Cat adoption in Aberdeen

Could you provide a loving new home for a cat in Aberdeen? During the process of adopting a cat from us, we will consider everything from your potential pet’s personality and how this fits with your lifestyle, to your home environment – creating the perfect match for both cat and owner and the start of a wonderful feline friendship.

Cats available for adoption from Aberdeen are featured below. To express your interest in a particular cat, please enquire via their listing.

Adoption procedures include a Home Visit / or via Video Call. Adoption paperwork and proof of address are completed via email. Once everything has been completed, and a cat matched with adopter; the Adoption Fee (£100) is paid in advance via a bank transfer to the branch.

All cats taken into the care of Cats Protection are vet checked to ensure they are healthy, Neutered/ Spayed, Microchipped, Worm and Flea treated, given their First Vaccination (2nd vaccination 3-4 weeks later and included in the adoption fee of £100) and assessed for personality before being considered for homing.

If you have any general enquiries about your suitability, or the adoption process, please call us on: 0759 400 7139 or email: enquiries@aberdeen.cats.org.uk

You can find out more about adopting a cat from Cats Protection here.

Aberdeen City Council, under the terms of The Animal Welfare (Licensing of Activities Involving Animals) (Scotland) Regulations 2021, hereby grant a Licence to the undernoted (Animal Welfare Establishment)
Licence Reference: ACC/AWEL/16/22
Licensee: Aberdeen Cats Protection

Lost and found cats in Aberdeen

Lost Cats

Cats Protection and all rescue charities and vets encourage microchipping of all your pets. This greatly increases the chance of being reunited with your pet, no matter how long has passed, and is the quickest way to contact an owner... especially if it is an emergency and your pet has been injured. For the cost of a few pounds now - it will save valuable time as well as heartache for yourself and your pet.

Any welfare organisation and veterinary practice will always scan an animal for a microchip, if it can be approached, or where it has been reported or taken to a vet practice. Unfortunately, we do not have the space to lift and admit to care every single animal reported. Microchipping not only reunites the animal immediately, it frees-up space of un-chipped animals coming into care and being held for 14 days before being able to re-home them to a new family. Please Microchip your pet BEFORE it goes missing.

If your cat has gone wandering, there are a number of things you can do to help find them:

• The first is to check your home thoroughly:

Cupboards, wardrobes, inside drawers, under the bed and sofa, behind kitchen appliances, their usual hiding spots, and not so usual hiding spots - especially for newly arrived kittens that will hide in the tiniest of spaces. Check your garden and outbuildings: including under bushes, inside, behind and under sheds, decking and garages. Indoor cats that have escaped very rarely go far (only a few metres sometimes to the nearest hiding spot from the door) within the first 24 hours, but may be too scared to come out, so a softly, softly approach is recommended.

• If your cat is in unfamiliar territory and disorientated, it may help them find their way home if they can smell a familiar scent. If they use a litter tray, scatter some used litter around the garden. Cat urine has a very powerful scent and it will travel a long way. Hang out on the washing line, or up off of the ground, something that smells of your cat and of you e.g. their bed/blanket, the sheets from your bed, your night clothes, dressing gown etc. This scent will also carry in the air to hopefully re-orientate your cat if it has become lost.
• Sometimes a cat may be hiding in a shed etc. and may not come when you say their name, so you are unaware they are there. If you have a digital camera, take random photos in the dark as the cat's eyes reflect with the flash and you will see them in the photos, or simply use a torch.
• Please use a softly spoken tone when out looking for your cat so that it does not think it is being told-off, and move slowly around your neighbourhood after dark and before sunrise to give it a chance to come out to you if it recognises its name or more likely, your voice.
• Create a poster with a picture advertising the fact that they are lost. Distribute posters through all your neighbours' doors (ask them to check their outbuildings) and put up on lamp-posts, walk around your area speaking to your neighbours.
• Northsound / Original 106 Radio may read out an appeal for you, as may other local radio stations. To register your appeal, contact your local station.
• Your local paper will print a Lost & Found advert for you (although they will probably charge for it). To place your ad, contact your local newspaper.
• Many people are posting lost & found pets on social media - this requires you to constantly scan all the various pages everyday in case a picture appears there. (another reason for microchipping your cat before it is allowed out of the house) Local Facebook pages with a large active following include: Fubar Missing Pets, Lost/Found Pets Aberdeenshire and make sure to also post on the national site Animal Search UK.

Local animal charities that you can contact:

• Scottish SPCA - 03000 999 999 (07:00 - 21:00 - Call Centre)
• Cats Protection Aberdeen - (No Lost & Found Volunteers currently available) Recorded Message with above information - 07754 164 882
• Mrs Murray's Cat & Dog Home - 01224 483 624
• Cat Action Trust - 01224 929392 - Voicemail
• PDSA: 01224 632 042
• Contact your vet and ALL other vets in your area - drop off posters for them to display too.
• Contact Your Microchip Company so they can place a 'Missing' note on the system.  If your cat is scanned by a rescue charity or vet, the chip scanner and/or database will alert them as being reported 'Missing'.

Finally, if you fear the worst, the Council's Cleansing Department is responsible for collecting any deceased animal road traffic victims. To contact Aberdeen City Cleansing Department, telephone 03000 200 292. For Aberdeenshire Council, phone 03456 081 207. The councils generally keep records of animals they collect and will normally scan for microchips.

Found Cats  (No Cats Protection Aberdeen volunteers available in this role)

If any found animal is INJURED, in DISTRESS or if you think there is a Welfare Issue, Please IMMEDIATELY call the SSPCA 03000 999 999

Please check with ALL your near neighbours to see if the cat may belong to them and is simply new to the area.
If no one recognises the cat, you can put on a paper collar for at least 3-4 days continuously with a contact number to see if an owner calls you. If there is no response from that, and you have access to a secure cat carrier, you can take the cat to your nearest vet and they will scan it (no fee) for a microchip.

Please - Do Not Feed - other people's cats, as it simply encourages them to stray from home and not return regularly. They may also be on a restricted or special medicated diet. This is the most common enquiry / complaint received by us from very frustrated cat owners.

If the cat is not microchipped, then contact either the SSPCA, Cats Protection or Mrs Murrays Cat and Dog Home for further assistance and to see if there is space for the cat to be admitted.

Cats Protection Aberdeen covers the following areas:

• Aberdeen City, North to Balmedie, Potterton, Newmachar, Hatton of Fintray, Blackburn, Kinellar
• West to Dunecht, Echt, The Birks, Crathes, Drumoak
• South Deeside Road - Ardoe, Blairs, Maryculter
• South to Cove & Findon

Lost, found and feral cats