‘The cat was thinking “A great new world lays ahead of me! Let`s go explore!” and escaped.’: Cat dad’s attempt to secretly smuggle fur baby into a non-pet friendly hotel ends in frantic and hilarious housekeeping chase when his cat makes a break for it

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Laurent Shinar • Writer and Editor
Nov 15, 2025 5:00 PM EST

Finding a pet friendly hotel is hard at the best of times depending on where you are in the world. But you would be rather unlikely to ignore a hotel's rules and smuggle your cat child in regardless, wouldn't you? Well, that was not what one relocated employee thought to himself when his company moved him countries.

He was more so of the school of thought of bringing his cat child with him no matter what that meant, heck we would not be all too surprised if he snuck the cat onto the plan in a backpack and all. But thanks to this hooman's conceited nature, what ensued was a ludicrous cartoon style chase event that surprised both the cat escapee and the hooman housekeeping chasers. Morale of the story being, if you want a good life for your cat, do not drag them into your lies.

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    So this happened at a Hotel I was working at a couple of years ago. I was doing an internship at a hotel abroad. Meaning usually all the staff and I spoke English together, since I did not speak
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    the local language, but some of the housekeeping staff did not speak English well. Simple things were fine, but if it got more complex, I usually asked a colleague to call HSK and inform
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    them (important for the story later). The hotel was not pet friendly (except of course service animals). Otherwise animals - a big NoNo. I was working 3-11 and it was early
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    evening, when one of our long stay guests came to the reception. We usually had people stay for an average of 3 nights. This guy had a new job in the city with a company we have contract
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    rates with and the company itself is a really good customer of us too. So while he was looking for a place to live permanently, he stayed with us. At that point he was
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    already at the hotel for about 3 weeks and he was booked to stay another couple of weeks. He will now be CM = Catman, I will be FC = Front Desk Clerk, my Duty Manager will be DM
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    CM: "Hey there, I have a question." FC: "Hello Mr. Catman. Of course" CM: "So, I will go to Finland tomorrow afternoon and be back in the morning the next day. I will
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    leave enough food and water for my cat, so she will be fine alone for one night. I will also leave on the lights and the TV, so she has some company. Could you ask your housekeeping to please leave the TV
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  • Ooohhh, this guy is so busted. Like how entitled do you have to be to take advantage of the good will of a company who is putting you up to bring your cat to a non-pet friendly hotel. Surely he could have found some sort of arrangement for his cat until he got properly settled in the country no?

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    and also the lights on after cleaning?" Well, that certaintly left me flabbergasted to say the least. First of all because we usually do not accept pets. Secondly... You want to leave the TV on for your cat!? Ehm,
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    ok. Since I know which # he is staying at, I look up his room in our system. And there is indeed a note saying that he has a cat and since
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  • It is hard to contain our laughter at this one. Like sure, we are all for the wellbeing of the cat and having some televisual company would likely be a lovely thing, but come on. Putting that responsibility on a housekeeping crew who are not pet sitters, and have a heck of a lot on their plate as is, is just a little much no?

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    he is a long stay guest, we are making an acception. So after a short pause and catching myself, I continue in standard professional hotel manner.
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    FC: "Sure, I think that is possible. We will let our HSK now." CM: "Thanks" - and leaves Now I am going to the back to inform my DM and ask him, whether he could
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    call HSK and exlain the situation. Because I am fairly sure they would not understand what I'm talking about. Here is how it goes:
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    FC: "Hey there DM. CM from room # just came to the reception..." DM: "Ohh noo! Did the cat escape again!?!?" FC: "Wait, what... No, he... Wha... The cat ESCAPED?!?!?"
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    DM: "Ohh you haven't heard?" And than he tells me the story. So basically what happend is, HSK went to clean the room the other day and of course they left the door open.
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    The cat was thinking "A great new world lays ahead of me! Let's go explore!" and escaped. So the HSK lady and the HSK supervisor were running around the corridors, trying to catch the cat. Luckily
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    all corridors are accessible only by elevator and the door to the employee stairs was closed. So the cat could not really escape far and in the end HSK managed to catch it. And this
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    is how we discovered, that CM had an illegal roomie. So after laughing our a*ses of for quite a while, the conversation goes on:
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    FC: "That is hilarious! So we let CM stay here with the cat?" DM: "Yes, as an exception. So if the cat didn't escape, what was your question?"
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    FC: "Ohhh, that! Well... CM is leaving for one night tomorrow afternoon and is coming back the next day in the morning..." DM: "And he wants us to clean the litter box and feed the cat or what?"
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    FC: "Noo, nothing like that. But ehm... He wants HSK to leave on the TV and lights after cleaning, so the cat has some company." Of course that caused another fit of laughter.
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    DM: "Haha! Sure, why the h*ll not. I will give HSK a call to explain" FC: "Thank you!" As I leave the back office, I hear my DM talk to the HSK supervisor, explain
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    the situation and laugh again. And this my dear fellow front desk fighters was the tale of the escaped cat. Hope you enjoyed!
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