{"id":3403,"date":"2026-06-07T00:04:45","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T00:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/purrcival.com\/?p=3403"},"modified":"2026-06-18T01:12:28","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T01:12:28","slug":"how-we-prepared-our-3-cats-to-be-left-home-alone-for-5-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purrcival.com\/?p=3403","title":{"rendered":"How We Prepared Our 3 Cats to Be Left Home Alone for 5 Days"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It took us 6 years to finally leave our pets home alone, but now we wish we\u2019d done it sooner. \u2708\ufe0f<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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If you’re scared to leave your cats, we completely get it. Our biggest concern was Lyle and Rabbitovitz. They tolerate each other, but they also fight OFTEN, and we dreaded the idea of them getting into a spat with nobody around to break it up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


The best thing we did was start preparing early. It took us a while to build an automatic feeding setup that actually worked (and that Lyle couldn’t immediately exploit \ud83e\udde0). Because of his food-stealing antics, Rabbitovitz ended up needing an RFID feeder. We also cat-proofed the entire apartment to make sure they couldn’t get into trouble while we were away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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But the absolute biggest thing for our peace of mind was having pet cameras everywhere\u20144 in total! Maybe it\u2019s overkill, but being able to check the live feed and see that all three boys were mostly just napping made such a difference for our anxiety.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We even asked our sitter if she was comfortable with our camera setup. She told us she actually recommends<\/em> cameras to her clients because it allows pet parents to monitor things remotely and let her know if anything needs attention. Truly a win-win!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To our absolute surprise, they had ZERO fights while we were away (Furbo is their witness). They were less active, slept a lot, and didn’t get up to any mischief. Honestly, they weren’t even that excited when we came back \ud83e\udd72. Maybe we are the problem?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Whichever brand you choose, I think having cameras at home makes a massive difference when leaving pets alone. Both for the cats, and for the emotionally unstable humans. \ud83c\udfe1<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Disclosure:<\/strong> Furbo is a client of mine and the cameras were provided to us, but this post isn\u2019t sponsored or paid. We genuinely love them and use them all the time (even when we\u2019re home, because the boys love the treat toss feature) \u2764\ufe0f<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whichever brand you choose, I think having cameras at home makes a huge difference when leaving pets alone. Both for the pets and for the emotionally unstable humans \ud83c\udfe1<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It took us 6 years to finally leave our pets home alone, but now we wish we\u2019d done it sooner. \u2708\ufe0f If you’re scared to leave your cats, we completely get it. Our biggest concern was Lyle and Rabbitovitz. They tolerate each other, but they also fight OFTEN, and we dreaded the idea of them […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3408,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[33,23,29,35,31,32,24,30,36,34],"class_list":["post-3403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cat-care","tag-automatic-cat-feeder","tag-british-shorthair","tag-cat-care","tag-cat-proofing","tag-furbo-review","tag-leaving-cats-home-alone","tag-multi-cat-household","tag-pet-cameras","tag-pet-sitting","tag-rfid-cat-feeder"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purrcival.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purrcival.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purrcival.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purrcival.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purrcival.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3403"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/purrcival.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3428,"href":"https:\/\/purrcival.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3403\/revisions\/3428"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purrcival.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purrcival.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purrcival.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purrcival.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}