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Funny Things That Could only Happen To A Cat Sitter Part 2

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After I blogged a few months back, many of you have asked for more funnies, so here’s a few laughs……

I was once asked to pet sit for a house that had many different animals including a wallaby! When I was first approached I just dismissed it as a joke, but it wasn’t. I looked after the lovely menagerie for a couple of weeks, they got used to me and I enjoyed my visits. The house was next door to a pub and could be a bit noisy at times with lots of merry drinkers. One evening while I was putting the animals to bed for the night, a very drunk man climbed up the very high pub wall and watched me with the wallaby,  to the amusement of his mates, he fell back down and shouted very loudly that there was a Kangaroo next door!! After I had popped Mr Wally into his hidden enclosure for the night, I finished up in the garden but another head appeared over the wall and asked “where’s  Skippy?”  I just looked at him and replied ” Skippy ? I think you guys have had too much to drink, we are in Portsmouth not Australia!”

I once entered a home and called “Hi gorgeous boy! Auntie Rachel is here for a cuddle!” to be greeted by a red faced builder!

A remember a funny but scary at the time moment when I was upstairs in a house and could hear someone in the room downstairs. No one had a key apart from me, so it had to be a burglar! I went downstairs and heard more noise from the room and so I knocked the door and asked “who\’s there! I\’m calling the police!” No one answered and the door was locked on my side, so I nervously entered……..I found to my surprise a room that did indeed look like it had been burgled, by a very large bird. The poor bird had fallen down the fireplace and was obviously frightened. I opened the door to the garden hoping the bird would just fly out, which it did but only after the resident cat appeared and tried to catch it!

I once had a white cat climb up an open fireplace and come down covered in soot and walk all over new carpet! The owners had shut her in the room in error…… vet trip for a bath was in order as she wouldn\’t let me wash her…

Lastly I once looked after a very nimble pawed cat, who could open the lid on the fish tank to drink and try to catch fish. The same cat could also open a locked cat flap! Little monkey!

I hope that has given you a few laughs and I hope to be cat sitting again soon, when we are allowed to travel.

Love and purrs Rachel & Mr Ringo xxx

Funny things that could only happen to a cat sitter……

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Mr Ringo dines

My work as a cat sitter has had many funny moments over the years and I would love to share some with you…..

  • Calling for a cat in the garden when they have unusual names for example : Pompey, this always gets an answer from a neighbour, usually “Blue Army! Blue Army!” other names I’ve had to call include Rasputin, Satan, No balls (yes really!) and more recently Trump a gorgeous ginger male.
  • Being accused of cat stealing by a concerned neighbour who saw me pick up a cat in the street and take it back home, the cat being very vocal was not happy and decided to tell the whole street. The cat was an indoor only cat due to being deaf but had managed to get out of the home when a cleaner entered the house. Not funny at the time.
  • My car’s aircon breaking due to a hairball! The fur from my clothes must have got into the system.
  • Mr Ringo found in the house of a cat client that lived in my road, I’m not sure who was more surprised Mr Ringo or me! The client was highly amused when I told her as she thought her cat was overeating.
  • People’s homes being full of cats enjoying the cat food and empty home while people are away, non microchipped cat flaps are a problem sometimes…..
  • Telling someone I have found a dead mouse in a flat with an indoor cat, a cat will always find mice…..
  • Meeting a potential client to discover its a cat that belongs to someone else I know, cat was always visiting other homes…..
  • Entering someone’s home to visit a cat to find an elderly neighbour who had had a row with his wife, asleep on the sofa with cat on top! He had a spare key and wife had told him to leave in middle of the night! My client wasn’t that surprised when I called her and explained I was a cat sitter and that wasn’t really what I agreed to.

I hope you enjoyed my cat sitting tails and hope you are all staying safe and healthy. Hopefully we can all get back to some normality this year and start to go away again.

Love and Purrs Rachel & Mr Ringo xxxx

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An Average Day As A Cat Sitter…..

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Many people are fascinated by my work as a cat sitter and love to listen to my adventures……..

So what is an average day at work for Portsmouth Cat Sitting actually like? Well I’m not sure there is an average day as this job is sometimes very different day to day…..

Some days can be very uneventful, straightforward and very easy, while other days can be very stressful, busy and even heartbreaking.

Mouse & Rachel

For example recently one day I visited 6 cats in their own homes and played, cuddled, fed, cleared litter trays etc all the normal cat stuff….very straightforward. The next day one of those houses involved me chasing a mouse around the house for 20 minutes because the resident cat had released it indoors and of course the cats humans were due home later that day!

The next house had me hoovering feathers for over an hour as the two resident cats had gone out for takeaway (feline style) and decided that it would be great fun to watch the cat sitter hoover all over the house and unblock feathers from the hoover over and over again! Of course their humans were due home that day too! There is something about a felines smug face that makes me wonder if indeed we are the superior species on this planet…….

Another house had me taking the cat to the vet due to a very large abscess appearing on top of its head, of course this cat had to be a very vocal Siamese who had some problems with my driving skills!! (How rude!) This was after me catching it and getting into a cat carrier…..

Oh and I mustn’t forget the last house that was pretty normal apart from scraping a dead rat off the bottom of my shoe……

Of course the job has a more serious side to it as well and can often be heartbreaking….I have sometimes taken a cat to the vet for emergency treatment, only to be told by the vet that euthanasia is the best thing for the cat. I may have cared and loved this cat for many years and its heartbreaking especially if its unexpected and I have to call the owners while they are on holiday to tell them. This part of my job is never easy but I like to feel I have helped in some way….and being a full time cat sitter I feel I have the time and experience to do this.

My job can often involve many vet trips and extra cat sitting visits to give the poorly cats their medication, this can be stressful at times but always so rewarding when a cat starts to recover and an owner returns from their holiday to a healthy and happy cat that they may have feared they wouldn’t see again…….

So that’s some of the things that can happen on an average day at work as a cat sitter…….

Love and purrs Rachel x