Cat sitter insists on sleeping in couples home for 3 weeks while they're away, cancels on them when they refuse to let her: 'There is a reasonable boundary between someone stopping by for 15 minutes versus sleeping in our bedroom'

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Briana Viser • Writer and Editor
Nov 5, 2025 3:00 PM EST

Privacy and feeling safe in your own home is important when a stranger enters that space. When you leave for vacation and have pets, there are two options: either get someone to come everyday to take care of the pet, or send the pet to a pet hotel. Either way, there's a lot of trust that goes into the decision. Someone else taking care of your pet could feel jarring and scary, trust is so important in these cases. In the story below, the protagonist is a couple who have been with their cat sitter for a few years, so they've spent the time to build that kind of trust. They're leaving for 3 weeks – a long time. The cat sitter tells them she prefers to sleep at their home instead of going back and forth. 

Well, they're not comfortable with this transition, and they tell her no. She proceeds to decline their offer to cat sit. Let us know in the comments below if you agree with her or the couple. 

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    Am I wrong for telling my pet sitter that I do not need her to sleep over?

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    I have been hiring a pet sitter for a few years. She does a great job and we have become friendly. I asked her about availability for an
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    upcoming trip and because it was about 3 weeks long, she suggested that she sleep over in our house so my cat wouldn't get
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    lonely. I never completely agreed to this and we had not discussed pricing for it.
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    About a week later she texted me to confirm dates, and I told her that my boyfriend, who owns our home, did not want anyone to
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    stay overnight. He was concerned about someone else living in our house, and we also don't have a
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  • I think it's pretty reasonable that she wouldn't want to drive all the way there for 3 weeks, depending on where she lives in comparison to their place. In reality, what's the difference between her spending 15 minutes there and sleeping there anyway?

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    guest room. I never received a reply to my text until about a week later, when the sitter let me know that she was not interested
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    in working for us again since we were uncomfortable with her being in our home.
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    I was a little surprised by her reaction. Though we are friendly, I feel like there is a reasonable
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    boundary between someone stopping by for 15 minutes versus sleeping in our bedroom and
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    staying in our house for 3 weeks. Obviously she did not agree. AITA?
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    Slow_Balance270 • 5h ago Depending on how far I had to travel in order to care for your pets, I wouldn't be
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    interested in driving back and fourth every day for three weeks.
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    NAH (no assholes here), obviously the pet sitter is not entitled to staying at
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    your house, but they are entitled to denying you their services.
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    Fuzzy_Self_2749 • 8h ago I probably lean more towards NTA. If you're paying a competitive rate, I
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    don't think it's unfair to ask her not to stay. That said, 15 minutes a day seems like a
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    really small amount of time for a pet to have human interaction for 3 weeks
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