‘I went behind her back’: Cat-sitter makes executive decision to take kitty for emergency treatment, cat owner accuses her of overstepping boundaries

A situation no cat sitter ever wants to face is one where they're forced to make a decision about the cat's health while the owner is away. Especially not if they're going to be treated like they did the wrong thing.

Everybody thinks being a cat sitter is an easy job, but that is far from the truth. You are charged with taking care of someone's most precious family member, with no way of communicating with them directly (unless some of you out there speak cat, and in which case, teach us your ways). Is it a lot of physical labor? No, but the job itself holds a lot of responsibility. And if you are faced with the purrfectly difficult decision of making a medical choice while the owner is away, the responsibility of your actions will weigh on you heavily.

While cat sitting for a friend, the cat sitter noticed that the kitty wouldn't stop scratching their ears. After contacting the owner, who wrote it off, the cat sitter decided to take matters into her own hands and bring the cat to the vet. She paid the $190 bill for the exam and medicine, and learned that there might have been purrmanent damage if she hadn't gotten help when she did. Happy with her report, what she didn't expect was the cold shoulder from the friend and pawrent upon her return.

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As a pet sitter, you have a moral obligation to keep the pets safe, so what should she have done differently if she clearly saw that the cat was in distress? She acted in the cat's best interest, but appawrently, that didn't line up with her pawrent's desires. In this case, we're always going to go with the cat.
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Happy with her report, she told the cat owner everything when she came home, but didn't expect to receive such a terrible response. She accused the cat sitter of overstepping boundaries, and insisted that the cat was fine.
The cat owner may have been salty, but we believe the cat sitter did the right thing. Should she have asked purrmission first? Yes. But should the cat owner have dealt with this problem like a responsible pawrent? Also yes.
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