27/08/2023
NOW AVAILABLE for adoption: Bertie ❤
* Male 🐈
* 3-4 years old 💕
* Best living as an only cat, but may enjoy the company of a younger, friendly cat with slow introductions. May also be okay with a calm, cat friendly dog. 😺🐶
* Will need an experienced owner with a calm home, and someone who is home a fair bit (not all the time though, he likes to roam and sleep). 😴
*Bertie will need access to a garden away from any main roads. 🌳
*Bertie cannot live with children, or in very complex multi-pet households. He only wants to be leader of a small, carefully curated gang. ❌👶
*Neutered, up to date on flea and worm treatments. 🐛
This long, lean, shiny dreamboat wants to come and live with you, and play musical chairs! He’ll insist on trying them ALL out. Especially with that big armchair of yours which is perfect for his 7.6kg cat bod. He loves stretching out, and you know he’s especially relaxed when he sleeps on his back. 💺
Bertie sadly found himself living on the streets for 2 years when his elderly owner died. 🖤😿
Thanks to a lovely community of local cat lovers, he was helped with flea and worm treatments, and regular meals; but he was very sad and traumatised after losing his family and living on the scary streets, and he was very unsettled and anxious. 💔
Some of this anxiety came out as overstimulation and play aggression, but this has massively improved since being in a foster home, and is rarely an issue now (but it does still happen from time to time). His new owners will need to continue his training and give him a calm, consistent, settled home life. 🧘♂️
What he’ll give you back in return will be:
• Excellent company
• Living with an explorer of EVERYTHING (he’s nosy, okay)
• Heads bops
• Slow blinks
• The quietest rumbling purrs of appreciation
• Comedy timing
• Chicken thief!
• Trying to fit in small spaces
• Cleaning dust bunnies from room corners
• EXTREME CUTENESS when sleeping (be warned: it’s the MAXIMUM EXTREME of cuteness, are you sure you can handle that?)
• Occasional lap cat loving (which will probably increase over time)
• Sleek slow elegant walks, and hilarious uncoordinated running (think Bambi on ice).
Bertie is a massive fan of his toy catnip crabs, which will be coming with him to his next home! He loves to play, sit by you (he’s an excellent helper in the garden), loves to play catch with Dreamies, enjoys a good meal (or two). 🦀🦀🦀
The special thing about Bertie is that he is grateful for love and attention, but at his own pace. We expect that he will continue to blossom in his forever home, and that your patience and care will mean you develop a strong bond with him over time. He’s a very rewarding cat to have as a companion and friend. 🌼
Although he enjoys finding cobwebs to wear on his head - he isn’t a fan of the vacuum cleaner, or a washing machine on a spin cycle. So, please: don’t ask him to do any cleaning…but he’s definitely ready to sweep you off your feet. 🕸
As you’ll know from our recent fundraising appeals: Bertie recently had a biopsy and blood tests for a lump under his chin. Thankfully this came back as nothing sinister. He’s had a course of anti-biotics, just in case. We’d advise keeping an eye for any changes, and we have all the medical details available if you need them in future. 💊☺
Good job, Bertie. 💖😻
Please form an orderly queue in our DMs for applications for Bertie. We can’t wait to find him his forever people. 🙌
