Hope some of you might talk me down! We're away for six days - and put DC in a cattery for the very first time. He is only 6 months old and never been away from home at all since we got him at 9 weeks.
The cattery is lovely and comes highly recommended. DC has an indoor pod and a cat flap to an outdoor area. He's a Bengal cross... very lively, very playful and does tend to love being outside (at home we still have him on a harness when we go in the garden or follow him and stand on the lead if he gets too adventurous just yet - he's incredibly curious and we have a large garden, so are trying to contain him as much as possible at the moment as he does get freaked by noises etc sometimes)
Anyway - the cattery has CCTV in every pod so you can use an app to look at your cat at any time, day or night! This is a VERY mixed blessing it seems, as we now end up checking far too often! First night he was fine, bit bemused but stayed in his pod all night.
However, after another day of growing confidence yesterday he has now decided, it seems, to live full-time in the outside area. He wasn't inside where we could see him (no cameras in outside area) all evening. We eventually went to bed - but my partner and I checked each time we woke up (often as now worried) and he spent the whole night (and the morning so far it seems) outside!! Is he going to be okay staying out all night? I'm worried he might get cold. He's probably just very excited to be out at night for the first time - but we have become very anxious first time parents! I don't want to contact the cattery unless necessary though as I don't want to be 'that' cat parent!!