Blackrocksrock Posted July 26, 2017 Share Posted July 26, 2017 Love all the cat photos - this is our baby - Marley the 5 year old Silver marble Bengal. Playing with his Christmas tank and then sleeping on the windowsill! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyRoo Posted July 27, 2017 Author Share Posted July 27, 2017 Poor Andy his thread has become a cat thread. Go for it! I like cats more than I like fake flowers! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyRoo Posted July 27, 2017 Author Share Posted July 27, 2017 Love all the cat photos - this is our baby - Marley the 5 year old Silver marble Bengal. Playing with his Christmas tank and then sleeping on the windowsill! Oooh, another gorgeous kitty!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyRoo Posted July 27, 2017 Author Share Posted July 27, 2017 Forgot to admire your lovely cats in my last reply. Andyroo I also wanted to say if you and your partner are considering adoption go for it.It looks as though you have a lovely home to offer. We have adopted and are fostering 4 boys and it is amazing. Win ,win situation all round. If you haven't already seen it Martin Newland had a lovely article in Daily Mail in June. It certainly resonated with me,all the reasons we foster. Also fostering to consider,there is such a nationwide shortage of carers. Thank you! I'd quite like to, but I think Rich is little more daunted by the prospect; I think he's perfectly happy when we look after the niece and nephew and can hand them back after. I love those kids with all my heart, but I'd quite like to be a father too. I think there's so many kids that desperately need good homes and to know someone out there cares about them. I think part of the reason I want to do it is because I didn't have the greatest childhood myself: my mother passed away when I was ten and my father was, frankly, too immature to have had kids and he was generally pretty feckless and wasn't really around much. I'm afraid I personally can't bring myself to read the Daily Mail - but I've been doing lots of reading about adoption elsewhere. I think the application process sounded pretty nerve racking - and somewhat intrusive! - although I do understand why. A couple of my friends have just adopted twin boys, so I'm feeling slightly envious of them. I have also considered fostering but I think I'd find it too emotionally draining if kids I'd become really attached to moved on quickly. Maybe I'm a control freak, but I like the idea of kids being a 'forever' thing. I've also thought about surrogacy - but the laws in the UK are a little less than rock solid, shall we say, and you can find yourself in 'interesting' custody situations! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
