Hi all
I have a three year old cat, solo- no second cat. I’m going to be gone for 4 days to go camping and want to know which is the preferred option when leaving cat solo per general Cat behavior and stuff. She’s fed 100% wet food so I don’t want to deal with a food timer and all that. She’s very food driven so in the past when she was on kibble, I leave dry kibble out in an auto feeder she would attack the feeder to the point where she would knock it over and it wouldn’t function properly.
i have the option of :
1) leaving her with my good friend, at their place, with her own litter box and tree and such. My friend doesn’t have any pets so she’s fine there, though I fear it’s a new space so maybe she won’t like it so much.
2) have a cat sitter come by twice a day for 20 minute visits- but my biggest concern with this is that it’s not enough social interaction for Korra. And she typically gets 4 meals a day, not two so having a sitter twice a day May result in her eating bigger portions which she may vomit as she has occasionally done this when eating too fast which is why we have 4 meals in the first place; but she will be an environment she’s used to...
3) take her camping with me. Which I’ve never done before. And she has a cat tent that is 6’x4’ that she hangs out in our yard with- so she can spend time in that at the camp site and sleep with us at night in our tent. When we’re gone during the day, I’ll have to put her in a cat adventure hiking bag so she’ll “hike” with us. She doesn’t like the leash and I haven’t worked that consistently to train her with it but I might be able to given that the camping trip is still 2 months away.
For other future scenarios, If my good friend is not available and I can’t take her whenever I may go, is option 2 viable for four days? It’s really her being alone for 23 hrs of a day that really makes me worry! It’s like isolation! I feel like option 1 is best and then option 2 is option 1 is not viable cause my friend isn’t available.
option three seems crazy but it’s better than isolation...idk!
I have a three year old cat, solo- no second cat. I’m going to be gone for 4 days to go camping and want to know which is the preferred option when leaving cat solo per general Cat behavior and stuff. She’s fed 100% wet food so I don’t want to deal with a food timer and all that. She’s very food driven so in the past when she was on kibble, I leave dry kibble out in an auto feeder she would attack the feeder to the point where she would knock it over and it wouldn’t function properly.
i have the option of :
1) leaving her with my good friend, at their place, with her own litter box and tree and such. My friend doesn’t have any pets so she’s fine there, though I fear it’s a new space so maybe she won’t like it so much.
2) have a cat sitter come by twice a day for 20 minute visits- but my biggest concern with this is that it’s not enough social interaction for Korra. And she typically gets 4 meals a day, not two so having a sitter twice a day May result in her eating bigger portions which she may vomit as she has occasionally done this when eating too fast which is why we have 4 meals in the first place; but she will be an environment she’s used to...
3) take her camping with me. Which I’ve never done before. And she has a cat tent that is 6’x4’ that she hangs out in our yard with- so she can spend time in that at the camp site and sleep with us at night in our tent. When we’re gone during the day, I’ll have to put her in a cat adventure hiking bag so she’ll “hike” with us. She doesn’t like the leash and I haven’t worked that consistently to train her with it but I might be able to given that the camping trip is still 2 months away.
For other future scenarios, If my good friend is not available and I can’t take her whenever I may go, is option 2 viable for four days? It’s really her being alone for 23 hrs of a day that really makes me worry! It’s like isolation! I feel like option 1 is best and then option 2 is option 1 is not viable cause my friend isn’t available.
option three seems crazy but it’s better than isolation...idk!