I got a great opportunity to study overseas for a year. I can’t lose this chance, as it’s a scholarship. I’m moving with my husband, and initially I planned to take my two cats with me. We’re moving to the UK though, and taking animals there is quite complicated and costly, so since we’re only leaving for a year, it’s just not worth it.
Both cats are female, spayed and they get along fine (they play together a lot, sometimes quite roughly... but then they groom each other and cuddle together to sleep). They’re strictly indoors and the few times one of them has escaped to the roof, she’s had problems (can’t come down on her own, last time she was bitten by a wasp, etc).
The thing is I don’t know anyone I can trust to take them while I’m gone and keep them indoors. All my friends who own cats let them outdoors, and I’m not comfortable with that. Unfortunately I live in a country where people are just now beginning to understand that pets need to be taken care of, most cat owners here just leave the cats be, so even if I found someone online who’d offer to take care of them I’m not sure they’d adapt to the cats’ current lifestyle.
So the best solution we could come up with was that they’ll continue living at my house while we’re gone and my mom (a cat lover and the reason I’m a cat lover too) will visit them every day at home and clean their litter boxes, play with them, feed them, change their water, etc.
Mom can’t take them to her house either because she lives with my grandma and with the cats running around the house, grandma could trip over one of them.
I’m so sad about leaving them, but most of all I’m afraid, wondering if they’ll be ok, or if we’re doing things right, I feel like I’m abandoning them and being cruel, but like I said, I don’t know anyone else I can trust who’ll take care of them in the way they’re used to, you know? One of them is also very anxious and not very social with new people, in fact she only seems to trust hubby and I, our other cat and that’s it.
I just can’t bear the thought of leaving them, I’m two weeks away from that moment and I try not to think about it, about how much I’ll miss them... but I just feel awful about leaving them alone, I know mom will visit them everyday and she loves them and will make sure to take excellent care of them... but I’m just afraid I’ll never see them again, if that makes sense. Thoughts?
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from Pets https://www.reddit.com/r/Pets/comments/cvnrim/im_moving_abroad_for_a_year_soon_leaving_2_cats/
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