Anyone know of any reputable pet shops in Brighton/Sussex that sell KITTENS.

[minnieme]

We got 2 cats a few months ago from the Raysted centre, just north of Ringmer. Very good place.

 

[brighton_girl87]

We got 2 cats a few months ago from the Raysted centre, just north of Ringmer. Very good place.

I'm going there this afternoon

 

[Scampi]

Who said anything about forcing kittens out? Jeez I was just telling you the probable reasoning behind them turning you down.

FFS mate they weren't getting a sodding kitten. They've owned cats all their lives, they know how to look after them. They were turned down because they saw no reason why an adult cat should be locked in at night after it has become settled in it's new home.

 

[glasfryn]

My parents tried to adopt a cat from a shelter about fifteen years ago. They were refused, reason given- because they would let the cat out at night if it wanted to go out.

so would I most cats go missing at night

My parents were given a grilling by the Cats Protection League...they wanted to know how the previous cat had died, despite it being an estimated 17 years old and being despatched by the vet...if you treated a cat badly there is no way it would hang around for anything near that long!

you are right they will find another owner pretty quickly

IIRC you're not supposed to if they are still young kittens. An older cat would be fine.

see previous answer

http://www.lostcatsbrighton.org.uk/6.html

That is an astonishingly dangerous site

PS Don't disregard the older ones. They also need a home and are just as friendly as the kittens (more personality if slightly less obviously cute)

good point thats the trouble with kittens they grow up to be cats and older ones can be cute

FFS mate they weren't getting a sodding kitten. They've owned cats all their lives, they know how to look after them. They were turned down because they saw no reason why an adult cat should be locked in at night after it has become settled in it's new home.

I don't know of any cat rescue that would allow a cat to be adopted if you said you would allow it to go out at night

 

[Scampi]

I don't know of any cat rescue that would allow a cat to be adopted if you said you would allow it to go out at night

IMO thats ludicrous. Cats are perfectly capable of looking after themselves at night.

 

[glasfryn]

IMO thats ludicrous. Cats are perfectly capable of looking after themselves at night.

sorry mate the figures do NOT back that up before we left Brighton I used to run the Brighton lost and found for cats protection as well as being welfare officer then went on to run it alone until I handed it over to Ron (and what a great job he does to) and most of the lost notices that came in were from people who had lost their cats at night.
even here in rural Wales we don't let ours out after dark.
the Brighton area I'm afraid to say is a very dangerous place for cats even in the daytime I would and could tell you some very hair-raising stories about how cats have gone missing in Brighton but not on here as this is a public forum and for fear of copycat incidents happening by silly people who think its OK to harm animals.

 

[Gilliver's Travels]

... I would and could tell you some very hair-raising stories about how cats have gone missing in Brighton but not on here as this is a public forum and for fear of copycat incidents happening by silly people who think its OK to harm animals.

Very droll.

Round here virtually all the cats you see are feral anyway. Greeks don't keep cats indoors at all. Nor dogs for that matter. But at least the cats don't end up chained to a post all day.

 

[Hockley Blues]

This.

 

[Stoo82]

I've had cats my whole life and have never EVER felt I have 'owned' them. They have always been free to leave when ever they want throught the catflap. Night or day. But they don't becuase they know they will get; food, a walm bed, and some great love and company.

If resucers are refusing to let people adopt cats becuase they will let them out at night they are either mad or have so many people wanting to apopt that they can afford to refuse people

Born free.

 

[Stoo82]

Very droll.

Round here virtually all the cats you see are feral anyway. Greeks don't keep cats indoors at all. Nor dogs for that matter. But at least the cats don't end up chained to a post all day.

They just end up having one eye or a whole in the back. But, like we do, we have two cute little kittens who are lovely and fresh outside. Give it 2 months and they will look like monsters.

 

[glasfryn]

Very droll.

Round here virtually all the cats you see are feral anyway. Greeks don't keep cats indoors at all. Nor dogs for that matter. But at least the cats don't end up chained to a post all day.

we had a holiday in Crete and I had a ginger and white she cat sleeping at the bottom of my bed the whole two weeks, apparently she used to wait for the newbies to arrive and pick the ones most likely to feed her and spent the whole summer porky fat (we think she must have been DONE because the owners never saw her pregnant) most of the cats there looked feral but well fed.
nice place Crete particularly Agos Nicholiuos and Chania (spelling) and easy to get round now they have the motorway.

 

[glasfryn]

I've had cats my whole life and have never EVER felt I have 'owned' them. They have always been free to leave when ever they want throught the catflap. Night or day. But they don't becuase they know they will get; food, a walm bed, and some great love and company.

If resucers are refusing to let people adopt cats becuase they will let them out at night they are either mad or have so many people wanting to apopt that they can afford to refuse people

Born free.

All right and proper.........but not all owners are like you RSPCA and Cats Protection stick to their rules religiously (one of the reasons I left CP) you can only ask people to be sensible ask them to keep the cats in ....if they don't then sometimes it is them that can't bear the consequences I only say this because as I said before Brighton is not a nice place for cats and even where we are in rural Wales our garden is like the Serengeti at night with every type of wildlife around of which it is Badgers are worse for cats, Badgers will kill anything that goes near there young and you know what cats are like nosy sods.

Maybe we are just over protective and maybe that is because we lost a cat in daylight (in Brighton)never to be seen again.