We've had bad luck with cat-sitters in the past year or so. Our first Chicago cat-sitter whom we loved, decided to dissolve her business, so we had to hunt for someone else. The woman who found Emma was supposed to cat-sit for us over Thanksgiving--a week before Thanksgiving we found out she had moved to Mexico on a whim, basically, didnt give her job any notice, and hadn't called us to let us know. So, a week before Thanksgiving, we were scrambling to find someone, fortunately a good friend of mine was staying in town and watched them while we were in NY. Once I got back, I started the hunt for a cat-sitter to watch them over XMas. I was supposed to meet with one at the house today at noon. Well, 12:20 rolled around and no sign of her, so I called her cellphone and she basically just flat-out said "Oops, I forgot", which doesn't exactly leave me with good feelings for how well she'll take care of my cats. I don't want her to "oops, forget" to come feed them or "oops, forget" to lock the door behind her when she leaves. Not good! She was apologetic but I'm still not feeling too great about it. She's coming over at 2 now to meet, but I don't think I'm going to give her the keys--I made an appt. with another catsitter (the most expensive one, of course) for Tuesday and I'm just going to tell this girl, flat-out, that I'm not 100% comfortable with her and before I give her my $$ and the keys to my house I'm going to need references and want to interview someone else. If she doesn't like it, tough noogies.
I mean, why is it this hard to find someone reliable and remotely affordable to take care of my kits? If I didn't think Emma would have a coronary and it wouldn't cost $100 for each of them each way on the plane, I'd just bring them to FL with me. I'm just so annoyed right now!!!
I mean, why is it this hard to find someone reliable and remotely affordable to take care of my kits? If I didn't think Emma would have a coronary and it wouldn't cost $100 for each of them each way on the plane, I'd just bring them to FL with me. I'm just so annoyed right now!!!