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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsInflation of cat care costs. Yesterday I paid 16.50 to board my cat for a day (not even overnight)
in a HALF-condo (not even a whole condo).
Last time I had to board her--a year ago--it was 11.50.
That's a 30% increase.
I wonder sometimes about retirement. Because it seems like if one figures they can retire at a certain time, the way things keep
going up so much...not so many years down the road they might have trouble trying to make ends meet.
femmocrat
(28,394 posts)Never again. We found a local person who has more affordable rates. It's still not cheap though!
ProfessorGAC
(65,237 posts). . .on business and took my dog. I stayed at a Motel 6 near the site i was visiting and paid only $51 (including tax) for both us in a whole room.
$16.50 seems pretty high.
MANative
(4,112 posts)overnight stay. If I hadn't found someone (a neighbor, whom I gave $100 and he slipped it back under my door) to sit for them for the remainder of the week, it was going to be $475. And this was not a luxury anything. The other place in town was a significant chunk higher. Don't remember the actual dollar figure, but it was at least $100 more. My timeshare exchange was only half that.
Trillo
(9,154 posts)to check on our cat, while we drove to another state to visit family. We were gone for a week. I had left enough food and water for the cat for the whole week, made sure there were several litterboxes available, but mainly wanted our friend to give the cat some company and interaction.
After we got back home, we learned that our friend asserted they had been so busy with work they never came over even once during that time. Our cat was okay, but damn, this was a person we thought we could trust to do what they said they would do.
Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)I am as protective of my critters as I am small children.
Trillo
(9,154 posts)Yes, we were mad as heck for a while, and the friendship cooled. That cat only lived for about 3 years, eventually he came down with FIP, and even the vet couldn't save him. We still miss him.
riderinthestorm
(23,272 posts)raccoon
(31,127 posts)The cat would have been traumatized.
alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)We never got a cat-sitter even unless we were planning to be gone more than three days.