TIFU My landlord let himself in while I was at work and he doesn't know we have cats 🤣

I'm laughing about the situation, because it's actually stale mate. To make it easy to digest, I have to tell it in chapters

Chapter 1: The Move

2 weeks ago me and my new housemate moved into a house. It's a massive place in a city in Europe(keeping it vague for reasons), and it was cheap because it's right next to the train tracks (we have double glazed windows and we still hear t) even so, we love it here an wouldn't change a thing.

chapter 2: the cintract

Prior to moving, The rental agency asked if we have pets. The landlord has always allowed pets apparently (which is rare) but we felt like it could have been a setup to deny us a contract so we didn't tell them. They did, however, put a clause in the contract that says we can get pets in the future, we just need to ask the landlord for written consent. By that time it would have been so awkward to tell them we actually do have cats, and we decided to wait 2 months and then make up a story about a relative leaving the country and needing to leave their cats or whatever.

chapter 3: an intruder..almost

We called the landlord and asked him to asses a few broken things to repair, we agreed that he can come into the house, but only if we're there. Neither my housemate nor I could take time off work, so I emailed to defer the visit. When we got home, the broken shelf was fixed and a few broken things had clearly been moved around

Chapter 4: the cats

One of my cats is scared of everything and hides from any strangers. My other cat, however, has the survival instinct of a peanut and will follow anyone home (hes not allowed outside for that reason) he would have almost certainly greeted my landlord at the door and purred while doing it. Even if he didn't see the cat, we have a litter box, toys and food bowls.

chapter 5: the silence

They never responded to my email from yesterday asking to defer the visit but I assumed they had seen it. They haven't contacted us at all today (they were supposed to be here early in the morning) and I'm assuming they would have called me straight away. Problem is, it's illegal for him to enter if we requested he only comes when we are home, and we told him not to come. It's stale mate, he can't tell us that he's evicting us for having a cat because he would have to confess to breaching the contract and law. We can't tell him we have a cat yet. So we just sit in this awkward silence, not sure what will happen

TL;DR My landlord for my new house entered the property without us present, we requested he came to help with some repairs and agreed that he could come today. We (me and my housemate) did email to defer his visit saying that we both had to go to work and couldn't get time off. Also, We have cats and didn't tell him. He never responded to the email, but he clearly let himself in and repaired one of the shelves. He would have seen my one cat and the litter box. It's illegal for him to enter the property and we've also both breached the contract. He didn't contact us at all today and we haven't heard from him. He can't tell us he knows about the cats, and we can't tell him that we want to get pets and in our contract it says we can but only with permission.

I'm laughing about it.