Notes from The Cat House

Help, I Can’t Afford My Cat! Where to get support in Bradford

If money is tight and you are worrying about how to feed your cat or pay a vet bill, please read this before you do anything else. Giving up a cat should be the last resort, not the first, and there is more help available in Bradford than most people realise.

Why Neutering Matters

One unneutered female cat, left to it, can be a colony within a year or two. That is not scaremongering, it is arithmetic, and it is why we spend so much of our time supporting people with neutering.

Litter tray problems, and what they are telling you

Toileting is one of the most common reasons cats get given up. It is also the problem we most often fix in a phone call, and most of the fixes cost a few pounds or nothing at all.

You have found a stray. Now what?

Most of the cats people ring us about as strays turn out to have a home two streets away. A few are genuinely lost or dumped. A small number need a vet within the hour. Working out which one is in your garden is the whole job.

What is TNR, and why do we do it?

People sometimes ask why we neuter a cat and put it back outside instead of finding it a home. It is a fair question, and the honest answer is not a comfortable one. There are more cats than there are good homes, and for a lot of these cats, going back is the kinder outcome.

When to Let Your New Cat Outside?

New cat When can I let my new cat outside? Why we ask for six weeks, and how to do the first trip properly It is one of the questions we are asked most by new adopters. Our answer is six weeks. Here is why, and how to do that first trip so they come […]