Adopting

How It Works

Step 1 – Application

Interested in adopting an Abbey Cat? Please fill out our online application today!
An adoption counsellor will be in touch within 24 hours.

Please feel free to call our phone line 416 284 2140 if you require assistance with the application.

Step 2 – Interview

An interview will take place, and if your cat-owning philosophy fits with ours, we’ll arrange an appointment for you to meet your potential cat at their foster home via Zoom.

We are not a shelter with a single location or building. Abbey cats live with their foster families in homes throughout the G.T.A. As a result, our cats are much healthier, happier, and sociable. 

Depending on the location of the foster home and subject to the availability of the foster parent, it may take some additional time to set up a meeting between you and your new friend.

Step 3 – Meet Your New Kitty!

When meeting your new cat at their foster home, we need to have the whole family present for the zoom call. During the zoom, we will ask you to turn the camera around and let us see your space.
Please don’t clean up! We aren’t interested in your style or housekeeping but looking to help with cat proofing.
We do the same with our foster homes to ensure the best fit with cats and help to highlight the best areas in the home for the cat, along with potential dangers.

The foster parent will answer your questions about the personality of this particular cat or kittens. They will also be able to tell you the type and schedule of food the cat has been eating, their litter preferences, and what toys they like.

If everyone is in agreement that this is a good match, the adoption contract and adoption donation are submitted electronically and arrangements are made for picking up your new cat(s).

A cat carrier with a metal door is essential for the cat’s safety – and yours – during the transport to your home. 

Abbey Cats is like no other rescue group out there. We care passionately about the cats in our program and treat them with the same love, respect and care that we show our own.

We believe we adopt to the top 10% of pet owners – those whose philosophy matches with ours and who are prepared to make the long term commitment involved in living with a cat.

If you care about finding a cat that has been given the best care, the best diet and the most love since the hour it entered our program, then take the time to work with one of our adoption counselors so that together we will find the perfect cat for you.

We are highly knowledgeable about what constitutes excellence in cat care and want to adopt to people who believe, as we do, that their cat is a valued and valuable member of their family. 
We try that much harder.

Please note: Kittens require the companionship of other kittens and the younger the kitten the more this is so.

It is a developmental need. 

If you do not have animals at home and you only want one cat please look at kittens 6 months or older. 

By this time in their life we know which cats need the companionship of other animals and which ones would prefer to live without other animals.

We provide an adoption service and want to match the right cat with the right home.

It is against Abbey Cat policy to adopt a single kitten under the age of 6 months to a home without other young cats/kittens for company.

Please bear this in mind when applying to adopt. Thank you