Edinburgh West Cat Sitting

Locally owned and operated

Part of the Home Loving Cats family

Trusted in Edinburgh West

5-star rated by local cat owners

DBS checked & fully insured

Complete peace of mind

We provide professional, caring in-home cat sitting while you're away. Your cat stays happy, comfortable and stress-free in their familiar environment.

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Meet Ivona and Meho

We are Ivona and Meho, cat sitters providing the best care for cats of Edinburgh West area including Granton, Corstorphine, Gogar, Davidson’s Mains, Hermiston, Riccarton, Craiglockhart, Slateford, Gorgie, Merchiston, Dalry, Polwarth, Cramond, Fairmilehead, Juniper Green, Currie, Colinton, Morningside, Comely Bank, Dean Village, West End, Craigiehall, Dalmeny, Queensferry and South Queensferry, Port Edgar and surrounding locations. If you are in search of reliable, caring and trustworthy people to take care of your fur babies while you are away, then you came to the right place. To check if we cover your location, please enter your full postcode in the form at the top of this page.

Cat Sitting Reviews

Please check out our customer reviews by clicking CAT SITTING REVIEWS.

"We've just had Ivona and Meho to look after our two cats Jack and Stella. Excellent service from start to finish. Stella has diabetes and needs insulin injections twice a day, which were done perfectly. It was so nice knowing they were in great hands. Loved the daily updates via text and videos, it really helped put my mind at ease. We will definitely use their services again."

Sarah Mckay

Why choose us to take care of your babies?

We truly understand how hard it can be to entrust your loved babies to someone you’ve never met, as we have been in that situation not long ago when we first moved away from the families that were usually taking care of our gang of five felines. On the other hand, we also know that cats definitely don’t want to be left in a cattery, an unfamiliar environment away from their usual territory. (Please check out our article “Why Cats Hate Catteries”. For those reasons, we will go above and beyond to make you and your kitties happy, safe and sound, all in the warmth of their home!

We are well organized, reliable and trustworthy and we own basic disclosure (police check) certificates and public liability insurance
We have more than five years of experience taking care of kittens and cats, and we are absolutely passionate about them
We pride ourselves to be tidy, effective and mature and we will care about your cats and home with the utmost professionalism.

We will:

meet you prior to your trip to understand the routines and individual needs of your cats
change the food and water daily
make sure any litter tray is kept meticulously clean and well maintained
clean any litter or food your fur baby chooses to spread over the house
do our best to adapt to your cat’s habits
update you daily to let you know all is well and send lots of photos
pick up your post, water the flowers and put bins out/in for you if needed, and keep a general eye on your house and garden
make sure that your cats get a proper amount of cuddles and play with them and their favourite toys
do our best to cover any last-minute bookings
we can also administer medicines

More about us

We were born and bred in Bosnia and Herzegovina. We adopted each other in 2016 when I – Ivona bought my first car from Meho (funny way to meet, don’t you agree?). We have been living together since 2018 and we moved to our home in Scotland in 2020 after falling in love with Edinburgh on of our trips. I have a Master’s degree in Computer science. We enjoy travelling together, especially on road trips and exploring new places. Meho was always passionate about gym workouts and passed that passion on to me as well. We complement each other perfectly. I am very proactive and courageous while Meho is very supportive and reasoned. Our love for animals dates all the way back to our childhoods. Meho previously owned a dog, and I had a leopard gecko.

Our home is now ruled by five fur babies – all adopted as kittens from the streets in Bosnia. Our first baby came to us in 2017 and his name is Felix. Felix loves to sleep, and his favourite place to sleep is Meho’s chest while he’s watching the TV, or my lap while I’m working. Afterwards came Crna, a little female black cat. She is the smartest one in the house. Crna is expert in opening doors, so we had to adjust all the doors in our home to stop her from going to the wrong places at the wrong time. Our third baby came one year after the first one, in 2018, and his name is Malac (which means “tiny in our mother tongue). He got this name as he was a very small kitten when we got him, but he grew to be the biggest one, but still, the name stuck. He loves to work with and “use” the computer, but he is a bit clumsy, so we always have good laughs watching him on his adventures. The fourth baby is Minnie, a gorgeous grey lookalike of Felix. Nope, they are not related, but the love they share cannot be described with words. They have been best friends since day one. Repica was the last one to join our family, and she has been such a precious addition ever since! She was hurt in a car accident before we found her, so we went through the recovery process with her, which made us bond on a different level. Her tail had to be removed, and she has had trust issues since then, but that just makes her love more precious to us – we feel so honoured that she trusts us now!

As we couldn’t keep all the love for ourselves, over the course of years, we successfully found forever homes for more than 10 stray cats and kittens in our home country. We still continuously support the adoption of stray cats and dogs in Bosnia.

Contact Us Today!

If you want your cat(s) to have a lovely time whilst you are away, please get in touch with us today!

To contact us, please enter your full postcode in the form at the top of the page.

We look forward to meeting you and your cats very soon!

Best regards
Ivona & Meho

Why Edinburgh West Cat Owners Choose In-Home Cat Sitting

Edinburgh is a city of distinct neighbourhoods, and the cats that live across Corstorphine, Morningside, Colinton, Cramond, and the areas stretching out towards South Queensferry share one thing in common: their home is everything to them. The familiarity of their own territory, their own routines, and their own scent markers is what keeps them settled. Remove that, even temporarily, and the effects show quickly.

Sarah’s review above says it plainly. Two cats, one of whom is diabetic and needs twice-daily insulin injections, cared for over a full holiday period with daily updates and videos throughout. The kind of arrangement that gives cat owners with medical-needs cats a realistic option for travelling without either an anxious cattery stay or the worry of depending on neighbours.

Ivona and Meho understand this from the inside. Moving to Edinburgh from Bosnia meant leaving behind family members who had always looked after their five cats. Finding people they could genuinely trust with their animals was not straightforward, and that experience shapes how they approach every client. They know what it feels like to hand over your keys and hope for the best. The daily updates, the attention to individual routines, the patience with cats that take time to warm up: all of it comes from that real understanding.

The Edinburgh West territory is large, taking in urban areas close to the city centre as well as quieter residential areas further west and south. Ivona and Meho cover all of it personally, adapting to whatever each cat needs rather than expecting cats to fit around them.

For full details of everything the service includes, visit the Home Loving Cats service page. Our article Why Cats Hate Catteries explains the territorial behaviour behind why staying home matters so much for cats.