Hey goonsy! How's things? Oh, and Bill cat, and Ted cat (?)! How are they?

The RSPCA seem decent. When I lived in a state care home in Ballarat, I was really missing my cats at home. The RSPCA has/had a shelter in Ballarat with an interesting setup: they had the usual cages out the back, but they also personality matched 5 cats each into 2 tall floor-ceiling cages they had. It was a bit smaller than an average bedroom, from memory. Enough space for a couple of cat trees, a couch, and plenty of space to run around in

Provided you didn't mind the cat hair, you could sit on the couch for a little while and play with/pet the cats. I really liked that setup. I believe the RSPCA stopped running it sometime after I moved, and it transitioned into council control. But AFAIK they kept the same setup

Yeah, I think a lot of shelter cats and strays are like that. Need time and space to decompress and a while to build up trust. My place is generally fairly calm, but also on occasion pretty hectic when the tradespeople, inspections, smoke alarm testers etc come barging through. And the neighbours have been doing some rennos recently, which has had resident cat up in arms