversation with a person, it is better to refuse him - new applications will definitely come.
It is worth getting a phone number or other contact information from the future owner. It is better not to give the kitten to minors or people who live in a rented apartment - the owners of the property may prohibit them from keeping pets, and the kitten will again end up on the street or in a shelter. If your pet already has a veterinary passport, it should be given to the new owner. After 1 week, you can call him and ask how the kitten is adapting to the new environment.
Relatives and friends
Strange as it may seem, you should start with friends, relatives and just acquaintances first. Perhaps some of them do not have pets and have been thinking about getting a tailed friend for a long time. And the previous owners will be able to visit their pet and monitor its future fate.
The little kitten who found his family
Often, having already had one cat, people want, but are afraid to take a second one. They worry that the animals will not be able to get along, and it will be difficult for the owners themselves. In reality, keeping two cats is much easier than keeping one. This is worth conveying to future owners.
Important! If a cat is given to a family that already has a cat, it is recommended to sterilize it in advance. Otherwise, the unwanted offspring of kittens, who will also have to be adopted in the future, will not be long in coming.
Where to place a cat: the first option is foster care
Overexposure is the temporary transfer of an animal to people who can house it if the owners are leaving or they have other reasons to be without a pet at the moment (for example, relatives who are afraid of cats are coming). Many similar offers can be found on the Internet.
If you decide to use foster care, you need to give the person looking after the animal all the care products, as well as your favorite toys. It is important to leave money for food and pay for the service.
Overexposure has many advantages. First of all, it is a calm home environment to which the kittens get used. You can also always keep in touch with the person providing supervision, asking if everything is going well. The disadvantages include the presence of other animals in the house and the inability to check the conditions in which your pet is kept.
Castration of a domestic cat - preventing the problem
Castration is still viewed with hostility by many cat owners. However, if there are no plans to breed these animals, there is no point in preserving their reproductive function. A castrated male does not mark his territory and does not ask to go outside, the female does not scream for a cat, and does not risk her health by taking hormonal drugs to relieve the symptoms of sexual heat. The main advantage of castrating a pet is that there is no need to look for a new home for the babies that appear regularly.
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Catcafe
If you do not have the opportunity to keep a kitten, you can give it to a cafe where visitors come to chat with cats. Recently, such establishments have become very popular. Perhaps your city also has such a cafe, and you won’t need to worry about where to place your pet.
The advantage is that the cat will be well looked after, and a large number of visitors will definitely ensure constant communication. The disadvantages are the high demands placed on animals. In addition, there may not be a similar cafe for animals in your city.
Also read a separate article about the cat cafe.
Through the Internet
Nowadays, on the Internet you can find addresses of hotels for animals or contacts of people willing to adopt a pet free of charge. Plus the speed of finding the owner. The downside is the lack of verified information about it. Resellers often hide on websites.
You can post information on online message boards in your region, as well as make posts on social networks. You can use the website avito.ru.
How to adopt a kitten from a shelter
In short, the process looks like this:
- Make an appointment with the person in charge or register on the shelter website.
- Choose a pet. Choose with the whole family, negotiate, show miracles of diplomacy. The future pet should please everyone in the household. And voluntarily - no pursed lips, dissatisfied snorts or sighs.
- Complete and confirm your application.
- Go through an interview (an important formality) and meet the cat in person.
- Now you can pick up your favorite pet.
Such organizations can be found in any city if there is a desire.
Contrary to pitiful pictures and encouraging slogans, adopting animals is not even a hobby, but hard work. And it is paid for - with the joy of doing good deeds and gratitude from rescued pets and their new owners.
In good hands with friends
You can ask your friends and relatives if they would like to get a pet. Perhaps someone was just about to do this. Taking a pet that is already litter trained and vaccinated is always beneficial. That's why people often agree to it.
The advantages are that the owner can be found quickly, in addition, you can visit the kitten from time to time. There are practically no downsides - except that a person may later abandon the animal and begin to look for somewhere to place it.
Other options
Recently, there has been an increase in the number of advertisements in which people are ready to adopt kittens that have just been born. With their entire appearance, they show that they are doing a good deed, relieving the owner of the need to support the kids and bear all the associated expenses. These are the so-called “box breeders” who use homeless or newly born animals in order to pity passers-by and get money.
Fraudsters do not feed the animals, but simply throw out their corpses and go for a new batch of “goods.” This is why it is so important to look at who exactly you are giving your pet to.
Cat's House website
This is one of the well-known resources that publishes photographs and data of animals that owners plan to give away for various reasons. The site has strict moderation and high requirements for the preparation of advertisements, since the more complete the information, the easier it is to place an animal. That is why, when composing an advertisement, indicate:
- age, date of birth, gender;
- presence or absence of diseases, vaccinations;
- habits and skills.
On the site they are looking for new owners for adult animals - newborns cannot be placed here, but an older kitten can be offered by making an advertisement.
Mr. Cat offers: tips when a cat is found on the street
If you see an animal on the street, you need to immediately take it to a place where it will feel safe. Examine your cat for wounds or illness. It’s good if you can keep him at home until you find the previous owner or place the pet in good hands. The cat needs to be fed, washed, treated with anti-parasite medication, and shown to a veterinarian. Then you can take a photo of it and post an ad on websites to find the owner.
If it is not possible to keep the animal at home, you can find a shelter for it and bring food there every day. Join forces with other people who care about the fate of homeless animals. It is better to keep information about where the shelter is located secret, devoting it to a minimum number of people, so that no one kills or steals the cat.
What to do with purebred kittens, and how to check the future owner
Breeders with experience rarely have problems placing purebred kittens - on the contrary, a waiting list forms for them even before the babies are born. But beginners may find that there are still very few applications. This means that you need to look for buyers or give animals away for free. Many, after a series of painful searches, renounce raising animals for sale altogether.
To avoid such situations, remember the following:
- It is better to breed a female through a club, with the help of which you can find a purebred cat. Its owners may already have contacts of potential buyers.
- It is better to look for clients before mating in order to understand the level of demand - it even changes depending on the season. For example, in summer animals are bought less often than at other times.
- Use social media and the internet to post your sale. Also, buyers often pay attention to certificates and pedigree.
- If you plan to breed for a long time, create groups and communities in which you will post photos and information.
- Kittens with good photos are successfully sold on websites, so there is no need to skimp on this.
The new owner can be checked on social networks to see if there is any negative information about him. It is also important to exchange contact information with him and call him within a week to ask how the kitten is feeling. You can even ask permission to come and visit him. You need to be wary if a person arrives drunk, is confused in answering questions, is nervous, or bargains.
How to place kittens or puppies using the Internet
Just recently I wrote about how our cat gave birth to 4 kittens for my birthday. Not some rare bald champions that people line up and auction for. And these are ordinary, normal kittens. There are hundreds, if not thousands.
I understand how panicked people can be when faced with a similar situation. The simplest apparent solution seems to be to take the kittens to the box dealers, paying money for it. But I won’t talk about the fact that most often box breeders are not at all compassionate people who are unlikely to keep your animals for more than one or two days. What will they do with them next? Look on the Internet.
But even if your offspring is lucky, and someone takes them in this short time, most kittens or puppies from close communication with their brothers in the temporary box can become infected with anything - from fleas to diseases that are deadly for young creatures.
This is why I want people, before taking kittens to box breeders or simply throwing defenseless babies into the street, to try to adopt them via the Internet. Please give them a chance!
I can’t express in words how nervous I’ve been over the past few weeks, when a herd of young seals were rushing around my apartment, stomping around like a herd of elephants on the grazing.
After all, if I had not been able to find homes for the kittens, I would have had a chance to soon turn my apartment into the famous Internet meme “the apartment of an independent 40-year-old woman.”
This is not the first time I have placed kittens on www.avito.ru. I have rehomed abandoned kittens several times (link 1, link 2), so I decided to share my experience in this matter, in case this makes the number of unfortunate animals in our cities at least a little less.
Believe me, there are many people in the world who need your kitten or puppy. Even if he is completely out of breed. Animals can give people a lot of happiness and I am very happy for those who understand this and give them a place in their human lives.
I will share my observations and experience in this matter. Maybe someone will find it useful:
1) On average, it took me from 2 to 4 weeks to adopt kittens from advertisements. The last time, for 2 weeks, I actively advertised kittens and no one called and I was already starting to despair, and then suddenly they were all sold out in just three days. Inexplicable, but for some reason it’s like this.
2) It is worth recognizing that small kittens and puppies have greater liquidity. Despite the fact that sometimes there are fewer problems with older cats, everyone still wants babies. That is why I gave away my kittens at 1.5 months, although it is advisable to keep them with their mother for 2-3 months. But I was a little scared to be left with all this litter of cats.
3) www.avito.ru is the largest advertisement site in Russia, which, in my experience, turned out to be the most effective when adopting kittens.
“Hand to hand” advertisements posted around the house, unfortunately, had no effectiveness in my case. Perhaps an advertisement with a photo of kittens in a newspaper with a TV program or an advertisement on TV will have a positive effect. But this is somewhat more expensive and this is already such heavy artillery that I have not reached.
4) When placing an ad on Avito, try to time it so that your ad stays higher on the list for as long as possible and can catch the eye of a potential “buyer” as much as possible. Initially, you place an ad for free and your ad will be visible for some time, but after a couple of days the ad will “run away” far, far away and it’s not a fact that people will have the patience to get to your kittens. Or someone will be embarrassed to call because they will decide that since your ad is old, it means you have probably already given away your kittens.
5) Due to high competition, you need to be prepared for the fact that you will have to advertise your ads. Avito offers various formats and advertising packages. What I liked most was the “Quick Sale” option, which included VIP ads with promotion in the list. In our region, in the category with kittens, this option cost 199 rubles/week.
6) I recommend posting an ad for each puppy or kitten separately. In this way, they can be seen better in photographs and individual characteristics are easier to advertise.
The following are simple laws of advertising:
7) All kittens and puppies are cute! People love cats very much, and those who don’t like cats love dogs. In any case, those people who visited the Avito website and look at them in the “Animals” section definitely love them and are thinking about getting a pet. Otherwise, why would they even go there?
So, don't miss the opportunity and do your best to attract such people to your ad.
Try to take the most touching photographs of your kids - how they play, how they sleep, show how charming and beautiful they are. So that they are no worse than those that people send to each other on the Internet or post on calendars. Pictures attract attention best, and photographing babies is also fun. If you can make a video, even better!
Provide the photographs with an appropriate advertising description, so that you yourself want this kitten or puppy. What is his character, who is he like? For example, I saw that our little black kitten looked like a gentleman in a tailcoat with a white shirtfront. That’s why in the advertisements they called him James Bond’s kitten. When his new owner called, she asked: “They haven’t taken “Gentleman” from you yet...) It’s so cute and immediately puts you in a positive mood, right?
Also in my advertisement, I indicated that I was ready to give a “dowry” for each kitten in the form of a branded ceramic plate for food. The new owners didn’t count on it too much, but I also think it should be nice. But, of course, it’s not at all necessary)
About the price of kittens. Usually, outbred puppies and kittens are given away for free, but it is customary to take symbolic money for them “for good luck.” Usually this is a gold coin. But some, I know, set the price at 500 rubles in order to cut off “frivolous people” or children who take kittens out of mischief.
As a guarantee that people will be willing to bear the costs of a new pet. I don't know how effective this strategy is. I gave the kittens away “for gold”, making sure that the new owners were quite serious in their intentions just from the conversation.
In general, all the secrets. The main one is to be patient and not panic ahead of time. Try options, take new photos, change the description - and pretty soon you will achieve success. For sure!
I don’t know what the fate of the kittens I gave away will be, I hope that they and their new owners will be happy to live with each other. In any case, I know that I gave them this chance to the best of the strength and capabilities that I have.
Edifying:
But in general, for the future, if you don’t like getting into such situations, there is no time or extra money for this. If you are not ready to make efforts every year (or even a couple of times a year) to find a new family for your babies, and in case of possible failure, you are not ready to keep all the kittens or puppies of your pet, it is better to neuter your dog or cat ahead of time. This will be the most humane, cheapest and easiest way to avoid all this hassle.
Small and even adult animals thrown into the street do not survive. Don’t entertain the illusion that they will be picked up by the one who needs them. They will either be picked up by teenage monsters, or torn apart by dogs, or they will simply die of hunger and cold in agony. In general, don’t take sin to heart! There is no need for all this.
Better give this world joy and happiness as much as possible!
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Animals are not allowed on the streets
Often, desperate to find a new owner, or simply due to lack of time, people simply let their animals go outside, believing that nothing will happen to them - this is how stray cats and dogs live. But you should not compare a pet, accustomed to comfortable conditions, with a yard pet.
A kitten or even an adult will die from relatives or from hunger. The animal is not accustomed to defend itself, hide from the cold, or get food. It also doesn't know how dangerous cars are on the roads. Only a tenth of abandoned kittens survive on the streets. Therefore, it is better to take them to a shelter than to kick them out of the house.
Remember, buying a pet is a serious responsibility. Plans and circumstances change, but this should not prevent the owner from remaining human to the end, making sure that the pet continues to live in comfortable conditions.
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Assessment of the situation
Before deciding where to surrender a stray cat, it is worth considering the benefits for it. An adult animal that has gained authority in the pack will have a hard time with shelter and attempts at socialization. This is especially true for males. Moving from conquered territory to a cage or room with other occupants will cause stress to the fighter.
The street hardens. The suburban environment provides the animal with combat experience and resources for survival. Thanks to loopholes in houses, small animals and permanent residents, the country (rural) cat can withstand winters. The city influences conditions in two ways. It is easier for the animal to find food. But safe housing is limited by competition, municipal policies (brewing, installation of fine-mesh grates in basements) and the activities of dog hunter activists.
When you see a stray, you shouldn’t immediately think about where to place the stray cat. Perhaps the pet has found its niche. Yards and villages include quite altruistic-minded citizens. It is worth taking care of your pet if it:
young – kittens without a mother have a low chance of survival;
clearly recently been a pet - the pet is characterized by a neat appearance and increased attention to people.
Often the characteristics are combined. A kitten that has disappointed its owners with its behavior or health status will be drawn to people. This feature distinguishes it from its wild relatives and potentially simplifies socialization.
Possible actions when discovering a stray cat
In cases where stray cats are found, a person must decide where to go when they find them. Someone will pass by, someone will feed them, and some will try to take part in their fate. Active action is required in 2 cases: the pet is clearly lost or cannot survive due to health conditions.
A missing animal has a chance of being reunited with its owner. Cats rarely voluntarily stray far from home. The owner may be in the same entrance, residential complex, or yard with the temporary owner. It’s worth posting advertisements and studying messages from local thematic groups on social networks.
Animals are often thrown away. Unwanted litter suffers, adults who have lost their owner due to:
Pets that come outside from home have less chance of survival. A slow cat can be attacked by a dog or hit by a car. Having noticed a new animal, an individual with obvious signs of injury or disease, it is worth taking action. Help is also required for pregnant females and females caring for their offspring.
Support for homeless animals
Providing comfort is a simple way to help stray animals that have “legally” settled in the territory. Yards are often inhabited by dogs and cats - their presence does not indicate low social status. Thus, animals become voluntary guards, rid the territory of rodents, and bring joy to people who are unable to keep pets at home.
