Carmichaels Cattery

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13/02/2025

✨ Important Microchip Update for Pets ✨
(Especially those with pets through AWL & RSPCA)

The microchip company, HomeSafeID, will soon stop operating online.

This means if your pet’s microchip is registered with HomeSafeID, your details will no longer be seen when their microchip is scanned.

So, if your pet goes missing, the vets/councils/animal shelters etc won’t be able to access your info and reunite you!

** HomeSafeID is the main place that AWL & RSPCA uses, which could mean this affects you! **

If your pet is registered with HomeSafeID, you will need to change their microchip registration to another company.

1. To find out where your pet’s microchip details are stored, visit: www.petaddress.com.au

2. Log in and confirm the details are correct.

3. If you are registered with HomeSafeID, apply to register your pet with an alternative Microchip Registry.

🥰 Our Furry Guests of February 🥰(Well so far, since it's only been 10 days 🤣)
10/02/2025

🥰 Our Furry Guests of February 🥰
(Well so far, since it's only been 10 days 🤣)

At any time we usually have a few longer term furry guests. Coco the Devon Rex is one of our current long-stay puds and ...
06/02/2025

At any time we usually have a few longer term furry guests. Coco the Devon Rex is one of our current long-stay puds and she has us wrapped around her little paw 🐾
Every morning we've got to have a conversation about what she would like to do in her day. If we're late for the chat she'll let us know 🤣
A typical day involves:

Us: "What would you like to do today?"
Coco: "welllllll I will start with a back scratch thanks, then some morning sun & a speck of birdwatching from my deck. If you could be a little quiet between the hours of 10am and 1pm I need a nap 💤😴 But preferably come and wake me around 1.10pm if I've overslept, because I would like a cuddle, pat and head scratch before going out on my deck to watch those pesky minor birds. Next I'd like to say a howdy ho to anyone dropping off, or picking up fur kids. But around 5pm would be great for dinner, earlier if it's raining. A snuggle in my bed around 6.30pm would help me to sleep. Then a nice final 'goodnight' at around 10pm would just finish my day. THANK YOU!"...
Us: "No probs Coco" 🤪🙃💖

Out of the 14 boys we've had in over the last week, these are the names of 11 of them 🤣🤣
05/02/2025

Out of the 14 boys we've had in over the last week, these are the names of 11 of them 🤣🤣

04/02/2025

We've had issues sending emails to ALL bigpond addresses since Saturday. Our email provider is investigating....🤞

Can you believe tomorrow is 16yrs since we tossed in our somewhat “normal” lives for a total change to our Cattery & pro...
31/01/2025

Can you believe tomorrow is 16yrs since we tossed in our somewhat “normal” lives for a total change to our Cattery & property, and we have never looked back. How many people have you met who really love what they do? Because we do!! 💕

From day one we threw our heart and soul into this place we call home. And here we are still loving our quirky life, that yes comes with a very busy work lifestyle, but also comes with our beautiful property, surrounded by animals, enjoying our much loved home, in a wonderful neighbourhood.

Almost weekly, we get asked if we want to sell and our answer is a firm "hell no!". It's been a great 16yrs and we both well and truly plan to be here for many more years to come.

Running a very busy lil’ Cat House like ours is a huge 24/7, 365 day a year commitment that you need to have a passion for, as it comes with sacrifices (like a lack of holidays and a lot of social stuff). But boy, do we have passion for our much loved Cattery and lifestyle. It’s never boring! And if you love what you do, the pro's far outweigh the con's. Holidays can come further down the track when we have time to plan well ahead! We're really not that bothered by it 🤷‍♂️

Whether you are new to us or have been coming for years, many of you have shared your lives with us, as we have with you. We have loads of stories, shed a tear-or-two and laughed heaps with so many of you 💖 We’ve gotten to know some great people and soooo many wonderful cats all with their own individual personalities 🥰

As the years pass, we’ve also shared losses (both yours and ours) ❤️‍🩹 but those furry guests have never faded from our memory and never will. Each and every fur kid has meant something to us. Just ask us about any cat on our Memorial Wall and we can tell you everything about them.

Without our Cattery Family, we wouldn’t be here and neither would our cherished business & life! Your support and loyalty never goes unnoticed. And we truly hope our passion and dedication shines through to all of you. Thank you all for being a part of this ride and we look forward to many more years! 💕💙🐾🥰🐾💙💕

Happy Australia Day! Hope everyone is having a wonderful day celebrating this great country 🇦🇺
26/01/2025

Happy Australia Day! Hope everyone is having a wonderful day celebrating this great country 🇦🇺

24/01/2025

This week:
4 x "I Miss You's"
2 x "Love You's"
1 x "Happy Birthday"
1 x postcard read out and pinned to the door,
1 x crayon drawing pinned to the door 🤣
💖🌟 We pass all your messages onto our furry guests and talk to them as if they understand. Because we believe they do!! 🌟💖

On the weekend, we celebrated what would have been Bayley's 16th Birthday. He didn't quite make it but he sure gave it a...
21/01/2025

On the weekend, we celebrated what would have been Bayley's 16th Birthday. He didn't quite make it but he sure gave it a good go! It was the first no-tears day since he passed in the beginning of October because we promised him it would only be happy thoughts 🥹

We miss him so very much and our life & hearts haven't been the same since saying goodbye. We just can't express how much this lil guy meant to us 💔

But each day we are so very thankful for all the years, months, weeks, days, hours & minutes we had with him. He will forever be the most get-up-and-go, deal-with-what-life-brings-me, loving, caring, inspirational little soul we have ever known.

Happy Birthday you beautiful boy, we love you so much more than we can put into words 🩵 xx

Our furry guests from the last week. We've still had a few of our Xmas guests, so some familiar faces from previous post...
19/01/2025

Our furry guests from the last week. We've still had a few of our Xmas guests, so some familiar faces from previous posts across Dec/Jan 😻😻

Regular guest Frank, doing his usual back ride with every morning clean. He's done this since his very first visit many ...
17/01/2025

Regular guest Frank, doing his usual back ride with every morning clean. He's done this since his very first visit many years ago and if he didn't, we'd probably think something was wrong! 😃🤣

13/01/2025

No idea why, but for some reason we're back to having many peeps come through thinking all we do is work the 4hrs of opening hours a day. So here goes guys, you might need to sit down to take in what our every day life involves 🙃 AND we're lucky enough to actually love it! This is a LONG post but well worth the read!

** Note: 90% of it happens outside opening hours so you will never see it **

𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 (𝟕 𝐝𝐚𝐲𝐬/𝐰𝐤 - 𝐲𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐥𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐒𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐲𝐬 & 𝐏𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐜 𝐇𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐝𝐚𝐲𝐬!)
* The Big Morning Clean which involves: clean up of hairballs/vomits/water/toilet accidents, wiping/disinfecting floor of every unit, complete litter changes (on average 30 x trays a day). All finished by 7.45am.
* AM & PM feeding, water refreshed/replaced (more food & water through day for those who need it).
* Daily invoices.
* Opening Hours which involves: check-in & check-outs (incl. talking to our cat owners), answer phones, show people through who come to look at our Cattery.
* On average: 4 x loads of washing, 15 x phone calls, and answering 35ish email bookings a day. Sometimes much more.
* Medications and special requirements.
* Updates, including photos, sent to owners of current guests (on rotational basis).
* Constant monitoring of cats across the whole day (observing, listening, noting any important details on every cat staying with us).
* Constant poo scooping💩 and litter/vomit clean-ups to keep smells non-existent from 8am to 6pm.
* Brushing, playing, snuggling & sometimes just sitting, with every cat who wants our time (which is most) 😻
* Clean & mop main floors (cattery hall, office, laundry & human loo).
* The dishes!
* Booking confirmations sent out.

***** 𝗬𝗲𝘀, 𝘄𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗼𝗻 𝗗𝗔𝗜𝗟𝗬 𝘁𝗮𝘀𝗸𝘀 *****
* Check bank for deposits/payments, then email those who have paid to let know.
* The Book! On average 1-2hrs is spent on “the book” a day - putting bookings in/making adjustments to peoples dates, cancellations, and finding available space ! (Sonia calls it “giving it a joosh”).
* Ongoing monitoring of weather & adjusting heaters/air cons/fans/outdoor blinds/windows to keep the Cat House cosy.
* Half an hour recap at the end of each night, often done over a drink, to recap/handover any info to eachother so we are both on the same page about everything 🍻🥂🤷‍♀️

𝐎𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐑 (𝐟𝐢𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐰𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐤𝐞𝐞𝐩 𝐮𝐩 𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐞):
* Disinfect, clean & scrub litter trays.
* The Turnover Clean - when one furry guest leaves, their Suite fills the very next day. And this happens all year round. So each Suite is emptied, cleaned from top to bottom, setup with all new bedding/toys/litter trays/food&water bowls & a name tag.
* Order/buy supplies (including cat food, litter, bedding, laundry/cleaning/office products, etc).
* Keep website up to date, especially our “Availability” page, which needs almost daily changes.
* Conversations with vets as needed (mostly for our own knowledge).
* Aside from invoices, all other tasks to do with accounting including keeping up with purchases&receipts/eftpos receipts/direct deposits/quarterly BAS etc.
* Cleaning of cat carriers after accidents have occurred on the way to us.
* Deposit details sent out to all in the next month.
* Booking forms for newbies (or “oldies” who need to update details) entered into our system.
* Take and collect, photos/videos of our furry guests for updates, our records, facebook etc.
* Clean outdoor deck areas.
* Facebook posts.
* Sort out food for donations & drop off.

Phew! Somewhere in amongst all of the above we stop and smell the roses 🌹 This is why we get ever so slightly offended if people presume we only work the hours we are open for 🤷‍♂️ Most nights we are still doing “work stuff” at 10pm, we’re just infront of the TV ! 😂 But hey, we love what we do! 🥰 and remember, it's only the two of us 💕

09/01/2025

Think we've all witnessed our fur kids doing this at some point 🤣 Zooooomies!

06/01/2025

We don't intend this to be a sad post but more one that honours those furry guests lost and loved over the past year. Because we've had a lot and we get to know them as a true part of our extended family. Guess that's the one downside to being here nearly 16yrs, we all get older! And just in the past week we got news of our first ever furry guest passing. So here goes...

🩷 Lucy B - the lil' gal with such pretty markings & loved her treats!
🩵 Archie S - the glue that held the family of 4 puds together.
🩷 Latte F - the gentle old girl who loved a good head rub.
🩵 Ashleigh F - the dude with "tood" (attitude).
🩵 Clyde S - a true big brother to your sister Bonnie, all the way from the UK many moons ago.
🩷 Coco Mc - our quiet lil' lady.
🩵 Teddy B - a gentle ol boy who loved snuggs.
🩵 Tyson T - your pawrents boy in a cat suit.
🩷 Sascha C - the water loving, loud chickie.
🩵 Chasie L - the biggest purrer EVER.
🩵 Theodore H - as sweet as pie & never hurt a fly.
🩵 Archie K - headstrong and told us exactly what he wanted.
🩵 Milo P - you mellowed in your old age, deep down we knew you were a softy.
🩷 Mia D - the cheeky ol gal that had selective hearing when it was time to come inside.
🩵 Gumby M - gorgeous and gentle ol boy.
🩷 Georgia M - a true mumma cat.
🩵 Bandit - the boy who thanked us with kisses.
🩵 Jetson Mc - "our 3rd boy", now racing around in spirit.
🩵 Beau O'C - our monthly belly rub lovin' boy.
🩵 Archie S - ya snuggly shnuffle lilac bear.
🩵 Zorro B - our first ever furry guest who only passed away this last week 💔

We know we would've no doubt missed some, or perhaps we don't know they have passed. But in honour of all of those, as well as our own adored and missed boy Bayley, you will always be a part of our family.

We'd like to say a HUGE thank you to all pawrents who came through and picked up their puds today. It was a VERY busy da...
03/01/2025

We'd like to say a HUGE thank you to all pawrents who came through and picked up their puds today. It was a VERY busy day (in particular, the morning) and you were all so grateful and appreciative of everything we did for all our furry guests across their Christmas holiday. This is why we do what we do!

Minus one who we still just can't seem to please no matter what hoops we jump through 🤸‍♂️ 🤷‍♂️ but onward and upward into 2025! 🥳

Cleaning time tonight, to refill every Suite tomorrow, that had a furry guest leave (over half the Cat House) 😻 Snowy has spent the day greeting everybody, so feels like us - happy but exhausted 🤣 We love our Xmas group, both fur kids and their humans, you are awesome! 💖

The party is under way in The Cat House 🎶 We'll probably be asleep before them 🤣 Happy New Year to our wonderful Cattery...
31/12/2024

The party is under way in The Cat House 🎶 We'll probably be asleep before them 🤣
Happy New Year to our wonderful Cattery Family, thank you all for your support this year and see you all in 2025 🥳🎉 🎆🎇

Meowy Christmas to you all from the both of us and all our furry guests 💕😻🎄
24/12/2024

Meowy Christmas to you all from the both of us and all our furry guests 💕😻🎄

16/12/2024

When you make a funny video skit for a family member's Birthday and you just have to include a cat with character. Ice Cream the Devon Rex could very well be the next contestant on Dancing With the Stars 🤩💃🕺🤣
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Address

94 Pagan Road
Gold Coast, QLD
4207

Opening Hours

Monday 8am - 10am
4pm - 6pm
Tuesday 8am - 10am
4pm - 6pm
Wednesday 8am - 10am
4pm - 6pm
Thursday 8am - 10am
4pm - 6pm
Friday 8am - 10am
4pm - 6pm
Saturday 8am - 10am
4pm - 6pm
Sunday 4pm - 5pm

Telephone

+61738079857

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