How To Recognize A Good Care Place For The Cat

Check the temporary supervisor calmly and thoroughly and not at the last minute. Good animal boarding houses are booked up quickly. In a popular cat establishment, you have to register the animals well in advance.

If you leave your cat in someone else’s hands during your vacation, you always have to reckon with costs. Care in a boarding kennel or cat hotel costs between six and eleven euros a day, food included. A pet sitter who visits your cat twice a day will be remunerated at a similar rate, although a student will be satisfied with a small financial thank you. A professional home care service, who comes by car twice a day, charges 20 euros and more because this income is taxable. The cheapest solution is mutual animal husbandry. This often leads to friendships, and both sitters work for free.

Care At Home

Here are some things to look out for in a sitter who visits your cats on a daily basis:

• His motivation? Is he really an animal lover or is he just coming to get paid?
• His reputation? Is there anyone who has had experience with him as a pet sitter who could recommend him? A stranger should show their ID.
• Available time? Is he available at least twice a day and also on weekends? If necessary, can he look after the cats longer than agreed if you are unable to return in time?
• Special wishes? Is he willing and flexible in terms of time so that he also fulfills special requests? So he shouldn’t mind coming when they usually let the kitties in the house, even if it’s 8 p.m.
• TV night or parties? What will your sitter do in your apartment? Your cats may love TV evenings for two, but not a loud party.
• Allergy? Are you sure the sitter isn’t allergic to pet hair?
• The first contact? How does he approach your cat? Does she like him? Or, on the contrary, does he not even want to get to know the future protégé beforehand?
• Competent questions? Is he asking you the right and important questions? For example, does he ask about the cats’ habits, the vet address, feeding times, petting and play hours, where the litter box and cat basket are, the vaccination certificate, and the brush?
• First aid? Is he willing to take an injured, even bleeding cat to the vet?
• Picky? Doesn’t he disgust the litter box, spit out hairballs, mice, ticks, cat hair on his clothes?
• Stand-in? Does he know someone to represent him if he were unable to do so himself?
  Insured? Does he have personal liability insurance so that he will pay for any damage he might have to compensate you for?

Care Outside The Home

If you give your cats a way for holiday care, look at the holiday accommodation for your animal in good time so that you still have time to find another solution. With cat boarding houses and cat hotels it is important that you pay attention to the following points:

• Good reputation? What is the reputation of the cat boarding house or cat hotel?
• Desired accommodation? Can the cat be housed as desired – individually or in groups?
• Visit possible? Are you allowed to visit the chat rooms or enclosures? If not, should you be suspicious, if so: do the animals appear content and well cared for?
• Clean and cozy? Are the cat rooms heated, protected from the blazing sun, bright, clean, comfortable, and varied?
• Climbing possible? Do the cats regularly run out in a larger enclosure where they can move around, climb and play?
• Is withdrawal possible? Can a cat seek rest retreat to a den?
• Protection against infections? Does the boarding kennel only accept cats that have been fully vaccinated against the most dangerous infectious diseases and that have been dewormed, deflead, and free of biting lice and ticks? If the boarding house takes this very seriously, it also protects your cat from contamination from other cats.
  allowance? Are the cats played with, is each one petted?
• Wishes? Does the guesthouse cater to special requests, for example with regard to feeding or grooming?
• Price-performance ratio? Feel free to ask about the costs. Sometimes there is an extra charge for special requests, such as administering medicine.
• Questionnaire? Does the pension ask you questions or do you have to fill out a questionnaire for your animal?
• Did confusion rule out? Does the boarding management ensure that each cat is uniquely identified, such as by a tattoo, microchip, special features, or collar?
• Emergency help? Is a vet available 24 hours a day in case of an emergency?
  just neutered? If the cattery requires all animals to be neutered, that’s a sign of experience.
• Potent animals bring with them great restlessness, and in addition, the tomcats mark very odor-intensively.
  operating license? Has the pension been approved by the veterinary office?
• With a private sitter, also pay attention to the following:
• Safely stored? How does he make sure the cat doesn’t escape him? Where, in which rooms will the cat be allowed to stay?
  risk of injury? Is his apartment cat-proof?
  trial day? Does the sitter agree to a trial day or trial weekend?