In a up to date survey1, 62% of latest cat homeowners stated they’d got a kitten this 12 months which is a 12% upward push from the former 12 months, while the ones acquiring an older cat dropped by way of 8%, in step with Cats Coverage.
As older cats take over 3 times longer than their more youthful opposite numbers to be rehomed and incessantly get overpassed all through kitten season, the charity celebrates #MatureMoggiesDay each and every 16 June.
That is when Cats Coverage stocks tales of the senior ‘kitizens’ looking forward to new properties, encourages others to proportion the fun of proudly owning mature moggies and gives recommendation about taking good care of older cats.
The attraction has backing from widely known celebrities together with comic Jo Emblem.
“When you’re fascinated with proudly owning a cat don’t disregard the mature moggies, older cats can nonetheless convey such a lot love and amusing to a house,” she stated. “My cat Louie lived into his 20s and used to be nonetheless the beautiful, quirky boy we beloved. Plus, they’re so much much less fuss than a kitten!”
Comic and cat-lover Bob Mortimer could also be serving to Cats Coverage lift consciousness by way of growing a brand new identify generator specifically created for older cats at the charity’s social channels which may also be discovered @CatsProtection #MatureMoggiesDay.
Bob, who incessantly runs auctions of his ordinary cat names on Twitter to lift price range for the charity, has put in combination 24 phrases that correspond to the month you had been born and your favorite color, the results of which will give you a suitably eccentric identify in your new tom cat buddy.
Cats Coverage has a robust observe report of rehoming older cats, specifically when final 12 months the Guinness Global Information recognised Flossie because the oldest dwelling cat, simply weeks ahead of she celebrated her twenty seventh birthday.
Flossie used to be signed over to Cats Coverage volunteers in Kent and confronted an unsure long run however used to be given a brand new rent of lifestyles when the charity matched her to a loving new house.
This 12 months, the oldest cat within the charity’s care is 20-year-old Mia who got here into Cats Coverage’s Isle of Wight adoption centre after her proprietor died.
“Whilst you get a kitten, you don’t somewhat know what kind of persona they’ll develop as much as have, while what you’re getting with an older cat as they have already got a longtime character,” stated Cats Coverage’s behaviour supervisor Nicky Trevorrow. “By way of adopting a mature moggy, you’ll be giving them a 2nd likelihood at happiness of their twilight years in addition to liberating up area in adoption centres so we will be able to assist much more cats.”
The ones interested by adopting from Cats Coverage can view mature moggies on the lookout for a brand new house at the charity’s site.