Question about cat boarding

[Ahurani]

Omg!!!! That's disgusting! Call the RSPCA tomorrow! I'm appauled! Poor kitty

[Ginger]

agree that you need to call the rspca on this one. we have a cat boarding home down the road from us and they offer small rooms with indoor/outdoor areas - there is lots of room for the cats to move around.

[MummaSue]

I'm on it. Going to follow this up tomorrow, thanks everyone xxxx

[~Hestia~]

That's terrible! Your poor kitty cat

I expressed my concerns on the phone to the cattery and they said that I should have paid extra for play time.

You just reminded me of a place I was looking at years ago to keep our dog while we went interstate. They offered cages with concrete floors, when I asked where his outside access was I was told I had to pay extra for him to be let out, $5 per go! Once you put a bed and food bowls in with him there wouldn't have been room and he was expected to just go right there. I found other accommodation for the old chap!

Good luck!

[Floweryfields]

Whoa that's terrible, surely they aren't allowed to do this? How long was the boarding for - that seems a large amount of money.

[MummaSue]

It was for 20 days.

[ss_storm]

how did you go hun? would be interested to know what you've found out if you don't mind sharing!

[Miss.September]

Oh that's awful and cruel! Surely they aren't allowed to do that?! I'm so sorry Sue, your poor cat.

[MummaSue]

I've rang the people from the information that you gave me ss_storm and they said they'd look into it. But the place that we used is on their list, so I am assuming it's all above board. Hmmm........

Will follow it up at the end of the week I think!!

Thanks so much guys xxxx

[berrme]

Are we allowed to ask where you boarded kitteh? Or is that against the rules?
I have boarded my cat at a number of places on the Northside of Bris over the years and he has always had a reasonable sized cage. The one I really liked got sold off for apartments though. At one place when I called about xmas boarding they said that if they took him he would be in a small cage for part of the time as they didn't have a large cage free for the whole time. I found somewhere else for that holiday, but they were very open about it. Did they mention having small and large cages? I would think if they were doing anything illegal they would have been shut down already. You may just have to settle for going somewhere else if you need boarding again.
$17 a day is pretty cheap these days though, all the 'luxury' catteries are between $24 and $30 a night! That really adds up when you are away for a few weeks.

[MummaSue]

Yeah Berrme, I think I might just have to accept that this is the way that cattery runs. Won't name them and shame them here, I'll PM you the details. It was in a gorgeous setting though, we drove up to it thinking that she'd had a better holiday than we had!! LOL
They never mentioned the sizes of the cages, and what they advertise on their website certainly isn't what we saw.

Ah well..... I just need to get over it. She's home safe with us and is still a bit sooky. Although, I quite like her being sooky as I get loads of cuddles! Hehe, she was never really a cuddly cat before.

I think that next time we go away, we'll get some friends to house sit or something.