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?

I love how most of the responses are about cats 😆

Both my cats are turds, one of which just shut me out of the bathroom and wouldn't let me in.

But I absolutely adore them. I just think all cats carry the turd gene.

I loved my dog dearly but the last year of her life was miserable in hindsight, for us all. I didn’t hate her at all, but I hated the situation. Accidents in the house, no walks or any of the pleasures of dog ownership. Just restrictive and sad, and expensive. When she suffered an injury that couldn’t be treated she was put to sleep, but we probably should have done it sooner. It’s put me off having another dog probably forever.

@SoosanCarter

"My tortoise. He’s a Sex Beast."

It's not often that things I read genuinely make me laugh out loud but this did!

I am so happy to see this post!! I had considered starting one but wasn't sure who it would be received.

My dog. I've had dogs before, I know how to train a dog and I've always scoffed at untrained dogs assuming their owners are lazy and don't put the effort in. My dog gets training every day, long walks, puzzles, games, love and play. He is supposedly a breed that it receptive to training. He is a fucking nightmare. He chews anything and everything. He bites us (not aggressively) he refuses to heel but prefers to stop and come back everytime he pulls. He won't follow any commands unless he likes the look of what we are offering as reward. Otherwise he walks off. He likes to sit on us which is sweet but every time he moves leaves us covered in bruises. He likes to chew his toys against our legs which results in our clothes getting stained/damaged/ripped. He has no desire to please us. We perceive and hope things will improve but basically he's taken over our lives and gives very little back. We are lovely to him but it's just so hard. I love him but I don't like him at times. And yes he has defeated dog trainers too.

No I've loved all my pets. My two cats are on top of me cuddling and being lovely as I type this. However, my mum who lives in the next street to me had a rabbit that was....hard to get on with, shall we say. She died recently, peacefully in her bed of rabbit old age. She was about 9 (rescued).

She was a beautiful rabbit, an all-black rex with pink lining her ears, paws and stomach, and a long pointed face. She was completely inscrutable. She showed no affection to anyone or anything. She would occasionally deign to let you stroke her, but if you got it wrong she'd lunge at you. She'd also lunge if she thought you might have food (she was incredibly greedy and ate with great intensity). She had initially been rehomed due to her tendencies to bully and dominate other rabbits, though she did actually get on with a meek little neutered male we had previously (by which I mean, she permitted him to worship, groom and admire her). She was just by all accounts an extremely odd animal and absolutely nothing like the stereotype of a rabbit. Still, we gave her a good long rabbit life and she died peacefully.

@HeckinMiffed I'm intrigued how did your dog set fire to the house ?! My cat is a total pain , he randomly attacks me I can be walking along the landing and he will run up behind me claw up my leg and bite me , you stroke him then all of a sudden he will just turn and bite you . Not like I imagined having a cat would be like , give me the dog any day.

I've come to the conclusion that I am not suitable to be a pet owner, we had a gorgeous dog, she was lovely but I hated the fact I was the only one who walked her, took her to the vet, bought her food (not just a trip to the supermarket), cleaned the garden of her poo and took her to be groomed. My husband would feed her of his plate and leave the scraps everywhere. Moan about her claws etc. As if it was my duty to sort them. She wouldn't walk up steps so I'd have to carry her up 2 flights of tiny tiny stairs everytime she got groomed. (german shepard mix) It was a constant thing, my world revolved around the bloody dog, it was like having a 2nd child, I didn't want a 2nd child. I loved her but hated being the default parent in a country where everyone was scared of dogs and everywhere there were stray angry dogs, she got jumped on once by a guard dog, I hate to tear them apart. I cannot read dogs at all. We had to leave her in Asia in the end as no airline company would accept a dog in the hold and she was too big as hand luggage. It was sad but also a relief. She went to an amazing home who love her to bits. Anyway, so moving forward, we were offered a kitten, from the street (not in the UK) off of a friend, I initially said no way, then somehow it got changed to a Yes, very tiny, I thought it was literally a few weeks old so she'd be good to train. No no no. She's feral as fuck. Bites and scratches us all day long. Scratches the furniture, climbs up the net curtains, walks across the kitchen work tops, eats any food left out (butter and bread) opens things in my bags of shopping (carton of apple juice) that are left by the front door, scratches nails out of the wall then scratches the plaster off around the hole. I hate her. She's unpredictable and scratched my sons face yesterday, literally clawed both cheeks. I have no choice but to keep her as no one wants cats here. I regret the day I ever got her. My hands are scared to bits. The only time she is nice is at bed time. When she sleeps.

@HeechulOppa

Yes, Dcat2. A breed we wanted for years due to to the breed’s nature of being sweet and doglike and extremely loving and gentle. We have a cat of a different breed (Dcat1) who also shares those characteristics but is much more manic aka eternal kitten, so wanted one a bit more placid.

Well apparently Dcat2 is the outlier for his breed. Easily the most neurotic and grumpy animal I’ve ever met. Hates any human contact but has an anxiety attack if you’re not in the same room as him. Lazy as sin and screams in the middle of the stairs Until we answer him so he knows what room we’re in and doesn’t have to strain a muscle looking for us. Will only drink from a mug. In one particular room. Which we have to give manual access to as DCat1 can’t be trusted there. Eats one brand of cat biscuit only and nothing else but occasionally decides he now hates it and we have to spend £££ trying to guess his nibs’ new preference as he would literally starve to death refusing to eat. Pisses on the floor daily and doesn’t cover up his mess in the litter tray meaning we can’t feed them at bedtime or the house will stink by the time we wake up. He is unequivocally and without reserve a dick, hates dcat1 (who loves him dearly) and I adore him.

Siamese?

@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

Oh I'd get rid of the fish in an instant, we move quite a bit and they're a right pain and I resent how our lounge has to be arranged around the best place for the tank 😅 however, my husband enjoys them so I guess they're staying.

Her. Catface. The queen.

She is more vocal now than ever. She’s 7 I think. We’re not too sure. She had a rough start to life - dumped in a park as a kitten and then lived in the shelter for 6 months or so until date brought us together.

She’s my girl. And I’m her person. But whilst it’s lovely she follows me everywhere I’m never alone.

I’ll be devastated when she is no longer with us. But hopefully not for years to come. She wakes me up every morning by patting my face. Then meowing loudly because she’s going to starve for real.

If it’s raining in the night she goes out to check it out. Then comes back in and jumps on the bed and smooshes her cold wet self against my face. To show me how wet it is. Jerk.

Dsd's cat, throws up fur balls everywhere, whines and meows for food constantly and sheds so much. But I didn't have the heart to say no to taking her in even though I'm a bit allergic to her (and dd is really allergic). At some point dsd hopefully will get pet friendly accommodation!

Donkeys years ago we had a client with a Dachshund that had alopecia and was constantly itchy. It was evident in the consults that the owner hated the dog and resented the vet bills too. For two weeks the dog was put in kennels but the kennel owner felt so sorry for the wee hairless one that she had the dog in the house with her. In that two weeks when she received love, the little bitch grew her hair back. This happened the following year and the kennel owner asked to keep the dog to which the owner readily agreed being as she obviously hated the dog in the first place. The little dog never looked back. She knew she was hated and suffered dreadfully for the first two and a half years of her life.

Some of these really made me laugh!

I don’t hate dcat but there was definitely a point when I considered giving him back to the RSPCA. The first 6 months we had him he would randomly go ballistic and attack my legs - I literally had to grab him and put him in another room to stop him - and sometimes when he was let out he would go for me again.

Luckily things settled down and we know each other pretty well now. He occasionally is a bit grumpy but I see it coming and give him a dreamy or pop him outside to cool off so he hasn’t attacked like that for over a year.

THAT SAID, I would never get another pet of any kind. DCat is only 2 so we have many years of him left but then that will be it. I hate feeling like we can’t easily go away for the weekend or on holiday. He hates the cattery but I don’t like having someone in my house when I’m not here - my mum will feed him if she is around but she isn’t always free.

I think after covid I hadn’t appreciated how important it would be to me to be able to be free and easily able to go where I want, when I want!

She looked almost exactly like these, except that her lines around her eyes etc were a bit pinker. The rescue people called her Daenerys. After a while we realised why. Still, we always maintained that whatever sort of odd creature she was, she deserved a good rabbit life and care, and she had it. Totally changed my perception of what rabbits are like though.

We have two cars. I adore one and really feel apathetic about the other. Dc1 is affectionate, soppy, intuitive, cuddly, and everyone adores him. A true lap cat and I will be devastated when he goes. Dc2 is demanding, disengaged, distinctly uncuddly (he hates being picked up and squirms away - usually ripping us to shreds in the process), shouty, always wanting food, and likes eating garden wildlife. Once I had to leave him at the vets, after his op the vets actually called to me i I could please pick him up several hours early and monitor him at home because he was causing a rumpus in the cats' room. Apparently he was shouting at all the other cats and upsetting them.

I honestly don't think I'll be that sad when he goes and I love cats. He disappeared for a while and then came back a couple of days later

*cats ffs

I also have a cat who’s a knob. She also claws everything and has ruined the sofa and a few jumpers. She’s thick as mince too, it took her literally years and hours of coaching to learn to use the cat flap, and she’s terrified of the big fluffy cats next door / one side has a Maine Coon, the other side have two really fluffy rag dolls.

I love my cat to death but oh my god the white fur ALL over the house. Wearing anything other than white clothing requires 500 sticky rollers.

Some people on this thread (not everyone) need to realise that pets are not objects you own, they are living creatures with their own personalities and biological needs. You need to create a relationship with them that is positive for both sides. You can’t expect a cat to not do things that cats do (scratch sofas). If there is unwanted behaviour such as swiping and biting, you need to find out why. There are so many resources these days. Some people are just lazy, ignorant and irresponsible.

Well ddog is definitely in my bag books, he threw up 6 times on my new rug...

I stupidly got my son a tree frog after nearly a years worth of begging. It’s so much bloody work, it is absolutely determined to die no matter what I do and I now have a cupboard full of live crickets in my house which I absolutely hate.

My dog is massive arsehole. When my DS was a baby he took any opportunity he could to act like an arsehole. Eat fresh human shit (out on a walk) then try and steal a baby’s toy? Bark randomly at 5am? Refuse to recall when I had a pram that I couldn’t leave to retrieve him? Roll in random animal shit constantly? Be so needy that I think he’d try and crawl inside my skin if he could? Steal my hot lunch? All of the above. He never did any of this before but was obviously upset by the family changes.

He’s calmed down a bit now but I’d be lying if I said it won’t be a blessed relief when he goes on his long walk to Jesus.

@Pancakeorcrepe

Some people on this thread (not everyone) need to realise that pets are not objects you own, they are living creatures with their own personalities and biological needs. You need to create a relationship with them that is positive for both sides. You can’t expect a cat to not do things that cats do (scratch sofas). If there is unwanted behaviour such as swiping and biting, you need to find out why. There are so many resources these days. Some people are just lazy, ignorant and irresponsible.

Well, mine swipes and is vicious because she's a street cat that cannot be tamed. She looked weeks old on adoption but was infact months old. What can I do about that? How can you retrain an animal that is feral?

@iloveeverykindofcat

She looked almost exactly like these, except that her lines around her eyes etc were a bit pinker. The rescue people called her Daenerys. After a while we realised why. Still, we always maintained that whatever sort of odd creature she was, she deserved a good rabbit life and care, and she had it. Totally changed my perception of what rabbits are like though.

She must have been beautiful.

I’ve never had a rabbit but have known people who did, and I got the impression that rabbits didn’t like being cuddled. I know some do, but most seemed to avoid human touch.

My beautiful bitch of a dog. I love her, but she's also awful. I spent ages training her, but one day she decided being a well behaved member of dogciety wasn't preferable and she'd rather be a rebel. She's constantly shouting out the windows at anyone or thing that comes past, people, dogs, plastic bags.... We live stream n a main road so it's a constant battle.

She will literally push me off the sofa so she can have DH to herself, if we hug she jumps up and joins in. She spends hours practicing her whale impressions. She will eat anything she can get her mucky paws on. Including a whole pizza past week. She's cheeky and naughty and refuses to listen, but I love her.