Just out of curiosity, are your animals staying at a shelter or someone else's home? What kind of animals are they? I can't imagine what sort of pet you could leave for 10 days without needing fresh food or water.
OH MY GOODNESS! Most of my pets have never been alone for 10 HOURS! Here's what I wrote a couple posts back:

I have many pets that are going to be graciously well cared-for by my immediate neighbors, I don't want to dump the pool on them as well. That care and time is taken with my animals is much more important to me than overwhelming the caretakers with "a very complex and intricate" additional burden - which I myself don't even fully understand.
This is the problem, so many people are doing so much for us already I don't feel comfortable loading one more thing on anyone that isn't absolutely necessary....

Between the floater and stringing up bleach bottles though, I think it'll be covered. I'm leaning toward the floater (the bleach bottle string-up is a great idea tho, I'm just too new at this and still don't fully feel comfortable leaving 10 bottles of bleach in my pool, I've only gone through 3 bottles since filling my pool 10 days ago....) - my CYA is still only just at 20, so more probably won't hurt. Is there any way of telling just how much stabilizer is in a floater?

Thanks again!! Amy