Blog
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...
Inky talks about Cat Etiquette
Greeting Humans, Now that I’m an adult, I guess I should adopt a more serious tone and deal with a somewhat difficult topic: politeness. Not everyone knows that we cats care about protocol and formality. We like our routines and appreciate it when humans comply with...
Inky Tells All
Greetings Humans! Inky here again. It has been far too long since the last letter to you, so I am taking over from Cait Sith. In case you were wondering, she is okay. Just busy with new kittens to train. Or, at least, that is her excuse. How hard can kittens be,...
Euthanizing and End of Life Care: Making the Hard Choices
Yesterday's (November 7, 2018) presentation at the NZCAR meeting provoked a lot of ideas for the cafe and memories of Madara and Mao who passed away in Shanghai. Madara, our tortie girl, was 15 when she got sick. We were trying to feed her and she choked, dying in our...