03-26-2017, 04:08 PM
Why didn't they ask the neighbour to check on their pets. The neighbour was watching enough to call the RSPCA.
You can leave food out if you are going to be late home. You could probably leave enough food and water if you were going to be away overnight and returning the next day. After that it is too long to leave your pets. Anything could happen and in this case it did.
I don't know about the UK, but in Canada if you leave a house unattended for more than 3 days(I think it is three) it invalidates your house insurance. When I cat sit, I also am house sitting. I do a walk through to be sure the house is okay. One year it turned very cold suddenly and I had to call the daughter to ask how to turn on the furnace. The cat would have been very cold. Also the plumbing would have frozen and ruptured. I had the furnace on and the house warm long before that happened.
They were idiots to leave their house. I don't know what to call them for leaving their pets alone.
It is sad that the cat that wasn't well died alone and unaided. They gave him a miserable death.
I feel bad for the neighbour who must have worried and wondered what to do before calling the RSPCA. The question will always be there, could I have saved the other cat if I had noticed sooner.
You can leave food out if you are going to be late home. You could probably leave enough food and water if you were going to be away overnight and returning the next day. After that it is too long to leave your pets. Anything could happen and in this case it did.
I don't know about the UK, but in Canada if you leave a house unattended for more than 3 days(I think it is three) it invalidates your house insurance. When I cat sit, I also am house sitting. I do a walk through to be sure the house is okay. One year it turned very cold suddenly and I had to call the daughter to ask how to turn on the furnace. The cat would have been very cold. Also the plumbing would have frozen and ruptured. I had the furnace on and the house warm long before that happened.
They were idiots to leave their house. I don't know what to call them for leaving their pets alone.
It is sad that the cat that wasn't well died alone and unaided. They gave him a miserable death.
I feel bad for the neighbour who must have worried and wondered what to do before calling the RSPCA. The question will always be there, could I have saved the other cat if I had noticed sooner.
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