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Hello again everyone!
Very brief backstory and then into the important stuff. I rescued Sassy a few years ago when I was still living with my mom, previously Sassy had been living on the street in that neighborhood. Sassy is a 13 year old lap cat who absolutely loves people and attention. We are completely inseparable when I am home, she just follows me around purring and nuzzling me. When I went back to work through Covid, she stayed home with my mom, who was working from home, and spent most of the work day sleeping on my mom's lap or desk.
I have since moved out and Sassy lives with me now.
Sassy is, again, very much a "people" cat and gets a little bit lonely even when I go to work. In the years I've had her, has never been left alone for longer than "overnight," which she handles totally fine but is always happy to see me when I come home.
So. Next month I am going out of town for four days. I could hire a cat sitter, but even if someone was able to come multiple times a day for feeding (she gets fed at breakfast and dinner, as well as some medicine in pill pockets before bed), I worry she would get lonely. So normally the next plan would be to drop her at my mom's place since my mom loves her, except that since I have moved out, my brother has moved in with his dog. The dog is rambunctious due to his youth, but he is small (shih-tzu mutt) and friendly. He has met cats many times before and is very friendly and gentle with them. My mom, brother, and sister-in-law all work from home so the two pets would never be left in the house unsupervised.
I am thinking that since this is familiar territory (she spent years in and around that house) with familiar faces, this is probably an alright course of action vs suddenly leaving her alone in my 700 sq ft apartment alone for four days. My question is - how do I do this? Do I bring her over and see how they interact and go from there? Do I bring the dog to my apartment for a bit to make sure they get along on her turf? What's the move?
Thanks!
Very brief backstory and then into the important stuff. I rescued Sassy a few years ago when I was still living with my mom, previously Sassy had been living on the street in that neighborhood. Sassy is a 13 year old lap cat who absolutely loves people and attention. We are completely inseparable when I am home, she just follows me around purring and nuzzling me. When I went back to work through Covid, she stayed home with my mom, who was working from home, and spent most of the work day sleeping on my mom's lap or desk.
I have since moved out and Sassy lives with me now.
Sassy is, again, very much a "people" cat and gets a little bit lonely even when I go to work. In the years I've had her, has never been left alone for longer than "overnight," which she handles totally fine but is always happy to see me when I come home.
So. Next month I am going out of town for four days. I could hire a cat sitter, but even if someone was able to come multiple times a day for feeding (she gets fed at breakfast and dinner, as well as some medicine in pill pockets before bed), I worry she would get lonely. So normally the next plan would be to drop her at my mom's place since my mom loves her, except that since I have moved out, my brother has moved in with his dog. The dog is rambunctious due to his youth, but he is small (shih-tzu mutt) and friendly. He has met cats many times before and is very friendly and gentle with them. My mom, brother, and sister-in-law all work from home so the two pets would never be left in the house unsupervised.
I am thinking that since this is familiar territory (she spent years in and around that house) with familiar faces, this is probably an alright course of action vs suddenly leaving her alone in my 700 sq ft apartment alone for four days. My question is - how do I do this? Do I bring her over and see how they interact and go from there? Do I bring the dog to my apartment for a bit to make sure they get along on her turf? What's the move?
Thanks!
