cat hotel
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Anonymous
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Kitty needs a vacation for 3 weeks in June. Can you recommend any good cat hotels? We prefer anything in Arlington, Alexandria, or DC.
Thanks |
Anonymous
| The only one I know of is on 18th street in DC across from Lauriol Plaza. Not sure of the name. |
Anonymous
| Old Dominion Animal Hospital has cat condos. Old Town Pet Resort in Rockville has really nice cat boarding and they have other locations. |
Anonymous
| Just Cats Clinic in Reston does boarding |
Anonymous
Honestly, cats do much better at home. Just hire someone to care for them while you are away. They will be much happier, trust me! |
Anonymous
+1. Pay a high school kid to refill the food dish/scoop the box/play a few minutes with the cat. Way cheaper and less traumatic than kenneling. |
Anonymous
| Agree -- use per sitter. |
Anonymous
Yes. Totally. Two cats, we did three different tests - once we have them at boarding place for two weeks, once we took them with us for vacation and they stayed with us at the hotel, and another time we left them at home and had Fetch lady come once a day to take care of them and play with them for half hour, you can buy more time or even have person sleep at your home as many days as you can afford. The cats were happiest the last option. They were very relaxed and happy when we came home, you could see they were just under fantastic care and not changing their environment was ideal. The boarding however was fancy and expensive, they were so stressed, they looked like feral cats at the end when we came to pick them up. All the other cats, the smells the stress of the cage... NEVER again! It took them the longest time to relax and destress and come back to normal, it was unbelievable. I am talking very relaxed and easy going cats. The place was so stressful. Cats had no idea what happened to them, and if they will ever see us again, and even if they knew, still stressful. |
Anonymous
NO DON"T. NOt the high school kids. Our neighbors highbred high school kids who ended being scratched by perfectly docile cat because they got the idea to pet the cat that was stressed by not knowing the person and tried to run away and the kid cornered the cat. Big mess and you can imagine parents being upset and cat had to go to the vet and all that. Kids are very unreliable and unpredictable. Take an adult and not only that, hire someone from reputable services. |
Anonymous
Not allowed to have someone come in. |
Anonymous
| Then ask a friend to host your cats. Cats don't like changes, but boarding in a cage is cruel. |
Anonymous
| Depending on dates (must be before 22 June) and your kitty’s tolerance for another cat, I’d be happy to host. My own kitty’s buddy just died, and I have a fair amount of experience with settling visitor kitties in. |
Anonymous
They got scratched? Oh, the horror! |
Anonymous
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I'm trying out a petsitter this week while we are away for five days. My mom used to take our cat, but she is too frail to babysit now.
This summer, though, we are away for three weeks. Will it be okay to leave a single cat alone (with daily 30-minute visits) for that long? Wish I knew more cat people.... |
Anonymous
Neighbor kids work great if they have been acquainted with cats and their ways. I’ve always made a point of introducing neighbor kids to my cats over time . Of course this plan only works if you have a ready supply of neighbor kids... |