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MIL treads cat shit over bathroom and leaves it

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Chemistria · 17/12/2016 14:19

Ok so me and OH are having our kitchen done. We have cats. Cats at the moment live in the garage / go outside as we don't have a tray in the house.

long story short, one of the cats accidentally got left in the house last night. It went for a runny stinking shit in the bathroom, MIL stepped in it this early this morning, and after a lot of crashing around in there (washing her feet) she went back to bed and left the poo all over the floor.

As she'd woken DS up with the noise, and then me, I went to settle him and then noticed the awful stench coming from the bathroom and found it to be trodden in.

I went straight to her room and said that I think she might have trodden in cat shit. She was back in bed trying to go to sleep. She said "yes I did, it's disgusting"

I then spent the next 15 mins bleaching / disinfecting the floor with boiling water and everything else I could find.

Since then I've been called "getting on my high horse" for telling her she should have woken me or OH up immediately to clean it up. Also been called a brat for saying this.

I wasn't expecting her to clean it up but should she have at least told us?

OH now angry at me for causing an atmosphere, when to be frank I was disgusted by MIL attitude this morning.

Maybe I have overreacted but I'm 9 months pregnant and think that to save it being there any longer than necessary, she should've just bloody told us straight away.

OP posts:
Crocosaurus · 18/12/2016 13:37

How many cats have you got if 'some of them' sleep in the bedroom?

kali110 · 18/12/2016 14:19

Agree partly with alice who should clean it then?
And yes that title is wrong!
So if you have cats and get pregnant do you get rid of the cats? Confused( what am Saying, yes people do Angry)

raviolidreaming · 18/12/2016 14:41

I'm pregnant and I change my cat's litter tray. Good hand hygiene prevents me ingesting it, which is where the risk lies. I don't think MIL should have had to clean it up and, if I were the OP, I'd have been apologising profusely that she trod in it.

WonderMike · 18/12/2016 14:42

If the cat shit had been undisturbed, your MIL should have left it for you to clear up. However once she had trod in it and made the situation worse, it was finders keepers and she should have cleaned up the mess she made.

kali110 · 18/12/2016 14:57

raviolidreaming so did my friends.
I don't agree with how that nhs page is titled at all.
You can get tox from gardening and unwashed veg too!

raviolidreaming · 18/12/2016 17:15

You can get tox from gardening and unwashed veg too!

Exactly Kali, and I'm sure 50% of cases come from eating undercooked meat. If the cat's litter was that dangerous then I'd already have had it!

kali110 · 18/12/2016 18:25

Yes rav sorry i forgot that one!

MiaHayek · 19/12/2016 11:15

It's not your guest's responsibility to clean up after your pets. How disgusting for her to have stepped in it barefoot - and I'm a cat person.

Perhaps she did not want to disturb everyone else who was sleeping when she saw it. Would either you or your other half have appreciated being woken up with that news? You might have been posting about it saying 'MIL woke me up with news that she had stepped in cat shit and then she didn't clean it up'.

As for who should clean it up - that's for you or your other half as they are your pets. OH should clean it up as you are 9 months pregnant and it's safer that way.

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