Our Guests

Our fantastics volunteers!

Over the past few months we have had two wonderful helpers at the cattery, Jack and Ellie. They are both participating in the Duke of Edinburgh Award  Scheme and as part of this have to learn new skills. Both have successfully completed three months voluntary work with us learning about animal care. We would like to thank them sincerely and give credit where it is due, afterall not many teenagers would be prepared to get up and to work for 8am on a weekend!

Pedigree pens

It is a year since our fabulous extension "The Garden Rooms" was built. It has been a great success, attracting new customers and broadening the range of facilities that we can offer. All the rooms are big enough to accomodate 2-3 cats from the same family. Unlike wooden cattery buildings, our new extension is of UPVC construction which makes it much more hygienic and easy to clean. The sleeping area is fully insulated and heated with a door and a cat flap out to individual exercise areas. We provide sleeping mats, scratch posts and toys in this area to stimulate the cats. A music system/radio is played in the daytime to provide a calming ambience for our guests. The garden is a great stimulus at this time of year, with our water feature, solar lights, colourful flowers and of course speedy the tortoise providing much interest.

An unlikely friendship!

Speedy our resident tortoise is enjoying the sunshine! He is the best of friends with our siamese, Achilles. They like to hang out together in the garden and greet the customers and visitors. Speedy likes to drink from the fountain in front of the garden room and this causes much interest amongst our cat guests.

Meet the residents

Meet Blue, a beautiful American Ragdoll. Ragdolls are a large breed, long haired cat. Blue is very friendly and attracts a lot of attention because of his good looks. We groom him at least once a day, usually twice to prevent any tangles in his coat.
Ragdolls have blue eyes and are typically, affectionate, intelligent and good natured: Blue has all of these traits.

Meet the residents

Podge first came to us a kitten last year. She is a beautiful British shorthair, mainly blue but with some cream. She was rather shy on her first visit but it has been lovely to see that on her most recent stay she has got used to us and seems far more settled. Podge likes to socialise on her own terms; she stands near the door when she wants some fuss, otherwise she prefers to observe and be left alone. All cats have different personalities and we like to take the time to learn their likes and dislikes.

Meet the residents!

Dickie is a regular visitor to Pussy Willows and as you can see, a very relaxed visitor! He loves to perch on the ledge in his room and observe the comings and goings. Nothing much phases Dickie, he is very relaxed. He is a domestic long haired cat and loves to be brushed. His coat is in excellent condition, very shiny and with no tangles. He is fed on an almost exclusive dry diet and so we make sure that he has plenty to drink at all times. He is a fine cat and we love looking after him!