Thank you for contacting us about Owen & Wispa who we adopted in December last year.
Owen has kept his original name but Wispa has become Winston for no real reason other than that he seemed to prefer it!
They both are lovely, extremely affectionate and gentle. Although they do like winding each other up.
Winston likes sleeping on knees whereas Owen likes his Cat Tv.
The only problem is a medical one with Winston. We noticed as soon as we collected him that he dribbled a lot, had very bad breath and on occasions his mouth obviously hurt him when he was eating or being stroked. We kept an eye on him and then one morning we noticed that there was blood in his saliva. We took him to the vet who diagnosed gingivitis. Said that he had certainly had it for a long time. This will probably mean regular injections that we are quite happy to fund. However if it had been someone who could not afford these payments who adopted them it would have been a heartbreaking decision for them to decide whether to return two such lovely cats.
I know that you have the cats checked by a vet but really think this should have been picked up at that visit.
This is not a problem for us, we are keeping the cats and more than happy to look after them medically, but I feel you ought to know to ensure that a future adopter doesn’t have a difficult decision to make.
We enclose some photographs and as you can see they are both very happy and relaxed and we wouldn’t be without them. Very much loved.
Thank you for all the work you do.
Kind regards
Di & Bruce
This is perfectly correct. These two beauties came from an elderly chap who had dementia and we were asked to take in a hurry and, although it’s not an excuse, perhaps with the urgency the inspection wasn’t as thorough as usual. When these do arise we will pay for the treatment and ongoing medication, the important thing that they’re safe in a new home.