Hi,
I'm Helen - I've been tarting around Catchat for a while now and am also one of their volunteer writers for the Top Cat section.
I'd like to introduce my furry rabble...
Sweep will be 4 years old in May. She was the tiny runt in a litter of 7 feral kittens in the Leicester RSPCA shelter. Apparently she had got herself wedged in the chimney part of a plastic cat bed/dolls house they had in their pen, which the staff had to saw apart to retrieve her - so we felt it necessary to call her Sweep. She came to live with us at 12 weeks old, and apart from a rabid dislike of strangers (and even the OH on occasion
) and a propensity for getting herself locked in various neighbours' garden sheds, she's just about perfect
Florence also came from Leicester RSPCA, as a 4 year old 'stray'. She had, in fact, been found to be microchipped after she was handed in, but her owners decided that they didn't want her back
She now around 7 yrs old and an affectionate, if rather swipy, furry heffalump of a cat. She has ongoing 'issues' with her weight, probably partly in consequence of being kicked out and having to scavenge for food.
Emily is almost 3 years old and came to us from Cats In Need, a small rescue in the Nuneaton/Hinckley area, at about a year old. She was one of a pair of female feral kittens which a woman was apparently duped into buying for her young daughter. The family were unable to cope with them and eventually handed them into rescue. Emily's sister was rather dominant and remained very aggressive with humans, so the fosterer decided to try separating them; Emily became much easier to socialize after this, while her sister was rehomed as a feral/outdoor cat. Emily is skittish but very affectionate, and is determined to master the art of catching flies... one day...
