We have a rescue cat called Wacko. We found him (or should I say he found us) when his previous owners threw him out and moved!
We took him to the R.S.P.C.A and at the time he was a bag of bones, his eys was hanging out and he had sores all over his body. We asked if we could keep him and here he is now
Yeah a similar thing happened with us- when i was a kid living on my mums farm, we used to have a cat called Chris (sadly passed away last year from old age- had him for over 10 years though). My mum rents out cottages and small houses on the farm, tennants are allowed to keep a dog and/or cat depending on the contract they are under.
We had one particular couple who had a black and white cat, kinda long fur, looked very pampered. He used to walk around the farm with a shiney collar with little gold bells on it, you could tell he was a very proud cat just by the way he walked lol. After many months though the couple had to move out, we assumed they took their cat with them as we didn't see it around for a while- so we thought everything was ok. But after about a month we noticed the cat was still around the farm- at first we thought it must have belonged to someone else living on the farm (the cat still had a collar on it), but after a couple of months it turned that no one knew who owned him and no one was willing to take him it. We tried to contact the old tennants but they never returned any of our calls.
He had be scavenging off our cats cat food for quite a few months by now (we knew he was taking our cats cat food, but we let him do it until we found his owner) and there were plenty of rodents to catch on the farm, so he wasn't in a bad state of health or anything, just needed a thorough brush and de-flea treatment.
Eventually we adopted him after it became obvious that the old tennants weren't going to come and take their cat back- which suprised me, as they appeared to care for him a lot when they had him, but after they moved they just abandoned him and completely lost interest in him. It did annoy me though they didn't even bother to tell us about him- if they had asked us if we would've adopted him when they first left the farm we would have. But because they just abandoned him with his collar still on, we assumed for a long time that he must have been owned by someone else.
He wasn't a very nice cat at first, he had a very almighty ego and nasty temperment (he do things like come up to you and try and sit on your lap, but if you tried to stroke him he'd try and scratch you or hiss/growl), but after a couple of months he soon bucked his attitude up and become a very nice and lovable cat. All the cats we owned on the farm were working cats- they were there to catch the rats and mice. They got additional food and some attention, but they weren't the sort of sit on your lap in front of the fireplace type cats which get loadsa toys and things etc.
Pretty much all the cats we have had on the farm during my lifetime their have been adopted or rescued- the current two cats we have are pretty wild, but we saved them from getting put down at the RSPCA years ago (they were going to be put down/killed as they were apparently too feral too be rehomed). Other cats have been rescued or adopted from other farms or were simply just cases of abandoned cats like Chris.
I do have a lot of respect for my mum- being a landlady and farmer is tough work. She's had to deal with numerous tennants from hell in the past and fight to get them evicted, some of which cases have involved the finding of large scale cases of animal cruelty that have gone on behind closed doors...
I remember some tennants we had- The Browns. Took over 20yrs to get them removed by the police and courts- the animal cruelty they were involved with was horrific, they did everything from dog fighting, starving hundreds of animals to death whether they were sheep or cats etc, illegally tresspassing and poaching on our land, drug dealing and general crime etc etc...Hundreds of animals died under their ownership, those people were a real nightmare! Lived a large part of my childhood in fear of them they were that bad, although even though they were nightmare people, there are some few cases where i admittedly sympathised for one of their daughters.
But the animal cruelty they did was shocking...Most of the animals that were alive after we eventually got the Browns removed from the property had to put put down anyway because they were in too poorer state of health to recover anyway- it was just kinder to put them to sleep.
so they where split into same sex tanks and kept till i knew no more females where pregnant and ended up with 42 i am slowly finding homes for them as PETS
