Name: 外出度假時該如何照顧您的貓咪？ (What to Do For Your Cat When You Go Away on Vacation!)
Uploaded: 2024-08-30T10:43:12.000Z
Duration: 15 min 50 s

啊，天哪，晒太陽的感覺真好。

過去簡單式

I just forget how badly I need this, you know?

我只是忘了我有多需要這個，你知道嗎？

Just get away and stop thinking about everything, everything, everything.

離開這裡，不要再去想所有的事情，所有的事情，所有的事情。

When I think about it, I always start things with, you guys have been asking me this question all the time, and let me give you the answer.

當我思考這個問題時，我總是以 "你們一直在問我這個問題，讓我來告訴你們答案吧 "作為開場白。

This is one of those things that nobody really thinks about until I reference it, whether I'm talking to my clients, it gets referenced all the time.

在我和客戶交談之前，沒人會真正想到這一點。

Anyway, I'm talking about what I think you should do when you're going away from your home, whether you're going on vacation or just visiting someone for a few days or whatever it is.

總之，我想說的是，當你離開家的時候，不管是去度假，還是去看望別人幾天，或者是其他什麼事情，我覺得你都應該做些什麼。

I have this thing in my head that I go, you know, I wouldn't do this, and you could get away with this.

我腦子裡一直在想，你知道，我不會這麼做，而你卻可以這麼做。

And every time I say it, everyone has the same reaction.

每次我說這句話時，每個人的反應都是一樣的。

They're like, oh, yeah, yeah, I didn't think about that.

他們會說，哦，是的，是的，我沒想到這一點。

So I'm just, you know, getting ahead of the whole game here.

所以，我只是，你知道，在這裡得到了整個遊戲的前面。

So what leads me to put things in the absolutely no, the yeah, this is fine, and this is ideal buckets?

那麼，是什麼導致我把事情放在 "絕對不行"、"可以"、"這樣很好 "和 "這樣很理想 "這三個桶裡呢？

When you think about what it is that gives cats their mojo, their confidence, and what robs them of it if they don't have it.

想想是什麼給了貓魔力和自信，如果沒有，又是什麼剝奪了它們的魔力和自信。

So the first thing is the three R's, and that is routine, ritual, rhythm, a sense of an ironclad circadian rhythm that cats are just tied to.

是以，第一件事就是 "三R"，即常規、儀式、節奏，一種貓與之緊密相連的鐵一般的晝夜節律感。

它們不會在無政府狀態下茁壯成長。

The second thing that gives mojo is the perception of confident ownership of territory.

其次，"魔力 "是一種自信擁有領地的感覺。

Without that, they also suffer from anti-mojo.

如果不這樣做，他們也會受到反魔咒的影響。

It's not just the stuff that gives them their three R's.

讓他們獲得三個 R 的不僅僅是這些東西。

And I know sometimes it's in the back of our heads.

我知道，有時我們的腦海中也會有這樣的想法。

Again, the three R's, territorial confidence, and relationship.

同樣，三個 R、領土自信和關係。

All right, so let's get to the how to leave your cats at home when you're going somewhere else buckets.

好了，讓我們開始討論如何在去別的地方時把貓咪留在家裡吧。

If you think that going away for a few days, even 24, 48 hours, and you think that it's OK to leave a trough of food and a fountain for your cats and say, you know, they can do without the scooping for 24 hours, no.

如果你認為離開幾天，哪怕是 24 或 48 小時，你認為可以給貓咪留一個食槽和噴泉，然後說，你知道，它們可以 24 小時不用舀水，那是不可能的。

With cats, we just assume they will be fine.

對於貓，我們認為它們不會有事。

So the next one is also not great, even though you think it might be.

是以，下一個也不會很好，儘管你認為它可能會很好。

And that is having your mom or your friend or your neighbor just stop in for 20 minutes a day.

那就是讓你的媽媽、朋友或鄰居每天來坐 20 分鐘。

Scoop the boxes, put down some food, freshen up, say bye, kitties, and they're gone.

舀舀盒子，放點食物，梳洗一下，說聲再見，小貓們就走了。

In the territorial confidence part, in the three R's, in their relationship with you, you're not even giving them a remotely soft landing.

在領土自信的部分，在三個 R 的部分，在他們與你的關係中，你甚至沒有給他們一點軟著陸的機會。

And I know it just feels easier, but it's bad easier.

我知道這只是感覺上更容易，但其實並不容易。

Number three, taking them to a boarding facility or even taking them to somebody's house.

第三，把他們送到寄宿機構，甚至送到別人家裡。

And for dogs, it might be just fine to take them to a facility, but you take a cat out of that home turf and the smells that tell them I'm home and all the signposts that say I'm confident and their base camps and the stuff that smells like you, and you put them in a space that is and has to be sterile.

對於狗來說，把它們帶到一個設施裡也許沒什麼問題，但你把貓從它的主場、告訴它們 "我回來了 "的氣味、表示 "我很自信 "的所有路標、它們的大本營以及聞起來像你的東西中帶走，然後把它們放到一個必須是無菌的空間裡。

It's still far from ideal, but it's also destructive for them.

這離理想還很遠，但對他們來說也具有破壞性。

So by the time they get back to the house, they may act out in an anxious way that you weren't even expecting, that kind of rebound effect, because they were robbed of territory for X amount of time.

是以，當他們回到家時，他們可能會表現出你意想不到的焦慮，產生反彈效應，因為他們被剝奪了 X 時間的領地。

Now, that all said, if it's an emergency, if you've got to get your cats out, you know, a gas leak, whatever it is, take your cats to a boarding facility.

現在，說了這麼多，如果是緊急情況，如果你必須把你的貓弄出來，你知道，煤氣洩漏，不管是什麼，帶你的貓去寄宿設施。

There are plenty that try their hardest and really do their best to do a home-away-from-home type of thing.

有很多人竭盡全力，真正做到了 "賓至如歸"。

It's just my take is it's still not home, so it's not ideal.

我的看法是，這裡還不是家，所以並不理想。

All right, so now on to what I think is really good, and then there's sort of the Emerald City that I'll get to in a minute.

好了，現在說說我認為非常好的東西，還有翡翠城，我馬上就會說到。

But it all revolves around something that I feel is just really going to solve the problem, and that's a pet sitter.

但這一切都圍繞著一個我覺得能真正解決問題的東西，那就是寵物保姆。

There's some websites that you can go to.

I'll put them in the description, just a few of them, and that also insists that their members are licensed, bonded, insured.

我會把它們寫在描述中，只是其中的幾個，它們也堅持認為自己的成員有執照、有擔保、有保險。

These guys are serious, and if anything happens, it reflects terribly on their business.

這些人是認真的，如果發生任何意外，都會對他們的業務造成嚴重影響。

So they really do take a lot of good care, but like any job, you interview them, you have them come over to your home, meet the animals.

是以，他們真的會悉心照料，但就像任何工作一樣，你要面試他們，讓他們來你家，見見動物。

我是說，動物們會讓你知道的。

If the pet sitter comes over, and the animals are like, nope, and they run or they scratch or they do whatever, then maybe you should move on.

如果寵物保姆來了，動物們卻說 "不"，它們會跑，會抓，會做任何事，那你也許就該換個地方了。

Another thing you can do is, in a more organic way, go to places that you trust, whether it is your vet's office, a groomer that you work with, or the smaller sort of pet stores, or solicit information from people like friends and family that you trust, and you will get a pet sitter that they've worked with, and they go, yeah, this person is the bomb.

你還可以做的另一件事是，以一種更有機的方式，去你信任的地方，無論是你的獸醫辦公室、與你合作的寵物美容師，還是小型寵物店，或者從你信任的朋友和家人那裡獲取信息，你會得到他們合作過的寵物保姆，他們會說，是的，這個人就是炸彈。

They can be trusted with your house and with your animals, and like I said, interview them, have them come over.

他們對您的房子和動物都值得信賴，就像我說的，面試他們，讓他們過來。

Now once you have settled on that person, here's how it can go, both really good and ideal.

現在，一旦你選定了那個人，就可以按照以下方式進行，既可以是非常好的，也可以是理想的。

Really good is you would have them come over twice a day, morning and at the end of the day, just to get those real big components of your cat's rhythm down, because that morning energy, when the sun comes up, they're used to you guys getting up and that peak of energy, so you want to maintain that.

好的方法是讓它們每天來兩次，早上和晚上，這樣可以讓貓咪的生活節奏更有規律，因為早上太陽昇起的時候，它們已經習慣了你們起床，習慣了那種精力旺盛的狀態，所以你們要保持這種狀態。

They're up, in comes somebody, feed, a little bit of play, get that energy going, and then by the time that person leaves, then they're just, you know, hunt, catch, kill, eat, ah, groom, sleep, right?

它們起床，有人進來，餵食，玩一會兒，讓它們精力充沛，然後等那個人離開，它們就開始，你知道，打獵，捕捉，殺戮，吃東西，啊，梳洗，睡覺，對嗎？

Then at the end of the day, that same peak that they're used to happening, around dinner time, you know, or a little later, the sun's going down, you see where I'm going with three Rs and the maintaining of sameness.

然後在一天結束的時候，也就是晚飯前後，你知道，或者再晚一點，太陽下山的時候，他們會習慣性地出現同樣的高峰。

Most pet sitters will have structure for the way they charge based on how long they're there.

大多數寵物保姆都會根據他們的工作時間來確定收費方式。

You can pretty much call the shots on that as long as you plan in advance, and that's really important, and make sure that your vacation budget includes a pet sitter.

只要您提前做好計劃，您幾乎就可以在這方面發號施令，這一點非常重要，而且要確保您的度假預算中包括寵物保姆的費用。

Our vacations, if it's an actual vacation, you know, we're planning this ahead of time.

我們的假期，如果是真正的假期，你知道，我們會提前計劃好。

Most of us just don't have the money to burn and like, yeah, I'm going to go to Cabo for the weekend, I wish, but you're planning these things months in advance, and you're thinking to yourself, all right, we got to deal with this much for plane, this much for hotel, this much for food, this much for our pet sitter.

我們中的大多數人都沒有那麼多錢去燒，就像，是啊，我要去卡波度週末，我也想啊，但你提前幾個月就計劃這些事情，你會想，好吧，我們得花這麼多錢買飛機，這麼多錢住酒店，這麼多錢買食物，這麼多錢請寵物保姆。

It just should be a part of your planning.

Now listen, if you can't plan budget-wise for this, if it's just absolutely a no-go, then go for asking a friend or a family member to come predictably.

聽著，如果你無法從預算上做出計劃，如果這絕對是不可能的，那就請朋友或家人來吧。

說 "這是一份工作"，你會覺得沒問題、

I really want you to do this, this, and this.

我真的希望你這樣做、這樣做、這樣做。

That's what puts this in the yes bucket, is the maintaining of the three Rs, the maintaining of relationship, the maintaining of territorial confidence by having this regular trusting presence.

這就是把它放在 "是 "桶裡的原因，是通過定期信任的存在來維持三個 "R"、維持關係、維持領土信任。

But then what makes it ideal is going from having somebody visit two times a day and then going overnight.

但是，從一天兩次的探視到通宵探視，這才是最理想的狀態。

If a pet sitter does overnights, they basically do it in blocks of 12 hours.

如果寵物保姆通宵工作，他們基本上是以 12 小時為組織、部門。

You might think that would be ridiculously expensive, but usually it's not.

你可能會覺得這太貴了，但通常不會。

They basically build it into their price structure.

他們基本上將其納入價格體系。

那麼 12 個小時，假設是 7 點到 7 點。

You got dinner, you got bedtime, you got breakfast.

你有晚飯，你有就寢時間，你有早餐。

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