I would take days such as we have had recently right up until the first snowflake flies. We are cat sitting for our neighbors to the south. Poor Ollie, ten days out and he is weary of having the house to himself. Dennis and I go over about four every afternoon and it takes a bit for him to come out of hiding, and then the purring and the rolling and the “showing off” begins. We were told right off he does drink out of the toilet at times. Everyday Dennis flushes the toilet for cold fresh water.
My job is the liter box, food dishes and the alternative water dish. Without fail, every afternoon I find the same little crunchy tool in the food dish. I have even taken it and put it in the living room and sure enough the next afternoon, it’s back in the food bowl. Who is playing who?
Ollie does have the brightest greenest eyes I have ever seen on a cat. After a half hour we bid goodbye until the next afternoon. I know his owner has taken him outside for a part of every morning, but there is no way we are taking a chance. We have told Ollie, “Only five more days.”