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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...
Artist Exhibition Coming Soon!
We have wanted to have local artists exhibit their work at Neko Ngeru from the beginning. Finally, we have been able to organise ourselves so we can feature one of our muralists. Let us introduce the artist who will exhibit from our anniversary in November through...
Inky Spills the Beans
Hi, All You Humans! This is Inky filling in for Cait Sith. She has been busy training kittens, so she asked me to write about what is happening at the café. But I will start with her in the Okada house. The kittens she is training are named Olive and Oscar. They came...
Cait Sith Shares About the Cats’ Health
Greetings Humans! The months keep getting harder at Neko Ngeru Cat Adoption Café. There have been very few customers and the café cats keep getting sick. They even had to close the café for a few days to let the cats recover. I try to keep up Ken and Richelle’s...