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| - If you are interested in a cat or kitten, I would personally advise that you look elsewhere.
Abbey Cats will thoroughly screen you, and that's great, but they do not offer the same transparency to you, and are not always honest about their cats or kittens.
I was a foster for them, and they assured me several times before I officially agreed to foster that they would never put an unhealthy or FIV/FeLV positive cat in my home, as I already had two senior kitties of my own, and take their health very seriously. They dropped off a clearly feral and highly traumatized mother cat and her two kittens, while assuring me that they were just "shy strays." The mother cat bit my spouse very soon after arrival, and my spouse got a nasty infection, despite proper wound care, and had to receive medical treatment. It wasn't a huge deal to us, but we later found out that the mother had never even been vaccinated against rabies, or anything, nor checked by a vet, so that could've been a far bigger risk than we had originally assumed. We fostered two other lovely kittens from them, and they were adopted from our home. They then asked us to foster two "friendly and sociable" kittens to help build the confidence of the two feral kittens in our care, wanting us to put them all in together. Those kittens arrived very clearly sick and parasite ridden, and were not at all sociable to other cats. We addressed the condition of the kittens via email with Abbey Cats, and expressed our concerns about the two kittens health, and were told that they never vet check cats or kittens in their care, as it is "cost prohibitive," unless the kittens or cats are very obviously sick, and they did not offer to vet check these two kittens, who were very obviously sick. We also found out via their website (not from them) that the two sick kittens came from a feral mother in a feral colony, and thus were exposed to all manner of infectious disease. We ended up putting our own cats at risk because Abbey Cats was dishonest with us and not transparent about their policies, despite us double and triple verifying with them before even being involved. This is unacceptable.
Please be very careful about fostering or adopting from them, especially if you already have pets at home.
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