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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Op here with an update. I remembered the dad picked his daughter up from the last play date and had texted me when he was on the way, so I wrote him in case they had reception and the mom just hadn’t seen her phone. This afternoon when I hadn’t heard anything I tried the non-emergency line at the fire dept. I figured it was a long shot but thought they might be willing / able to open the window and put a bowl of water inside at least. But I didn’t reach anyone. So the girls and I decided to go knock on neighbors’ doors. The closest neighbor, it turns out, is where the pet sitter / teen girl lives. She’s away somewhere, but her brother texted her. He confirmed the code matched ours. Then she sent him a different code. We tried it, but it didn’t work either.

My 12 year old then realized if we lifted the outside flap on the cat door, there’s a little gap at the top - big enough to stick our hands through. So the girls and I bought some cat food and returned with that and a water dish and put them through the gap - we held the dish for the cats to drink from and held out spoons of cat food. (There are 3 cats). I figured that would at least sustain them until u heard back from the family or the pet sitter got back (though I was skeptical she’d be able to get in). I told the girls if that didn’t work there were solutions I could think of - like pulling out the cat door so the cats could get out and then we could take them to our apartment (technically we’re not allowed pets) or, if we reached the family, maybe they could overnight us a physical key.

Anyway, after our adventures at the neighbors and our adventures getting food and water through the tiny gap, I heard back from the family:

(1) we need to use # at the end of the code
(2) they forgot and gave us the wrong code (the 2nd one the pet sitter texted was correct) and
(3) the cats actually have an automatic water and food dispenser and should be fine and really just needed litter / snuggles!

Even before that, when we knew they’d be okay, the whole thing actually seemed like a silly adventure and now it actually seems even sillier - one of the cats wasn’t getting any food so I was trying to flick food to it through the cat door and then my 12 year old tried and another cat received some of it right on his nose [/quote]

Glad to hear it OP.  You're a good person to go out of your way to care for what could have been a deadly situation for those cats.  That family is hella disorganized and lucky to have had you caring for their pet.  I type out written instructions for my cat sitters, and the major thing I'm concerned with when I meet them is that they know how to use the door code so they can get in and out.[/quote]

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