This nice recommendation is from one of our longest standing customers:
"We have used Sitting Kitty for about as long as it's been running and absolutely love them: helpful, attentive, caring and sensitive to the needs of each individual cat. In fact, we would go so far as to say that our cats are so well looked after while we are away that we suspect they might be slightly annoyed when we come home again!"
Vanessa & Steve, Battersea
It's unusual for us to have any problems with the cats that we look after while their owners are away, but sometimes we do have to deal with the unexpected as this letter received from a relieved customer shows:
"We've used Sitting Kitty a number of times now and found them to be professional, trustworthy but above all as in love with our kittens as we are.
Last weekend whilst we were away, our cleaner left an upstairs window open and one of our kittens managed to escape. As they've only just been neutered neither kitten has been outside before so we were understandably worried. In fact we were worried sick as we were sure we'd never see him again.
Maggie was exceptional. She searched high and low for him and that night she made up posters and put them through all our neighbours' doors as she didn't want to wait until morning. Her lovely assistant Sarah also offered to sit in the garden the next day (even though it was a Sunday) in case he came back as neither of us were able to make it home. Thankfully, the next day she received a call from our neighbour who had found him behind her sofa. Maggie came round straight away and reunited him with his sister. To say we were relieved and grateful is an understatement! Both Maggie and Sarah were amazing.
We can't recommend Sitting Kitty highly enough and will always feel safe in the knowledge that our kittens are being cared for by someone who is a true cat lover".
James & Elizabeth, Herne Hill
This letter has an ending that's both happy and sad - we will always do our best for your cats but the ones you adopt on holiday might be stretching the point!
"I spent last Christmas visiting my friend Ben in Nicaragua. While I was away I left my two Somali cats, Oscar and 6-month old Aggie, in the competent
hands of Maggie Kenny. Maggie as Sitting Kitty (and previously Cat Calls) has looked after my furred friends for nearly a decade now and I've come to rely on her completely.
The first week of the trip went smoothly. Being a cat fiend I managed to befriend a family of four feral kittens and their mum out in Nicaragua. They had
taken refuge in a woodpile at the bottom of my friend Ben's garden. Bonny little kits, they were too. Every morning I would take off to the woodpile to
see how they were getting along. My cats back home were safe, I had some substitute kits to fawn over and all was right with the world.
Then, three days before Christmas I got the email. It was from Maggie, saying that Aggie hadn't come in for her food for three days and that she was
getting worried. I can't tell you how far my spirits sank on getting that email. I called a friend and asked him to search my flat and the garden just
in case Aggie had got stuck somewhere. Maggie valiantly did the same. No sign of Aggie. Quickly I convinced myself that if Aggie wasn't lying dead in a gutter somewhere then someone had stolen my little kit to give to their children as a
Christmas present. She was cute, kittenish, the perfect gift. I spent a miserable day or two hoping for news but expecting none.
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Then Maggie emailed me. She had put a note through my neighbours' doors with a description of Aggie and went to enormous trouble over this, printing out the description of my cat with a colour pic of a Somali
for reference. And as it turned out, this was the clincher.
A day or so after the notes went out, Maggie got a phone call from my neighbour. He'd seen Aggie in his garden and, taking
her for lost, had driven her to Battersea Dogs' Home. Maggie immediately emailed me in Nicaragua and took the trouble to go down to Battersea, pick up Aggie and shut
her back in my flat for a few days until she had a chance to re-orientate herself.
The stress of all this had given Aggie a case of the runs so poor Maggie had to deal with that too. She did all of this without a single complaint.
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The news that Aggie had been found was such a relief to me. I'm still amazed at the trouble Maggie went to and incredibly grateful. It would have
been so easy for someone less conscientious and caring to have assumed Aggie had gone on a cattish spree and would be back as soon as she got bored of the adventure.
In spite of my ministrations, the poor feral kits in Nicaragua died, by the way. They succumbed to parasite infestations and their mother stopped
feeding them. That was rather humbling, but it made me all the more grateful that at least little Aggie had been returned to me, safe and sound. I have Maggie to thank for that. She made my Christmas".
Melanie, Vauxhall
