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.

Re-adopting Hudson Refused!

In the previous post National Cats Protection offered us to re-adopt Hudson. We were delighted and of course got in touch with our local branch as requested.

We contacted the local branch, there phone number is a message service so we left a message saying we wanted to adopt Hudson and our contact details. We also mentioned we were still in touch with the press about the matter of us wanting our Cat Hudson back as promised.

We never wanted to adopt him, we wanted him back. However we were happy to sign the adoption form to in order for his return. However we were told by the local branch that we had to go through the normal procedures, home checking etc. Now this is ridiculous, they know us and have visited our home many times including the day they collected him. Hudson has been with us since he was a baby, he has always lived with us happily and being well cared for.

We were prepared to do this even though we felt it was wrong, Hudson was living with us up till Monday 16th at 11am. In less than 10 hours we realised our mistake and asked for him back to which the co-ordinator said YES.

The local cats protection never got back to our phone message in response to re-adopting Hudson even though this is what National Cats Protection told us to do. Later we got an email from the branch pretty much saying we could not have him back.

The reasons they stated for him not being able to come home was this: They told us how Hudson and Sonic (which is another cat we re-homed to them) were very close and they felt they needed to be homed together. That this was in the best interests of the cats welfare.

We find this very strange as Hudson and Sonic have never got on particularly well and have never been close. They are completely opposite cats, Sonic is a hyperactive kitten who spends a lot of time outdoors or causing choas in the home running around like a nutter. He has so much energy, this can often be very offputting to the calmer cat and even upset them. Hudson is a calm and relaxed cat, he spends all his time resting in a comfortable spot and hates the outdoors. Obviously the reason they have become close in the foster pen is because of the situation, they have been taken from there home and they are in a place they don't know. The only familuar thing is eachother and this is obviously bringing comfort. However given the chance to settle down seperately they would of been just fine and by putting them together they have made the situation worse for them.

To home these two together would be stupid, yes it might sound like a good idea in practice but is certainly not what we'd recommend. We know the cats more than they do, they have lived with us for many years. So there arguement of the best interests of the cats seems very wrong to us.

We can provide Hudson a good home, we always have done so and can continue to do this. If Hudson was homed back with us he would get attention 24 hours a day, he loves people and needs companionship constantly. Now surely with my wife being bedbound and me being around all the time caring for her he is never going to be left alone. This is ideal for him and we feel he will not cope well with situations where he is left on his own for so long.

We really want him home ASAP, we are worried the effect this must be having on Hudson because there is no way he can be getting companionship 24 hours a day in care. We understood this when we turned him over and knew it would be hard for him. Now surely as we want him back he'll get what he needs, its in his best interest as well as ours.

To summerise, we were told by National Cats Protection we could re-adpot him. We have tried to do this and been turned down without even a call or home visit, the only limited contact has been through email. The reason they stated for the refusal is totally wrong and it is not in the best interest of the cats. If they want the best for him and his welfare then he should be re-homed with us.