Leaving cat alone for weekend
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Anonymous
| I am going on vacation afternoon! Regular cat sitter isn't available until Monday. Okay to leave cat alone from noon Friday to Monday evening? She has an automated feeder and I would leave out several bowls of water in various locations so that if she has a spill, she's not out of water for two days. |
Anonymous
| Yes, of course the cat will be fine. |
Anonymous
| Leave an extra litterbox too if you can. She should be fine. |
Anonymous
| Depends on your definition of ok. Will she be alive and physically well for that length of time? Sure. Is it mean to leave a cat alone for over 48 hours with no companionship… yes. |
Anonymous
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It's a cat. she will be fine for a couple of days. Leave the TV on NatGeo or something if you think she will be lonely.
Also -- shut the doors to everything except main area. One my kittens shut themselves in a bedroom overnight when we had a cat sitter. someone rough and tumbled into the door and then they were stuck. They were fine, though -- but wouldn't have been for Fri-Mon. |
Anonymous
| We do this fairly regularly. Cat will be fine, physically and mentally. |
Anonymous
| Put out some extra dry food as well. I had a friend who left her cat alone for three days and her automatic feeder unexpectedly broke shortly after she left. |
Anonymous
| Our neighbors ask us to drop by and cuddle with their cat, and check on the litter box, food and water, for a bit every day. You could do that, but really, most cats will be fine. |
Anonymous
| I wouldn't do it, personally...no more than I would a dog. I tried it once with a cat, long ago, and sure, she was alive when I got back but it negatively affected her in other ways. |
Anonymous
| A lot of cats are not interested in company other than their preferred human. Cat will be fine. |
Anonymous
| Thanks, everyone. I really do not know anyone in my building and I really trust our usual sitter so I am just going to leave a day late. This way she will only be home from Saturday at lunch to Monday evening. Still not ideal but better. |
Anonymous
| We leave the cat for a few days fairly regularly. When we get back he demands extra attention for a few hours, but then he's over it. Most cats would be perfectly fine in this scenario. |
Anonymous
+1 I wouldn’t think twice unless your cat is unusually neurotic. If possible, make sure the cat has a view out of various windows. |
Anonymous
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+1 to extra dry food and I might leave a toilet seat up for emergency water.
Noon Friday to Monday night is actually 72hrs plus--long-ish. Sat to Monday is probably OK. |
Anonymous
Op here and yeah. We were going to leave for our vacation a little early but now I'm like, eh I don't have time to take tomorrow off anyway. We'll just leave Saturday morning and the sitter will come Monday night to feed her. Like I said, still not ideal but better. |