Hudson's Brother is lost - Please Help!

We have heard from the lovely people who have homed Pebblie. It sounds like he was getting on really well and the children were loving him as he was them. It was really good to hear this news. He is such a nervous boy but it sounds like he was doing really well. There has been one small problem, Pebblie has actually gone missing. We think he has probably gone a little too far and cant work out how to get back to his home.

So if any one around the Lynn Cresent/Burnside areas (or near by) in Kirkwall can keep there eyes open for him. If you see him just let us know and we will pass the information on to his new owners (or if you don't want to tell us but know some important information on his whereabouts please get in touch with local cats protection who can then pass it on).

Thank you and fingers crossed he will return to his new home very soon.

Still Here and still Fighting

So its Rosies Birthday and she hasn't got the present that she wanted. Hudson back (as OICP promised on two occasions). I know that Cats Protection assume that this story will just fade away. I'm afraid it wont. We will continue as long as we need to. Yes I know there is the possibility that Hudson has been rehomed. We hope and pray he has not. We also hope that any potential home will realise he is our much loved cat and he should be returned home.

One of the things that has shocked me most about this is that National Cats Protection have refused to even talk to us and the complaints manager will not deal with our complaint. We have always been polite and factual with our attempted contacts, but they still refuse to talk. Its like 'we're a big charity and your the little guy so you don't matter' mentality. Well i'm afraid that we do matter we small people are the ones that support and fund you.

Over the years we have given Cats Protection donations of both time and money. We have never wanted thanks or anything special for this. All we have ever wanted is to be treated like Human Beings. Promises to be kept and to actually speak to people. There are lots of other charities both local and National that people can support. Ones that will listen to complaints and realise that without us little people they are in trouble.

We can't help thinking that some of this is personal. We know of many other cases that similar things like our case has happened and that cats have been returned. We know of cases where OICP has swapped cats (not that we would ever want to do that)

As we have said before we are happy with rehomong our other cats but Hudson was a mistake. We have admitted that. OICP said on two seperate occasions that we could have him back then went back on this. National Cats Protection have been trying to pretend that there is nothing wrong. Well obviously there is.

All we want is our Cat Hudson back to the home he has lived in healthily for years. Thats not too much to ask especially after this has been promised to you.

No Communication (As Expected)

A few days ago we emailed the National Cats Protection, we told them about our refusal for re-adopting Hudson and our response to it. Especially that they used several things against us that were not true (e.g being in a Orkney housing house and exceeding there pet numbers, of which we are not as our house is not owned by them!).

We were hoping they would have the politeness to reply but still we have received no response, sad to say its not surprising as throughout all of our fight to get Hudson back home they have barely been in touch with us at all. Which I personally think is rather appalling, they should at least have the politeness to reply and get in touch with us in some way.

Hudson, our cat is still not back at home where he belongs. Its been several weeks now and the poor boy has been stuck in a foster pen when he could of come home to us and been a lot happier. We have no idea how he is doing and its hard, we hope and pray to god that he has not been re-homed as he already has a home and its here. We will continue to fight to get him home where he belongs.

Its my wife's birthday soon and do you the only thing she wants for her birthday? for Hudson to be back. I am not sure if I can make this happen but I will do my best, if you can help in any way to make this wish come true I'd be really grateful...we both would.

We wont and can't give up on the fight to get our cat Hudson back, we got a yes from the local branch and for them to go back on there word is wrong and they shouldn't get away with it. All we wanted is for our cat back, of which we asked less than 10 hours after he left. Then the National Cats Protection did a press release saying we could apply to re-adopt him, even though we didn't feel this was fair we would do anything to get Hudson back so we did what they asked. We went through the home visit only to be refused on some very unfair points and since then we've heard nothing, we deserve some communication with National Cats Protection at least don't we?

This Blog has never been about Slagging Cats Protection off. All it has been aout is telling our story. Telling people about a promise that was broken (To Return Hudson). As I have said on a few occasions if we had not Trusted Cats Protection we would never have gone to them in the first place. I know of other places on-line that people are gleefully ganging up to make personal attacks on us while avoiding our central argument (We were promised our cat back). We have not got involved in these and we will not. We could quite easily get personal and publish many a incriminating fact but we are not those sort of people. Our argument is with the organisation Cats Protection (both local and National) not with individuals. Not with some of the fundraisers or fosterers that do such good work.

I have always thought that when people start resorting to personal attacks it proves that there argument is failing. I hope that the people out there who read this even if you do not like us as people will be able to look at the facts behing our argument and see where a charity has failed to take into account the people behind the cats.

We were in a situation that I would not wish on anyone and had to make hard decisions. In this we made a mistake (as humans do). If this situation has happened to us similar things could happen to others. No matter what happens we will continue our campaign to bring Hudson home. We will also continue to campaign to stop this situation happening to others.

Slideshows of Hudson

We've been going through photos of Hudson since he came into our life and we thought you might like to see them.

We've made 2 slideshows, both with the same photos but with different styles. We hope you can find the time to watch and see our lovely boy how we saw him.

Hudson, we miss you so much and we wish you were home by our side.

So we needed some help...

So we needed some help. So we went to OICP and they helped, for this we were grateful. If we hadn't of trusted them we wouldn't have gone to them. Then there is a but, but they made a promise and then went back on this. They seemed to chuck any hummanity and common sense out of the window.

What charities in general need to think about is who they are serving. If they are getting bad press. Why? Something must be going wrong even if its just a basic like communication. They need to remember where there funding and support comes from. As if they do not do a very good job or treat people without respect this could possibly effect there funding. This whole sitution could have been sorted out very quickly if Cats Protection both Nationally and locally had had the courtesy to talk to us. The national branch as I have said on numerous occasions has never been in direct contact with us and the complaints manager said he couldn't deal with our complaint! (So why are they paying him)

As I have said before we have had some great support from the local community. We have also had some people disagree with us (which is of course there right) We have also had the odd one who has spread viscous rumours and lies. These people when asked to speak out in public about there accusations have scuttled away. This shows what little substance there accusations have. People normally resort to insults when the facts of the argument are non existant.

Any personal insults make you question the community you are in even when you know it is only the odd person. We have put the whole story from our side on this blog. We have not resorted to insults we have just told our story.

We could have quite easily published a range of information putting things and people in a bad light, but we haven't and we wont as we are not that sort of people. We will continue to campaign trying to put the facts of the case forward. The basic facts that we were promised our cat back and that they went back on this.

No matter what happens from this point we will continue to campaign to get our cat Hudson back. We hope and pray that someone comes to there senses and puts right this injustice. If they continue to refuse we will continue our campaign and keep highlighting what we see that has gone wrong in this whole sorry process.