jedishampoo | Venting about Cats

Really, I'm not a cat murderer. I'm a vegetarian. I'm supposed to wuv the wittle animals, right?

sharpeslass's cat peed on the couch again, a part of the couch which cannot be really taken off and cleaned. It wasn't entirely unexpected, since my recliner (my RECLINER, sniff) was dragged to the curb a couple of weeks ago, and the couch has been peed on once months ago and cleaned and scratched all to heck despite the use of softpaws claw covers and sticky tape and citrus spray.

Not unexpected since, really, cats are supposed to destroy furniture, right? It's just.... now I cannot have my nice things anywhere the cat is allowed to be, like my pillows and afghan and quilt that my mother hand-made for me... grrr.

The cat is 15 years old and recently had a bladder infection, which explains the recliner (I'll never be able to afford another RECLINER, sniff), but she sleeps on the exact spot she peed on! Why would a cat pee where she sleeps? She doesn't seem senile, and the vet said she's pretty spry for an elderly cat. And the cat loves me to the point of obsession, so it's not personal, I don't think. ;) And we've lived here almost a year so it's not like there's anything in the house (except my room, cat-free-zone) that doesn't smell like her already. So Why, God, Why?

The cat is once more locked up in

sharpeslass's room, meowing all to hell and I don't feel sorry for her and does that make me a bad person?

I'll be over it tomorrow, I'm sure. It's just furniture. Except once we ditch the couch, because I refuse to have something around that smells like cat pee despite the use of odor removers, where will I sit to play video games? It's the last piece of furniture in "my" living room.

Oh well, just venting. Sigh.