bex1984
Well-Known Member
I've posted about my oddball, awkward, neurotic cats before - last time because their poo was stinking out the house and you guys fixed that for me by suggesting different food, so I'm hoping you may be able to help me again now because I am nearing the end of my tether.
Background is that they are now about 12 years old, 2 rescue cats - mainly house cats, reliant on a litter tray and so neurotic they mostly don't leave their 'bedroom' during daylight. They can't have access to living room, bedrooms or any soft furnishings because they wee on them. BUT they are the sweetest, friendliest cats you could ever meet and they are happy in their tiny, weird world.
Unfortunately this week they have weed in our hallway (thanks to another cat spraying on the outside of our front door) and I know now they've started, the are likely to carry on.
My job has been restructured and I now work from home and their bedroom has had to become my office. They are leaving hair everywhere (my job makes this really difficult - I often work with people with allergies so cannot have bits of hair on paperwork etc) and they are sick (hairballs) A LOT. It is only a matter of time until they vom in my work computer/phone printer
Tonight I went upstairs to run a bath for my 1 year old daughter - litter tray is in bathroom. They'd missed the litter tray - cat wee all over bathroom floor. Cleared that up and cleared out litter tray. Then discovered enormous pile of sick on my work chair (which belongs to work) so had to clean that up to.
Add to all of this that my little girl took her first steps today and it is hitting me how hard it is going to get keeping her away from the litter tray etc once she is walking.
We can't even put a stairgate at the top of our stairs because the cats can't jump over it to get downstairs to their food and it would stress them out.
So - what would you do? I feel like the worst person in the world but I'm contemplating having them PTS
Background is that they are now about 12 years old, 2 rescue cats - mainly house cats, reliant on a litter tray and so neurotic they mostly don't leave their 'bedroom' during daylight. They can't have access to living room, bedrooms or any soft furnishings because they wee on them. BUT they are the sweetest, friendliest cats you could ever meet and they are happy in their tiny, weird world.
Unfortunately this week they have weed in our hallway (thanks to another cat spraying on the outside of our front door) and I know now they've started, the are likely to carry on.
My job has been restructured and I now work from home and their bedroom has had to become my office. They are leaving hair everywhere (my job makes this really difficult - I often work with people with allergies so cannot have bits of hair on paperwork etc) and they are sick (hairballs) A LOT. It is only a matter of time until they vom in my work computer/phone printer
Tonight I went upstairs to run a bath for my 1 year old daughter - litter tray is in bathroom. They'd missed the litter tray - cat wee all over bathroom floor. Cleared that up and cleared out litter tray. Then discovered enormous pile of sick on my work chair (which belongs to work) so had to clean that up to.
Add to all of this that my little girl took her first steps today and it is hitting me how hard it is going to get keeping her away from the litter tray etc once she is walking.
We can't even put a stairgate at the top of our stairs because the cats can't jump over it to get downstairs to their food and it would stress them out.
So - what would you do? I feel like the worst person in the world but I'm contemplating having them PTS