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About Lyon
🚨 Thank you for your interest in Lyon. Please read Lyon's profile thoroughly before making an enquiry, to ensure you understand his personality and needs. 🚨
❓ Are you a quiet, loving and very patient female homebody?
⚠️ Lyon loves da ladies. Not da men. Or da children. If you live with males or children, or if they visit regularly, Lyon is not da cat for you!
🏠 Lyon would also love a home that allows for lots of exploring and different vantage points, therefore he would like a good sized house that you are settled in for the long-term (rather than an apartment or unit).
⚠️ He also loves the great outdoors and will love a large safe and secure enclosure where he can enjoy sunbathing and birdwatching. Once he is well and truly settled, he would then love the opportunity to explore your backyard. A home that can offer Lyon an indoor/outdoor lifestyle is a must. (NOTE: a fenced backyard is not a secure enclosure.)
🐱 Lyon would love a friendly feline companion. However, a home without a dog would be best.
🕙 Lyon is a disciplined dude and likes to go to bed at 10pm and wake up early. You will not need an alarm clock.
A former street cat, Lyon has shown his foster carer how incredibly grateful he is to have been rescued and lets her know this every single day.
Lyon is incredibly loving and loyal to those who are patient and dedicated to working with him to build his confidence with humans. Lyon is very shy with strangers (a guy’s gotta keep himself safe!) and will take a lot longer to trust new people. However, if you are prepared to give Lyon the time, love and gentle encouragement you will be rewarded by being on the receiving end of an extremely loving cat. In time he will shower you with love, enjoy a never-ending supply of kisses, knead you, make air biscuits, greet you with his lion cub sounds and will want to be your warm, fur-powered blanket in winter. He will soothe you to sleep with his turbo-powered purr, and make you laugh with his chattiness, saying the cutest things.
Lyon still prefers to have all four paws on the ground, but once you have his trust you can start working on short stints in picking him up.
Lyon is very intelligent and needs stimulated play, whether this is with you or entertaining himself. He will lie on his back with his paws in the air, just itching to catch whatever fluffy prey you are dangling over him - check out the video. He is so intelligent, in fact, that he might well like to do some clicker training with you. And would love the mental stimulation of daily 15-minute play sessions. He would also much prefer his human to be around more often than not.
Are you the forever human Lyon has been waiting for?
You can learn a little more about Lyon via his Insta handle @lyonsimba 😺
Medical notes
Lyon is a sweet, healthy guy. He comes desexed, vaccinated, flea and worm treated - nothing for you to do but love him.
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Adoption details
Please click on the button 'Find out more about this Pet' to receive an Expression of Interest Form. One of our Volunteer Case Managers will explain our process to you. (Please note that completing the Expression of Interest form does not place you under any obligation to adopt.)
Not the pet for you? Check out our other wonderful rescues at http://www.foreverfriends.org.au/adoption/.
Thought about becoming a foster carer? We're always looking for new carers as it means we can save more lives! Please fill out our online foster application if you can open your heart and home to a deserving rescue pet while it awaits its forever home. Email foster@foreverfriends.org.au for more info.
This pet has been adopted and found love with its new family.
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