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?

Male tortoises' are really randy, I grew up with 2, a male and female, the, male had to be kept separate as he'd bash into the female for hours and literally crack her shell until it bled. They are really fast movers too. I personally would never have a pet tortoise, they are so hard to care for and not exactly cuddly.

Update of Cunty Cat I was awoken at 3:35 to a sting on my face. Cat is stood over me on bed side table, eyes ablaze, paw outstretch having slapped me/scratched me on the cheek waking me up because she had run out of wet food. From tonight said Cunty Cat will be confined to the living room at bedtime. If she wakes us up crying/banging at the door who knows what we’ll do… maybe make her into a stole.

These stories have me howling. Grateful it’s not just us who are abused by the little dictators we’ve brought into our home… who’d have them?!

Just reading the the RSPCA have removed Zouma's cats and he's been fined (presumably by West Ham) 250K.

Oh, for goodness sake!!
If you really can't stand your cat, just do the decent thing and contact your local Cats Protection or similar organisation to get him rehomed. There are plenty of people out there who'd be glad to give him a home and take on all the responsibilities of pet ownership that go with it.
YABU. Grow up, stop swearing and do the right thing for the poor cat and your family.

EpicGem that's good news. I didn't think the cats should be allowed to stay with him.

Good to hear about RSPCA's removing Zouma's cats and the fine he got 🙂

Poor thing. He must be living a miserable life. Have you tried speaking to a zoo or a tortpise club, they might have some ideas for making his life a bit better.

Make tortoises are like this. The only way to make his life better is to give him free access to a female tortoise who he will give this frequent rough constant treatment to therefore making her life miserable.

@KatsWhiskas

Oh, for goodness sake!! If you really can't stand your cat, just do the decent thing and contact your local Cats Protection or similar organisation to get him rehomed. There are plenty of people out there who'd be glad to give him a home and take on all the responsibilities of pet ownership that go with it. YABU. Grow up, stop swearing and do the right thing for the poor cat and your family.

You sound like fun! People are having a whine, and as for the swearing; is it your first day on the internet?

Rehoming (especially with older animals) is cruel and cold hearted. Shelters are packed full and there are never enough homes to go around. Let people vent about their sleepless nights caused by moaning cats and sex pest tortoises😂

I'm so glad he's had his cats removed. I've not watched the video because then I'd probably want to hunt him down and kick the shit out of him and see how he liked it.

I am absolutely disgusted with WHU for letting him play last night. I'd sack the fucker. At least the fans of both teams booed him. Vile, nasty piece of shit.

Happy to join in here we have 2 dogs from the rescue that have lived with us for 7 years now. Turns out they were in the rescue centre because they were pretty much incontinent. Its a psychological problem from being poorly treated in their formative years according to various vets and trainers.
I'm the one who clears up the mess when they make it, so even though they are otherwise perfect loveable dogs who are amazingly kind and never bark or bother dogs/ strangers, I resent picking up the surprise poo in my house. It stops me loving them the carefree way I've loved other pets.
My kids don't clear up the mess, and treat these dogs like Mini Gods.

Wish the guy could be dropped in the lion or tiger enclosure at the zoo.

I am so glad that the holier-than-thou posters have been in the minority on this thread. They're so tedious.

Never been a cat fan and reading this has reinforced the idea never to get one. Couldn't be doing with the pissing/shitting/clawing!

I have a fair few pets and love them all BUT the parrot hates me. She loves OH though so I think she is a one man bird. I gets squawked at if I walk within 2 metres of her and it is so shrill it feels like my brain is being pierced.

Once the dog goes I wont have another but nothing to do with him more because they are too restrictive.

@danadas

I have heard this about pet parrots! They'll pick a favourite family member, and everyone else can go hang

Despite what some people including OP, cats aren’t naturally bastards.

OP you need to get your cat checked for thyroid imbalance if he’s obsessed with food.

If he’s keeping you awake at night, how about you out in some effort to understand why he is behaving like that?

The cat is trying to communicate with you. I feel sorry for the cat.

Please don’t have cats in future if you can’t be bothered to understand them.

@FelicityBeedle

My bloody fish, I wish I could pass them along to someone else but DP considers that the same as giving up any other pet for adoption and NOT OK. They take up so much room and so much effort

I feel exactly the same about our fish. Pointless wastes of space.

EpicGem

Just reading the the RSPCA have removed Zouma's cats and he's been fined (presumably by West Ham) 250K.

Good, but it's not enough, even that big fine is only peanuts to him with his footballer salary and endorsements. Jail time would really send a message, even just a couple of weeks. West Ham are despicable for not sacking him.

Just heard West Ham are losing sponsors left right and centre - good!!

For any non-cat lovers reading this thread, you're getting extreme examples here! I have four cats, and apart from the odd sicked-up hairball, and a very occasional dead present, they are all funny and loving and keep me in fits with their antics. Read the #caturday tweets on twitter for the opposite view to most expressed here. But's it's very heartening to read how many people are exasperated but still loving and caring to their annoying felines!

No pets now (3 young kids is quite enough at the moment) but growing up we kept birds.

At one time we had a pair of peach-faced lovebirds who were little sods. They chewed everything they could, commandeered a toy railway tunnel and would viciously bite if you approached them when they were playing in there. They had a really shrill chirp and used to fight and make each other’s faces bleed, my mum had to buy another cage to separate them. We also had a cockatiel who was the softest, silliest, lovely bird (though sex mad, and would sing to dusters and cushions) but they bullied him relentlessly. They came out separately and if he landed on their cage they’d climb up and bite his toes. My auntie once brought her dog to visit, he went up to their cage and they bit his nose. The most unloving birds I’ve ever known. Was still in bits when they departed though.

Later, my mum had a parrot who adored her but hated my dad (feeling was mutual). He threw cushions at his cage when the parrot created, and in retaliation the parrot would rush to attack him when he picked the phone up from the cradle next to his cage.

My DD (4) keeps saying she wants a puppy but it’s not happening!

@CleansUpButWouldPreferNotTo in fairness some of these are about animals who get old and ill.
My friend has a dog who is very loved and was lovely most of its life. But he now has dementia and snaps at the air and has other difficult behaviour. But he is overall still happy, so they put up with the difficulties. Not his fault he has dementia.

Oh god yes! We have a 3 year old poodle and he's a prick. I was so excited to get a dog, wanted a lovely placid dog to sit on my lap, to stroke and give affection to. We ended up with the total opposite.
Since the day we got him he's been highly strung, and neurotic, a fly farts and he barks. He's scared of inanimate objects like bins and plastic bags! He's got health issues so he's on permanent steriods and he was a greedy bastard before but now he's ridiculous. If I dropped dead on the floor I'm fairly certain he'd eat me.
He stares at me and watches me like a sniper when I'm in the kitchen and when I tell him to go away he stares at me from a distance instead. He still craps and wees in the house (I know being on steroids makes this worse but we let him out all the time) He isn't affectionate unless he wants something (usually food) and is as thick as a brush.
At xmas it was the first time we'd seen some members of the family for about 2 years. We all got together and other family members brought their dogs, he was such a nuisance being a sex pest to one of them that we had to take him home before she ripped his throat out (and he's been neutered). The kids and my husband adore him and he does my head in! It's definitely a love/ hate relationship I have with him and yet do the most for him! I feed him, I took him back and to to the vets to get his health issues diagnosed and sorted out, I pay his pet insurance, I take him to the groomers. I just know the bastard is going to live until he's about 20 just to spite me

@Baglady123 what sort of poodle is he? Toy, miniature or standard?

We bought him as a toy but he's grown so big he's a miniature

I thought he sounded like a toy. I love poodles but wouldn't go smaller than a miniature. He's still very young though and should start to calm down in the next couple of years!

I hope so!!!!

Our cat turned up as a stray 9 years ago and defied all attempts to trace her owners so she stayed. Been generally quite a love, good mouser and she does this trick of reversing in through the window to my hubby making the large vehicle reversing noise.
Last summer, she injured her tail. So we kept her in at night, being kept awake to loud slurpy cleaning noises at all hours and having blood spattered bedclothes where she would remove the umpteenth bandage and use the bloodied tail as a brush in some bizarre feline attempt at abstract blood art.
After getting it close to healing almost twice, twat cat opened the wound again and with the threat of serious infection, we spent almost a grand on a semi tail amputation.
During this time, we got her acquainted with a litter tray (I adopted the pose to train her, and she got the knack pretty quickly). She is now back to popping out into the garden, then asking to come in just to use the tray.
In other oppositional defiant behaviour, if we sit down to eat and don't share a morsel of chicken or something, she takes this as justification to use her tray and present us with a large malodorous log just as we're tucking in.
That's apart from the usual trying to sit on anything electronic while we're using it, and deciding the only place worth sleeping is almost directly on my head.