oookay...

[rimturse]

...Lia might just be my last pet. Today started out well enough, but just turned into a pet-nightmare. Murp is sick, earlier today I washed his poopy butt, cleaned the floor from where he'd pooped over the cat litter box, cleaned the cat litter.

After returning home from puppy class with Lia the following happens within some 30 minutes:

Lia bites through a bag of cat sand.
I tape the hole shut, scoop up cat sand from carpet and vacuum.
Lia gets so excited by the vacuum cleaner that she pees on the floor.
I soak up the pee with kitchen roll and put potato starch on the wet spot to get the last bit of pee out of the carpet.
Lia steps in potato starch and trails it all over the kitchen floor.
I wipe and vacuum again.
Murph vomits, I wipe and clean.
I sit down to write a post about how I'm not getting any more pets, when C comes in to tell me there are 5-6 poop spots from Murph on the new carpet upstairs, so now I'm off to clean - again.

I'm getting too old for this. I love my pets to bits, but sometimes I envy the people with spotless homes, that don't have to take the dog out to pee, that don't have to empty the cat litter box, that can pack up and leave for vacation at a moments notice and not have to arrange for someone to come look after all the animals.

Comments

[mnfaure.livejournal.com]

I know how you feel. Julien and I have decided no more pets either. But where we are serious, I don't know if you will be a few months/years down the line. ;)

(I say that and then we got stuck with N'djema :P But this time I'm really serious. She's the last.)

[frigg.livejournal.com]

uh-huh, until the next N'djema comes along. *wink*

[mnfaure.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, I think I need to make a post to let you know how wrong you are. ;)

[frigg.livejournal.com]

Remember to mention how right I was with my first N'djema prediction. *grin*

[mnfaure.livejournal.com]

Too late.

Oh, and you were only right because I'm lazy, not because I wanted to keep her. :D I would still give her away if someone would take her. And no. I'm not kidding.

[frigg.livejournal.com]

uh-huh, yup definitely.

[mnfaure.livejournal.com]

I would. Seriously. I guess that really does make me the evil pea. I'd give away Max and Tiboy, too. So there.

[navicat.livejournal.com]

Hopefully you'll soon have a day full of pet cuteness, instead of pet mess :)

[frigg.livejournal.com]

Yeah, me too. I'm sure everything will be better today. Lia's had her morning romp, Murphy is feeling better. Yesterday was just an absurd pet twilight zone. :)

[toeknuckles.livejournal.com]

owning pets means a life of really enormous amounts of vomit, pee and poop. it's always vomit, pee and poop. 8-\

[frigg.livejournal.com]

Yup, I couldn't have said it better myself.

[rabiagale.livejournal.com]

*hugs* Hang in there. It was just one of those days. At least you don't have to be worrying about paying their college tuitions! :D

[frigg.livejournal.com]

hahaha...it was a good thought, but as I'm Danish, living in Denmark, my kids would have free college tuitions, plus a small salary from the government.

[rabiagale.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Be glad that you're not having to buy clothes for them every three months because they outgrow their stuff so fast. :)

[frigg.livejournal.com]

*grin*

Did I mention that the government pays families with children? Eg. for two children under 2 years old and one below 6 years old, you'd get approx. 2400 USD every quarter.

(Still more expensive to have kids than a dog, I know. :) )