Help! Is my friend going to be all pissy that I lost his cat?

Miss Manners, Washington Post, 28 November 2022:

Dear Miss Manners: A friend of mine is staying with me, and he went home for Thanksgiving, leaving his cat here. Well, I woke up the first morning after he left, and the cat is gone.

It is common for us to leave the doors open during the day, but the cat has never run off until now. So what do I do? Do I call my friend and tell him over the phone? Or do I wait till he gets back, hoping the cat will return in the meantime? But if the cat doesn’t return, will he be hurt that I didn’t inform him right away?

What a shock it must have been to discover that leaving the doors of your house wide open resulted in a cat vacating the premises! Such a bizarre, once-in-a-lifetime occurrence could never have been predicted! Consider reaching out to Ripley's to see if they are interested in this surreal and freakish incident.

But to the heart of your question: it's difficult to say whether any given person would give a single solitary fuck if their pet fell off the face of the earth. Everyone is so different! Sure, a few folks might want to know that their beloved companion has been lost, but the vast majority are probably just going to be like, meh, win some, literally lose some -- hence your harrowing conundrum about whether this man deserves to know whether his cat is safe in the care of the person entrusted with such! A handful of people would want to know about and participate in the search for a lost pet, but a lot of people probably forget they even have a cat once it leaves their direct line of sight! It's entirely possible, even more likely, that your friend is just this kind of person!

And yet, what if there is the tiny, minuscule, almost unfathomable chance that your friend cares whether his cat lives or dies? It's already truly bizarre that this feline hit the bricks after finding every available escape route labeled with a neon sign saying "take me," so it's hard to imagine the universe handing you something as doubly strange as your friend giving the barest shit about his errant pet.

The best course of action is to keep everything to yourself, forever, to avoid having one awkward conversation. On the off chance your friend expresses concern about his cat's whereabouts, simply place his belongings on the curb. Act as if you have never met him and never heard of his cat. Problem solved.

Chris Evans had a cat and he asked me to babysit (petsit?) it while ha was doing something. When he came back to pick it up I started to freak out because the cat was asleep on my lap and I didn’t want to wake it.

SHE BUSTED THE FUCKING BABY GATE

Sitting for my favorite boy ever, Bear 🥰❤️

So gentle

i’m catstting this week (for none other than the highlight of this blog, luna) so feel free to jump into my ask or dms!

owner: dont feel bad if you dont see most of the cats the whole time they're really shy

me: *sees 3/4 of them my first drop in*

When you get home from #petsitting and your flatmate’s #cat greets you like you’re a cheater. 😂

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I really want to start a pet sitting business but idk how. Does anyone have any advice?

tiki and spot... and a ghost :]

65/100.

Finished my taxes! Submitted it yesterday.

Last time we talked, I was trying to figure out my business-use-of-home expenses for the pet boarding part of my business. It was making my head hurt trying to figure out how I should calculate this.

I finally decided I should treat pet boarding like a bed and breakfast for the purposes of filing taxes. So to that end, I had to figure out what percentage of my home I use for boarding and for what percentage of the time.

First I considered what percentage of my house is used for boarding. The thing is, all dogs and some cats have free range of the home 24 hours a day. That translates to 100% of the home 100% of the time. But I'm pretty sure that's not gonna fly for deducting business-use-of-home expenses. The CRA wants a "reasonable" prorating of the expenses.

So I thought about what parts of my house I actually use for boarding. Generally, I confine cats to one bedroom. Two cats from the same household stay together in the same room, so it's not one room per cat, it's one room per booking.

For dogs, even though they have free range, they generally follow me around the house, which means that during the day they rarely go upstairs at all. Mostly they are in the two rooms I use the most during the day: the living room and the kitchen. If I leave the house, I'm pretty sure they just nap in the living room the whole time I'm gone. At night, some dogs sleep in the living room, others follow me upstairs to my bedroom and sleep next to my bed. However, if cats are boarding in my room and can't coexist with dogs, then the dog is shut out of my bedroom and lopes back down to the living room, or sleeps outside the bedroom. At this point I was considering dogs as using half the house for calculating purposes.

But then I thought about the times I've had multiple dogs from different households boarding at the same time. Often they just all nap in the living room, but sometimes I have to physically separate them, especially during mealtimes. At those times, I generally either put up physical barriers, or I tether the dogs in different rooms, usually one in the kitchen and one in the living room. I also thought about the fact that I sometimes block off the living room or the kitchen in order to keep a boarding dog away from my own two cats. Furthermore, nobody really hangs out in the dining room, which separates the kitchen and living room. It's more of just a pass-through. So in the end, I decided to consider dogs as using one room per booking as well, as per cats.

I then had to figure out what percentage of my home "one room" constitutes. I didn't want to use square footage, because honestly then I'd have to measure and that would be a huge pain in the butt. But also because it doesn't really matter what size the rooms are, it's the doors and barriers that are important. So I mentally divided my house up into the usable rooms or areas for keeping pets separated, safe and comfortable. Upstairs there's three bedrooms. The bathroom doesn't count because I don't put pets in there. The main floor is open, no doors, but not "open-concept"--there are walls and doorways, so I am able to put up barriers. I considered the main floor as consisting of three rooms.

Now the basement, I mostly just use it for storage, and also I keep the basement door closed, so no one goes down there. However, in high-season when it's super busy with multiple bookings, I do use the basement bathroom as over-flow to house cats. And when it has been super super busy, I have had one cat in the bathroom and another cat outside of the bathroom. There are no rooms in the basement other than the bathroom and the tiny boiler room/washer & dryer nook, where I do NOT house cats. So essentially there are two spaces in the basement cats can be housed: in the bathroom, or outside the bathroom. So for pet boarding purposes, I consider this to be two rooms.

That makes 8 rooms in total: 3 upstairs, 3 on the main floor, and 2 in the basement.

So the portion of my house that a pet/two pets from the same household use when they board with me is 1/8.

Phew!

Next, I had to figure out what percentage of the time a pet uses 1/8th of my house. A pet uses their portion of the house 100% of the time they are staying with me, but I don't have pets staying with me 100% of the time. To figure this out, I needed to add up how many days of the year I had a pet staying with me. I'll walk you through that calculation in the next post.

Wer kann Haussitting anbieten? Nahezu jede Person. ❣️ Es gibt ein paar Dinge, die sollten möglichst gegeben sein in meinen Augen, aber es sind nicht viele 😉 😎1. Ihr solltet entspannt damit umgehen können, dass ein oder mehrere Menschen in eurem Zuhause alles nötige nutzen. Klar könnt ihr Sachen auch wegräumen, Zimmer abschliessen und co. Aber grundsätzlich solltet ihr euch wohlfühlen können damit. 🙂2. Ehrlichkeit: Eine genaue Beschreibung von Wohnraum und Tieren ist wichtig, damit ihr sicher sein könnt, dass alle mit der Situation zufrieden sind. 🗑3. Sauberkeit: Nicht blitzblank und auch nicht super ordentlich, aber Essenreste, Müll und Co sowie Schimmel sind No-Gos für so ziemlich alle, versteht sich eigentlich von selbst. Wenn das gegeben ist, steht einem erfolgreichen Haussitting in eurem Zuhause nicht mehr viel im Weg 😊 Würdet ihr eure Tiere von anderen Menschen in eurem Zuhause betreuen lassen? Könntet ihr Vertrauen haben? #haussit #haussitting #haussittingfamilie #haussitter #haussittingleben #hundesitter #katzensitter #housesittingfamily #housesittinglife #housesitting #housesit #housesitter #petsitting #petsitter #petsit #dogsitting #dogsit #dogsitter #catsitter #petparent #familieaufreisen #reisefamilie #reisenalsfamilie #familienreise #reisenmitkindern #mitkindernreisen #reiseleben #travellife #travelfamily #nomadenleben https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp8IN8NIuO3/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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