OK I know I have 3 under 5 including a 2 week old baby but I feel the cats give me more work than the children. I am really resenting them right now.
I have 3 cats they are 10, 10 and 7 so not kittens and we have had them all their lives. They drive me mental, on a typical day I come downstairs to the smell of cat poo even though their tray in in a kitchen cupboard tucked away, the first job I do after getting the DDs milk is empty and clean the litter tray as it smells so bad (I have tried everything to keep it fresh). Anyway then I have to vacuum the entire downstairs especially the sofas as they are covered in hair and I couldn't have anyone sit on them like that, I already have throws on them to stop them scratching it. They sleep upstairs on our bed during the day on a quilt or the bed is covered in hairs, I also have to remember to lift the babies mattress or they sleep in her cot. If there are visitors in one of then runs continuously through the lounge to the kitchen and back again. Oh and I have to be on the lookout for one of them doing a poo and clean it quick or it stinks the house out again.
One will go outside but does the out in out in thing, on a daily basis at least 2 are sick on the carpet, they go outside eat grass run back in and puke. Or one of them poos in the grass in the back garden and the DDs can't play on it. Of they eat their food so fast they puke it back up.
Oh and they wake me up at night chasing each other and the other night they smashed a vase. And if I leave food out too long without watching it they lick and eat it (ie toast in the morning)
Why do I have cats, I would never wish them any harm and know it's the stress of the DDs but argh they drive me mad?