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.

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.

Reflecting on the week

Its quite difficult to explain the effect a situation like this can have on you. The stress is quite unimaginable. One of the most frustrating things is all the waiting. Even when you know people are fighting for you. Days go by slowly, you forget meals and food. Other important things just fade into the background. Obviously you sometimes question what you are doing, I have thought about the situation frequently but I know if the same thing happened again I would act in the same way.

Other problems are when people won't talk to you and you are totally fobbed off. You have to learn to be persistent and suspicious of everything. We have had our hopes dashed a few times and this roller-coaster is just heartbreaking.

My wife spends most of her time crying, the more the days pass the worse it seems to get. She barely sleeps and is tormented by all that has been happening. As the days pass, the more distant she becomes. All of this has had a very bad effect on her health and wellbeing, its on her mind 24 hours a day and there is nothing I can do to make her feel any better. All I can do is keep fighting for Hudson's return, for Hudson to be back where he belongs and see him lay beside my wife again.

Since this all began on Monday I have lost 10lbs, sure I need to loose some weight but not this way...it just shows what a severe effect stress can have on your body. Even my wife who is currently bedbound has lost weight, I have seen her get weaker and its terrible.

All we want is for Hudson to come back home, for all of this hell to end and for life to start to get back to how it was.

I would not wish the last week on anyone. The stupid thing about it all is there was no point to it at all. We are Human beings and sometimes we can make mistakes. One mistake we haven't made is to campaign for Hudson back. I am disappointed in Cats Protection both locally and Nationally. Nationally it is impossible to get anyone to talk to you, if the complaints manager can't handle complaints whats the point? I think that no one can know what we have experienced but ourselves.

Charities that work with animals as much as they are there for animals need to remember that behind the animals there are people who may have made some of the hardest decisions of there lives and in doing so may have made a mistake. I think that everyone involved with charities needs to think about why they are there doing what they are doing. Are they there for there clients or themselves?

If someone is fighting as hard as myself and Rosie are for Hudson, there is a good reason. People do not start campaigning for something over a whim. We thought long and hard before going to the press. We could have quite easily gone a lot sooner but held out hoping that someone either nationally or locally would communicate with us. We hope that this weekend means that this will finally end. We do have a bad feeling that it wont though. If they refuse again we will continue to fight.

We are so appreciative of the support we have had from local people and businesses. The press also have been fantastic also. The majority of people we talk to are as confused as we are to why this is all going on. There are of course people who do not agree with us and we respect there opinions. I would like these people to think about two things. If we did not trust or respect what CP were doing we would never have homed any cats with them. Also no one would go through what we have in the past week unless they really felt that an injustice had been done.

Myself and Rosie are very private people we do not want are lives talked about or discussed all over the country. We feel what was an easily sortable situation has got out of control due to a lack of Communication, Compassion and common sense. Lent is almost upon us a time of reflection we pray that by this time this will all be over and Hudson will be home with us.