We don’t go away very often, and when we do, my mother stays with the fur-kids. They LOVE Grandma.
However, she has taken up pet-sitting in her retirement and last summer she forgot to schedule time to stay the night at our house with the fur-kids. LOUD Louie didn’t have a problem with that neither did Miss Mocha Bean… Garbonzo Bean on the other hand was VERY disturbed by it . Hubby and I were working production at a county fair and had to spend a week in tour bus, I awoke one morning VERY EARLY to my mother on the cell phone asking my WHY Garbonzo Bean had Pee’d all over my side of our bed . Not what you want to hear first thing in the morning!

So, needless to say YES they get stressed out, or at least one of them does if there isn’t anyone staying at the house. Grandma always stays now, and we schedule well in advance as Grandma is booked all the way till October.