My children take care of T's pets when she goes on vacation. We go over once a day to feed them (they have a pet door build in).

And I have spent the night before at her house while she was out of town. The first day she was gone we had an emergency at our home and could be there. She mentioned us stay at hers initially I declined as it would be weird. She insisted as it was unsafe for the kids to be in our home. She really didn't want us to go to a hotel as we couldn't really afford it. In the end we spending 3 nights at her home. It was weird but something my kids really needed. It really didn't effect our "working" relationship

the reason we declined initially was because hubby and I HATE depending on others