Return-Path: Received: from SALAMIS.ODYSSEY.CS.CMU.EDU by ux4.sp.cs.cmu.edu id aa21201; 15 Sep 97 19:00 EDT Received: from localhost by salamis.odyssey.cs.cmu.edu id aa00629; 15 Sep 97 19:00 EDT From: Brian_Noble@cs.cmu.edu Reply-To: Brian_Noble@cs.cmu.edu To: "Peter J. Braam" cc: bovik@salamis.odyssey.cs.cmu.edu Subject: Re: cats In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 15 Sep 1997 17:18:38 EDT." Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 19:00:11 -0400 Message-ID: <626.874364411@salamis.odyssey.cs.cmu.edu> Sender: Brian_D._Noble@salamis.odyssey.cs.cmu.edu > Brian, > > At the risk of disturbing you in your wedding preparations, I wonder if > you have a cat boarding place to recommend for Henry when he comes next > month. He'd like to leave his cats there while he finds a place to live. > > Thanks for any help. > > - Peter - > Unfortunately, I only have a negative recommendation for cats. Do NOT use the "Country Cabin Cattery," which is affiliated with the Cozy Inn dog kennel and a veterinary clinic. The vet's wife runs the kennel, his mother runs the cattery. The kennel is wonderful. In fact, our dog is never particularly anxious to leave when we pick him up from Cozy Inn, which I find amazing. Others have recommended Cozy Inn for dogs, and we wholeheartedly second the recommendation. It's only drawback is that it is far away. The one time we took our cats to the "cattery", however, the woman running the show didn't want to get involved with getting them out of their carriers and into their cages, which I took to be a bad sign. But we were leaving for vacation, so what to do, eh? On our return, we discovered that early in the week, one of our two cats had soiled himself. Rather than clean him, the vet's mother left him alone. He was miserable. (This was not a garden variety soiling. It took Maureen almost twenty minutes to clean him.) Her excuse? "He didn't want me to clean him off." Of course he didn't. He's a cat. Cats hate water. Needless to say, we paid her about 1/3 what we owed her, and told her we would rather be caught dead than bring our cats back to the "Country Cabin Cattery" ever again. Another place we've used for the dog is Golden Bone, (661-7001), which is in the city. It is fine for the dog, though we typically only leave him there for short periods, O(weekend), since he *is* anxious to leave when we pick him up there. They are very clean and professional, but we suspect he doesn't get the level of exercise he expects while there. We've never left our cats there, so I can't recommend them from experience. However, Golden Bone is a professional, if a tad pricy, outfit; I would expect them to do a competent job. -brian PS: Harry, I kept meaning to send you a review of this horrid "cattery" (derision quotes intended), but had forgotten. Peter's request spurred me to action.