Longest you would leave cats alone?
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Anonymous
| 2 nights (Fri-Sun). Leave food/water in 2 locations in case one gets turned over. |
Anonymous
| For like a weekend without a sitter. If longer than a weekend I have a sitter come 1-2 times a day depending on how long I'll be gone. (If 3-4 days once a day is fine, anything longer than 4 days I ask the sitter to go twice a day just to make sure the cat has someone to play with for a little bit.) |
Anonymous
| More than two days I get a sitter. I’ve done up two week trips. |
Anonymous
| Once we left a cat for 6 days, returned for 24 hours and left for another 6. This was due to a family emergency and I didn’t have the money to board her. No one would agree to cat sit. It couldn’t be helped, she had plenty food and water, but I still feel guilty about it 15 years later. |
Anonymous
We have a standard WiFi webcam that's normally aimed at our driveway. When we travel, we take it down and place it on a cabinet pointed toward the couch where the cats usually sleep. For the first day or two, they set it off constantly while sniffing it. 
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Anonymous
Really? There must be 10's of thousands of cats that are left alone for over 8 hours a day while the owner is at work. How is this legal limit of 8 hours enforced? |
Anonymous
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It really depends on the cat's temperament and needs.Our 5-year-old cat is super social and does not do well being alone for very long, even in her own home. For anything less than a week, we have a trusted teenage neighbor come over once or twice a day to fill food, water and pay lots of attention to her. For longer trips, my kind parents will take her in. After the 3 day adjustment period, she does really well over there. She just needs a person around.
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Anonymous
| We've left ours for two nights - like Friday through Sunday. They were fine, but if we were gone any longer we'd need another litter box. I leave several different bowls of food and water, because they do have a tendency to paw at them and will occasionally flip one over. |
Anonymous
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Yikes I had no idea people left their cats for days without check ins!
That's pretty gross to not change the water or scoop the litter, and unless you've got a camera on the auto-feeder something could definitely go wrong there. But we are daily scoopers and am/pm water changers over here. And we have one cat that is a food lover and one who will wait. And we have the means to pay for 2x/day sitter who will feed and scoop and play and check the house, so we do that. When we didn't have as much money we had neighbors with cats check in and we traded. Not always 2x/day, but certainly daily. To each their own, but this is surprising to me. |
Anonymous
| We have cat sitter come by daily to clean the litter box, leave food and water. We also have an automatic feeder and a water fountain, but you never know if they fail while gone. |
Anonymous
| Two nights max. |
Anonymous
| Ours gets anxious when we away. We’d prob do one night but definitely have someone check in if longer. The last time we used a cat sitter he tore down the curtains. Now we tend to take him to stay with my parents so he stays calm. They adore him and he knows their home well. |
Anonymous
I leave my two cats for weekend trips/two days. We use a water fountain so the water only gets changed once a week anyway. Automatic feeder. Usually I scoop litter once a day so I put out a extra litter box for a weekend away. My cats are very chill though. The only thing is that they love people/cuddling so I pay a sitter mostly to come hang out with them and scoop litter for trips of 3+ days. |
Anonymous
| I can’t imagine cleaning the litter box after a full week. Gross. |
Anonymous
| Omg. What kind of cats do you people have?! Mine would go insane without companionship. I have a cat sitter come in twice per day when I’m out of town. |