Author Topic: Local vets help with responsible rehoming  (Read 2134 times)

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Re: Local vets help with responsible rehoming
« Reply #8 on: July 23, 2010, 23:02:41 PM »
What a great thing to do  :hug:
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Re: Local vets help with responsible rehoming
« Reply #7 on: July 23, 2010, 09:04:59 AM »
Lovely story, I wonder would Panarama like to do a story on this?    :-:

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Re: Local vets help with responsible rehoming
« Reply #6 on: July 23, 2010, 08:07:04 AM »
That is really impressive.
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Re: Local vets help with responsible rehoming
« Reply #5 on: July 23, 2010, 01:03:25 AM »
Give that vet a smiley sticker award from me!  :wow: Wanna here more stories like that.  :naughty:

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Re: Local vets help with responsible rehoming
« Reply #4 on: July 22, 2010, 20:28:47 PM »
My vets do unorganised rehoming and also help local rspca but this vets actually do the whole thing themselves. I just thought the whole getting the mum spayed thing first was very responsible and meant they were helping to stop the problem of TOO MANY kittens.
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Re: Local vets help with responsible rehoming
« Reply #3 on: July 22, 2010, 20:21:59 PM »
My vet also does some rehoming but not in that kind of organised way. I suppose vets are probably the best ones to know which people are suitable.
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Re: Local vets help with responsible rehoming
« Reply #2 on: July 22, 2010, 20:17:27 PM »
I think that is brilliant, what a really good idea

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Local vets help with responsible rehoming
« Reply #1 on: July 22, 2010, 20:03:24 PM »
Much to my annoyance my friend at works cat got pregnant "because she managed to escape" (I've managed to keep 3 cats indoors for 5 years now including Soap before she was spayed). Anyway said cat went on to have 3 kittens, my friend was able to home 2 but had one left (surprise surprise a little black female). After a few more escape attempts *sigh* my friend got her cat to the vets to be spayed and mentioned that they still had one kitten to be homed. The vets offer to rehome kittens as long as the mum cats are spayed by them. Kittens are kept in special rehoming pens in the surgery and are vaccinated, microchipped etc before going to their new homechecked homes.  I personally saw this as a pretty responsible thing to do and of course it also helps out the already overburdened rescues.
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