Leaving cats alone for 36 hours?

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Would you feel comfortable leaving cats alone in the house with lots of food and water around, leaving at say 10am one day and returning at tea time the next?

No. There'll be poo everywhere and your house could get trashed. They could spill the water within 5 minutes of you leaving them and eat all the food.

You realise this is about cats, not toddlers?

We leave ours for 2 nights about 3 times a year. Once in extremis we left them for 3 nights but I was worried about that. Automatic feeder, loads of water and extra dry food.

Yep no problem at all. We have left ours from Monday at 10am to Tuesday at 6pm half a dozen times over the past 5 years, and twice from Monday 10am to Wednesday at 6pm.

We put several bowls of dry food stacked up to the brim in several different flavours, and also leave 3 big bowls of water. No litter, as they go outside in the garden. We have a big garden (one acre,) and they go in there. (We have a catflap.)

They sleep more than half the time anyway, and when we come back, half of the food and water is still there.

They would much rather stay in their own home than spend 2-3 days in a 'cat hotel.' Cats are more comfortable in the own home than anywhere else.

@TroysMammy

No. There'll be poo everywhere and your house could get trashed. They could spill the water within 5 minutes of you leaving them and eat all the food.

LOL. This would never happen.

Yep, I used to regularly leave mine for 2 nights at a time when DH were in a long distance relationship.

Never had a problem. I have a cat water fountain, and put their food in a dispenser sort of thing.

Depends on the cat. As you have more than one I would say yes as they can keep each other company. I wouldnt with ours - she is very clingy and gets anxious without human company. Plus, she is losing her sight poor thing

We have five so we'd come home to the house burned down because they'd spend the whole time kicking seven bells of shite from one another. Four of the five are gorgeous floofy balls of love. The youngest is a complete dickhead and, if he wasn't ours, I'd suggest he'd do better made into a pair of tiny slippers because he brings about nothing but carnage.

DH loves them so much that I doubt he'd even leave them for 24 hours. Fortunately MIL loves helping out so she comes over and feeds them 74 times a day (she forgets which ones she's fed so re-feeds them all frequently. I suspect they know this).

^^ HAHA

Ours would also tear seven bells of shite out of each other. After demolishing the house and dancing on the burning embers.
We have torties!

Aww tiny slipper cat surely it isn't that nuts ?

Aww tiny slipper cat surely it isn't that nuts ?

MrsJayy Even our Vet says he believes the youngest cat is possessed by demons the likes of which he's never seen. The cat had an operation recently to see if they could remove a lump (which I'm assuming was some sort of Cat Fight Club injury because the twat is constantly chasing off squirrels, rats and wolverines from the lawn) and we were meant to collect him at 4pm. The nice lady at the Vets phoned at just gone 1pm and asked if we could collect Satan's own cat because he was being "quite a handful" and had bitten 3 members of staff, upset a dog in the communal area and had deliberately (and it absolutely is deliberate with him) pissed reverse-monkey-style out the front of his cage all over the front of the cage below where another cat quietly recuperated.

He's asleep next to me now in his Box of Shame, where he sits, quietly feigning sleep til he senses someone's vulnerable and walks over and bites their feet or nose for a laugh. Cat Bastard.

Whoooo that has absolutely cracked me up!!

whoo

Our cat doesn't 'gobble' the food so left with a 1 litre ice cream tub of dry catfood is fine for 4 or 5 days. Has own 'room' (porch) with catflap so not really quite in the house. Clean water, although a good idea is usually not drunk as she prefers the rank stuff in flowerpots and buckets in the garden anyway! Often brings us treats for our return, like half a rabbit or a few mouse giblets.

36 hours is totally A-OK fir your average cat.

Like PPs say, auto cat feeder, extra water bowls, extra dry food just in case of timer malfunction, and wedge doors open. Cover your beds with a throw - my cats always manage to get up there with extra dirty paws. Never had a problem.

We leave ours for two nights max (we have two indoor cats) and just leave plenty of dry food and water out for them. DP's aunt lives down the road, though, and is able to keep an eye out just in case.

If we leave them longer, said aunt will come in and feed them, sort their trays out and give them fresh water. I also suspect she spoils them rotten and gives them extra treats and tuna when we go away as they both LOVE her coming over!

Whoooo - I am actually crying with laughter thanks I needed that
tell us more about the demon cat

I leave mine for two nights every month or so and for 3 nights on occassion with free access to outside, pans of water everywhere and loads and loads of food. They were totally fine, they kept each other company.

Do it all the time. One have a cat flap, don’t drink the water I leave anyway and have an automatic feeder. If they don’t like the food, they supplement with hunting anyway. Might be an issue for indoor cats, but I think indoor cats are an issue anyway.

Nope. I would see 18 hours as the limit.

They have not one have

redshoeblueshoe I recently convinced DH to drive us all down to London for a day out. We live in the Midlands, so it's not too far, but a good day out. We decided we'd drive down to Stanmore Park then take the jubilee in. Got the DCs ready, set off, usual nonsense. Halfway there I said to DH "I can hear a cat". He replied that it would be one of the DCs iPads and I was just being daft. Reached SP and sat, washing it's arse in the back of DH's car as we opened the boot was Cat Bastard, who took the opportunity to leap out like a gazelle and race about the car park. It took hours to rescue the utter bellend, then DH had to drive him home while I skipped off to London with the DCs. DH hasn't ever sworn so much in his whole life as he did that day.

Another time Cat Bastard went missing for a couple of hours and my sipdey senses told me he was up to no good. I searched the house and he was nowhere to be found. DH got home from work and I mentioned that Cat Bastard was awol. DH helped search and still nothing. That evening we got a phone call from Ocado. Cat Bastard had climbed aboard the Lemon van at 11am that day and gone for a merry little drive about with the rest of the shopping being delivered.

How he's still alive is beyond me. He is an instrument of torture.

Ha ha ha. Your DH shouldn't have searched for him

Whoooo it was a shitter of a week until reading your dickhead cat posts. Might be the turning point. Reminds me a bit of 'that' uncle everyone has- bit of a knobhead and the black sheep of the family.

Oh Whoooo I tried to read that out to my partner and I was laughing so hard that it was impossible!

Keep these stories coming they are gold! :-)

Cat bastard needs his own thread!