Posted on 05/16/2018 6:09:35 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel
What about rescue facilities? Do they have those for cats? I would also suggest just looking around in your day to day life. Lots of stray & abandoned kitties needing a good home. They seem to show up when you least expect. I have a former stray now my Mom picked up & I inherited when she passed away. Another I picked up on the interstate (named ‘Freeway’). Both are awesome cats & those abandoned/strays make the best kitties! Good luck finding your special friend!
Aren’t there any community bulletin boards up near you? Perhaps in a coffee shop?
If you are looking for a PET cat to cherish and keep, you can’t do better or easier than going to Petfinder.com or Overstock.com. Overstock.com? you ask. Yep. They have a pet adoption tab at the right hand bottom of the page and an excellent search engine connecting to shelters nationwide and in Canada. I found my precious kitty Zizu on Overstock last year. With both, you click on your zip code, the distance you’re willing to travel to go see the pet, the type of pet you seek (dog, cat, other), the breed, the age (kitten, young, adult, senior), and can set up filters for additional traits such as color, length of coat, and any other particulars.
your county’s facebook page
Put a food bowl out on your back porch. You’ll have half a dozen within a week.
Around here, the large chain pet stores have kitten adoption days.
Around here, the easiest way to get a cat is to leave an open can of cat food by the back door. There is the risk of ending up with a 35 pound bobcat with that method. And you have to start out fronting the money for shots and surgery.
Absent that, I’d try a no-kill shelter. They’ll frequently try to cull the best from the kill shelters. Or a vet’s office might know of someone who is having to give up a pet.
If you are on NextDoor, post an announcement there.
The next PetCo adoption event is June 2-3.
I know that you want other resources than the local rescue, but the ones run by volunteers have great cats. We got our current two from a city rescue run by volunteers, and they are the sweetest cats we’ve ever had. They become highly socialized to humans, with all the volunteers doting on them; and they are tested for diseases, given their shots, etc. In our expensive area, the fee is usually under $100.
The one time I got a cat from a litter that was advertised in the newspaper, he was a very dear cat, but had a lot of health problems. There are people who specialize in caring for cats with health issues, and if you’re up for that, go for it. But if you don’t want to do that, the local rescue is a good place to find a healthy cat. A lot of times they work in conjunction with the pet store chains, and have ‘adoption days’, or keep a few cats in the store for people to check out.
I got an amazing White German Shepherd off of craigslist about 4 months ago.
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Pet adoption groups are usually at Petco and Petsmart on weekends.
I’d give a look into cat rescue places in your area. These are not county animal shelters. These places are usually staffed by “cat lady” volunteers. They work with the cats (can be of any age) and know their temperment.
We got our present cat at one; the previous two at the county shelters. The cat ladies gave us plenty of time to look them over and play with them. Many of the cats there had been abandoned by elderly who were no longer able to care for them and were pretty well socialized.
Our guy (George) more or less picked us, honestly.
Talk to your neighbors and friends. They may know someone who has cats to sell or give away.
The shelters, private and public, and rescue groups, are excellent places to find great pets. All of our pets are from shelters or rescue groups.
cats hang in the same area. Put food out every day near your door. Walk the area regularly, quietly calling him. Your cat is probably hiding nearby waiting to be rescued. Mine was gone for 3 weeks but was not more tan 50 yards away the entire time. Several people saw him. As I was walking around he finally came up to me.
Go to petfinder.com, punch in your zip code or city - it will show dogs and cats available for adoption nearby.
Walmart often has a bulletin board in the animal section. I was on the board of the local animal shelter for over 10 years & breeders, not all of them.......the high quality ones who care about & love animals.....add to the euthanasia rate in a horrible way.
Don’t mean to lecture, just giving you information. Also people who have litters to sell or give away because they don’t take their animals to the vet for shots, wellness checks or to spay/neuter them. We had the same people who would drop off litters of puppies & kittens because they didn’t care about animal welfare. The worst of the worst!
Spring is when the new baby cats arrive. I know, I was a volunteer at our local ASPCA. Go to them, they’ll have plenty of kittens from now until June, at least.
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