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I'm in a real jam here and I need help scheming to outfox a motel landlord

I lied to them and said I had one cat because after I paid for the stay I found out they had hidden a one pet policy in the fine print. I have two cats. And now I learn that because I told them I have a cat in the first place they insist (fine print!) on 'room service' coming in my room at least every other day to inspect seems like. How do I deal with this? If anyone has any experience doing something like this or even just has done the inspection thing with a motel before it would help to know how the mechanics of the interaction will go. I waved them off until tomorrow.

Some background: I'm with my cats staying in motels medium-term because of a huge fucking drama you can check my post history for pieces of. My roommate declared that I had moved out on my behalf when I went to take care of my sick friend with cancer. When I got back they refused me entry and changed the locks. I haven't even been able to get a legal response going because of how much I'm freaking out and running around putting out fires like this. My cats were in the apartment until a couple days ago when he was threatening to release them because I had 'abandoned' them.

I can't fucking deal with this. How do I hide one of my cats so they only see the other?? All I have is a car. Do I have to put one in the fucking trunk and drive to the other side of the parking lot and hope they don't meow too loud so someone tries to break them out?? I just got my babies safe with me and now I have to traumatize them 4 times a week with some underhanded shit?? Fuck my life for real. Fuck.

And it's not like I can just sneak them out the back to do that, either! It's a fucking motel! The cleaners are going to be going from room to room outside. Maybe swaddle one of them so I can sneak them out in a fucking backpack? I fucking hate every idea I come up with.

edit: I've made arrangements to have one of them at a pet sitter for a few hours during the day tomorrow. I guess this is going to be the plan until my reservation is over. Then I'll find one this doesn't happen at.

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  • Maybe I do the swaddle/bag thing to smuggle them out of the room and then I can find like a cat walker who can hold onto them for a few hours. If such a thing exists near me. Nothing like throwing money at a problem...

    • Fucking hell, I have to pick one of my two babies to do this to and it's gonna have to be the same one every time.

      • One of them is especially traumatized by travel (pees in the carrier 100% of the time) and the other one has been showing abandonment issues and unusual aggression since I saved them from my oldest and dearest mortal enemy. Neither one of them deserves to take one for the team right now. I'm trembling right now

        • it's hard to make suggestions cause we don't know the full situation youre in, just parts of it. Maybe one cat can stay with someone you know for a bit? of course that requires having a support system and a roommate who isnt a fucking psychopath. i guess if i had the money i would just pay someone on rover to keep one cat as long as possible, but then that depends on your money situation. ugh, im so sorry.

          • And yeah my closest friend is the one with stage 4 cancer 1000 miles away. I already feel bad enough adding to their worries. They've been keeping up with this daily since they were made a pawn in the maliciousness of this old friend of mine.

          • I have no idea how long this situation is going to last. Long term cat boarding goes for like a minimum of 40 dollars a day for basically a roomy parrot cage. I get to hope that someday I'll get all this money back in the form of damages but in the meantime I can't watch my savings get shredded by paying a boarder and a motel each the monthly rent for a yuppie shithoole 5-over-1 with its own themed bar on the roof. And honestly I don't want to be separate from them. We've all been through way the fuck too much.

      • non-overnight rate for a pet boarder I found is like 25 bucks... I can survive that I guess...

        And this is just more sand in the gears with me trying to pin this motherfucker to the wall for kicking me out on the street in 90 degree weather. This is gonna be a time consuming chore.

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