Happy Cats Cat Sitting - Battle

15/06/2024

What a lovely week! Reunited with Poppy, one of my all time favourite cats; looking after two HUGE Maine Coones, Luna and Gizmo and getting ready for birthday celebrations on Tuesday. Not mine, but our own, much loved cats who are THIRTEEN on Tuesday! How did that happen? It seems like only yesterday that we adopted them, aged 5 in 2015. There will be lots of treats in the Happy Cats household on Tuesday! Have a great week all! H, R and Timmy, Rosie and Jess ###

02/06/2024

I did read somewhere that you are allowed to sulk the first week back at work after a really good holiday! But why would I want to when I have spent the week looking after these beauties? Who can resist Nancy's lovely tummy?Or Polly's need for cuddles 24/7? Or darling Maisie (not that one, Lotta Rosam !)and her weepy eyes (duly cleaned, of course) or Vera, simply the sweetest, nicest cat and finally lovely Louise? Not all on the same day, obvs! As you all know, I only do 2 -3 cats a day so they all get the time and love they need, but yes, a busy and blissfully happy week: thank you to their cat parents ! Have a great week all H XX

25/05/2024

Back in Battle and happily straight to work: I hadn't seen a cat since Sunday and was feeling a bit peculiar! 🤪😄 Big tx to Louise for welcoming me back into the groove! Busy week ahead after a glorious holiday. Have a great week all ! Helen xx

18/05/2024

"Oh no! " Says Tinky (surely the most improved cat ever, bless him!) "Helen is off on a well deserved break oop north to look at lots of art! She will be back late Saturday 25th. Roy will be at home looking after their own cats, but he won't be checking phones or emails. Helen will reply when she can. She is very excited as she is going to see lots of works by her favourite artist, Dame Laura Knight, and hopes you all have a lovely week!" Tinky, pp Helen XX

12/05/2024

Never, ever, have I been so happy that a cat hasn't lived up to her name!! Pl meet Tigress, who, it turns out is a complete pussycat! 😂😂😂 She is completely lovely and after a chequered past she has finally found her forever home at the grand old age of 7. I am always grateful when clients rescue, and even more so when they take on an older cat. Thank you, Charlotte, for letting me love this gorgeous girl! Xx ❤️ r cat.

05/05/2024

Hope you are all enjoying the lovely sunshine? Very busy time for me, as you can imagine, but some amazing cats as ever! Pl meet Percy and the ever adorable and completely irresistible Smidge. I could take them both home with me, but somehow I think Roy and the F3 may object ! Have a great Bank Holiday weekend all H x

27/04/2024

At Southwark Cathedral for the talks on Tudor Palaces. Forget the palaces: Hodge is here! . Reunited at last! Or rather, my bags smelling of cats and my cat treats and Hodge are reunited! So good to see him! Now onto the serious stuff! Xx H

21/04/2024

What is the best cure for a tired and a bit stressed cat sitter? No, not a holiday: the answer is MORE cats! 😻😻 I volunteer once a fortnight at Celia Hammond at Brede and it is a real tonic : I visit the elderly cats. WHO, but who can resist these little faces?! Love them to bits! Have a great week everyone! Xx H ❤️

07/04/2024

But Helen, I hear you say, they've not got any fur!! Well spotted 😜 but aren't they gorgeous? I used to have a tortoise as a child (called Slubbadub:if you know, you know!) and Humbug, Crumb and Nugget bring back happy memories of Slubba 🥲. Had some gorgeous cats, too, of course! Big thanks to Basil and Buffy for being such good company on my sleep overs: Buffy slept by my head and I woke up to find Basil on my chest inspecting my dental work! 🤣🤣 Have a great week everyone! H xx

31/03/2024

Suffering from shingles nerve pain this week (a legacy from shingles in my eye in 2018), so am very grateful to the cats for simply being so loving! How do they know?? Big tx to Otis and Lyle, the Bexhill Furry Foursome, Thelma and Louise and the cats at at Brede. I swear the older cats just KNEW! Still, chocolate always helps! Happy Easter one and all! Xx

28/03/2024

19/03/2024

This cat rescue risks going under: so many cats and so many vet bills. They do wonderful work with strays and ferals. I know times are hard for all of us, but please can you help? Xx

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17/03/2024

What a wonderful, cat filled week! Two purrfect cat sits: the beautiful and completely lovely Loki and Layla (she is aka the Audrey Hepburn of cats, she is so dainty and elegant!) and also Smidge, sooooo loving and sooo pleased to see me. I almost offered to pay his cat parents to look after him! 🤣😺And to cap it all? I went for my induction as a volunteer at Greenacres where there are so many cats needing love and litter tray cleaning. Can't wait to start! Have a great week everyone! Xx

12/03/2024

And then people wonder why my book is late!! I can't get her off me and if I shut the door she just howls!

03/03/2024

Still on OAP duty and very happy to be so! Like all cat parents, this cat sitter finds older cats both a joy and a worry. A joy, because they so loving, dignified and sweet. A worry because simply anything could happen! With Roxy : deaf, hyperthyroidism and bad kidney disease: I often wake at 3 in the morning wondering if she is okay. I am always grateful - as is the OAP cat lol! - when clients ask me to sleep over. Even the odd night in a booking can make such a difference to them: cuddles, cuddles and more cuddles! Not sure who is happier, me or the OAP cat! 🤣😻. Have a lovely week all, H ###
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18/02/2024

Busy week with the OAPs, and no, I don't mean Roy! 🤣🤣 Murphy is my favourite fluff bucket and although he has kidney disease is still going strong! Roxy is 18, deaf as a post, hyperthyroid and kidney disease but still loves her food and cuddles and Louis is 13 going on 3: the most playful cat on my books and who has the sharpest claws EVER: I have special Louis jeans as he loves to make biscuits on me! 🤣🤣 Fully booked till the end of the month: happily busy, busy, busy! Have a great week all! H xx ❤️

04/02/2024

And this is why I do this job: the look of love ❤ 😍 😻😻!! Simba and I wish you all a lovely week ### ❤️

21/01/2024

Oh my goodness! I can die happy!! Went to Southwark Cathedral yesterday for a fab day of Tudor history talks, but with one REAL aim in mind : to meet . I needn't have worried: Hodge knows a crazy cat lady when he sees one. He stomped down the aisle with purpose towards me and then decided my bag was the best thing since Sheba! (No cat supplies in there, as I am on holiday.). I missed a good wodge of Katherine of Aragon, but it was worth it: Hodge is simply GORGEOUS! Ps big tx to the lovely Fiona who took the photos of me and H. Xx

14/01/2024

Just saying goodbye to the lovely Jazz ❤❤ who is my last cat for ten days, so I will be cracking on with tarting up my book (due out in September!) Back posting again when covered in cat fur lol! See you soon! H xx

07/01/2024

And a very Fluffy New Year to you all! Yes, I am covered in fluff after looking after some long haired beauties this past week! You can't beat a fluff ball of a cat, and they do give amazing cuddles too! Please meet the lovely Jazz, Jasmine and the aptly named Fluffy ❤❤❤Have a great week all, and keep warm! (But at least it's not raining ! 🙏🙏) ❤️

24/12/2023

So who have you sent Christmas cards to this year? Here at Happy Cats Cat Sitting - Battle as ever I have been busy sending cards to nearly all the cats I have cat sat this year. That's a lot of cards and a lot of happy cats! Thank you ALL for letting me love your cats: best job in the world! Merry Xmas everyone and a purrfectly Happy New Year ! Xx H ❤️

10/12/2023

Now try telling me that this isn't the best job in the world! Sooooo many cuddles this past week! Happy Sunday all! Xx

26/11/2023

The glorious Seren and Poppy who I sadly had to leave today, after a simply lovely house sit. I always HATE saying goodbye to my clients, but know that I will hopefully get to enjoy them again in 2024. Have a great week all ! H ### ❤️

19/11/2023

When you are doing a "get to know the cats and the house" overnighter ready for a longish house sitting booking in December, and realise that you don't want the cat parents to come home today because their cats are so adorable! Ladies and gentlemen, please meet the 3 Bs: Basil, Biscuit and Buffy! Just lovely cats! Those of you who remember Chanel and Susha (Andrea Hurst ) will know my weakness for elderly fur ladies, and true to form Miss Biscuit has stolen my heart. Roll on December! Have a great week all, H and the 3 Bs ###
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28/10/2023

That dreadful moment when you realize that you desperately need the little girls' room, but that the 3 Burmese you are housesitting have other ideas ... HELP!! 🤣🤣🤣

22/10/2023

Cats never, EVER forget (memories like an elephant's) and nor do cat sitters! It was with GREAT joy that I was reunited with Lila, an ex Tunbridge Wells client, after five years! She now lives in Burwash and is, as ever, one of the loveliest, prettiest and kindest cats I have ever known. And even better she now has a gorgeous (and glamorous) side kick! Pl meet Simba! He is that rarest of cats: a Ragdoll who hunts! Almost a feline contradiction in terms as Raggies are so laid back. Really busy week but such lovely furries! Love my job! Have a great week all H ### ❤️

15/10/2023

What could possibly be better than going on holiday? Why, coming back from holiday of course! And there is nothing quite like the happy faces of the Furry Th*****me (aka Timmy, Rosie and Jess). And yes, they are very, very similar! 🤣🤣 We are back and looking forward to a busy October! Have a great week! H, R and the F3 xx
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05/10/2023

There was only one face we could feature this ...
📸 Bridget Davey

01/10/2023

Sometimes there just are no words ... but in the case of Leo only one will do: breathtakingly beautiful! (Okay, that's two words. But hey, it's Sunday!). And he is just as good natured as he is beautiful! Only 18 months old, and already huge, he is the proverbial "gentle giant". That's the great thing about this job: no week is the same. Have a lovely week everyone! H XX

24/09/2023

Uuuugh! Yes, even the best job in the world has the odd week when you think "I need a break!" (Cats left too soon after adoption 😿😿; a door which locks behind you and no one told you; a flat so mucky that you just know you will end up cleaning it etc etc 🤣🤣) So it was with IMMENSE relief that I opened the door on Friday on one of my long term regulars: big thank you Ziggy, for being so completely lovely, fluffy and adorable. Gingers rock! Have a great week everyone! H xx ❤️