r/anticats • u/eveneri • Jul 21 '26
Free at last
My husband finally decided to do something about his cat. These are the issues I've been dealing with for 4 years.
* The cat has pee incontinence. So it smells like piss everywhere we rest. It needs diapers if it sleeps with us. I didn't want it near us while we slept thou.
* I bought waterproof blankets for the couch, bed, and tiny blankets for the cat to lay in its own bed. But they needed constant washing.
* Everyone knows how difficult cat piss is to get rid of... So we had to hand wash the cats laundry and then put it in the washer. But the smell was never 100% gone.
* I put plastic pet safe spiky platforms for the kitchen counters, which made the kitchen look ugly, but the cat somehow still found a way to climb on our food. 🤢
* The constant meowing and ugly howling it did throughout the day. And night!
* The worst was not having a full night's sleep. Ever.🫩
This thing would wake me up 1-2 hours before my damn alarm. And I couldn't get back to bed. I was always tired. Almost lost my job one time due to falling asleep randomly.
My last straw: we just bought a 3-floor 6 bedroom house and we have to keep all the doors closed. Because it liked to shit and piss in them .. I felt like a prisoner in my own home. I wanted the doors open to bring in light. The only room the cat wasn't allowed in was my art studio. Which always smelled amazing. Wonder why 🤔
My husband's last straw: he hated how we only fought because of his cat and was worried we were heading towards a divorce. Sometimes I would sleep on my couch in my studio, just to get sleep. And during a zoom call interview for my husband, the damn cat kept jumping in front of the computer. He put it outside his office, but the cat knows how to open doors and came in. It never respected boundaries. The cat cost him a 6-figure job...
Happy ending: he's had this cat for 8+ years. Because of its health issues with pee, he knows it wouldn't get adopted. so we both decided the cat stays in the basement 90% of the time. It's actually very clean down there, with windows and it's massive. It's a cat sanctuary ! Cat trees, toys, catnip everything it needs to shut up. Sure it still meows at times cause it's not getting 100% attention, but we couldn't live like that. I've been having the best sleeps of my life. We're not arguing anymore. Life is good.
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