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?

DH's cat! Little shit would pee everywhere. Spent hundreds in vet fees, various litter boxes, and litters. She's not so bad now but every time I look at her, I think of my 2am sleep-deprived weeping because she peed on my pillow.

@HoneyFlowers

We had sea monkeys that just kept breeding and wanting to live forever!

Maybe they were the cast of Sea Monkey 'Fame'?!

This is a great thread - a potential for MN Classics... apart from the comments from @KittenSpawnOfSatan, which seem so mean spirited and without any prospect of redemption or future happiness for the unwanted pet. But the addition of the "popcorn" comment suggests deliberate baiting. I genuinely hope this is the case and that the kitten (if real) can go to another home where it is loved - or, at the very least - tolerated with kindness.

My late Staffie, Jasper, was an utter nightmare when I first adopted him from a rescue shelter. Stole and ate a pound of butter which was on a high shelf that he would have had to scale furniture to access, and which was behind glass jars (which remained undisturbed), then puked the same back onto the carpet. Regularly emptied the kitchen bin and placed items around the living room - even after I fitted a child-and-pet-proof lid. Perhaps his finest hour was somehow unwinding a whole roll of brown parcel tape around the chair and table legs in the dining room.

But I think it was because he was unsettled and confused after a long spell in the rescue centre and trying to assert his place in the scheme of things. I refused to react to him or his nefarious acts when he danced triumphantly around them and, almost overnight after a month or so, they completely stopped. He went on to be a very well-behaved, loving creature and one of the best dogs I've ever known.

My current dog is a Parson Russell Terrier - she's a right little madam, but there's not a scrap of malice in her.

My one and only cat was a ginger tom and was so good and lovely that I'd never have another as no other cat could possibly be as trouble free. However, the day our puppy came home, the cat smacked her face and resolutely refused to go near her.....until the day the vet came to put him down. The poor cat had been ill for a while. Husband came downstairs that morning and found the cat cuddled up to our dog on the dog bed. I don't often cry, but after the vet did the deed I wailed like a banshee and was heartbroken.

A friend of mine adopted an older cat from a rescue. She specifically wanted an older one because it wouldn't live for too long, she couldd have the cat experience without a 20 year commitment. I thought it was weird at the time but now I think she was on to something.

Older cats are great, kittens are ass holes. I'll never get another kitten again.

@mam0918 If you have a garden could you cat-proof it? We live on a busy road but have a walled garden so cat-proofed it and now ours have the run of the house and garden but that's it.
It's been great - not very pretty but I don't have to worry about them getting hit by cars or wandering off and finding another family!

@gwenneh

We have two perfectly normal cats and one that is an absolute goblin. I love him and can't stand him at the same time!

Hahahahahaha, us too.

Goblin cat is just the absolute worst. Objectively terrible as a pet, and ranges between 'funny but annoying' to 'just plain unpleasant'. Ruins my sleep, my furniture, my sanity, and plenty of other things. Bites like a little bastard, eats us out of house and home, frequently does stupid things to injure himself and costs a fortune in vet bills, goes missing more often than I'd like... he's a dick.

I also love him so much it hurts, though (for about 15 minutes a day, when he's half asleep). Every time he goes missing there's a brief giddy moment that maybe he's set up life with someone else and we're free, and then I'm devastated at the thought because despite him being the worst decision we ever made, I adore him

I adore my cat - she is 13. She is a lovely sweet adorable affectionate little sweetie, but even SHE can be a pest some days. Following me about everywhere, tripping me up, and standing in the doorway so I can't get past. And she has some days when she won't settle at ALL, unless me or DH lets her sit on a pillow on our lap! She wants to sit there for 2-3 hours. It's very restrictive.

Also, she still claws at the furniture sometimes with her claws, (and the carpet too,) despite having 3 scratching posts. She also has an annoying habit of leaving the food we put down, around 20% of the time! I have lost count of the amount of times I have scraped good food into the bloody bin. And I won't put it outside for other cats (or hedgehogs) as we will have dozens of the neighbourhood cats hanging around all the time!

Our other cat who died a year ago (and was 16,) was similar with the scratching, and leaving food, but she would constantly begging even when she wasn't hungry, and follow us into the kitchen EVERY time we went in. She was not affectionate either, and would claw you if you tried to pick her up. Weirdly though, she would come to US for a fuss, on HER terms.

In addition, the two cats have cost us some two thousand pounds in vet bills in the last 2 years. Pet insurance became extortionate some 5 or 6 years ago, like £85-90 a month, so we stopped it. We haven't paid it since 2016, but it was still a huge financial wrench to have to fork out two grand in less than a year!

I have loved our cats - and still love our current one - but once she is gone, we won't get any more. We wouldn't change a thing, but I can't lie, they have been hard work sometimes, especially as they get older, and we can't go anywhere without having to pay someone to look after her. (All our family is 20+ miles away.)

And as I say, the vet bills are a kick in the bollocks. (I am not bashing vets by the way, just saying that it's a lot to fork out unexpectedly... I'd say the same about a car repair, or house repair or whatever...)

@mycatisannoying So yeah, I can sympathise. It must be especially annoying if your cat is super annoying and you actually can't stand it!

I have three overlords. Two orientals ( the same as Siamese except in colour ) and one actual Siamese.

I have had orientals and Siamese all my life and I love their neediness and yowling. Attached is a photo of my three - the girl ( she's the lightest is the most standoffish miserable Siamese I've vet met. She won't purr either 🤣

She only loves my 13 yo ds, that's it absolutely no one else. At all. Ever.

The other two are typical of their breed, chatty, needy and an utter delight. Love them of of course if I've never come across one like her before. The boys are just so different but I'm glad she doesn't have any violent tendencies .

Sad to say, my current cat. He's about 11-12, came from Cats Protection, had him 8 years.

He's caused me more stress than all my other cats put together and he's my sixth cat.

I won't have another when he goes, he's genuinely put me off having a cat again permanently.

He's a lovely boy sometimes and very affectionate but the damage to my home and garden has just been too much.

@Wagsandclaws OVERLORDS?!

They're gorgeous btw!

Wagsandclaws
Gorgeous kitties. I have 2 that look like your dark one in the middle. I have just been requested to poach them some fish for lunch. They're happiest when they have a full tummy so all is peaceful now. One just finished off my lunch for me too..

Wouldn't say I can't stand him, but one of my guinea pigs can be massively annoying.

He's a bully to his brother (not enough to separate, but just clearly the dominant one) and drinks incredibly loudly and violently from the water bottle.

As I say, I adore my cats, and have loved them so much, and I will look over our 13 y.o. and love her to bits til the day she dies, but over the last 4-5 years, they became more hard work. And me being an old gimmer (almost 60) am much lower on tolerance than I was 13-17 years ago when we got them. We had the kids home then too, so they played with them, and fussed and cuddled them too, so it didn't all fall to me and DH (me mostly as I work from home!)

Ha ha mine are thieves extraordinaires, you can't leave anything out, bread, cake Ect.

They all have super sensitive stomachs too so can only eat a particular kind of cat food ( the most expensive food course ) and chicken breast.

Any thievery will cause an upset stomach for a week and hence forth all three suffering from dribbly arses ( the cloth sofas have now gone to make way for wipeable leather ones which also double as wonderful scratch posts ).

They are cuddle monsters though ( except for smuggy-mcsmugface over on the left ).

I have dogs, chickens and horses too but I can't actually work out who's the most trouble really.

Thanks for the replies everyone, and actually, for being nice and not judgy. I wrote my post while feeling at the end of my tether last night. I'm a single parent of three, and everything was getting on top of me.
Somebody asked why I got the cat. Fair question! He was our family pet and I got landed with him when we divorced. Same old story really, as I also ended up with the lion's share of the parenting! In the ideal world, ex husband would have taken him, as he always did prefer him.
Cat is a pain in the arse but he can be lovely. And a part of me loves him very much. I hate the thought of him ever being in pain or mistreated. And to be fair, I have had a decade of his more annoying side! And I adore our dog and hamster (can't remember if I said that in my OP).
Sorry to not reply more fully. Darned work getting in the way! And good luck to those of you with PITA pets!

Don't justify yourself @mycatisannoying

We all get to that point when our pets drive us nuts!

We still love them!

@HelloFrostyMorning

Thank you!

@KittenSpawnOfSatan if you are indeed serious, please rehome the kitten.

It's cute and won't be in a rescue for long. Much less hassle than letting in out in the hope it doesn't come back. Because it probably will.

Take it to Cats Protection please.

My dog. I am not an animal lover but the family wanted a dog. She is cute and I don't want anything to happen to her the kids woukd be devastated,I would miss her too and feel guilty but she shits and pisses everyday in the night which of course I have to clean, she is over 1 years old! She has made my carpets so dirty. I know its not her fault but she will jump onto my bed with a dirty bum and so I have to forever wash my sheets. She escapes from her harness and legs it across the fields and terrorises other dogs even though she is only a small french bulldog. I don't now what to do about her pooping in the night! She should be holding it in by now in the day she goes to the door to be let out,we have to be quick to open it

@Hibye23289

My dog. I am not an animal lover but the family wanted a dog. She is cute and I don't want anything to happen to her the kids woukd be devastated,I would miss her too and feel guilty but she shits and pisses everyday in the night which of course I have to clean, she is over 1 years old! She has made my carpets so dirty. I know its not her fault but she will jump onto my bed with a dirty bum and so I have to forever wash my sheets. She escapes from her harness and legs it across the fields and terrorises other dogs even though she is only a small french bulldog. I don't now what to do about her pooping in the night! She should be holding it in by now in the day she goes to the door to be let out,we have to be quick to open it

Not gonna lie, I would find this insufferable.

Oh and we are also splitting up but i will have to keep the dog for the kids . Its just the mess makes me annoyed

I am reading this thread with a whippet balancing and clambering around on my head. I love the bones of her but f**k me she is annoying. She has many redeeming features...and many annoying ones...

My 7 year old Husky.
I've cried over the messes she has made over the years. This was recently..... blinds have been up for about a year..... one night she decided she didn't like them 😩

Oh yes! A bloody Pony!!!

He’s 20, been with me since August 21, so not long. The sly old dog has had around 12 homes in the past 6 years because he’s sold as a ‘Child’s Pony’… more like the Child Catcher!!

I love him, but good God some days I want to open his field gate and wish him luck on his future endevers…

I’d never ever sell him because he’d end up in a Kebab I’m certain of it.