5 month old kittens - cat sitter

[Strawberrytraveller]

Its me again, paranoid about our lovely kittens again!

We are away for a week at the beginning of October. I have arranged for neighbours to feed our 2 kittens. One neighbour will do mornings, and the other evenings. They are still indoor cats as not neutered yet, so neighbours will also have litter trays etc to clean.

Is this enough? At the moment they still get fed 4 times a day, So im worried they will be hungry just being fed twice (they will only eat wet food). I have tried leaving more food down at once, but they just eat what they want, leave the extra, and then won't eat the extra later as its now 'old'.

They are very people cats. Very friendly. but used to being able to get attention and cuddles all day.

Dh thinks I'm slightly mad and they will be fine (he's probably right)

I really can't ask them to come more often can I?

The neighbours will just come in, feed and change trays, then play and fuss with them for about 20 mins.

I may have ordered half of zooplus toy department to keep them entertained whilst we are gone

When my kitten was 5 months, I had the cat sitter come in 3x a day. I thought 2 visits just wasn't enough. Now he's a year we've dropped back to 2 visits for our recent hols. There's a lot a kitten can get up to between a morning and evening visit!

I have a 5 month old kitten and I'm about to go away for the week, I've got my brother staying as I can't see the cat being happy only having someone in the house for a short period. Yours have each other as company though so maybe that would be okay.

Can you pay someone from flatcats to come in once a day as well? Or maybe introduce some dry food as well? You might want to add an extra litter tray. If you have got tunnels make sure you get s couple and one of these

Ah, so maybe 3 times a day isn't over the top. We don't live in the UK anymore so things like 'flatcats' etc don't really exist here. We haven't been here long so close friends and family aren't in the same country. New neighbours are very nice, but I was trying not to over ask from them, hence splitting one morning and one afternoon, so for a week they would only need to come in 8 times each. One kitten will eat dry biscuits which are always available, but the other won't eat at all unfortunately

We have three litter trays.

Have they been neutered yet? If not, they need to be extra, extra careful about escapes... Twice a day visits should be absolutely fine though in terms of feeding and litter box cleaning etc.

viccat - no, in this country the earliest they will neuter is 6 months. They are booked in for the end of October. Its fairly easy to not let them escape as we have effectively two front doors. One into a hallway, and then another into the actual house, so one can be always closed before the other is opened.