The short version of all of this is that Jess and I need someone to watch our cats for 5 weeks (from 7/30 to 8/31). Ideally, someone would just live in our house for the 5 weeks. Second to that would be bringing our cats to someone else’s house. Third to that would be finding someone (or several someones) willing to stop by and check in on them every couple of days. Our final option will be to board them for that time, which I’d rather not do. If you can help, read on for more details.
Jess and I are taking a two week vacation into the Great White not-so-white-during-the-summer-months North in August — the weeks of 8/13 and 8/20 to be precise. As you surely know by now, I am traveling back and forth between Syracuse, NY for business. I’ll be in Syracuse for two weeks prior to our vacation, and the week after it. Therefore, I’ll be gone for 5 full weeks — from 7/30 to 8/31.
Now, I could fly back to Texas the day before my vacation starts and then fly out the very next day and then do the same thing in reverse when I return, but that’s just silly. On top of that, we have to drive from Toronto to Sudbury anyway, so I may as well just drive from Syracuse. And, then I don’t have to buy a plane ticket for myself at all. So it just makes sense not to come back in between.
The last part of the puzzle is Jess. While Jess can fly from DFW to Syracuse alone on both sides of our 2-week vacation and we can arrange for someone to drop her off and pick her up, she’d really prefer to be with me in Syracuse during all of that time.
Hence the need for a cat sitter for 5 weeks.
Don’t feel obligated in anyway to help us out. But, if you can, please let me know.