who takes care of your cats while at WDW?

[mikelan6]

I also use a service, which costs $18.00 per day (plus tip), but having the Littermaid automated litterbox is a big help and is well worth it, even when I am home.

I've often wondered about taking Kitty with us on a trip, but I've been told she would probably freak out.

 

[brettgirl]

I live in the sticks where we all kind of help each other out. I have my daughters 13 year old friend come over to make sure the cats are ok. I have 3-scoop cat litter litter boxes, feeder for water and food. I pay her around $5 (which is a lot for a kid and more than her mom wants me to give her) a day and bring home Mom some disney fun stuff.

 

[sl_underwood]

We asked our vet about pet sitters and she reccommended one and it worked out well. We paid her $20 a day and she came morning and evening. She and her dd stayed and played with the kitites for 30 min or so, fed them and cleaned their litter boxes. They also cleaned up any messes (our kitties like to climb and they knock stuff over) which I was grateful for. Nothing worse than coming home to a mess.
Lora

 

[samano]

Okay, help me out here....
I started reading this post thinking people would say they boarded their cats while they are away. I was surprised not to see that. We've had our kitty for a little over a year now, and our WDW trip this summer will be our first trip away for more than a long weekend (when we just left out lots of food and water). We'll be gone 6 days this time, and I just figured he would have to be boarded. I could ask one of my neighbors to come in and feed him, but I would feel bad about the litter box.
Please share what I'm missing.....is there a reason I shouldn't board him???

 

[mamagoose]

Hi! We have two cats and we are having friends (I had two different friends volunteer, so we'll use them both!) come in twice a day to feed them and give them attention. They are used to being fed twice a day, and one of our cats is a big pig and would eat all the other cats food if we just fed them once a day or left them a bunch. We have extra litter boxes, so our friends don't need to worry about that. Our 14 year old cat is now on an antibiotic for a bad bladder infection, so whoever comes will also have to give him his pill for 4 of the days--although the doc told me they will crush easily to mix with canned food. We also have a Drinkwell system for them that recycles and filters water so they will have plenty of water available. We usually bring a little something back from our trip for whoever took care of our cats (and fish!)

I would NEVER board my cats because I think it would really upset them. They are much more comfortable at home laying in their favorite spots. But that's just me.

We have left them once before for 8 days and they did fine with a neighbors attention. I have to say, I am a little more nervous this time about leaving them just because the one cat is sick. (We at first thought he had kidney failure, but those tests turned out Ok. Whew!)

 

[jackskellingtonsgirl]

We will be gone for 9 nights, and this is the first time we don't have family to look after our cats.

We are hiring a pet sitter that other friends of ours use. She will come by once every other day to make sure the cats have food, water, and clean litter. She will also bring in our mail and water the plants. She charges $20 per visit.

To kennel them it was going to be $12 per night, per cat, and they would be at the kennel for 10 nights. $240 for boarding is a little steep, not to mention we would come home to dead plants and have to go get our mail from the post office. Since we don't have anyone to take us to the airport we will be going on the shuttle, so all of the extra expenses were adding up. Much better to pay under $100 for the sitter than kennel the kitties. Besides, our one kitty is 15 years old and would prefer to stay home. Our young kitty likes to run around like her tail is on fire so staying home will give her the space to do that!

 

[mommiepoppins]

well my friend called me to take care of her cats for the weekend. all I need to do is feed them. So i think that between her and my mil I will have it coverd. I am just going to miss them . My mil is not a cat lover however she will clean the box.

 

[Mom2DS]

We have left ours for a week before with the big feeders for water and food. I get a little nervous, so I set out a couple of large bowls of food plus more large bowls of water, left the sinks with some water just in case, and the toilet lids up just in case! They still had plenty of food and water when we got back... which just proved to DH that I was being a little too crazy! Ours are inside cats and would not do well being boarded or with a stranger coming over. They really are safer and better off on their own with plenty of food and water. We changed the litter the morning we left and got an extra box for while we were gone.

You sound just like me! I'm always afraid it's not going to be enough food and water and they ALWAYS have a TON of both left when we get back! I also leave the toilet lids open -- my DH thinks I'm nuts! We've left our 2 kitties like this several times and they have always been fine when we returned -- although they really told us off when we got home! I give my neighbor a garage door opener and key so they can be checked on if necessary. This time I might have them checked on more often since we just added a new 7-week old baby to the crew yesterday!