The Martlets Messenger

Edition Number One: Christmas 2003

To: All Our Feline Guests and their, Human Staff

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HIS IS THE first edition of our Martlets Messenger Newsletter, and my first flirtation

with writing one. Please be patient - I will get the hang of it! The aim is to keep

our Clients abreast of changes at Martlets Cattery, and to include an item in each

edition for your interest and/or amusement - all with a feline theme, I hasten to add.

The first is a serious one about one of my enemies - the flea! If you have any

contributions for future editions, small articles, about your own cat's

experiences at home, or in cattery; problems you have encountered and maybe solved,

or just stories about the sheer joy of owning cats, please share them with us all, by

sending them to Martlets Cattery for inclusion in The Martlets Messenger Newsletter,

E-mails are ideal.

THE MOST IMPORTANT task in this, the Christmas edition, is to enclose Martlets

Christmas cards, wish you all the "Compliments of the Season ", and to thank you all

for your valued custom again this year. Martlets Cattery goes from strength to

strength and is now having capacity problems - more on that later. Trevor and I take

immense pleasure in caring for your cats - they are dear loving characters - but you do

not need me to tell you that! Some will be joining us for the Festive Season and we

are planning a delicious Christmas dinner, and Father Christmas never forgets us on

"The Morning ". Anyway, I always leave a sign out so that he cannot miss us!

Our First Price Increase, ever

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ROM 1ST DECEMBER 2003 charges per day, or part thereof, for one

cat will be £7. For two cats the charge is £12.50. Prices for three

and four cats remain unchanged.

THIS IS our first price increase since we opened

back in May 2001.

Our New Canine Resident

W

E HAVE A new puppy. She is a

chocolate Labrador called Tess,

very cute and very naughty. As you

will realise, Coldharbour Road is very

busy and very fast. Consequently we

have fitted a field gate

IT IS WELL lit, but very solid. Please

feel free to open it and use Martlets

car park, but we would be grateful if

you would close the gate behind you to

protect our baby.