(lively music) - Hi, I'm Karen Kalunian and today we're talking about caring for your adult cat.

(lively music) (cat meows) Today we're here at Paws Watch Community Cat Center with Dianne LaPointe, who's been here forever.

We'll just leave it at that.

And even though we're both holding kittens because it's fun, we're gonna talk about adult cat adoption.

So Dianne, if someone comes in to adopt an adult cat from you, what can they expect?

Are they all fully vetted with shots and spayed and or neutered?

- All of that and micro chipped.

- And micro chipped?

- And micro chipped, yes.

All of our cats are normally from outside, trapped, probably strays, left behind cats.

Some of them have fallen back to a little feral situation to survive.

We gotta get them back from that state to their friendliness that they once knew or they're feral and they go back out where they belong.

But for adoption purposes, they get socialized here we find if they have any potential to be adopted and we socialize them here and then the potential adopters come and meet them.

Sometimes they get along with their existing pets sometimes they don't.

It's a trial basis.

We do foster to adopt to see how it works.

Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.

- Well that's, that's a great thing to know the foster to adopt.

- Yeah.

- Because a lot of people-- - There's a lot of paperwork going back and forth that just has to be backed up if it doesn't work.

- And sometimes people want to take a pet home into their house and, for whatever reason it doesn't work.

So it's always good to know that they will come back here to the community cat center.

- Yes.

- And on general how many adult cats do you usually have available?

- Right now we probably have about 20, 25.

- And all shape, size, color, ages, you name it.

- You name it.

- You've got it.

- Age, anything.

We have cats with FIV, we have cats, we have a cat now with FIV and feline leukemia.

Oh my god.

He would live right in your stomach.

He's such a big mush, but unfortunately he has couple of things going against him.

- Well, there are those.

- But he's wonderful.

- Right, and there are those homes out there for those type of cats.

- There is.

- Hopefully.

- And we've had some angels stop by and do the right thing.

- And that's always important.

And hopefully folks will come in to see you.

- Hmm, love it.

- Thank you so much.

- You're very welcome.

Hey Gita.

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