Do any of you have a pet that you actually just can't fucking stand?

[mycatisannoying]

My cat. Approx 11 years old and counting! I've had him for a decade. A part of me does love him, but he's a knob and lessens my quality of life rather than add anything to it. He's so whiney and food obsessed and I am seldom able to sleep the whole night through because of him.
When he departs I shall be sad, but I won't miss him, and there will be relief in a way.
He has a wonderful life here with us, and I won't give him away, because he's old and is our responsibility.
Have you ever had a love/hate relationship with a family pet?

Our lovely guinea pigs don't like me. They run to a hide when they hear my voice. When they hear dc's and dh's voice they start to wheek for food. I am pretty much the only one who picks them up (and takes care of them).

[quote KittenSpawnOfSatan]@Cheeseandlobster flippant tone is right. He’s a nasty little squirt. Hence contributing to a thread about nasty little squirts.[/quote]
Your posts have not been in the spirit of the thread though. There is a difference between not liking your pets behaviour and openly making it clear you hate yours and would be happy to just let him out to fend for himself

Not all cats are placid and loving. He isn't for you. I understand that. But he probably senses your distaste hence the bad behaviour which actually you still haven't told us about. What sort of message would you be giving your children by letting him go on his own. Why wouldn't you do the right thing and surrender him to a reputable rescue? They see this sort of thing all the time but if you are worried about what they will think of you then lie and tell them your dc are allergic. It's more important to find him a new home where he will be cherished and loved

@Cheeseandlobster the ‘spirit’ of this thread is very clearly titled with an expletive relating to a hatred of one’s pet.

I doubt the kitten ‘senses distaste’. It’s not a dog, whole different ball game. Dogs have palpable emotions. Cats just fake it.

Yes my sons cat. We got two kittens off a friend, I didn’t even want them but she stupidly didn’t neuter her cat, it got pregnant and when visiting she offered my sons a kitten each. My husband loves all animals and was very eager and I, at the time wasn’t bothered either way. The boy kitten is a gem, love him. The girl cat I hate. She jumps on the kitchen side, knocks the lid off the butter and eats it. She has worked out how to open the bottom cupboard and has shredded a bag of dessicated coconut thinking it was dreamies.

billydilly

Our Bengal is a typical Bengal, feral basically. He hates our female siamese who is in love with Dh (it's fully reciprocated), Dh yells at the Bengal for bullying his girlfriend and so it goes on. Bengal decided to make known the unfairness of this by pissing on Dh's face while he slept...

Fabulous 😂Seriously I’d love a bengal… if you could guarantee he/she would piss on my dh on demand I’m definitely in!

[quote KittenSpawnOfSatan]@Shannith easier to just open the door and let him free.[/quote]
You're a disgusting excuse for a human being.

@Athena51 cats are evil.

Yes! My dog. He FUCKING STINKS. It's because he has a skin condition (and apart from extremely expensive antibiotics that he can't stay on forever- nothing works). But he actually smells like rot. It is gross. He's 7 now so pretty old for his breed. He is quite sweet but Jesus Christ he just honks.

My cats the same OP. Constantly mewing for food, tramples over my head when I'm asleep, pulls the curtains open as soon as it gets light. Drives me crazy!

I used to have a hamster I hated.

It was only awake at night when the kids were asleep. I felt sorry for it and took it out to play with it and let it run around every night when I just wanted to go to bed.

You had to clean it out every week without fail or it stank.

I was told that they only live until they are 2 years old but I would never harm an animal and I looked after it so well that it lived over 2 and a half years.

It got an eye infection and the drops for it cost £25 from the vet. The hamster only cost £7.

Bloody hamster. I had to pretend to be upset when it died.

[quote KittenSpawnOfSatan]@Athena51 cats are evil.[/quote]
Well don't get one then

We have two cats. They hate each other and they hate us. They're both around 10 years old so we may still have to endure this hate triangle for another 10 years yet...

@ladycardamom

Yes. I had 2 Guinea pigs. I hated them. Useless. They got bitten by a snake and that was the end of them. Replaced them with chickens, much better pets.

How did that come about? Are you not in the UK? (just intrigued)

YES! Absolutely. I reluctantly, grudgingly, agreed that it'd be okay if we got a dog IF the following conditions were met 1) The dog be outside most of the time, with shelter 2) in a fenced-off area of the garden, ie, the dog wouldn't be let have the run of the garden and 3) that I not be the only one cleaning up after it. About a month after (NotD)H descended upon us with the dog I was mopping the kitchen floor and realised that NONE of those conditions that actually been met!

So I stopped being the only one to clean up after the dog. That has meant feeding the kids in the sitting room on occasion because the kitchen stinks. I also put the dog outside at every opportunity. I can't by myself fence off an area of the garden though. But I have made it crystal clear that, come summer, I will not be picking up the dog shit. I want the DC to be able to play in the garden though so it will need to be picked up. If he-who-brought-the-fucking-dog-into-our-lives doesn't do it I will arrange for it to be done and direct the bill to him.

I honestly had enough on my plate already with a high needs DC without dealing with a dog too. And I'm usually a dog person! But this one is a nightmare. It will not do anything it's told. It barks, jumps on us, jumps on the kitchen table, wrecks any of the DCs toys it can sneak off with, has wrecked the kitchen door, has torn holes in five of my jumpers, a cardigan and - somehow - even in a pair of jeans. It's even bit me once. And we've only had the dog three months. The dog has had such an overwhelmingly negative effect on my life and there are zero positives. I massively miss not having a dog.

I love grumpy cat, but he is a pain. A friend had to go to A & E after he attacked him whilst housesitting. He's OK with me and DD, but generally hates men. In winter, he refuses to go out and pees and poos on the front door mat. In summer he leaves turds all over the back lawn for us to step in. He also jumps in the kitty's litter to pee the minute it has been changed. He guards the hall, and stops the dog from passing.

The dog and kitten are saints in comparison. both sweet natured, loving girls.

@Cheeseandlobster bit late for that, doll !

OP, on the sleeping through point is there no option to lock him away somewhere? Our cats are always shut in the kitchen at night - they can come and go through the cat flap and have access to food and water. Honestly I think my cats are asshole as well when they wake me up - they just don't get the chance.

[quote KittenSpawnOfSatan]@Cheeseandlobster the ‘spirit’ of this thread is very clearly titled with an expletive relating to a hatred of one’s pet.

I doubt the kitten ‘senses distaste’. It’s not a dog, whole different ball game. Dogs have palpable emotions. Cats just fake it.[/quote]
There is clearly no cat. Thank God.

It’s half term, go play.

Our black lab, it's Mrs hr's really, 13 yrs old, stinks because of a skin condition. Ear infection, chews her paws, incontinent, so she wears a nappy, this bursts overnight. Barks if we talk too loud or start laughing.
Stomps up and down grumbling interrupting films, conversations and phone calls. Also ruining my carpet, soon as I've vaccumed she stomps up and down.
Any trips away she has to come with us, recently spend the weekend in Windsor with us. It's always the 3 of us.
Her food, treatments, washing her bedding costs nearly as much as a small mortgage.
Goodness knows how we're going to marry abroad and go on our honeymoon....

Bit of an all round nuisance tbh.
No pets when she's gone, just a baby.

@AlphabetStew

YES! Absolutely. I reluctantly, grudgingly, agreed that it'd be okay if we got a dog IF the following conditions were met 1) The dog be outside most of the time, with shelter 2) in a fenced-off area of the garden, ie, the dog wouldn't be let have the run of the garden and 3) that I not be the only one cleaning up after it. About a month after (NotD)H descended upon us with the dog I was mopping the kitchen floor and realised that NONE of those conditions that actually been met!

So I stopped being the only one to clean up after the dog. That has meant feeding the kids in the sitting room on occasion because the kitchen stinks. I also put the dog outside at every opportunity. I can't by myself fence off an area of the garden though. But I have made it crystal clear that, come summer, I will not be picking up the dog shit. I want the DC to be able to play in the garden though so it will need to be picked up. If he-who-brought-the-fucking-dog-into-our-lives doesn't do it I will arrange for it to be done and direct the bill to him.

I honestly had enough on my plate already with a high needs DC without dealing with a dog too. And I'm usually a dog person! But this one is a nightmare. It will not do anything it's told. It barks, jumps on us, jumps on the kitchen table, wrecks any of the DCs toys it can sneak off with, has wrecked the kitchen door, has torn holes in five of my jumpers, a cardigan and - somehow - even in a pair of jeans. It's even bit me once. And we've only had the dog three months. The dog has had such an overwhelmingly negative effect on my life and there are zero positives. I massively miss not having a dog.

This is not good! I'd honestly rehome now.

We have a 5 month old kitten, I wouldn't say I hate him but I sure as hell don't like him very much! I deeply regret getting him and miss our old pet free life.
He's gorgeous and totally smitten with my husband but I'm the one who spends the most time with him, scoops his poop, lifts him down from the kitchen work top eleventy billion times a day, whips a wand toy around to amuse him and generally just caters to his every whim.
I love him really but he's a giant pain in the arse.

@BABAHOTEL Thank you!! I wholeheartedly agree

@SoosanCarter

My tortoise. He’s a Sex Beast. He lives in a sectioned off part of the garden because he will race over and start trying to mate anyone’s shoes. Bashes my feet and it hurts! Chases the cats and the dog, who is scared of him. I love him, and wouldn’t rehome him because it’s hard to find good homes for tortoises, and I couldn’t inflict him on anyone else!

Please tell me he doesn't live outside all year round?

He certainly doesn’t. I’m a very experienced tortoise keeper. He hibernates in an insulated shed with a tubular heater on a thermostat at 6 degrees. Pre and post hibernation his shed with a ramp to outdoors had a tubular heater on a thermostat and timer and a UV lamp. He also has a cold frame with a tubular heater to take the chill off. His enclosure has lots of plants and hiding places. I don’t hibernate my tortoises for more than 12 weeks and weigh them before and after.

However, I am appalled by the ease in which people can buy a hatchling and keep them in a glass box for years. Mine love roaming around in the sun outside.

Name change for this.

I have a lurcher who is the light of my life, we have a bond like I’ve never had with a dog before, having had dogs all my life.
However she is a massive arsehole and I am the only one in the family who tolerates her.

She is loud. Announces every passer by, every cat, anything that may (or may not) be remotely interesting.

I understand her different noises - there are recognisably different barks for “I need a poo”, “I need a wee” and “feed me”, and she won’t stop until it’s done, even if it’s not tea time for another hour.

If it rains she won’t go out (apparently rain makes you melt).

If I’m on the phone she woooooos at me unless I have biscuits in my pocket.

She sleeps in bed with me and scratches off the duvet if I don’t let her in. I have to stake my claim on bed space or she stretches out and takes up the whole bed if allowed.

She takes things if she can reach them (she’s tall), any good things have to be way out of reach even if they’re in boxes or tubs.

Out and about she will be randomly reactive. She remembers a man who played roughly with her as a puppy and hates him.
She hates some dogs, particularly ones that bounce up to her.
Her favourite friend is a little welsh terrier - he’s the only dog she plays nicely with. Other dogs she’s too boisterous with and knocks them over.

She has a crate that she likes to go and rest in, with her nose resting on a bar, but only if the door is open. If she’s shut in she is pissed off for the rest of the day.

So she’s intense, moody, entitled, a thief, noisy, as much as I can get frustrated that I can’t train these things out of her, I love her to bits!