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Conference misery::feline_v1

Title:Meower Power is Valuing Differences
Notice:FELINE_V1 is moving 1/11/94 5pm PST to MISERY
Moderator:MISERY::VANZUYLEN_RO
Created:Sun Feb 09 1986
Last Modified:Tue Jan 11 1994
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:5089
Total number of notes:60366

2836.0. "Holiday Advice Wanted" by SUBURB::ALLYS () Thu Sep 07 1989 12:35

    
    I am due to go on holiday soon and was not to sure what to do about
    'Tabina'. We were quite lucky last year and had somebody come in
    twice a day to feed her clean the tray and make sure she was in
    for the night. 
    
     However we have'nt been so fortunate this year, so 
    we went to look at a cattery (in Tidmarsh for all you local Reading
    folks). To be honest I was'nt too impressed, althougth the cats
    looked well fed and clean, they looked pretty bored. The cat was
    confined to a small five foot square cage, I could'nt think of our
    poor kitty being confined for two weeks with nobody to play with.
    
    The second option is that a friend (they used to own our cat's mother
    but she recently died) who has one of our cat's 'daughters'
    (who is about 13 weeks old) but, not allowed out yet has volunteered
    to look after her, (keeping her in the house). I am not to sure what
    her reaction to the kitten would now be.            
    
    Anybody offer any advice or what the average cattery offers.
    
    
    Shaz
        
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2836.1what a nice chap....;-)SUBURB::GLOVERPmothballs and tanglefoot lives....Thu Sep 07 1989 12:558
    
    Shaz,
    
    If need be,I'll be happy to have them over at my place in Wokingham
    for a couple of weeks,my lot are with my ma for a while and someone
    is always in the house.
    
    Phil.
2836.2A long drive to the U.K. !!CONFG5::MSTAGRainbow In The DarkThu Sep 07 1989 16:058
    
    Too bad you weren't in the States, I run a petsitting business,
    and what I do is come out to your house twice a day to feed the
    animals and give them water and pet them and play with them and
    brush and feed them... maybe there are services like that over
    there as well??
    
    
2836.3Holiday Advice WantedIOSG::PRICE_BUDGENFri Sep 08 1989 12:5518
If you should need a cattery in the future look at:

The Ceefer Cattery near Streatley - bright, clean, somewhat constricting, yes 
but lots of room to jump, a window to look out of, a pal to look at through the 
glass sneeze barrier, room for toys and own bed,heated area for wintertime and 
elderly cats tender loving care, even a radio with lots of human voices and 
music when there is no-one actually in with the cats ..... my Jenny, a real 
outdoor girl came away none the worse for wear on several occasions and neither 
of us can speak too highly of the place.

Also, in the more luxurious class comes The Cat's Whiskers between Woodcote and 
Henley - they have pens round a central courtyard,with both outdoor and indoor 
runs, lots of space in each pen and lots of things to climb on, sleep on, hide 
in..........We might try it out ourselves soon although it is a little pricier 
than others.

Avril

2836.4Holiday advice WantedIOSG::PRICE_BUDGENFri Sep 08 1989 13:0014
sorry, vital lack of punctuation in my last note.....

`elderly cats tender loving care'

should read

`elderly cats, tender loving care'!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

a slight difference!

Avril



2836.5why not a co-op trading in home care?MEMORY::BROWERBob Shr 1-4Fri Sep 08 1989 14:2311
       Why not start a co-operative in here?? Some of our neighbors well
    up to a mile away so not close neighbors recently went away for two
    weeks. My wife and I took care of (three families) 5 dogs, 8 cats, 15
    chickens and 1 horse. Naturally they stayed at their homes and we'd
    check on them for feeding and playing 2-3 times daily. This allowed the
    animals to remain in  familiar surroundings and was actually quite fun.
    I'd be willing to do the same thing for anyone within say 5-10 miles of 
    New Braintree.
    
    
        Bob