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To be fucked off?

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QuestionableMouse · 06/03/2021 20:03

Put a clean set of bedding on the bed this morning before I left for work. Came home to find my cat had puked a hairball up all over it so had to strip the lot off, including the quilt. Quilt had been in the dryer for almost three hours and still isn't dry and none of my bedding is dry either. So now rather than doing what I'd planned, I'm stuck trying to get some bedding dry so I can actually get to bed at a reasonable time tonight. Fed up and honestly not sure what else to try with my cat (she is on special hairball food, gets malt paste, gets brushed as much as she'll let me)

I have horrible period pains too and really wanted to lie down with a hot water bottle for a bit which isn't helping!

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Jeeperscreepers69 · 07/03/2021 19:01

What a carry on. Period pains are part of life. If your that poorly why message mumsnet. The only advice you will get is what your probably already doing. Next time grab a bloody wipe pick up the hair ball and rub the cover

DaNcInGtEqUiLaCaT · 07/03/2021 19:02

I have cats and one of them does this all over the house... Just put throws and covers on everything, so much easier. As for the duvet... I would have wiped it and sprayed it and then hairdriered it until its duvet change day in the summer!

wildchild554 · 07/03/2021 19:02

Can you put a hook and eye in so you can stop her opening the door? Other option a fleece throw should stop it soaking through.

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 07/03/2021 19:08

CatBastard once got up on the couch and sat down next to me, in order to throw up on my lap.

This is one of the many reasons he is called CatBastard.

Ayla182 · 07/03/2021 19:21

Op -

  1. you need to invest in more bedding.

  2. shut your bedroom door so cat has no access.

My cat loves urinating in DS (20 months) bedroom. She hates him. We keep the door closed now.

bellocchild · 07/03/2021 19:33

We always used thick throws over the duvets and pillows, saved on puke, grubby footprints, mangled mouse corpse....

Yorkshiretolondon · 07/03/2021 19:38

Note to self ‘buy more bedding’

expatinspain · 07/03/2021 19:44

One of my cats used to do this. She could also open the bedroom door. I solved the problem by buying a door wedge (a soft plastic type one, not wooden) and wedged the door shut from the outside so she couldn't get in. She scratched the shit of of the door trying to though 🤦🏽‍♀️ I loved my cats to bits and they lived until they were 19, however, I wouldn't get another animal as they do trash the house, especially as they get older. Carpets and rugs were vomited on and sofas scratched to shit, even though they had scratching pads, toys etc. I feel your pain OP. The worst was getting up at night to go to the loo and stepping in a pile of cat vomit in my bare feet!! So gross!!

expatinspain · 07/03/2021 19:46

Alya My cat used to piss in DD's toy box! She was really old when she did it. She was great friends with DD, but had something against her toys!

angela99999 · 07/03/2021 19:46

We had a very old cat (17) who started to be sick all the time. Tried all sorts of food, took him to the vet, in the end we just couldn't bear it any more and had him put to sleep. Nothing more disgusting than cat sick...

Goondoit19 · 07/03/2021 20:00

To be fair it doesn’t matter what precautions you take the cat will always deposit said hair ball in the most inconvenient place. We have wooden floor and carpet and the cat will always make an effort to be sick on the carpet every time. Our cats also pick the carpet of the door is shut so that’s super annoying as well which means if we want to keep them out we get ruined carpet.

Joinedjustforthispost · 07/03/2021 20:16

This is why my cats are banned from the bedrooms , the doors are shut . They had a habit of leaving a present on our bed . One Christmas Day my little not so dear cat snuck in my room and urinated on my bed it went through a thick duvet and completely through a deep Matress so I was up until 2am waiting on bedding drying and vaxing our ruined mattress, we had to get rid of the mattress it smelt so bad , I was shattered I’d been up since 5am with excited kids running around cooking etc to find the bed like that at 11 pm

Joinedjustforthispost · 07/03/2021 20:17

Oh my naughty puss was well and had two litter trays for himself he just like our bed

jaundicedoutlook · 07/03/2021 20:56

Cats are indeed buggers when it comes to bad timing.

Ours tends to be fairly fastidious when it comes to its evacuations and at night he’s confined to most of the downstairs of the house. However, one one occasion (when I needed to be out of the house sharpish in the morning) I had accidentally closed the door of the utility, where his litter tray lives. The poor little thing must have pawed the door and looked like mad for somewhere to do his business and I found, coming downstairs in the morning, that he’d finally succumbed to taking his crap in the kitchen sink.

Vixyboo · 07/03/2021 21:00

Get in a sleeping bag for tonight

Roselilly36 · 07/03/2021 21:04

You poor thing OP. I hope you get everything dry & your bed made up again soon.

Dogs are just a bad, once my DH had taken our dog for a walk, awful rainy day, muddy dog, who decided it would be great fun to roll about on my brand new lovely clean bed, I was pregnant at the time, I honestly could have cried when I saw the state of my bed.

Merryweather80 · 07/03/2021 21:30

My bastard cat managed to hack a hair ball in to my trainer once. I only wish I had put socks on that day!
I’ve had many cats over the years (vet nurse) and have never really had a cat prone to them. Only ever the odd episode. I do recommend the royal cannon vet care range, buy from pet drugs online. Very very reasonable.

I hope you feel better today.
Catbastard is beautiful, although not sorry!

Bertiebiscuit · 07/03/2021 21:31

Cats are bastards - mine has driven me insane in Lockdown - yowls for food every hour, chucks up one meal in 10 , launches himself at my feet in the dark and stands right behind me when I'm cooking so I nearly break my neck about once a day - have got very close to regretting ever getting him at times - I realise that I used to be out most days before so he had to get on with it on his own - bring on freedom day

msgreen · 07/03/2021 23:12

cats are disgusting, stop getting bloody cats they kill birds
horrid s...s in everyones garden ,

Mamanyt · 08/03/2021 00:06

It's a cat thing. Part of it. When my former cat developed tummy issues that included a LOT of yakking, I threw a cheap shower curtain over my bed to protect it. Now that she has gone to the Rainbow Bridge, I sometimes miss even the yakking and the shower curtain. Current cat does not have tummy issues, thankfully, but OH MY SWEET BERRY! I MISS YOU!

Grrrrdarling · 08/03/2021 00:37

@QuestionableMouse

Put a clean set of bedding on the bed this morning before I left for work. Came home to find my cat had puked a hairball up all over it so had to strip the lot off, including the quilt. Quilt had been in the dryer for almost three hours and still isn't dry and none of my bedding is dry either. So now rather than doing what I'd planned, I'm stuck trying to get some bedding dry so I can actually get to bed at a reasonable time tonight. Fed up and honestly not sure what else to try with my cat (she is on special hairball food, gets malt paste, gets brushed as much as she'll let me)

I have horrible period pains too and really wanted to lie down with a hot water bottle for a bit which isn't helping!

Silver lining here is that you didn’t stand on the cold, wet hacked up hairball. Is your kitty a long hair or over grooming? I have a very fluffy cat who can honestly hack up hairballs bigger than a decent poop at-least once a week. I have never known a cat like it & I have had over 20cats since I was a kid & worked in a cattery. I have now got 3 brushes for the fluffy cat & she gets had at-least once a day with all 3. It hasn’t really made much difference but her fur looks lovely Grin & she is liking being brushed more each month.

I 2nd/3rd/4th the suggestion that you purchase a 3rd betting set & a cheap duvet for bedding emergencies. I have always had 3 sets of bedding (one in wash, one on bed & one emergency set) & a spare duvet because you never know when you might need a spare.

twelveblackboots · 08/03/2021 01:52

@angela99999

We had a very old cat (17) who started to be sick all the time. Tried all sorts of food, took him to the vet, in the end we just couldn't bear it any more and had him put to sleep. Nothing more disgusting than cat sick...
You had your cat put to sleep because he was annoying you? You’re fucked up
Tzimi · 08/03/2021 06:37

Maybe get a throw to put over your duvet? That way, you should only have to wash this, rather than the duvet cover or the duvet, if your cat has a hair ball on your bed.

GingerLiberalFeminist · 08/03/2021 09:00

Top tip (I've had many cats that do this) have a throw on your bed during the day. Doubly prevents against cat vom and the build up of cat fur that you then breathe in!
Big hugs!

Cassilis · 08/03/2021 09:50

@GingerLiberalFeminist your top tip has already been suggested upthread