[ Home | All Archives ]
previous | most current | next

      Monday, December 27, 2010


catstuff
11:10 AM - 12/27/2010

The topic: In an incredibly bad mood

----------------------------------------------

I’m so very sick of the cats pissing everywhere. I just can’t seem to get on top of it.  I clean one area, move on to the next, clean it and by the time the cycle is done, there is piss where I cleaned at the start.

I’ve got some old carpet runners in the office, Jackie craps on them at night, and Ollie pisses on them every chance he gets. I wash and I wash and I wash them and damn it, it never fails that within a half hour of putting them back down, Ollie comes in and pisses on one of them again and I step in it with socks on.

It’s very, very frustrating and right now I’m near tears because of it.

I was down most of last week because I messed up my back baking cookies (lifting a heavy bowl at about shoulder height and scraping the dough into another bowl) and I’ve fallen pretty far behind in my housework and I just want to sit down and cry. 

Benny’s been in the bathroom three times this morning with food, he didn’t like any of it and now he sits on the counter squawking.  I can’t even begin to describe how annoying it is for hours on end.  I put him outside, but it’s nice and sunny and I opened up the house and he came back in.  The next time he gets on that counter and starts squawking, I’m taking him out of the room and shutting the damned door. 

I’d love to just throw every single cat outside and let them live in the backyard where I don’t really care where they pee, but I’d never do that, I’d be so worried about them. 

*sigh*



Diane, I feel for you! I was there for many years and I worked 9 hours a day to come home and clean the house 3-4 hours a night every day for about 3 years and I lost so much weight, ppl would ask me what I was doing to lose it…I said C*A*T*S!!!

..and they’d LOL and I would say, I’m serious!!

Well, I DID put my peeing cats outside finally, I HAD to for my own sanity. I HATE it, but they are safe and nothing can get to them.

Right now, they live in my enclosure, it’s pretty big and we plan to expand it next year. They can get inside the closed off part of the garage and that is heated and airconditioned.

Before we moved here, I had moved them downstairs to the basement, hubs took 1/3 of it and made a fence from one wall to the other, put up plexiglass in case they marked and painted the floor with epoxy, then we fenced the backyard, enclosed the entire thing with netting to keep bugs out and chicken wire to keep everything else out and put up a doggie door for them to go in and out.

They loved it!! While I didn’t have the interaction with them I had before and not that I was having much anyway since I worked and then spent the rest of my time cleaning up after them, at least I was no longer cleaning up the pee.

Funny thing was, they stopped peeing in the beds when I moved them downstairs.

Then when we moved here, they were marking my feliway ‘wall’ plug-in and once I removed that, they pretty much stopped marking…damn cats!

Never figured that one out…it also made me wonder if they were marking because of the feliway in the house (I had them plugged in everywher) before I moved them downstairs, cause I not had maybe 2 markings in months since I unplugged it.

Something else I thought of just this week, after we moved here I lost 3 within 5 weeks, Gabby had cancer, the other 2 renal failure, but I got to wondering if maybe one of them was a marker? I never caught Murphy marking or peeing, but it sure slacked off after he was gone.

But, it is SOOOOO much easier with them out there and if they do mark, I spray some Nature’s Miracle, give it a wipe and it’s done, nothing major like in the house and with the blacklight everywhere.

Posted by BSC @ Monday, December 27, 2010 - 1:08:25 PM


I really feel for you!
I too have a ‘marker’ and have found myself utterly frustrasted at the constant cleaning…
When you have so many it is very hard to know who the culperit is!
I live in Sydney Australia and we don’t have the extremes of tempuratures, no snow for example -  that others have to contend with.
With wamr snugs and hidy holes, my guys like to be in their run most of the time… and I find that sometimes I lock them outside in the run when I need to get stuck into the cleaning….
We keep them out of the front of the ouse - where we work and sleep - as we cannot trust that we will have a pee free environment otherwise…
If tey pee on the bed or on our computer equipment I would get really mad, we already had a special large tft CAD monitor almost destroyed by a sprayer!
Anyway - just wanted to let you know that I understand too!
Good days and not so good days…
Kerry

Posted by Kerry @ Tuesday, December 28, 2010 - 7:13:11 AM


**Hugs**

Posted by DonnaB @ Wednesday, December 29, 2010 - 6:53:41 PM

Commenting is not available in this channel entry.
All Archives


lisaviolet is seventy something, married with no kids, takes care of lots of cats, likes taking photographs, loves Southern California weather and spends altogether too much time avoiding her responsibilities.

In her spare time, she makes pretty things to sell in her store.

March 2024
S M T W T F S
          1 2
3 4 5 6 7 8 9
10 11 12 13 14 15 16
17 18 19 20 21 22 23
24 25 26 27 28 29 30
31            



SVG Cutting Files at SVGCuts.com


website design by





©lisaviolet 1996-2024
Photographic images are the property of the photographer,and may not be copied, printed, or otherwise reproduced on any other site or used in any other publishing medium without the written permission of each individual photographer and kennel/cattery owner. Cathouse privacy policy.