Toys
Cattery-Tested Cat Toys: What Lasts a Peak Season
Strange cats, thirty at a time, week after week: a cattery finds every weak point in a cat toy. The ones that survived, and the ones that died in week one.
Ruth Alderton
Retired Cattery Manager · Sydney, NSW · 4 posts
Ruth managed a boarding cattery in Sydney for eleven years, with upwards of thirty cats in residence at peak season. She knows which beds survive industrial washing, which toys hold up to strange cats, and how a new cat reads a strange room. Her guides are written for multi-cat households, where everything you buy has to work for three opinions at once.
Credentials & experience
- Cattery manager in Sydney for eleven years (30+ cats in residence)
- Deep experience with boarding-grade beds, toys and hygiene routines
- Writes multi-cat household and boarding-tested gear guides
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Toys
The Cleaning Routine for Cat Toys, From a Boarding Cattery
Toys carry fur, saliva and scent, and in a multi-cat house that adds up fast. The wash routine that kept thirty cats' worth of equipment clean and re-usable.
Beds & Mats
Multi-Cat Households and the Bed Maths Nobody Warns You About
One bed per cat is the advice everybody gives and nobody's cats follow. What actually happens with three, four and thirty cats, and the placement rules that end the argument.
Beds & Mats
Boarding-Grade Beds: What Survives Thirty Cats and Industrial Washing
A cattery is the harshest bed test there is. Which beds came back week after week, which died in a season, and what a single household should actually buy.