Post 08 - Cats Are Annoying

I'm an animal lover, really. I have loved all cats (until about one week ago). The place that I'm renting right now, I offered to look after the cat for the summer for a reduction in rent. Great deal for me, right? Because I love cats.

The cats (the one I look after and my roommate's) are soooo annoying!!!!

If I shut my bedroom door, he meows constantly! They also wander all over all of my stuff when I'm busy working on other things. My roommate's cat is always staring at my hamster which freaks me out.

My roommate sleeps with her door open which is fine if it works for her. But I do *not* sleep with my door open. Never have, never will. I need silence and darkness to sleep. The litter box is NOT in my room so the cat can't sleep in my room. But he meows and paws at the door all night! I *soo* wouldn't have gotten into this if I had known that I was going to have to sleep with my door open.

The cats are obviously spoiled rotten! They are allowed to walk on the counters, tables, they are allowed in the shower too!

I have rented for the past couple years and never had cats. But I lived with cats all through high school at my parents. And when I go back to visit them, there are cats! I look after my parents cats when they go away. So I am definitely experienced with cats. But these are so ridiculously annoying!

And $50 rent reduction per not is NOT enough to put up with this cat!!!!!!!

I have made my decision to NOT get a cat ever again. Ughhh!

*Okay, I kinda take that back. I have loved every cat but these two. I just intend to train my cat a lot better!

 

HAHA. Don't despair. There is always a solution. Basically, cats are social "herd" or "pack" animals. As their care taker, you need to be the leader of the pack. You need to let them know your rules and that they need to obey you.

I've had to deal with this when living with a girl friend who owns cats. Her cats WERE just as annoying, spoiled, and coddled. They were awful. They would get on my desk, climb onto my keyboard, mess up my projects, piss, puke, shit, and shed everywhere, etc. If the door was closed, they would cry for hours and paw and scratch under the door to be let in the room where I was studying. Or they would want to get into bed. I could not cope and had to find a way to deal with the cats. I had to become the Cat Whisperer. I gave them discipline. Now, their lives have order, structure and they behave themselves. Everyone is happier now.

 

lol

...ah...They rock, despite it! :D

 

Lol I'm trying to train them too! The one cat thinks it's a game - he runs into my room and I chase him and throw him in the hallway (nicely of course). Still! I'm trying to give them discipline. But they get in everywhere! I don't mind if they just lie on my bed but they go everywhere and walk on me and try and eat my hamster (although I guess that's a logical thing for them to think). But still! I have pulled them away from her cage so many times!

And some cats rock. Like my parents cats. These ones? Not so much!