http://www.rosecottage-cattery.co.uk Warm, friendly, secure; boarding for your cats from a family run business. Tue, 29 Dec 2009 08:45:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It has been a few weeks since the last blog entry and a very busy few weeks it has been. The cattery is doing very well, we were full over half term and the diary is filling up for the summer so if you are still booking a holliday, secure a ... http://www.rosecottage-cattery.co.uk/2009/06/busy-bee/ Its full steam ahead in the cattery at the moment.  There are a number of kittens visiting which is lovely.  They can be heard, of an evening, chasing their ping-pong balls around the chalet.  One older cat takes exception to that kind of youthful high spirits and can be heard ... http://www.rosecottage-cattery.co.uk/2009/05/grumpy-old-lady/ Don't know if you realise but cats actually enjoy radio four.  They know if its been a purrfect day in purrliament, of if there has been a catastrophy in catmandu.  They sit on their little green shelves listening to desert Island discs and start preening furiously when a song from ... http://www.rosecottage-cattery.co.uk/2009/04/radio-four/ The cattery is full for Easter, its lovely to go in first thing in the morning and see all the little white name tags and the row of eager pussy cats waiting for breakfast.  It gives me a warm feeling of satisfaction and usefulness. We have another addition to our pest ... http://www.rosecottage-cattery.co.uk/2009/04/on-the-tiles/ Peaches (pest control officer) has been on patrol for 11 days, she comes back for a meal every night, I have seen her paw prints by the bowl but there is always the niggle that it may be some other opportunistic moggy guzzling the lot. Because of this, hubcaps (my other ... http://www.rosecottage-cattery.co.uk/2009/03/cats-eyes/ Peaches, our new feral cat, was released from her captivity last Wednesday.  Thursday morning arrived and her nocturnal activity could be traced in dead bodies.  Presumably she is in a cat utopia, she returns every night to eat her dinner and use the litter tray!!We looked after a cat last ... http://www.rosecottage-cattery.co.uk/2009/03/water-works/ This is the first blog since the addition of a 'blog tab' on the website. Early spring is a quiet time in the cattery so we have been catching up with some maintenance.  This is mostly painting with a few repair jobs thrown in.  The big freeze brought burst pipes in ... http://www.rosecottage-cattery.co.uk/2009/03/97/ Decorations are up in the Cattery although Kerry insists that my Christmas tree is more of a winter twig. We only have one chalet free now so we will have a lot to do over Cristmas and the new year. Two Fat Alberts (Hercules) went over this afternoon, I wonder what ... http://www.rosecottage-cattery.co.uk/2008/12/decorations/ This is the calm before the storm at Rose Cottage Cattery, with Christmas and new year bookings coming thick and fast (like the snow up North) it's good to have a chance to spruce up the chalets. Weatherproofing the wooden buildings was a timely job as it seems to have been ... http://www.rosecottage-cattery.co.uk/2008/12/all-quiet-on-the-western-front/