871 people have read this thread..with no response..your vet would take care of the cats...why not go....

How kind of you!
 

Dear Beekman,

How kind of you to offer to shuffle your schedule to suit us, my husband said we only fly first class (not really) and your tickets are in the post! My husband does not cook either so I wonder who he shall find to cook and clean whilst in TV without me there to do it for him :p

Hi asianthree,

I hear what your saying, however our Vet only boards sick, or recovering animals. Once when we went to Sri Lanka for 3 weeks I left the cats in a cattery and when we got back my big girl cat was SOOOO thin, she had pined for me the whole time and it broke our hearts to see her that way so I said never again would I per her through it, nor me! It is a sacrifice I am willing to take allowing Tony to come over on his own. I just hope he does not buy a house or anything else for that matter without me!

LuvlyJubly, In the UK, are there pet sitting services where someone (bonded and insured) will come into your home once or twice a day to feed your cats, play with them and take care of your cats' litter box(es)? In the U.S., these services are readily available. I use a pet sitting service whenever I am out of town for more than 1 day. I have used the same pet sitting service for 11 years once my former neighbor (who was my first pet sitter) moved out of state in 2002. Magic (my first cat) and Molly (my current cat) do quite well with my current pet sitter who is a real animal lover.

Dear Schaumburger,

Oh yes there are those types of services here too. My normal cat sitter happens to be on holiday the same time of Tony's trip and anyone else will not do unfortunately. Tony coming over without me is just a sacrifice I am willing to take as I am not prepared to leave my 2 precious babies. The things we do for our animals eh?!

Exactly.

We would leave our cats all the time in the care of a neighbor girl who would come in and feed them, water them, play with them, change the litter box. Cats are mostly indoor creatures and nap their time away. Ours always were perfectly healthy when we would return.

The dogs would be put in a kennel......everyone boarded their pets when they were going on vacation.

Since our children have grown up and left home and the last cat died about 15 years ago, we are petless. It is a lot easier, believe me.

We can go where we please without worrying about them.....or the vet bills.

My husband goes almost every weekend without me while I stay home working and getting our house ready to sell! He works on the house there while I work on the Atlanta house which goes on the market next weekend! Fingers crossed it sells quickly!

Wow....Every weekend eh?! If I would let him my husband would go EVERY weekend too! Good thing he cannot as we would be broke for all the airfare costs, etc and he would be knackered with jetlag! Good luck with the sell of your home and we will of course cross our fingers and we shall even cross our toes :loco: