We Rehome ALL PEDIGREE CATS - 100% Success Rate
We rehome 'Online'....no damp, draughty kennels...and YOU, the owner, get an equal say
We are 100% confident in the succesful placement of your cat.
We have over ten years' experience of stringent vetting of applicants, and our procedures and requirements are second to none. Vetting is one-to-one and applicants must really 'prove themselves'! We do all the hard work for you, but we give you an equal say in the ultimate approval of the adopter. Vetting is carried out by me personally.
Unlike other rescues we do not bring animals into cold, damp, draughty kennels. They are rehomed from the comfort of their own homes, (YOUR home) using OUR (my!) expertise to vet all applicants. I liaise with YOU personally - you don't speak to any juniors.
You will need to hold onto your cat while I advertise him/her via this site and via Facebook (see our hugely popular Facebook page under 'Chapelhouse Persian and Pedigree Rescue'. Within week 1 of launch, we had 1300 active fans). Many rescues who have been on Facebook for years still don't have that many Fans. The numbers are growing daily, giving huge exposure to cats needing homes.
I work hard to engage our Fans and to keep them interactive. I encourage participation, and (where necessary) I educate. So, if you decide to rehome your cat via our Rescue services, you can be confident that your pet will receive maximum publicity. I will find out all about your cat, draft him a detailed profile, get him on Facebook and 'Cat Chat' aswell as our own website, and I will liaise with you about progress.
YOU don't need to do anything apart from keep logging in to your email. I will only send you one adopter (the applicant or couple I think is best suited, out of all applicants) and you can accept or decline that applicant. There is no pressure on you to accept any applicant; it's a two way process. I will repeat the process until you are happy, (but all our first suggested applicants have always been accepted!).
I think this is a lovely and painless way for animals to get rehomed, and gives owners a chance for some involvement and ongoing contact if desired. Your views are vital.
You do need to make a financial contribution for this service as it is very time consuming. It is not uncommon for me to liaise in some depth with up to 30 adopters per animal, before a final applicant is decided upon. Our current fee, covering all advertising, liaison with adopters, and profile construction, is £100; if you feel I have done a good job and you can afford a higfher fee, that is lovely and gratefully received. I always struggle to make ends meet.
You need to pay the fee in advance by Paypal before I can advertise the pet. Please use the link at the bottom of the page.
I promise you a thoroughly professional service with which you will be delighted, and the outcome will be a happy, settled pet.
Cheryl-Anne Jenkinson
Manager
Chapelhouse Persian Rescue - February 2010
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Some Common Questions
Which Cats Can Be Rehomed Online?
It does not matter if you don't have a pedigree certificate for the animal you are wanting to rehome, as long as you believe that your cat is a recognised pure breed (e.g Persian, Siamese, Chinchilla, Ragdoll, Birman...and so on). No moggies please, 'although' we will consider non-pedigrees where there is a strong bond between a pedigree cat you are booking in, and a 'moggy'. In this event you can use the booking link as normal, and pay as normal for both cats, as long as there is not more than 1 non-pedigree in your booking.
'My Cat is Old - Does this Matter?'
Yes, we can still advertise old pedigree cats, who will find a good home as long as they have a quality of life which makes them eligible for rehoming. If in doubt, book your pets in for the online rehoming service anyway and we will be in touch immediately to discuss the health of the pet. If at this stage we determine the cat would not be fit enough to travel or be rehomed, any fees you have paid will be refunded same day.
'What Condition Should My Cat be In?'
- Your cat needs to have no major matting in his coat when he is seen by adopters.
- He must have seen a vet within the last 6 months so that we can obtain a veterinary report if necessary.
- It will help if the cat is vaccinated, especially if we are looking at homes that have other cats. However, we will also advertise unvaccinated cats as long as you tell us this so that we can advertise the cat honestly. The cat must still have seen a vet in the last 6 months so that we know his state of general health, otherwise. (With Persians, dental health is often the major issue, so we need to know that we are not rehoming a pet who needs major dental work).
- We expect ALL owners using our services to have carried out regular grooming and flea control on their pets! However, again, if you are honest, and let's say there's a problem with your pet's coat but you cannot afford to have him shaved, please ask for our help. In certain situations we will also waive advertising fees but we will make sure that cases where fees are waived, are genuine.
'Do You Rehome Sick, or Anti Social Cats?'
Aggressive, shy, 'behaviourally-challenged' or downright anti-social pedigree cats, we really like to try and place with new homes, and in the main our adopters see beyond these things because of their love of the specific pedigree breed concerned.
It is a challenge to try and work with these cats and make a difference. We may require you to have a written behavioural or vet assessment, however, for cats who are aggressive or ill. You will need to fund this before we advertise the pet.
Similarly, if the animal has received recent veterinary care or has a complex medical history, we would wish to speak with your vet about the quality of life of the animal. However, where any vet says that he is happy to see a cat being rehomed, we would certainly be happy to find a new home for the animal. We've never failed in finding a new home for any pet, irrespective of any health issues.
Please note that when we talk about quality of life issues, we refer only to the level of enjoyment a pet gains from living. We are able and happy to find fabulous homes for even the sickest animals...all that matters is that they can enjoy life in the view of a vet, and of course we must avoid incurring suffering by sustaining or rehoming pets who are clearly struggling with life. Please ask and we will make the decisions accordingly, with the help of our and your own vet as necessary.
Can We Only Help Cats in The UK?
No. We are happy to advertise pedigree cats worldwide. However, we will only accept applicants from the country in which the pet lives, and within reasonable travel distance, so in accepting a cat for the service we would have to believe we had a good chance of him being adopted. If we felt he was unlikely to be seen (e.g. low numbers of adopters in the country concerned) we would refund the fee. You can of course always send an enquiry before paying, to ask@chapelhouse-persians.co.uk.
We are very confident of finding homes for animals in USA and Greece, and in many parts of Europe.
How We Find Prospective New Homes for Your Much-Loved Cat...
We have ten years' experience of finding excellent new homes. Our website is one of the most popular cat sites (including non-rescue sites!) in the country, with over 5000 unique rescue visitors per week, all of whom are specifically browsing cat adoption websites, usually with a view to adopting. There is no other pedigree cat website that has this astonishing visitor level. In fact, to deal with the visitor demand, we have now had to purchase a high-end commercial web hosting programme since our site visitors were staggeringly high and our web host was unable to accommodate these hits.
We are very lucky, as a result of our huge visitor numbers, to have access to the 'cream' of adopters. It is not uncommon for cats featured on the website to receive over 50 quality enquiries from all over the UK. In one case, we received over 400 completed application forms for one cat! As stated above, we are also now on Facebook and we're finding it staggeringly difficult to keep up with the enquiries generated from this, so although (at the time of writing) our Facebook page is just a week old, the response from it has been colossal. It is fair to say already that we're among the most popular pedigree cat sites on Facebook and we already have the elusive 5 star rating for fan interactivity.
The vast majority of our adopters are of higher socio-economic groups and are professional people. We aren't being snobby when we say this; it's a simple truth!
Possibly this is due to our vetting processes. Although we are the only UK rescue who take online 'reservations' for animals pre-visit, we are also known for our phenomenal level of care in the vetting of homes, such that we don't even need to visit the homes because most enquirers are turned down at first sight; the genuine ones, and the knowledgeable ones, stand out right from that first email.
Our Online Reservations system means that adopters will travel to see cats, from all over the UK. Most adopters happily drive in excess of 2.5 hours to see cats so do not necessarily expect that your cat will be placed locally. When you use the Online Rehoming service, adopters will have to visit you in your home - and they won't make a fuss about that.
Most adopters are:
Professional
Affluent
40 and upwards (many retired and self employed professions)
Without children at home
Previous Persian/specific pedigree breed owners
Highly knowledgeable about the breed they are adopting
Living quiet lifestyles ('homebodies' are commonplace among our homes... we prefer this kind of lifestyle especially for Persians)
Not taking many holidays and IF holidaying, not using kennels.
We are known for our stringent vetting which begins even at the first enquiry. The application form is lengthy and asks questions other rescue dare not even mention....you are welcome to ask us for a copy of the form yourself if you're considering using us for the rehoming of your cat(s).
ALL adopters who take an animal through us must also pay a significant and specific Contribution towards the processes involved; some rescues who DON'T specialise in pedigree cats will allow pedigree animals to be rehomed against a small 'donation'.
Please be aware that although the Rescues think they are doing the right thing, this is actually endangering the animals because if you do not rehome pedigree cats at above their normal 'market value', unscrupulous buyers (posing as genuine adopters) may get hold of them and re-sell them for monetary gain. This happens fairly frequently especially with Persian cats. We do not think that pedigree pets should ever be 'donation' animals.
But seriously, we believe that every pedigree pet has a 'street value. So' we must all ensure he doesn't get 'adopted' by someone with an ulterior financial motive. Another factor to be considered is that everyone adopting a pedigree animal MUST be financially secure and able to afford a reasonable Contribution, anyway. If they want to 'pay a small donation' to take your pet, do they have enough funds to support the necessary vet care of the animal if he falls ill, or to supply the ongoing special diet requirements? It costs over £600 per annum to even appropriately FEED, let alone vet treat, one single Persian cat. Do they even know what to feed him on?
So we don't agree with pedigree animals going to new homes either against a low donation or 'free to good homes'. EVER!
Interested enquirers must take time to write to us in detail, demonstrating their considerable knowledge and experience of the breed they are looking to adopt. They also need to show that they have the finances to care for the breed appropriately and they must agree to insure their new pet for all healthcare eventualities.
The important thing, is seeking the best possible home for each animal, and describing his or her needs with great accuracy on the website. This ensures the majority of enquirers are quite targeted to the cat already.
So you see, we really do want to find the best homes, and we don't just place them 'in the hopes' that it will work. Generally speaking, we are 100% confident that an adoption will work, when a cat is taken. We want every home to be for the lifetime of the pet. We reject enquirers where there is even a slight doubt; that's why the success rate in the actual rehoming is so phenomenally high.
We are able to find outstanding homes with people whose lives revolve around their pets. Just as a couple of examples, if people take holidays away from home (and have no live-in cat sitter), have hectic lifestyles or busy homes, if they still want to have children, are only in their early 20's (lifestyles are not adequately settled/predictable at this age), or if they smoke - they are likely to be declined as unsuitable.
It is because of our expertise in finding homes and never having cats returned to us because the match hasn't worked (how many rescues can claim that!)...that branches of other national animal organisations also send us their Persians. We DO truly have a NIL return rate - i.e. never has a cat been returned to us because it 'hasn't worked out'. There has been the odd one that's come back over, say, a 5 year span, but this has only been where the owner's own circumstances changed (e.g. illness, death, divorce, or relocation overseas for work). Cats have never come back due to failure of the placement.
I think this speaks for our vetting process.
Book to Use Our Online Rehoming Service:
If you are sure that this is what you would like to do, and if there is no great urgency to finding a new home (if it's very urgent we are unlikely to be able to help: the vetting does take at least a few weeks), click the link at the bottom to book a 'Website Profile' and pay the admin contribution.
The reason we charge our Contribution is because we do a great deal more than just passing contacts across to you. YOU don't need to do any of the work in talking to or vetting the applicants. We liaise with you right from the start, finding out exactly what kind of home is best for the cat, and WE undertake all the processes of liaising between you and the potential adopters, vetting potential applicants and taking references as necessary. ALL applicants are fully pre-vetted, addresses checked out, and a full history taken. We make absolutely sure that they have the full details of the animal and know what they are taking on. We make sure they know how to care for the pet - we test their knowledge of the breed, for example.
We can - and do - ask the adopter questions (about their knowledge and about their home and lifestyle) that most owners would not feel they had 'a right to ask', and we can pass much of this information to you and involve you in deciding who comes along to visit you and your cat at home. In an ideal situation we really only want to allow one adopter or adopting couple to visit you at home. By this stage, even if we have had lots of enquiries or applications, we will have discussed this person with you by email and we will be 99.9% sure that this is a 'match'. Usually in these cases, although both parties are nervous and sometimes the rehomer is upset, the adoption generally goes ahead very smoothly.
Please note that because the Adoption takes place under the name of the Rescue, the adopter completes our usual Application Form and checks. Similarly YOU have to have taken your cat to the vet in the months before we advertise him or her, because we must be absolutely sure that we are not advertising as 'fit for homing' any pet who is in already apparent need of vet treatment at the time of rehoming.
After adoption, the adopting family has no right to contact you directly, nor do you have a right to contact them directly; this remains a Chapelhouse Persian Rescue adoption. This is only to protect both parties.
But you ARE encouraged to communicate via ourselves and all messages will be conveyed, within reason. We do it this way just to be sure that the adopter is following all the procedures we agreed, such as feeding the correct diet etc, without being overly influenced by the past owner. It is also critical for the past owner to 'let go' and allow the new owner to take over, otherwise an 'over zealous' past owner CAN create ill feeling. However, once an adoption has proceeded smoothly and a cat has moved into his new home and settled with no issues, we can often facilitate a direct ongoing contact between the two parties, but each case has to be viewed on its own merits.
In deciding whether this is the right route for you to take, please consider the following questions:
- Do I need to find a home for my cat(s) urgently, i.e. within the next few weeks, because of some major deadline?
- Am I sure that I can hand over my cat to an adopter, in my own home, or might I get too emotional about it and change my mind?
- Am I willing to have strangers visit me and my cat in our home (bearing in mind that there will probably only be one visit, that I will have been consulted and will have agreed to who is coming, and that they are highly likely to be the right people to adopt my cat)?
If you answered 'No' to any of these three questions, you are probably better off bringing the cat into an actual Rescue Centre for them to do the whole rehoming process from their own premises. Otherwise (if yor cat would benefit from being rehomed at home and staying in his cosy, warm and loving environment!) we are happy to let you use our Website Profile via the online service.
So go ahead and book!
BOOK ONLINE REHOMING FOR ONE CAT: £100 (COVERS ALL ADVERTISING, LIAISON WITH REHOMER, APPLICANTS ETC)
Can't Keep Your Cat(s)?
CLICK the 'Add to Cart' Link below, to make a booking for an online ad. Remember that you use this only if you want us to find him a new home while he remains in your care. We will be in touch immediately, to find out all about your cat.
NB! The fee is payable per cat - not per advert - because of the admin processes involved. So please repeat the process for however many cats you have. (The payment page should alternatively allow you to increase the number of cats and calculate accordingly). Please note the 'Post and Packing Charge' is refunded to your card on receipt of booking! Clearly we do not require a P&P charge on the booking in of cats - but it gets added by the automated system because we're using shopping cart software which cannot recognise the difference between a service and a product to be shipped.
e-mail: ask@chapelhouse-persians.co.uk
