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Confessions of a Cat Sitter
Chris Pascoe is the author of A Cat Called Birmingham & You Can Take the Cat
Out of Slough, and a columnist for various UK & international magazines.
He’s also a cat sitter…
I have just suffered possibly the worst week of my
cat-sitting career. In fact, that’s not true. It was most
definitely the worst week’s cat-sitting ever. Now, you
could be forgiven for thinking that cat-sitting is quite a
nice job. Well, cat sitting might be 90% litter tray-scooping,
sick-sponging and faeces disposal, but it’s not all glamour.
I discovered the darker side of cat-sitting last week when,
arriving for my daily visit at the home of a strictly indoor
cat named Leonard, I found his carefully blocked catflap
wide open, his food uneaten and his litter tray u