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Pet Insurance Information from Consumers Advocate
Is Pet Insurance right for you? What type should you get? What's the difference. Recently, Consumers Advocate sent us the results of their study. It was tailored to the US market, so we requested a version suited to NZ. They sent us the following: Cat-Lovers of New...
Inky Catches Up
Greetings Humans! Even though I have been back in the café for a while, I haven’t taken the time to write to you yet. I apologise. At first, it was being in quarantine for ringworm (thank goodness that’s over!). But, really, I have no excuse, so please forgive...
Don’t Forget Your Cats
We often think about what we would do with all our cats in a disaster. Recently, we saw an article from 2017 in Pet LIfe New Zealand with information from the SPCA Canterbury addressing this issue. Also the Animal Evac NZ Foundation is hosting a foundation course in...
A Letter from Po to Inky
Dear professor, I heard that you are back from the sanitorium, and I didn't get the chance to say goodbye before I moved away. So I thought I would write you a little letter to tell you what "being adopted" is like. First, I now live with no other cats!...
A Pet Safety Guide
We are happy to share this Pet Safety Guide from House Method. It is oriented towards Americans but still has some useful information for us here. https://housemethod.com/home-safety/pet-safety-guide/
Inky in Isolation (with a few friends and enemies)
Greetings Humans, I am not writing to you from my usual comfortable position in the café but rather from the cramped quarantine quarters which I share with my fellow sufferers: Tiger Lily, Conner and that annoying fellow Domino (he's the one in the feature...
Cait Sith’s “Tail” of Woe
Greetings Humans, Since I have been occupied with kitten training, I usually let young Inky give you the news of the café. But this concerns me personally so I felt I must tell you myself. Recently, I broke my tail. I won’t tell you how it happened except to say that...
Inky Gives the Latest Gossip
Greetings Humans. It seems like I was just writing to you, but it has been more than a month! So much has happened. All the guest cats have been adopted and we have 11 new kittens. With 16 cats in the café, most of them kittens, I find myself feeling old and...
Inky Tells You the Latest News
Greetings Humans, We had a nice and busy time around the school holiday and warm weather. We appreciate all the people who come to the café, but we especially love those who come back. Now that the season is turning, we will need the support of our regular friends to...
Fun Events at Neko Ngeru
Cat Assisted Yoga is continuing on Tuesday evenings and Thursday afternoons fortnightly. Please check our events page on Facebook or bookings link to see when the next classes are. The cats assist at their own pleasure so we cannot guarantee what they will do but they...