So as I was defending my advisor was getting ready to leave on sabbatical.

This involved looking for people to rent her house and care for her cats? Like, the house would come furnished with cats.

The cats were 13. She initially pitched it to me and another postdoc. I said no and told the other postdoc to say no because caring for your very emotionally volatile (at the best of times) boss's 13 year old cats for a year seemed like a risk.

One of the cats died. She's a mess.

I was right >.>