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 If you want to rehome a kitten, please fill in the form below. If your cat has had kittens, and you would like us to help you to find homes for them, please fill in the Kittens Available form.
If you fill in this form, we will pass on your details to those who have indicated to us that they may have a kitten suitable for you to adopt. If you do not want us to pass on your details, please do not fill in the form. We will endeavour to not provide details of potential new owners such as yourself to previous owners, until the kittens are at least 8 weeks of age and old enough to be rehomed. We do not accept any responsibility for the health of kittens, as we are unable to assess kittens at this time. We strongly suggest that you visit a vet within 24 hours of adopting your kitten for a thorough health check and first vaccinations, both of which are deemed essential under the Covid-19 guidelines. Although we encourage owners to treat their kittens for worms and fleas before rehoming, we can't guarantee that this will be done, so we suggest immediate treatment before bringing the kitten into your home if previous owners have not fulfilled this basic commitment to the health of the kitten.
It is your responsibility to liase with the current owners to organise delivery or collection of your new kitten, in line with current government guidelines. We encourage owners to ask for a donation of £15 per kitten, which should be put towards the neutering of the mother cat or donated to a local animal sanctuary. If payment of more than £20 per kitten is requested, or you feel that the person who you have been put in touch with is breeding cats to make money, please report this to us at kittens@petconnection.ie, as this is not what our service is intended to support. You may request a particular colour or sex of kitten, however it is important to note that requesting particular colours (especially grey and grey tabby!) will dramatically increase your waiting time to be matched with a kitten, as less kittens of these colours are available.
We can't guarantee that the person you are rehoming your kitten from will be able to correctly identify the sex of the cat. All kittens should be kept inside until they have been neutered, regardless of whether they are male or female.    BlackA self colour, meaning that the cat is all one colour, a black kitten will be completely black other than a few specks of white on their chest and toes. If the cat has any significant splotches of white, it is Black & White.  Bi-ColouredKittens which have two colours of fur are bi-coloured, which means they are covered by a significant portion of both a certain coloured fur and white fur. Some cats will have more coloured fur than white, some will be the opposite and will be mostly white.  GingerGinger cats can be anything from a washed out lemon like colour, through to a deep red colour. Ginger cats often have a distinguishable tabby pattern running through the coat. For the purposes of identification, please also include lighter Cream coloured cats under this category.  Grey / BlueThese cats are a blue-grey colour, with all fur being the same shade. Cats expressing a striped or tabby pattern alongside the grey blue colour should be marked as Silver Tabbies.  Silver TabbySilver, Grey and Blue Tabby cats display darker grey or black stripes on a buff, silver or grey background.  TabbyTabby cats have stripes or bars of darker fur on their legs, buttons of darker colors on their tummies, a darker stripe of fur along the center of their backs, and rings around their tails, on a lighter brown base.  TortoiseshellSometimes known as Calico, the Tortoiseshell colour presents as a coat of 3 colours, usually Black, Red (Ginger) and White. Sometimes the white is very minimal so the cat may appear mostly as a mottled red and black.  WhiteWhite cats are completely white, with no splotches of any other colour. They are not albino, as the eyes usually have a green or blue pigment in adult cats.  Determining the sex (gender) of a kitten is easy when you know what to look for, and can usually be checked fairly easily from 6 weeks of age.
Lift the kitten's tail. The opening just under the tail is the anus. Below the anus is the genital opening which is round in males and is a vertical slit in females. In kittens of similar size, the distance between the anus and the genital opening is greater in the male than the female.
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