I've decided I don't really like cats

[chemenger]

Took my two fosters to the vet this morning. It's a half hour's drive. When I last had them in the car they were ultra calm, in fact both of them went to sleep. This time both of them peed in their boxes and he had the most enormous poo as well, which he rolled over in (he's a 14 lb cat so he can produce a lot of poo). The smell was unspeakable. Then I had to try and clean up him and his box in the car, and then wrestle him back into it (I didn't realise she had peed as well until we got inside the vet). This must have been hysterically funny to watch from the outside, a huge cat, a bag of stinking blanket and poo and a harassed woman, all trapped in a Fiat 500. So, in conclusion, I have decided I don't really like cats.
Here they are looking like butter wouldn't melt.

Cats are furry arseholes.

My two kept me awake till 12.30 last night, (including clawing their way up the curtains, and one of then walked on the bannisters on the landing which is basically a 3/4 inch thick plank of wood balanced on it's side with a 12 foot drop on one side).
I came out to see what they were at, and nearly had a heart attack when I saw her.

Poor you with the poo and the wee!

When they arrived with us they came with nothing - no toys, no beds or blankets. They didn't seem to have much idea about playing with toys, all a little bit sad but quiet. Now its jingly balls at 2am and thundering around. Definitely going off cats ().

Aw how long will you have them for?

I have nothing to say but the pics 😻😻😻😻😻😻😻😻😻

Same. But then when you stroke their furry bellies and rub their velvet paws it all fades away.

They probably didn't have food in their tummies and were dehydrated last journey .... I feel for you for the next journey ... my dog used to dribble and throw up ... it's rank !

Did puss get a bath?

They are fosters?

If when you send them for adoption they will be billed as perfect angels right?

I think I will have them for a while, they are black and relatively old, 13 and 9. Not the ginger kitten that everyone wants .I will talk them up as much as possible for their web pages!

They are ADORABLE.

They are totally adorable.

Last time I took Omar to the vet, on the way back a stray turd rolled out of the basket and onto the taxi floor.

I just kicked it out of the way, rather than pay the cleaning fee

Ours pooed on the way home from the cattery, he squished himself up into a corner to get away from it though.

His poos are like gorillas fingers.

I ♥ jet black cats.

YADBU.

They are exactly what I WAS looking for before I got my pair - older, black, happy in the home.

At least yours didn't do what Boycat did when I took mine to the vets - he was absolutely terrified (ex-feral & I hadn't yet managed to pick him up since getting them home 10 months earlier!) & I had to get my NDN'd adult son to help me catch him. NDN's son ended up with a struggling cat trying to escape & spraying pee all round the room & over him - he STANK. Still came with me to the vets to help me carry the 2 large cat carriers . It was only afterwards that I saw the gouges on his arm where Boycat's back claws had dug in when he tried to launch himself away

Bet you don't like them. Bet you adore them.

They are so good looking. They always are, really. Puss probably blaming you for the fact he was enclosed in his toilet space. Did they have breakfast before you put them in the car?

I forgot the funniest thing. When we got her out of the carrier there was a small snail in it with her. It must have got in while the carrier was sitting on the ground for a moment waiting to go in the car. It must have been a very quick snail. The vet carefully took it out and put it on the counter, I was going to put it outside when I left but forgot, it's probably lurking in the vets surgery now.
They are not going for adoption as a pair, she does not like him. Every time he wanders up to her to be friendly she hisses at him and he immediately rolls over and shows her his tummy, she's not impressed. He is a gentle giant, she takes no nonsense.

When I put them in the car they had had breakfast about three hours earlier, they were both settled down for their morning sleep. Getting them in the boxes was so easy, I should have known they were planning something.He has totally forgiven me for his humiliation, he's not bright enough to hold a grudge.

Oh wow, they are so cute and yet I feel your pain. Here's a story that might make you feel better:

We took our cat Freya and kitten Maisie to stay at my parents house 90min away while we went on holiday. They were in separate carriers, and angelic all the way there. DPs very kindly offered to bring them home to us at the end of the hol.

After 20 mins I got a phone call "maisie has sicked". Maisie sicked, then pooed, then weed. They had to pull in at services and buy rubber gloves and wipes. The woman simply said "travel sickness?" and mum said "yes" without elaborating it was a cat! My dad then had to wrestle with maisie trying to clean her up and not let her escape the car. They put her in the bigger carrier alongside Freya, who started meowing loudly at this imposition.

After 40 more minutes I got another phone call. Maisie had now sicked ON Freya. Who had proceeded to sick on Maisie. More wipes, emergency towel retrieved from boot.

Eventually there came a text message: "We are ten minutes away. They have both shat again. RUN A BATH".

The poor cats were filthy, the carriers ruined, but after a thorough dunking strolled around the house, rubbed themselves on the furniture and tucked into some salmon before having a nice snooze.

My parents were traumatised!!

When I went to bed last night one of them had pooed in my Pyjamas, just to complete a lovely cat day.

They don't like you, do they?

The good news is that the boy is off to his new home this evening with any luck. This will let her rule the roost as she clearly wants to do. It will also sort out the litter tray problem - she doesn't want to share with him but he makes a point of using all three litter trays as soon as they have been cleaned. This is led to some dirty protests from her. She is generally a stroppy madam but I think becoming an only cat is going to improve that.