A Day in the Life of Pumpkin!

We love telling the stories of our residents and their journeys of how they came to choose their Pegasus Homes. For this very special resident at our Lymington Gate community, the choice was made for them - but they couldn’t be happier or more at home in their new two-bedroom apartment, overlooking the landscaped gardens of the development.

That resident is 16-year-old Pumpkin the cat who leads a very comfortable life in her new home at Lymington Gate. A rescue cat who joined Sue and Paul back in 2018, Pumpkin has lived quite a life before making the move to Lymington in her own retirement. After seeing Pumpkin in a cattery where Sue was working at the time, and learning that her previous owner (due to her changed circumstances) had tried unsuccessfully to re-home her several times, the couple couldn’t face the thought of her waiting any longer for a permanent home (as older cats wait 10 times longer to be adopted than those under one year old).

Fully settled in as a member of the family, when Sue and Paul made the decision to downsize, their number one criteria was that it had to be somewhere where Pumpkin was welcome.

“We looked at Lymington Gate first when deciding to move, because we saw that pets were allowed at the development.” Sue says. “We categorically would not have moved anywhere where we could not take Pumpkin with us.”

Though Pumpkin was very aware that something out of the ordinary was going on during the move, the whole process itself was not too stressful for her, and within a couple of weeks she was fully settled into her new home.

“She’s never been much of an explorer,” Paul tells us “but when we moved in I was worried about her taking a fall from the balcony. But she’s very happy just sitting out there watching the world go by, she’s never tried to make her escape! Our balcony wraps all the way round our apartment so she likes to leave through one door and come in the other. Whilst she’s sitting out there, all the residents in the gardens give her a wave and a hello! She was the first pet here at Lymington Gate so she’s an important part of the community.”

When she’s not monitoring her kingdom from the balcony or curled up in Sue and Paul’s second bedroom, Pumpkin likes to watch TV with her humans and is still playful in her later years - as we all should be - with quite the collection of toy mice and balls to choose from!

Pumpkin is a very valued resident at Lymington Gate and we at Pegasus Homes are humbled that she has chosen our community to enjoy her later years. May we all take Pumpkin’s example of spending our days enjoying the sunshine on the balcony - chasing a toy mouse around the house is optional!

Lymington Gate, like all Pegasus Homes communities, welcomes pets to join residents in their new home. If you’d like to find out more about making the move with your four-legged companion to the heart of the New Forest, contact [email protected] or 01590 615288