RE: sick?
If you're only talking about a couple weeks, it's probably cheapest to send the cats to the Cattery and purchase food there.
But if you might be months, storing the cat in inventory or the Cattery and not feeding it is cheapest.
The most secure solution is to store the cats in the Cattery. You can lose inventory, and their software can become out-of-date. By definition, cats in the Cattery can never be lost, for any reason, and are always up-to-date.
When you come back, if it's been a while, delete all copies of your Dock and get a fresh one from the Main Store when you're purchasing food. Once your cats have been eating for a week, they will no longer be sick.
Remember, though, that once the cat reaches 121 days of age, it will be too old to breed. So, if you're planning on being gone for over three months, your cheapest solution is to simply send the cats to the Menagerie.
The Perma-Pet option only saves you money if you can reasonably expect you'll still want THAT cat three or four YEARS into the future. And, the cheapest way to do that is to starve the cat (in inventory or Cattery) until it attains 121 days of age.
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