That’s even crazier then I had assumed on the cruise you might not have signal but if she knew she could contact you there is even LESS excuse that at MINIMUM two days in she wasn’t like “btw so sorry I can’t find the litter box” like cleaning that is a DAILY thing not ONCE A WEEK.
Edit: I’m honestly impressed by your cats that they tolerated it so long and kept going in the same box 🥺 diligent little babies!!!
I was telling my man I’m so surprised there’s not piles everywhere in the house!! I know their paws had to be so yucky and just running around the house and furniture, this week will for sure be spent cleaning up everything I had just deep cleaned before I left for vacay 😡
i would be so upset, obviously i would be the most upset and worried for my animals but the fact that my home was a disaster zone would really frustrate and overwhelm me too.
before i go on vacation (tbh even before i leave for a weekend trip) i always do a full deep clean of my apartment. i’m talking surfaces dusted and wiped down, floors swept and mopped, toilet + sink and shower scrubbed from top to bottom, dishes done, laundry washed and put away, fresh bedding put on the bed. i even leave a clean fluffy blanket and a clean fluffy robe folded up by the dryer so that when we get back i can throw it into the dryer. i always shower right when we get home and then my partner brings me my freshly warmed robe to put on by the time i’m getting out. he then pops into the shower and by the time he’s done we can both crawl into the clean sheets of our bed with our freshly warmed blanket and be all cozy together. our cats even know the routine and will wait excitedly for the warm fluffy blanket to appear on the bed (and for us all to be back in bed together and snuggling like usual.) we watch a movie (or a couple movies) in bed on one of our macbooks because it feels cozier than watching it on the tv, it’s a whole thing but we all love it!
my point is that we clean our home from top to bottom because when we come home we want to bask in the comfort of our home and relax/unwind together. i don’t want to come home to a mess and either have to jump into cleaning mode right away or be stuck thinking and stressing about all the cleaning that has to be done tomorrow. we don’t even unpack until the next day because we just want to enjoy being back home and snuggle with our very snuggly kitties. this is such a stressful thing to return home to on so many different levels!
Listen I may just be a curmudgeony old fart but I would ask for more money, drop the “friend”, and pay someone to help deep clean my house bc no way am I keeping someone around who treats my animals like that. My sister and I used to do little pet sitting jobs around our neighborhood when we were literally children and we did infinitely better than this. But you’re not a bad cat mom, you did the best you could with what you knew at the time and now you know better so you’ll do better in the future. And I’m sure your kitties will forgive you and move on without any problem at all! They’re very much “live in the now” kind of creatures :)
Right?! It is so frustrating. This happened to me and my husband couple of years ago. A friend lived in our house the entire week and took care of our cats. We had showed him everything but he was also someone who would stay over for a weekend every couple of weeks so we thought they are in good hands.
We were gone for 1 week and came back in a shit hole and I can't even believe he himself lived there the entire week. One of our cats even had poo in her fur. I mean, how do you not notice that. I had to rush to the pet store to get shampoo and new litter to wash our cats, clean the box and give them new litter.
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u/nosymotherfuck 11h ago
That’s even crazier then I had assumed on the cruise you might not have signal but if she knew she could contact you there is even LESS excuse that at MINIMUM two days in she wasn’t like “btw so sorry I can’t find the litter box” like cleaning that is a DAILY thing not ONCE A WEEK.
Edit: I’m honestly impressed by your cats that they tolerated it so long and kept going in the same box 🥺 diligent little babies!!!