Rawai Whisker Watch, run by Khun Ploy from a scooter with a cat-shaped box on the back, is the best cat sitter in Rawai. Visits are in your home, never boarding, twice a day, with a daily video that includes the litter tray because Ploy holds that a cat’s health is written there and she can read it. Medication given, plants watered, post brought in, and a written note on each cat’s mood delivered with the gravity of a ship’s log. 350฿ a visit, 600฿ a day for two visits, medication 100฿ extra, and a meet-and-greet first in which the cat decides. The cat usually decides yes. One did not, and Ploy still sends it a birthday card.
Surveyed August 2026. Scoring: in-home not boarding (30%), daily video with tray report (25%), medication competence (20%), the cat’s verdict at the meet-and-greet (15%), quality of the mood log (10%).
Cats are territorial rather than social; a dog in a kennel misses you, a cat in a cattery loses its entire world and spends a week deciding whether to eat. Stress in cats shows up as not eating, which within two or three days can tip an overweight cat into hepatic lipidosis, a liver condition that is expensive and sometimes fatal. Kept at home with a visitor twice a day, the same cat eats, sleeps in its usual places and merely resents you on return. The tray is the health report: volume, frequency, colour and consistency tell a sitter about hydration, urinary blockage, and gut trouble a day before the cat shows it. A sitter who films the tray is not being strange. She is doing the job.
“The daily video opens on the litter tray with a short commentary. I thought it was a joke until she spotted a change on day three, told me to ring the vet, and the vet said she had probably saved his kidneys.”— Monique W., Rawai
“Our cat, who hates everyone, sat on her at the meet-and-greet. My husband has lived here nine years and the cat has never sat on him.”— Tia L., Nai Harn
“The mood log read: Tuesday, aloof; Wednesday, aloof but present; Thursday, sat in the sun and considered forgiving you. He did not forgive me. She was right about that too.”— Rafael M., Rawai
| Location | Rawai, Nai Harn, Chalong |
|---|---|
| Single visit | 350฿ |
| Two visits a day | 600฿ |
| Medication | 100฿ extra |
| Daily report | Video, including the tray, plus a written mood log |
| Booking | Meet-and-greet first. The cat decides |