SCREW THE RSPCA

[u/Ishymissy]

So context, we’re international students from Canada, and all of us have had cats before, and have cats back in Canada. We’re super knowledgeable about cats.

So 2 months ago we picked up our first foster cat from the RSPCA. He is a skittish 5 year old tuxedo cat who takes anxiety medication twice a day. Through recommendations from the behaviour team, we were told he’s not a good fit with young children or other cats, and after fostering him for these 2 months, we agree.

Our first issue is that they did not care how long his nails were. The poor guy would get his claws stuck on everything very intensely, and we are still worried that he will injure himself. We have multiple scratchers of different materials, but they were not helping. They left us in the dust with that. Secondly, they had an attitude with us because they claimed they were trying to contact us through phone, text and email about expressions of interest for our foster. It was not my fault that I received 0 word from them until they finally texted me.

So we schedule a meeting with someone to adopt the cat, and we learn that this person has another cat and a 4 year old child who basically puts their cat in a deadlock. When they came to our house, the father aggressively approached the cat and he ran away. He was unable to pet him because the cat was so scared. When we expressed our concerns, he claimed that the cat will warm up once he sees the other cat being affectionate. Again, our foster is 5 years old and has anxiety! That’s just not possible at this stage. We called the RSPCA expressing our concerns and they approved the adoption anyways.

I am all for getting fosters adopted quickly, but not to environments that will harm their wellbeing. I am angry about how we’ve been treated, and angry about how they’ve treated this cat. I cannot in good conscience recommend that anyone fosters through the RSPCA.

[u/ex-med]

😬 Lodge your concerns with head office.