What's included
There are no tiers, no add-ons and no upsells. Medication doesn't cost extra. Neither does putting your bins out. One price, the whole job.
For your cat
A visit takes around thirty minutes. Here's where it goes.
Fed exactly the way you feed her, at roughly the times she expects it.
Wet, dry, raw, prescription, three different bowls in three different rooms because that's what works. We'll do it your way. Water gets changed every visit, not topped up, and we'll rinse the bowls properly. If she's on a fussy streak we'll tell you rather than quietly swapping her food.
Scooped every visit, changed properly, and left where they were.
Trays are cleaned at every single visit, and fully changed as often as your cat needs. We'll take the waste out with us rather than leaving a bag in your bin for a fortnight, which is the sort of thing you only notice when someone doesn't do it.
Tablets, liquids, ear drops, insulin, at no extra charge.
We're comfortable with routine medication and we don't charge more for it, because a cat that needs a tablet twice a day is exactly the cat that shouldn't be uprooted. Show us how you do it when we collect the keys. If your cat is diabetic or on something time-critical, tell us early so we can build the round around it.
We stay a while. Brushing, playing, or just sitting quietly nearby.
This is the part an automatic feeder can't do. Some cats want twenty minutes of string. Some want to be brushed. Some want you to sit down, be quiet, and stop looking at them. We follow their lead, and we're never in and out in ninety seconds.
A photo and a few lines after every visit, sent the same day.
Ate everything, or didn't. Slept on the good chair. Came downstairs to say hello for the first time all week. You get a photo and a sentence or two by text or WhatsApp, whichever you prefer, and if you'd like it sent to a second person as well, that's no trouble.
Someone who knows cats, checking on yours twice a day.
Eating, drinking, using the tray, moving normally, no limping, no hiding that isn't her usual hiding. It's the reason a real visit beats a neighbour popping a bowl down. If something looks wrong we ring you straight away, and if we can't reach you we ring your vet.
For your house
An empty house is an obvious house. Since we're coming in once or twice a day regardless, we may as well make it look like somebody's home.
Picked up off the mat and stacked somewhere sensible.
An empty hall and a pile of post against the door is the clearest possible sign that nobody's home. We'll gather it up and leave it tidy on the side.
On the right day, in the right week, back in afterwards.
West Oxfordshire's alternating collections defeat better people than us, so tell us your week and we'll put it in the diary. Nothing says 'away' like the only wheelie bin on the street.
Opened and closed so the house looks lived in.
We'll vary it a little rather than doing exactly the same thing at exactly the same time each day, which rather gives the game away.
House plants, and the pots outside in summer.
Point us at them and tell us which one is temperamental. We won't drown the fiddle-leaf fig, and we'll own up if we do.
Heating on, no leaks, nothing obviously amiss.
We're in your house twice a day. It costs us nothing to notice that the boiler's flashing, a window's been left open in the rain, or the freezer door hasn't shut properly, and it could save you a great deal.
Within reason, and within the law of common sense.
Moving a delivery out of the porch, putting the heating on the day you land, turning the immersion on, taking a recycling box round. Ask when we collect the keys. If it's small and it's sensible, the answer is almost always yes.
None of this is an optional extra and none of it is charged separately. It's £13 a day for one visit, £24 for two, and that's the whole bill.
Our one rule
Cats are the species that suffers most from being moved, and the species whose distress is hardest to spot. A cat that's off her food, drinking more than usual, or sitting in a slightly odd way is telling you something, and you only notice it if that's the thing you look at every day.
So we don't split our attention. No dog walks squeezed either side of your visit, no rabbit hutch on the other side of town. Just cats, in their own homes, across Witney and West Oxfordshire.
It also means the person coming into your house has spent the whole week with cats, and will read yours properly rather than treating her as one more animal on a list.
Where the line is
We're not there overnight. One or two visits a day is one or two visits a day. If your cat cannot be left, a live-in sitter is a better fit and we'll say so.
We don't do dogs, rabbits or anything else. Not even for a friend of a friend. Cats only, and it stays that way.
We're not vets. We give medication you already have and we recognise when something looks wrong. We don't diagnose, and we'll ring you or your vet rather than guess.
We won't force a frightened cat out of hiding. We'll check she's eaten and drunk, leave her in peace, and tell you what we saw.
Next
One visit or two, however many cats, however many days. No sign-up, no email address required.
Tell us your dates and roughly where you are, and we'll come straight back to you about whether we're free. If you'd rather just talk to a person, ring us, we answer our own phone.