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Times you have failed your furry overlords

106 replies

Unexpecteddrivinginstructor · 05/10/2023 18:05

I have failed mine today. Firstly I had to remove the lap because the rest of my body needed to cook the meal.

To add insult to injury she has become used to licking the juices in the tray the meat is from 🤢 before it goes into the recycling. Today we are having fish, and not that nice cat friendly fish - tuna but boring white fish, just a sniff and look of disdain. She is now lurking hoping that the second packet I open is indeed meat as it should be. Sadly it is not.

How have you failed your furry overlord today?

OP posts:
LostCats · 05/10/2023 18:23

I did not softly stroke his head continuously for 8hrs. My hand got tired and I really wanted some tea. This was unacceptable behaviour.

JoinInBetty · 05/10/2023 18:26

I failed one of mine by coming home and sitting with my child (who's cat it is) and eating a reduced price cream cake

TheHorneSection · 05/10/2023 18:26

I failed Furry Overlord 1 several weeks ago by taking in Furry Overlord 2. She is MOST pissed off with this.

StBrides · 05/10/2023 18:28

I was 10 minutes late giving him his dinner

IVFfirsttimer91 · 05/10/2023 18:30

I set the automatic cat food timer wrong so she is going to be having her wet food at 1am 😩 she has dry so I’m not worried but still!

FionnulaTheCooler · 05/10/2023 18:31

Both of mine are in the huff because they got their flea drop treatment this morning.

ThatWriterInTheCorner · 05/10/2023 18:31

Either I did not stop it raining, or I did not deploy the alternate reality that exists outside the other door where, obviously, it would not be raining. I did not do this despite repeated and increasingly clear requests from Management. I think my cats consider me to be some sort of idiot god, who can do absolutely everything but hardly ever understands what is expected.

AlisonDonut · 05/10/2023 18:32

I went out to take my mother back to the airport. Within 5 mins of my return, I had 5 cats in the garden demanding more food.

My OH had been here and fed them of course....they play us off against each other and feign starvation.

They're not even our cats, they all all French barn cats or strays. That doesn't stop their drama.

caringcarer · 05/10/2023 18:34

I committed the cardinal son of throwing his old box, he likes to go in away, as it was getting tatty. The look he gave me went right through me. I am suitably chastised and will keep the next box I get for him.

RaeHitsEbSire · 05/10/2023 18:57

After letting her in and then out of my home office today, I refused to let her in again. Er, excuse me, my lady, but I have work to be getting on with other than being your door-person.

Toddlerteaplease · 05/10/2023 18:58

I took mine to the vet to have a thermometer up her bum.

Toddlerteaplease · 05/10/2023 18:59

TheHorneSection · 05/10/2023 18:26

I failed Furry Overlord 1 several weeks ago by taking in Furry Overlord 2. She is MOST pissed off with this.

Same here 🤣 despite me reminding her that she doesn't like being an only cat.

amylou8 · 05/10/2023 19:07

I wouldn't let him eat the whole pot of yoghurt.

MuffinWalloper · 05/10/2023 19:15

I gave one a new box, that she can sit up in. I moved her heat pad and memory foam pillow into it, and put her favourite fleece blanket in there as well, but she'd prefer to crouch down and look miserable that she's got a box she can't sit up in.

And obviously I've made the weather shit and cold which has pissed the other two off.

Gingerwarthog · 05/10/2023 19:16

Moved Diva from beside me on the bed to make room for my husband.

Allthegoodusernamesareused · 05/10/2023 19:16

I got different litter (we had none, and her usual brand was out of stock). Am fully expecting to find a sh*t in my shoe tomorrow.

Alphabet1spaghetti2 · 05/10/2023 19:23

I have failed all five furry overlords. The tv aerial made a rapid descent through the roof last week, last night I took the catio down, so a man could clean all the gutters and another man could remove the tv aerial. Tomorrow will no better as a man is coming to fix the broken roof tile etc etc.

So the initial bang frightened them and I have added to their misery by denying safe outdoor catio rights so they can watch the starlings. Apparently the windows cill viewing option is not good enough, nor the lit fire.

UtterlyUnimaginativeUsername · 05/10/2023 19:25

We brought ours to the vet to make sure they were going to live long healthy lives.

We're awful.

Poppins2016 · 05/10/2023 19:25

I wouldn't let him sleep on me all morning, because I had to get up for work.

saltrock123 · 05/10/2023 20:09

I ran out of frozen salmon so they have had normal wet cat food for the past two days. They ate it very slowly, with a distinct look of disapproval.

JoanOgden · 05/10/2023 20:31

I evicted her from my lap when she was all cosy, for the totally inadequate reason that I needed a wee.

Then I gave her the same food for dinner that she had gulped down for breakfast, failing to realise that she wasn't in the mood for it this time.

ISaySteadyOn · 05/10/2023 20:37

I have a sprained ankle and I would not let her climb on it. I was forgiven though by offering a lap instead.

sunlover1123 · 05/10/2023 21:01

Not letting him out at 4am. Then went DP did let him out at his request we were not prompt enough in letting him back in. Oh and the new baby where he wasn't consulted in the matter 🤦‍♀️ they can be right little shits can't they!

caringcarer · 05/10/2023 23:35

Allthegoodusernamesareused · 05/10/2023 19:16

I got different litter (we had none, and her usual brand was out of stock). Am fully expecting to find a sh*t in my shoe tomorrow.

Hilarious 😂😂😂

Doyouthinktheyknow · 06/10/2023 19:23

We have stopped buying the only food she likes, the new more expensive stuff is absolutely not acceptable to madam😻 Reality is the fuckers at Gourmet food have discontinued melting heart which is madam’s preferred food! She is only 6 and she doesn’t like bits in her food🤷‍♀️It’s causing a bit of a problem and all the alternatives are apparently unacceptable.

We also deigned to go away for 2 nights and leave her in the very capable hands of adult DS2! She’s only just recovered from us going away for a week this summer🤣