re: #12 Feline Fearless Leader

Wait until they get old and cranky.

My Siamese FO (who was about twenty at the time) was irritated that he couldn’t get to the litterbox since the apartment cleaner was in that bathroom. I caught him peeing on the bed.

Luckily I go the sheets stripped and into the laundry before anything soaked through.

And I’ve cleaned up cat vomit everywhere - including the bed. You develop a 6th sense about them starting to hack and getting them shifted off furniture or onto easily cleanable surfaces.

If home, yes. Unfortunately I suspect the rug incident tonight happened while we were out to eat.

When I met the husband, he had a Burmese cat who sounded like she had smoked a pack a day. A friend of his had adopted her but then had to give her up when moving in with someone else, so he took both cats. Narya had passed away by the time I met him, but Coco was the first cat I ever lived with and I adored her.

She never had hairballs and rarely through up; the only time she ever peed outside of the litterbox was the Saturday it became so clear that something was wrong - we were at the emergency vet within 20 minutes of that. She still managed to jump down from the bed in order to do so on the floor.

She was almost 18. We ended up letting her go in a large part because I promised her I would be there at the end and if they’d done surgery there was a significant chance she wouldn’t wake up, just from the anesthesia. So instead we brought her her catbed so she could curl up in it one last time and said goodbye.

And fuck, now I’m crying again and it’s been almost 3 years.