Help! Kitty needs new home!

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My father in law was just diagnosed with moderate Alzheimer's disease. He has a 13 year old kitty. We would take the kitty in, but when we tried to get them together (old kitty in a cage) the older kitty went totally berserk. he's been an only kitty his whole life and I think it would traumatize him to try to get him to re-adjust now. Plus, the older kitty has claws and our 2 do not
[I swear, I didn't know how bad this was when I had it done]

What is the best way to place him somewhere? I can't find anyone I know to take him. Obviously, we have no intention of putting him down, but I don't want to do a no kill shelter unless I absolutely have to. Any ideas?

I'm in S. Fla. if that makes a difference.
 
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Originally Posted by cla517

My father in law was just diagnosed with moderate Alzheimer's disease. He has a 13 year old kitty. We would take the kitty in, but when we tried to get them together (old kitty in a cage) the older kitty went totally berserk. he's been an only kitty his whole life and I think it would traumatize him to try to get him to re-adjust now. Plus, the older kitty has claws and our 2 do not
[I swear, I didn't know how bad this was when I had it done]

What is the best way to place him somewhere? I can't find anyone I know to take him. Obviously, we have no intention of putting him down, but I don't want to do a no kill shelter unless I absolutely have to. Any ideas?

I'm in S. Fla. if that makes a difference.
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There is a really good PDF called "how to find homes for homeless pets"..it has good information about placing ads and even has a sample contract. You can find it here:

http://www.natewood.net/Rehome.html
 
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I can't have any more kitties and I'm in Ohio, but I just wanted to wish you the best of luck and also I'm sorry about your father-in-law, that must be very hard.

And just a reminder to charge at least 25$ unless the adopter is someone you know well!

Some animal shelters will let you place a free ad on their website explaining your story to help you rehome a pet, so maybe you could check with the no-kills around you about that first too!
 
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Just FYI, often the first reaction of one cat to another is going to be bad. If you could at least keep the old one in a seperate room until you figure something out. Then you may see in the meantime that the old cat doesn't really mind your cats. If not, then you have the old one seperate and you are proceeding with the rehoming process anyways. Plus declawed and clawed cats can get along perfectly fine. It doesn't matter if one has them and one doesn't. A lot of times when cats jump on each other, they do the bunny kick with their back paws which have claws on them, so they are fine.
 
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