A Pawsome Experience By Victoria Corcoran of Pets Country Manor
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he Pets Country Manor is a luxury cattery in Liverpool. We serve a niche market providing luxury high end accommodation for cats. Our premises comprises of 69 suites - 61 of these rooms are for up to 2 cats and 8 of these rooms are for up to 4 cats. We have lots of customers from surrounding areas using our cattery such as Warrington, Widnes, Southport and the Wirral.
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HOW WE STARTED Myself (Victoria) and my fiancé Craig were going away on holiday in 2007 and couldn’t find anyone to look after our guinea pigs so once we returned we looked into it further and realised that there was no one who catered for small animals such as rabbits, guinea pigs, chickens, bearded dragons etc so we decided to build the small animal hotel in our back garden. We went onto win numerous awards and were featured in local magazines and newspapers and soon we were receiving calls from people wanting to book their cats in with us but we didn’t cater for cats and the feedback we received
LANCASHIRE & NORTH WEST MAGAZINE
indicated there was a gap in the market for a truly luxury hotel for cats in Liverpool. We built our first cattery in 2009 in our back garden which had 14 rooms and four poster beds, within 18 months of opening we had turned away 984 customers due to being fully booked so we realised we needed to expand. In 2012 we moved house to somewhere just 10 minutes down the road and built the Pets Country Manor luxury cat hotel, we started with 40 rooms and have since expanded to have 73 rooms. (the place we bought was a derelict country pub, this former pub is now our family home and we built the pets country manor in the former beer garden of the pub). www.lancmag.com
