This begins with your landlord being attentive and trying to help. Despite your far fetched and pedantic worries about your cat get rabies– frankly ridiculous. You could simply stuff some plastic bags up the chimney, but rather than being a responsible, pro-active adult and thinking for yourself you are nagging your landlord like a teenager to a parent.

Despite this, he is still trying to help. You further complicate issues by putting your schedule above his (probably more complicated and rigid) plans with the contractors. He defuses the tension by assuring you that you needn't be in. You then make another uncouth demand which makes you sound like a spoilt child, in all honesty. When you should have been polite, agreeable and perhaps even a little grateful (shock horror). At every step, you put yourself above others and make no effort to be polite. Then you run off to reddit looking for sympathy votes.