"Where the cat really does get the cream"

This page tells you the history of The Harpenden Cat Hotel.

Let me introduce myself, my name is Nicky and I run the cattery with some help from my business partner Albert.

Albert and I met in 1985 through out mutual interest in horses. At the time I was working for a horse feed company advising owners on diets for their horses. With the very sad loss of Albert’s wife Shirley he decided he would like to fulfil one of her ambitions to run their own livery stables and asked me if I would like to join him in this venture. We eventually found a beautiful yard in Harpenden and settled here in 1994 to set up a high class livery business.

The livery stables were an enormous success but my competition horse had to be retired because I could no longer spend long periods of time away from the yard. This left me with time on my hands and the need for a challenge.

Over the years we had often commented about the strange relationships between our yard cats and the horses. The cats would often sleep with the horses and one cat would follow them in from the fields at night. Even our house cat would sometimes sleep over the yard in the summer. So there was founded our idea to board cats as well as horses. Although nowadays the cats outnumber the horses and we only have our own and a few friends horses left.

Haven never taken holidays ourselves when we started looking at other boarding catteries we soon realized the general standards were not as high as we would have liked for our own cats, so we decided to do some research.

Over the next 2 years we spoke at length to the British Veterinary Association, Environmental Health Officers, local vets, animal welfare organizations, cattery manufacturers and all out cat owning friends. We took note of all their comments and requirements and set about designing our cattery.

We have since advised other new boarding catteries wanting to replicate The Harpenden Cat Hotel and helped them achieve the same standards across the country.

We became leaders in our field, so much so that the National Cat Magazine ‘Your Cat’ decided to do a 3 page feature on us titled ‘Choose only the best’.

"What we do makes a difference in the lives of our customers and their cats"

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