Bloody-minded cats

[tamaranth]

I can live with their having learnt how to open the door between the kitchen and the rest of the house (this is the second day running that it's been open when I got home).

But cats who spend all day in the house, and then wait until I go upstairs, and then shit on the carrier bag I've just put down ...

They are cowering in the garden right now, but eventually they will discover that I have locked them out. Bwa ha ha ha ha.

Fur gloves, anyone? Or they make good cushions. Freshly brushed, too.

I changed their litter tray this morning: it's clean. And they haven't done anything anywhere else, that I can detect. I really think this is a Dirty Protest. But I have opposable thumbs, so they're stuffed. Not literally. Not yet.

Comments

[purpletigron.livejournal.com]

Poo :-(

[tamaranth.livejournal.com]

'Xactly.

[lj_stowaway]

Evil creatures.

[tamaranth.livejournal.com]

Dear little furry beasties from the uttermost circle of Hell.

[surliminal.livejournal.com]

Mine definitely do Dirty Protest. Smart (ish) bastards ..

[tamaranth.livejournal.com]

It looked (and smelt) so very Intentional ... of course, I don't know which one was to blame!

[surliminal.livejournal.com]

Actually, do you know if worm eggs can lurk in Science Diet catfood? I have had an epidemic of the horrid little buggers hanging round the cat feeding bowls - and as kitchen is regularly cleaned (cleaning lady!) and no obvious source I am beginning to wonder if the horrible things hatch out after I put the food won.. is this possible? I have just Detooled everything in sight,.. between this and Java pissing everywhere I think I now smell equally of Dettol and catpiss.

No wonder I can't get a boyfriend..

[ladymoonray.livejournal.com]

Oh dear. Try not to be too angry with them though. this (http://www.catsinternational.org/articles/housesoiling/litterbox_solutions.html) confirms that they don't do it on purpose.

[tamaranth.livejournal.com]

That article has not met Sam and Shiva. Who are ever so purry and apologetic now. It's hard to believe it's stress or anxiety when it seems so very ...deliberate. And timed.

(And as for stress, they'll be sorry when the Owners get back. Shall be keeping my bedroom / study door firmly shut.)

[ladymoonray.livejournal.com]

Oh, and I must thank you. Thanks to the link posted in theladiesloos for half-price train tickets, and your advice, I am now going up to Carlisle by train next Friday, hiring a car for our trip, and getting the train back again. Hurrah! I reckon it's worth it in a) petrol costs b) comfort and c) energy preservation. My energy.

[tamaranth.livejournal.com]

Yay! Am happy to've been right given good advice!
I know you don't love long train trips quite as much as some of us, but it's wonderful chill-out time. Go you!
Am about to email you another Special Offer.

[ladymoonray.livejournal.com]

One time only?

[sorry. have caught the hyper mood]

[esmeraldus-neo.livejournal.com]

I've just been gifted with a kitten I named Captain Malcolm Reynolds. It was prescient cat-naming. He has overturned my potted plants, climbed all the way up my back from the floor, almost removed the (second floor!) window screen in the kitchen and fallen to his messy death, fallen into the toilet, jumped into the bath with me (and then quickly back out again), gotten shut in the refrigerator, and just 5 minutes ago took the F2 key off this very keyboard with one of his nasty little claws.

This is in the space of one week, mind you. There's more. And I just heard a suspicious thud from the other room that I don't even want to investigate.