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In-home boarding is a form of overnight cat care that takes place in the cat owner's home. Many cat owners prefer to leave their cats in their own home, in their familiar surroundings, with a known and trusted person looking after them. This is a commonly used service for, for example, non-social or
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These are usually the cheapest form of cat boarding, which is often just a room or series of rooms where the cats all mingle together, are fed together and sleep in whatever space they can find. These cat boarding can be overcrowded, especially at peak times, and they also have the highest number of
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With individual cages and large play areas, semi-communal cat boarding is the middle ground between communal and celled cat boarding. Here, cats are fed in cages and separated at night from others, and there is the monitoring of toileting. Specific diets can be catered for, and medications can be
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Often purpose-build, these establishments provide a private, separate area for each cat. Similar to an aviary, they are meshed rooms within a much large facility. Ventilation is ample, which greatly reduces the transmission of illnesses. Similarly to semi-communal cat boarding, cats can be fed
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specialized diets and medication, and their toileting can be monitored. There is no chance of cats intermingling, and the chance of overcrowding is greatly reduced too. Celled cat boarding is at the high end of the pricing spectrum.
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