****ty Kitty Update

Odin, my six month old cat, had been doing bowel movements on the tile
floor in my bathroom every day since the day I got him from a shelter
when he was 4 months old.

I tried everything you can think of to change this behavior.

We had to go away for nearly two weeks. I paid $110 for him to have
three visits a day. I confined him to a small room with his litter box
and closed off the bathroom he always evacuates his bowels in. (Can I
please say "****" now?) I got four urgent phone calls about his bowel
movements, but not because he had gone where he wasn't supposed to, but
because he had spraying diarhea. (I came back and washed the crap off
of the walls when I got home. He is such an incredibly disgusting foul
cat!)

Today we attempted to let him have free run of the house again. It's
too hard keeping him away from that bathroom, it's the main downstairs
powder-room and I have little kids and clients who use it and don't pay
attention to the sign I put on it saying "Please close door tightly."
As a precaution I bought some citris oil spray (I heard cats don't like
it) and sprayed it all around that room.

He went in there and peed in the little corner litterbox I left in there
just in case.

Then he **** on the floor.

I've now spent $300 on this animal and he ****s on my floor every single
day he can.

Oh, and yesterday he peed on the upstairs bathroom floor.

Tell me one reason why I ought not to bring him back to the shelter?

Dally

In the fine newsgroup "rec.pets.cats.health+behav", Dally
artfully composed this message within
on 07 Jul 2004:

Tell me one reason why I ought not to bring him back to the
shelter?

Because, Dally, he will be put to death. If you can live with that,
it certainly is your choice, I guess. In these two months, your
household is probably way too hostile for him now. No offense meant,
because I'm not so sure how I'd react; I've never had a cat with
incontenence problems yet.

--
Cheryl

Cheryl wrote:

In the fine newsgroup "rec.pets.cats.health+behav", Dally
artfully composed this message within
on 07 Jul 2004:


Tell me one reason why I ought not to bring him back to the
shelter?


Because, Dally, he will be put to death. If you can live with that,
it certainly is your choice, I guess.

That definitely weighs heavily on me.

In these two months, your
household is probably way too hostile for him now.

I had to think about your accusation that the house might be too
hostile. We don't mistreat him in anyway. He's quite a nice cat -
affectionate, purrs easily, gets along well with everybody, enjoys
everybody's company (including our dog)... that's why we didn't return
him the first day. Or the first month. Or the second month.

But I'm not willing to live with cat **** every day. It's not HIM, it's
his behavior that I object to. I can distinguish.

No offense meant,
because I'm not so sure how I'd react; I've never had a cat with
incontenence problems yet.

No offense taken. I think maybe if I didn't run a professional business
from my home (and hence try to keep the powder-room presentable for
client-use) I wouldn't be so uptight about this. But even if it were
just me and my family, I never wanted to be one of those houses that you
walk into and find that it stinks to high heaven of pet ****.

We're currently successful pet owners of a dog (who has her Cannine Good
Citizen award), a parakeet, a gecko lizard, and an aquarium that has
been going for 10 years now. Our family cat passed away in February.
It's not like I've never dealt with pet issues before. I'm stunned that
this has me so flummoxed.

Dally

In the fine newsgroup "rec.pets.cats.health+behav", Dally
artfully composed this message within
on 07 Jul 2004:

In these two months, your
household is probably way too hostile for him now.

I had to think about your accusation that the house might be too
hostile. We don't mistreat him in anyway. He's quite a nice
cat - affectionate, purrs easily, gets along well with
everybody, enjoys everybody's company (including our dog)...
that's why we didn't return him the first day. Or the first
month. Or the second month.

But I'm not willing to live with cat **** every day. It's not
HIM, it's his behavior that I object to. I can distinguish.

My first thought was, if you have to deal with cat **** daily like
you are, how are you reacting? If you react in an angry manner, or
even if you think you don't but ****ty Kitty is picking up on
negativity, that is what I meant by hostile. Seriously, you can't
help but act a certain way, particularly if you are posting here at
your wits end. Read Megan's email. She can probably help. You're
going to make your own decision based on what you can handle,
anyway, so it can't hurt to go see some suggestions. Best wishes
and purrs to you all.

--
Cheryl

Cheryl wrote:

My first thought was, if you have to deal with cat **** daily like
you are, how are you reacting? If you react in an angry manner, or
even if you think you don't but ****ty Kitty is picking up on
negativity, that is what I meant by hostile. Seriously, you can't
help but act a certain way, particularly if you are posting here at
your wits end. Read Megan's email. She can probably help. You're
going to make your own decision based on what you can handle,
anyway, so it can't hurt to go see some suggestions. Best wishes
and purrs to you all.

Thank you. And I did respond to Megan's email as well as the other
email I received. I appreciate your ideas.

Dally

Cheryl wrote:

My first thought was, if you have to deal with cat **** daily like
you are, how are you reacting? If you react in an angry manner, or
even if you think you don't but ****ty Kitty is picking up on
negativity, that is what I meant by hostile. Seriously, you can't
help but act a certain way, particularly if you are posting here at
your wits end. Read Megan's email. She can probably help. You're
going to make your own decision based on what you can handle,
anyway, so it can't hurt to go see some suggestions. Best wishes
and purrs to you all.

Thank you. And I did respond to Megan's email as well as the other
email I received. I appreciate your ideas.

Dally

In the fine newsgroup "rec.pets.cats.health+behav", Dally
artfully composed this message within
on 07 Jul 2004:

In these two months, your
household is probably way too hostile for him now.

I had to think about your accusation that the house might be too
hostile. We don't mistreat him in anyway. He's quite a nice
cat - affectionate, purrs easily, gets along well with
everybody, enjoys everybody's company (including our dog)...
that's why we didn't return him the first day. Or the first
month. Or the second month.

But I'm not willing to live with cat **** every day. It's not
HIM, it's his behavior that I object to. I can distinguish.

My first thought was, if you have to deal with cat **** daily like
you are, how are you reacting? If you react in an angry manner, or
even if you think you don't but ****ty Kitty is picking up on
negativity, that is what I meant by hostile. Seriously, you can't
help but act a certain way, particularly if you are posting here at
your wits end. Read Megan's email. She can probably help. You're
going to make your own decision based on what you can handle,
anyway, so it can't hurt to go see some suggestions. Best wishes
and purrs to you all.

--
Cheryl

"Dally" wrote in message
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Cheryl wrote:

In the fine newsgroup "rec.pets.cats.health+behav", Dally
artfully composed this message within
on 07 Jul 2004:


Tell me one reason why I ought not to bring him back to the shelter?


Because, Dally, he will be put to death. If you can live with that, it
certainly is your choice, I guess.

That definitely weighs heavily on me.


So you did NOT get him from a no-kill shelter?

Mary wrote:

"Dally" wrote in message
...

Cheryl wrote:


In the fine newsgroup "rec.pets.cats.health+behav", Dally
artfully composed this message within
on 07 Jul 2004:



Tell me one reason why I ought not to bring him back to the shelter?


Because, Dally, he will be put to death. If you can live with that, it

certainly is your choice, I guess.

That definitely weighs heavily on me.

So you did NOT get him from a no-kill shelter?

I don't know their status for sure. I know they only take "placeable"
animals, but I'm under the impression that animals that just aren't
placeable (that they have for one reason or another) are disposed of.

It's called a "humane society" if that offers clues to people.

Dally

I don't know their status for sure. I know they only take "placeable"
animals, but I'm under the impression that animals that just aren't
placeable (that they have for one reason or another) are disposed of.

It's called a "humane society" if that offers clues to people.

Dally

"Humane Society" doesn't mean anything at all. It's just a name. It doesn't
mean it's no-kill, or that it's affiliated with any other humane society, or
that it's even humane. I could start up a shelter tomorrow and call it
"Sherry's Humane Society" with no regulations governing it except my own.

Sherry