Consett Cat Rescue

09/11/2025

Thank you to mystery person who sent the Felix cat food through the post (maybe via zooplus or bitiba? Or similar)
Thank you also to folks who’ve been donating lately.
We’ve received some quite generous donations and it’s massively helped reduce the outstanding vet bills.
Pic of Little Gingy (supposed to be known as Topper) for attention.
He is going to be trouble when he gets bigger.
Not available for adoption at this time as he is too young.

07/11/2025

Whilst there are probably a few other bits and bobs to add to this (and I will add to it), these are the basics we abide by.

06/11/2025

LOLA

Aged around 2 years old.
Spayed, chipped and vaccinated.

Friendly girl but is a dominant girl and so will do better as an only cat.

House cat like all our cats.
Usual Ts and Cs apply

06/11/2025

SONIC
Born in August 2022
Been in rescue since October 2022

Lovely natured lad. Snipped, chipped and vaccinated.
A bit nervous of strangers, he is lovely once he knows you.
House cat, usual Ts and Cs apply

05/11/2025

We've had some deliveries this week off the Amazon Wishlist. I'd like to thank Claire, Lindsay, Lucy and Kirsten who sent food, thank you. All those donations are appreciated very much.
Now lovely lad Vimto had a visit at the weekend gone with a view to him getting adopted. A lovely couple came and spent a fair bit of time with him. Sadly though, it was not to be and they felt he was maybe a little bit too much given their working hours etc. as he is still a scaredy boy.
Now a little note here just to say, please do not think you need to be home all the time if you adopt a cat, in particular a scaredy cat. Yes they need human company but the best thing is to leave them to their own devices and go about your normal routine. When you are home, do give them a little attention even if just for a few minutes to let them know you are not a big scary person. Eventually, they WILL come round. So dogs, yes difficult to leave alone for long periods, cats, well they don't care.
Vimto and his brother Viz are due their first annual booster next Monday so I have now temporarily got him locked up in kennels so I can give him a little attention every day which should hopefully help his nervousness of humans.
The fact they are both getting their booster shows how long they have been with us and thats a bit sad nobody wants to give them a chance. The right home is out there somewhere though.
The other photo shows the lovely Anna. She has been with us since January this year. She is one lazy lump I can tell you. Sadly she has had not one enquiry about adopting her and is another being left on the shelf.
I shall write new separate posts about Vimto and Anna to readvertise them. On a side note, the catchat websiste we use has recently moved to a new platform meaning I have to completely upload all the cats again onto the new site. I have only had time to do two of them to date and so it is a far cry from being up to date. But it’s a free web page so I cannot grumble and it’s lovely there is a service like that.

05/11/2025

KODA

He is 6 months old and was born outside and raised by his nervous mum as a feral boy in a part of Derwentside renowned for strays and ferals (not a thing to brag about).
But he was trapped along with his mum and two sisters and he is now up for adoption.
He has been neutered, chipped and is fully vaccinated. His flea and worm treatment is up to date.
He is still a bit of a nervous boy but in the right home he will thrive. I believe that he could easily live as an only cat which is unusual for an ex feral but as long as he got enough love and attention from his humans, he should be fine.
Like all our cats for adoption, he is a house cat and would not be suitable for a home with young children due to his background.
However sensible children should be ok and he may even bond with them and become "their" cat.
He is a decent size for his age and could well end up a large house panther. His mum is very small so maybe takes after his wayward father.
If you think you have the right home for this boy, message the page and ask for an information sheet to read over and then a questionnaire to apply to come and meet him.

02/11/2025

UPDATE - POLITE REQUEST

Could people NOT recommend other rescues to us. We are well aware of all the rescues across Co Durham and beyond and we know who we would trust to help.
All rescues are not equal. All have their own rehoming rules and processes. Often they are wildly different to our policies and so I would not send a cat there. For example ALL our cats are house cats. Therefore I would never let a cat go to a rescue who did not follow that same principle.
That does not mean its a bad rescue, just they have different views to us.
On this occasion the circumstances changed and they are not able to go to another rescue and we will therefore tame and sort them out.

Remember how we are full and not taking in anymore cats.
Well we trapped these today and they’re hopefully going to another rescue for rehoming.
However they are pretty feral so will need a fair bit of attention to tame them.
I will be making sure if they do go to a rescue it’s reputable and can be trusted to have good rehoming procedures in place because the more I hear these days about some places, I’m frankly shocked at how they just hand cats out like sweets on Halloween.
Still trying to catch the mum cat as she was not around when these two cherubs were caught.
I’ll be having her neutered tomorrow if she does turn up tonight.
Big thank you to Beth and her mum for their prompt action in contacting rescues for help.

UPDATE
The mum cat was also caught. Just had no time to update post as had to go out after 11pm to collect another feral for neutering.
I’m a tad overflowing at the min 😬

02/11/2025

Doing this now as I do forget,
Thank you to the following folk whom I know bought stuff off our Amazon wish list recently (https://amzn.eu/fL1PO2R).
Patricia Lynn
Lisa Shaw
Asli & James

Now I know others have also dropped stuff off at our drop off points but I don’t always know who you are so thank you to you as well.

Drop off points:
🐈‍⬛ Pets at Home Consett.
🐈 Simplycats Vet Clinic.
🐈‍⬛ Darlington Vet Clinic, St Helen Auckland branch.
🐈 Westway Vets Consett.
🐈‍⬛ Reception at The Business Centre on Station Rd, Birtley.

You may think what you all do is only a small thing but recently we’ve been finding it hard to keep up with food/litter bills as well as vet bills so every donation, no matter how big or large is important to us
Thank you 💜

02/11/2025

An American post but just to reassure folk we don’t stop any time of year.
I’m sure we are making a difference with all the TNR work we do even if at times I feel like I’m bashing my head off a brick wall.
It’s true we may take a while to get round to some folks probably because it’s a tom cat and sadly females must take priority (for obvious reasons) but we will get there I promise.
If you’ve slipped through the cracks of my “list in my head” (easy done), get in touch

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31/10/2025

Whilst I do need to remember to thank everyone for their generosity of donations towards vet bills recently, it’s been a really difficult time here at CCR HQ.
In the pictures you’ll see our long term resident cat, Yolli.
She was a very special cat, born in a feral environment, her and her siblings, plus mum were captured along with another mum and kittens at Hollinside back in 2018.
The mum cats were most likely sisters and the kittens were all of the same age.
At age just 7 weeks old, Yolli and her half sister Zoey came down with a nasty dose of cat flu.
They were immediately separated from their siblings and treated as best we could.
It took weeks if I recall and neither ever fully recovered leaving them both with chronic rhinitis. Forever snotty cats.
Zoey sadly died of respiratory problems 4 years ago and it was only after she died we began aggressively tackling Yolli’s issues in a different way.
We never could cure her but we kept her going and she was happy in her own world.
I say in her own world because it was later discovered Yolli had brain atrophy (her brain was shrinking). But she knew nothing else and was happy.
Lately we’ve struggled with many poorly kittens succumbing to flu and vets agree there is a particularly nasty set of bugs around this year.
Yolli also got poorly but when we got up on Wednesday I could see something was not right with her.
I managed to get agreement to drop her off at Simplycats where X-rays showed her chest to be full of fluid.
Meds were given to try and help and a feeding tube fitted so
I could safely feed and medicate her.
Sadly during recovery from the anaesthetic, she simply stopped breathing and died.
Whilst I’m not one for all that rainbow bridge rubbish and I’m not interested in paw prints, ashes etc (each to their own), I have been sad this week and she is a huge miss.
Cats like her with special needs do not come along all the time and the household is different without her drooling snotty face requiring constant cleaning.
RIP Yolli
Gone but never forgotten
30/4/18 to 29/10/25