Am I going mad or is this truly bizzare??
Sep 24, 2014 08:29:22 #
yorkslass
Loc: Virginia
Not really so strange. There are times you have to spend time away from home and placing a cat in a cattery is a good recipe for coming home to a sick cat! Neighbor has six cats and when they vacation for a week a cat sitter moves in. I have one cat and when we are gone neighbor pops in twice a day. Mine is also an inside cat which also makes a difference. Actually, when you think about it, whoever came up with the idea was brilliant.
Sep 24, 2014 08:48:09 #
A kennel may cost up to $50 per day per animal. Cats can survive alone more easily than dogs, but many people would prefer to pay someone to come to their home and watch their pets (and their home) when they go away. I think in middle to upper-income areas a service of house/animal sitting would do very well. Someone with several dogs, for example, would much rather pay someone $100 a day to stop by four times, let the dogs out, check their water/food dish, and talk with them than to pay a kennel where the dogs would be cramped and stressed.
Sep 24, 2014 09:23:03 #
We had to go to NYC , paid $25.00 per day to have a animal sitter
come in three times a day to take care of our cat & dog. I know she has at least five other clients in our neighborhood alone. Also worth having activity around the house.
come in three times a day to take care of our cat & dog. I know she has at least five other clients in our neighborhood alone. Also worth having activity around the house.
Sep 24, 2014 10:08:44 #
Sep 24, 2014 10:55:24 #
Swamp Gator wrote:
Maybe because they don't have a neighbor to go to the house twice a day to put food out for the cats?
That's what the cat service would do.
That's what the cat service would do.
Thank you. We put our pets-2 dogs and a cat- in the kennel when we vacation. It's expensive, but necessary. All our neighbors work and I don't feel right asking them to baby sit our pets, which is what they would be doing. I also don't feel right having a person I don't know in my house for two weeks. Besides, my dog, Jack, has fear problems, so it likely wouldn't work anyway. Jack doesn't do well with strangers.
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Sep 24, 2014 11:31:30 #
leej wrote:
d'ja notice I get confused?
Lee, just click once on the 'Send' button...we all make repeat posts, no problem. :D
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Sep 24, 2014 12:03:21 #
leej wrote:
How do you delete the xs posts?
You can't delete the entire post so I just delete the words and type, "Sorry, 2x post." Some just let it go. Also, when you want to reply to a certain poster's answer or question, hit "Quote Reply"
Sep 24, 2014 12:09:20 #
My wife started a Cat Co-op where we live. People with cats volunteer to Cat-sit [feed and water someone's cat(s)] for like service when they need to leave their cat(s) at home alone. Their is no money involved and the service is provided in the cat's residence. Cats, being the independent beings they are, don't need to go for daily walks to find grass to poop on and for some poor soul to pick it up off of the grass or pavement with a plastic bag covered hand and bag it. They just need a cat litter box and if the owners are gone for a considerable length of time, someone to scoop out the lumps of litter covered waste. The concept is: you feed and water mine and when you need to go out of town without Kitty I'll do the same for you.
Sep 24, 2014 15:02:00 #
I'm vacationing right now and I'm using a cat sitter for my beautiful Ragdoll kitty. $10.00 a day for a visit, food put out, litter cleaned, water put out and a little licking on a cherry sucker she loves. She's happy and the high-school girl is too.
I like the idea of the Co-op for cat sitters.
I like the idea of the Co-op for cat sitters.
Sep 24, 2014 15:38:54 #
amyinsparta wrote:
Thank you. We put our pets-2 dogs and a cat- in the kennel when we vacation. It's expensive, but necessary. All our neighbors work and I don't feel right asking them to baby sit our pets, which is what they would be doing. I also don't feel right having a person I don't know in my house for two weeks. Besides, my dog, Jack, has fear problems, so it likely wouldn't work anyway. Jack doesn't do well with strangers.
Also (true story) we went away for the weekend once and asked our next door neighbor who we were very friendly with to check in on our two cats and put out food and water for them. They said fine they certainly would do that.
When we arrived home the first thing I noticed was that the cat food cans I had left out on the kitchen counter were still sitting there, and none of the bowls had any food or water in them.
Within five minutes the neighbor must have seen us come home and that jogged her memory, she came rushing over and apologized profusely saying she had forgotten to feed them.
Well lucky it was a weekend and not a full week so the cats were unhappy but not dead.
That was it though, we went with a cat sitter from there on.
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