I refuse to lose my job over a cat or someone's feelings about a cat, unless I am a temp. Temps are lower than office cats on the importance scale.
In my last job before retirement, the big bank I worked for decided to outsource project management. Whether or not the contractors brought in to do project management itself was one thing. They were not 'temps' in the sense you mean but they were indeed temporary. The other thing was my telling one poor guy who to contact, what forms to fill out, what the internal rules were, what the acronyms meant etc.