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01/06/2026

🧳🛍️🏠 We totally understand some pawrents like to bring familiar items to make their fur kids stay more comfy and homely. And we're all for it! 🛍️🧳🏠

But we also see a lot pawrents either struggle with what to bring, or beat themselves up for not bringing "the right" things.

So! This is our feedback based on over 17yrs of seeing alllllllllll different types of puds, pawrents and belongings, and what affect it has.

🏠 Firstly, we provide everything 🏠
The Suites are setup with:
- comfy bedding
- a small blanket
- litter tray/litter
- food & water bowl (water filled)
- toys
- All of which are thoroughly cleaned & sterilised between each furry guest.
- in a clean, smell free, temperature controlled environment.

So if you prefer not to bring anything, that's purrrrrrrfectly fine!

🧳🛍️ What is best to bring? 🛍️🧳
This one might surprise you - "less is more".

We find the cats who come along with just 1 or 2 simple things (not ALL of them) - a favourite toy, or a bed, maybe a T-shirt you have worn or a very small blanket, they are the ones to settle the best.

Those furry guests who's pawrents pack everything - beds, toys, tunnels, multiple blankets & sheets, dressing gown, 4x types of shoes, 4x types of bowls etc etc..... the cats don't use any of it. None, zip!

It's too much for them in a smaller space and to put it simply, they just get annoyed 🤷🏻

They have no space because the Suite is filled with everything but the kitchen sink and the fur kids usually a) p*e on it all, b) push it all into a corner, c) stuff it all in the water bowl, or d) push it all into the litter tray. Which means we pull it out. Clean it all. And don't put it back in or they just do it again.

Cats can't talk. So you have to read their behaviours. And this is their way of saying "I've had enough! And all I want is my space back in my nice big unit and a nice cozy bed ..... with the awesome accommodation, and the lovely attention given to me from the caring wonderful people that look after me" .....(ok, we got a bit off track, but you get it 🤣🤣)

💕 So, if you find yourself torn over what to bring and what not what to bring, apply the simple rule of "less is more" and if we think they need something extra, we'll let you know and do our best to give it to them 💕

Goodnight on this very chilly night, where all 29 furry guests are tucked up in our beds (ditched their own, for those who brought them 🤣) and they have the heater on right through til morning 🔥

25/05/2026

😻 Our boy Huey loves to just smack things to get them to do what he wants 😻

🔥 If he wants the fireplace on, he smacks the handle on it or smacks the timber box,
🚪If he wants a door open, he'll smack it,
🧑🏻‍🦯The vacuum cleaner, smackety-smack!
🚿 The drinking fountain needs more water? SMACK!.

💙 He never uses claws and has never done his "smacking" to cause harm. It's just like he has lil arms that he wants to use to do things, like a person, but cant 💙

One thing he does is "high5" so you can imagine the fun we had when we got given these TINY plastic hands 🤣 Oh boy Huey loves them!

He boxes them 🥊 High5s them 🖐🏻 And now calls us to have a chesty rub with the hands!!! Yes people, this is now a "thing" in our house.... 🤷🏻

For more antics with our fur kids, follow their own page: https://www.facebook.com/share/1BWUMpX2kz/?mibextid=wwXIfr

23/05/2026

❓Why don't we supply wet food❓
This is a sped up example of getting the wet food organised for our current guests. 24 out of 30 furry guests are on wet food and only 2 of them are the same.

To supply wet food for every single fur kid, every single day, would be an eye watering nightmare. From trying to organise before arrival, what each cat needs, going out shopping for the supplies to get every brand/type/flavour etc would be a full-time job in itself and take away sooooooooo much quality time we can be spending with our furry guests.

It's simply not practical. Not to mention the cost that would have to be added to every daily rate. We couldn't even pre-plan and buy on sale because we would need a shipping container out the back set up like a pet shop to allocate for every single cats different needs.

So this is why we ask our wet foodies to just come along with a supply of what you normally feed. Easy peasy!

19/05/2026

🥰 How many of you have fur kids that do this? 🥰
Furry guest Ziggy is demonstrating how some cats do this, as well as kneading (or "pawsies" as we call it). It's their way of self-soothing and it brings comfort, similar to that of when they were kittens and would do it to their Mumma cat.

The good thing with a furry guest like Ziggy is, his pawrents told us he also does it regularly at home. This gives us great comfort knowing he feels just as happy as he would at home with his family 💙

✨ Venice and Zala, our regular guests ✨With whiskers that twitch and soft little necks.Just innocent kitties? Or so they...
16/05/2026

✨ Venice and Zala, our regular guests ✨

With whiskers that twitch and soft little necks.

Just innocent kitties? Or so they would claim,

Though somehow their Suite doesn't look the same! 🤔

The food bowls? Tipped over. No clue who did that.

"Perhaps," Venice said, "one of those other cats?" 🐈

While Zala sat blinking with wide golden eyes, 👀

As bedding lay scattered in a corner beside.

A shelf hit the floor sometime in the night,

But both cats claim they were out of sight. 🤷

The litter tray somehow got tipped on its side,

An unfortunate "accident," both would decide.💡

Yet who could stay angry at faces so sweet?

With their butterfly kisses and pitter patter of feet? 🐾 🥰😻

12/05/2026

🔎🧐 WHO DUNNIT? 🧐🔎
The Final Installment
The thief has been caught - it's Huey! Did you guess it? Lots more evidence but it would make the video too long 🤣 🎶 Best with sound 🎶

09/05/2026

💙 Our boy Jerry has the same play routine each night, with his canvas cat toy. That is until we get sprung videoing him! 🤣🤣
** Yes the lighting and colour of mouse changes because he's too smart for his own good to record it in one go!! **

🧐🔎 Next post is the Who Dunnit Reveal! 🔎🧐

🌄🥰 We always get the best sunsets in May! Here's tonight's taken from our Cattery verandah 🥰🌄
07/05/2026

🌄🥰 We always get the best sunsets in May! Here's tonight's taken from our Cattery verandah 🥰🌄

05/05/2026

✨ Food glorious food ✨ Just a reminder:
- If your furry family member is on a special diet,
- Has a sensitive stomach & doesn't deal with food changes,
- Or is fussy and will only eat a certain type of food,

Pllllllllease bring their own food❗

There's this myth out there that "own food" equals too much trouble for us.

It rarely is. The 'trouble' for us happens at the other end. When we're faced with:
💉 Medical issues
🤮 Spew
💩 Poo
😾Unhappy, or
😿 uncomfortable furry guests

Which all equal a huge amount of unnecessary stress on the cat it involves. As well as additional cleaning up (which takes away from time spent with ALL our furry guests) and time wasted on trying to solve a puzzle over mysterious symptoms and behaviours.

Tip 1 - if you think your cat's normal food is too much trouble for us, just ask. We're always 100% honest and will tell you if it is. (For example, we won't be p*eling prawns for a furry guest 🤷🏼‍♂️). You would be surprised at what you might think is 'too much trouble' and what we think is just normal!

Tip 2- if you're unsure, bring it anyway. We will always hand back what we don't need to use!

💖 New Furry Guests 💖We never know how a new furry guest will go and neither do their pawrents.Sometimes they settle in v...
30/04/2026

💖 New Furry Guests 💖
We never know how a new furry guest will go and neither do their pawrents.

Sometimes they settle in very quickly, as if they have been coming to us for their holidays, for years!

Others can be very shy and take a little extra time to eat normally and do all the basics.They might even be a pud who is so shy we barely see them! But they venture out at night.

If this is the case we gently talk to them many times through the day and let them know we're around without being a threat. We never launch in and see them as a 'challenge' to crack. We won't force them to do anything. Including not forcing them out onto the verandah area. We let them go at their own pace, in their own time. And that's ok.

We then give honest feedback to each fur kids pawrents and we usually get to see the progress they make over future visits. Getting braver and more trusting each time they come.

New furry guests need to be managed a little differently. With understanding, patience and realistic expectations (from us and their pawrents).

Some happy snaps of new furry guests over April 🥰

Address

94 Pagan Road
Yatala, QLD
4207

Opening Hours

Monday 8am - 10am
4pm - 6pm
Tuesday 8am - 10am
4pm - 6pm
Wednesday 8am - 10am
4pm - 6pm
Thursday 8am - 10am
4pm - 6pm
Friday 8am - 10am
4pm - 6pm
Saturday 8am - 10am
4pm - 6pm
Sunday 4pm - 5pm

Telephone

+61738079857

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