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to have woken OH up this morning to clean up after the cat

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1Catherine1 · 13/12/2011 11:02

Yesterday was my OHs day off. He was at home with our DD (8mo) most of the day and let the cats come in the house to play. Our cats live in a heated cat house in the garden which we invested in after losing a large amount of our deposit from various rental properties due to damage by our cats.

When I came home he went out to do his latest hobby and I looked after our DD who was having a bad night teething. I just about got her to sleep at 1am in my bed when my OH shouted up the stairs that the cats weren't allowed back in again and I wouldn't believe what they'd done. I guessed that one of them had pooed in the house but didn't respond as I didn't want to disturb our DD and I had to sleep too as I had work this morning.

This morning I went down at 7am while I was getting ready for work and saw it. I woke him up (he'd fallen asleep on the sofa watching TV) and told him that it needed cleaning as I was bringing the DD down soon and couldn't put her on the floor with it still there. I finally got him up at 7:20 as I brought our DD down and continued to get ready. I had to leave at 7:30.

When he finally got up all he did was rant in spanish while doing it and strop around. I got a little annoyed by this as I was rather annoyed that he'd left it there all night already and told him that if he had anything to say to me he could say it in English.

Was I unreasonable to wake him up to clean this? I'm quite sure I wasn't.
Was I unreasonable to be annoyed that he hadn't done it last night?

I'm convinced that this is going to come up again tonight...

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valiumredhead · 13/12/2011 11:04

Rant in Spanish? Phwoooooar, you lucky thing! Wink

ladyintheradiator · 13/12/2011 11:04

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DoesNotGiveAFig · 13/12/2011 11:06

I'm with val Wink

squeakytoy · 13/12/2011 11:06

I think there are more problems here than cat shit. Confused

valiumredhead · 13/12/2011 11:11

Did you watch 'Vicky, Christina, Barcelona' the other night, does? I swooned do much I nearly fell off the sofa! Grin

DoesNotGiveAFig · 13/12/2011 11:12

Good movie Grin

Annpan88 · 13/12/2011 11:17

I'd of done the same thing

HeidiKat · 13/12/2011 11:20

YANBU, I would have been pissed off that he knew it was there and had just left it hoping you would clear it up.

samandi · 13/12/2011 14:00

Ew, he left it overnight? That's pretty scummy.

controlpantsandgladrags · 13/12/2011 14:10

Nope. I'd have done exactly the same thing. And i'd be very cross that he left it there all night.

Crosshair · 13/12/2011 14:13

yanbu, I wouldnt be happy that he just left it for someone else to sort out.

NatashaBee · 13/12/2011 14:29

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1Catherine1 · 13/12/2011 17:22

oh dear... I think I might have over sold the "heated cat house". The "house" is in fact only heated because we extended a power supply to it and put in a proper heater that keeps it warm and they have a heated bed pad too. As for "cat house" it is in fact a large rabbit hutch that has been majorly modified with extra panels to keep it extra dry, extra warm and a cat flap to allow them to come and go as they please. I avoided saying "rabbit hutch" as I thought it might raise some eyebrows even though it has had some major modification and it is only like a bedroom for them. I might add that one of the cats is much healthier living out in that as she now doesn't come into contact with one of her major allergies (cotton) and hasn't had to have a single course of steroids since she moved out/in.

And we have 2 cats, 1 is mine and the other is his. There is no way of knowing which cat did the deed.

Regarding the damage my cats have done to properties. This varies but has been vast. Although I invested in a scratching post they would both frequently scratch other things and I was forever repairing them. They seemed to want a post per room but I have never had the space for that. Also one of them (I suspect- maybe both) would not go in a litter tray that already had something in it so would go somewhere else, somewhere hidden while we were out working. As we had a cream carpet and I didn't find it until hours later it was sometimes impossible to get the carpet as good as new - especially when it was new when we moved in. Hence me having to replace a full living room carpet. I have taken them to the vets and know there is nothing wrong with them as such - vet said sometimes cats just pick a spot and best to move the litter tray there. There isn't a chance in hell I'm having a litter tray in my living room especially when I have a baby playing in there. Needless to say, I've just had enough of them pooing where ever they want to mark their territory and that's why I moved them out. It was that or rehome them which my OH was dead against and cats protection informed me they were had a substantial waiting list of cats needing rehoming. I wasn't comfortable pushing onto the cats protection waiting list when I still have the ability to look after them when other people might not have that option.

Anyway... that you for all your replies. My OH has just phoned me from work and apologized for this morning which isn't like him. Although not for leaving it in the first place. He knows I'm really mad at him when I don't phone him all day Wink

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