Blair is a special cat who will need a special owner! She came to us after she was found dumped in her carrier in a pet shop. She was microchipped, which is how we know her name and age, but her owners didn’t respond to requests for contact. Once we had been looking after her for a few days, we suspected some health issues, and a blood test confirmed that she has diabetes. Since being at her foster home, she has been put on diabetic medication –not the twice daily injections, but a daily squirt from a syringe into her mouth, which she puts up with remarkably well. She has been eating a mixture of diabetic and convalescence food, so has put on weight and her blood test results have improved a little.

Blair is a really friendly, confident, people cat with a lovely, gentle temperament. She loves nothing better than to sit next to you on the table while you work (or on what you’re working on!). She also enjoys sitting at the top of her cat tree, where she can survey the garden. She likes a stroke and has beautifully soft fur. She really doesn’t behave like an old cat, as she is still quite playful. She isn’t too keen on her fosterers’ own cat, so has to spend a lot of time in her own room to avoid the stress of coming into contact with him. She is quite vocal about wanting some attention when she feels she’s been in there too long on her own, so would love to find new owners to care for her as the only cat in their household. Obviously, she is 11 years old and has a medical condition, so she is unlikely to have a lot of years left, but she would bring great pleasure to any person willing to take her on.

As her diabetes is an existing condition, arc will pay the costs of her medical treatment connected to the diabetes, but not her food or other costs. This is on the condition that she is taken to Twickenham Vets or joins the patient list on the regular days that our mobile vet, Paws and Go, comes to arc volunteers’ houses in Whitton or Hampton Hill.