I keep things by the bed (mostly pillows) to toss at the dog if her snoring is too much. Last night I ran out of things. I moved to the couch, just in time for the neighbor to be dropped of by his friend after they get been out at the club (it was club closing time, he was drink-loud). Also at one point an owl was right out the window singing the song of it’s people.
(We tried having the dog sleep in another room the other night, she woke us up in a panic at 430am trying to scratch her way through the door.)
I will empathize with you - I fed my cat and sat on the couch with my coffee. She is beside me purring and then starts to heave, so I grab her so she doesn’t puke on my new carpet - so she puked on the chair instead. Strip the chair down and into the laundry before I have any coffee.
Ugh!! At least Boy Kitty got his hairball on the floor. I think he had been sleeping on my feet because I was initially awakened by him leaping off the end of the bed and kicking me kin the process, before the heaving noises started.
Agreed, but now I’m worried that my landlord who lives downstairs is going to see one and make us let exterminators in to put down poison. Which is a problem for multiple reasons, including covid and us not wanting poisoned cats.
Also, the vet suspects that Boy Kitty’s massive barfing episode from a month or so ago is a virus, and she says viruses often come from mice, so now I have to worry that Girl Kitty caught something. She had it in her mouth (though, it wasn’t, like, gory or anything).
I told my hubs if I ever see a mouse here, I’m moving. Mice were an ever present theme in my childhood home. I am freaked out by live mice and guilted/grossed out by dead ones. The sound of a trap snapping freaks me out. And ewww… the smell of dead ones in the wall… Yuck!!! I unsubscribed from a site we buy bunny supplies from when their marketing posts started including pics of pet mice and rats.
I don’t mind dead mice, I mean I don’t love them or anything, but I can deal with them. But I’m absolutely terrified of live mice. As in squeal like a little girl and try to climb up the furniture. Rats I can handle, though sometimes firearms are involved. But mice? It’s a good thing husband is around.
I would not worry very much about viruses. Cats can catch things from mice, but 99% of the time they don’t.
I’m way more worried about being forced to let an exterminator put poison down.
I think just in case my landlord does force me to let the exterminator in, I’m going to give my vet a call next week and ask what’s safe and what’s not. We are not the only pet owners in the world with this concern. We had this issue here a couple years ago and our then-landlords, who have cats, said the exterminator would use pet safe methods (due to our elderly lady cat who was still alive then) but I don’t know exactly what was used.
New landlord isn’t a pet owner so she probably wouldn’t even think of stuff like this.
Me too. It wasn’t that long ago that any type of gun ownership was illegal in the city of Chicago. The thought of going after a rat with a gun… well, now that I think about it, we’ve got some pretty fucking big ones so that’s probably not a bad idea, haha.
I took a nap this afternoon, which was probably a good thing, but since I’ve woken up I’ve been having sneezing fits every 20 or 30 min. Holding a paintbrush while having a sneezing fit is not recommended.
