Almora Cattery

28/10/2025

Hi everyone. We are starting to wind down towards our autumn break but still have lots of lovely guests staying in the cattery. If you are picking up or dropping off during the next couple of weeks, please be aware that we are having some work done on the house and so there is a skip to the side of the driveway. The cattery is still easily accessible through the usual entrance and there should be space on the drive or road to park. 👍

Here is one of our favourite recent guests, the lovely Kobbie, who is pictured here posing for the camera 😄

21/09/2025

Hi everyone. It has been a busy summer here at the cattery. We have enjoyed seeing our regular visitors as well as meeting some lovely new cats and owners. We still have a lot of guests over the next couple of months and we are also having some maintenance done so it will remain busy!

A reminder that we close for holiday on Sun 16th November and reopen on Sat 6th December.

An advanced note that we are almost completely fully booked for Christmas and New Year and have very few spaces remaining on limited dates.

Finally, enjoy this picture of the delightful Beatrix and Marilyn who stayed with us recently.

05/09/2025

UPDATE: Back up and running now 😄

Morning everyone. We are having problems with our broadband today and an engineer isn’t able to come out until tomorrow. This means our phone line is down. If you need to contact us, please email or send us a message on Facebook as we can access these with our 5G.

21/08/2025

Hi everyone. It's the height of the summer season and we are very busy, so a good time to remind everyone of our holidays! The cattery will be closed from Sunday 16th November and will reopen on Saturday 6th December. Also, we'd like to give advanced notice that we will also be closed from Monday 23rd February 2026 and will reopen on Monday 9th March 2026. These breaks allow us to take some holiday time, as well as perform maintenance on the pens that we cannot do when cats are present.

We have already taken quite a lot of bookings for the Christmas and New Year period, so if you need a booking we recommend contacting us as soon as possible. You can email or call, complete the booking form on our website, or message us on FB.

In the meantime, here is the lovely Lulu who stayed with us recently. She's a cheeky girl! ❤️

15/08/2025

We are very pleased to announce that we have won another award! In the Midland Enterprise Awards, we were named Best Sustainable Cattery in Derbyshire. Once again, many thanks to whoever nominated us for this award; we are proud of our composting and sustainability efforts and it is lovely to have them appreciated in this way.

You can see more here:

Almora Cattery is one of the 2025 winners of Midlands Enterprise Awards.

04/07/2025

Hi everyone. Whenever the weather gets warmer, we have to take measures to ensure that the cats don't get too hot. Cats naturally deal with heat pretty well but they do need some help sometimes.

Our pens have outdoor and indoor spaces which allows the cats to choose whichever area is cooler, while the sides of most pens are removable (leaving the wire netting in place obviously!) which allows any breeze to move through. We also have tarpaulins and moveable covers that can protect the pens from the sun, and we have a stock of frozen water bottles that we wrap in towels and place in the pens for the cats to lie next to. In addition, all of our water bowls have sizeable reservoirs (and are checked regularly). Finally we regularly check on the cats to make sure that there are no signs of over-heating. The cats seemed quite happy during the recent hot days so hopefully our measures are working 😄.

Here is the lovely Lilly, who visited recently and enjoyed spending time outside while being shaded from the sun 🐱

01/06/2025

Hi everyone. It's been a busy few weeks here at the cattery! We have had our license renewal visit from Bolsover Council and we are pleased to let you all know that they were extremely happy and we are a 5* cattery again. We have also fostered a cat until his owner is able to take him back, so if you see a ginger cat around the garden say hello to Sammy. 😀

Advance notice that we will be taking our annual holiday and maintenance break from Sunday 16th November until Friday 5th December (inclusive).

Enjoy this picture of the lovely Bonnie and Binx who stayed with us recently ❤️

30/04/2025

Hi everyone. This year we have taken a lot of advance bookings and are now fully booked for most of August, as well as some weeks in May, June and July. If you need a booking, please get in contact as soon as you can to have the best chance to secure a place. (FYI, we do keep a waiting list in case of cancellations but it is unpredictable as to whether any will occur.)

Hope you are all enjoying the lovely weather as much as our guests are! Here is the lovely Sammy, basking in the sun on the shelf in his pen. He's been with us for quite a while as his owner is unwell but we are hopeful that he can go home soon. ❤️

01/04/2025

Hi everyone. We still have a few gremlins with our email but it now appears to only be with Yahoo and AOL accounts as they have very rigid filters. If you have a Yahoo or AOL account, please can you check your Spam folder for messages, and mark all of them as Safe. This should then mean any others get delivered to your Inbox. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Enjoy this picture of the lovely Simba, who stayed with us recently. ❤️

28/03/2025

Hi everyone. We have recently moved our website to a new host server, which will allow us to develop the website ourselves so watch out for new content and photos over the next few months. We have also moved our email server - this has caused a few gremlins to surface in our sent mail so if you were expecting an email from us and did not receive it, let me know.

The cattery is starting to get busy and we have some lovely cats in at the moment, including Bubbles who is only 9 months old - he's going to be a big cat! ❤️

15/02/2025

UPDATE: We're back up and running! 😄

Our website is currently down which means we have no access to email. I am currently liaising with our web hosting service to find out why this is and get it back up and running. In the meantime, if you need to contact us, please call us on 01246 822487.

Apologies for any inconvenience. Technology eh, you gotta love it......

10/02/2025

Hi everyone. I have just discovered that our answerphone has not been working for the last few days - apologies for this. It appears to be fixed now so if you have tried calling and were unable to leave a message, do please try again.

Also, a quick reminder that we will be closed from Monday 24th February for a short break ahead of the busy summer season, reopening on Wednesday 5th March. We are already almost full for parts of the summer so if you do need a booking, please let us know as soon as you can to guarantee a pen space.

In the meantime, here is the strikingly lovely Pippa who stayed with us recently ❤️.