If you’re an avid traveler, but also have pets, you probably have your go-to pet sitter to watch the animals when you’re out of town. But even if you don’t, there are a bunch of services that you can hire where someone will come over and take care of your pets while you’re away. That’s pretty convenient! But what happens when you pay a company to feed your pets, but they end up getting busy in your place while you’re away? Not cool. Not cool at all. And that’s what happened to a New York City woman recently when she was traveling in Australia.
Audrey Yang and her husband of Forest Hills, Queens were on a three-week-long trip down under and had hired a company to check in once a day on their cat, Meow Meow. The pet sitter was supposed to stop in at 3PM each day to fill the water, feed the cat and a few other responsibilities. Before they left, Yang’s husband had installed a security camera in their home that would send them notifications when motion was detected. So when they started getting notifications at 9PM NYC time, they knew something was up. They checked in on the camera and saw that there was a man, the pet sitter, in their apartment with a female companion, and they were getting busy on their couch! Numerous texts to the pet sitter went unanswered. Yang was finally able to get in touch with a friend, who stopped by the apartment and kicked the couple out!
The pet sitter apologized repeatedly and even offered to pay to have the apartment cleaned. The homeowner decided not to press any charges.
