Comments on: a really long post about cats, feel free to skip it really

By: elise

elise — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 22:30:16 +0000

wow, late to the party on this one, but here’s my vote: NO MORE KITTEHS. KITTEHS ARE CUTE, AND ONE AT A TIME IS ENOUGH. Unless of course they came together and love each other and are already all adjusted and siblingy and all that. But to just up and add a new one, after all that? And oh my, you are a saint after all that…NO.

There’s my vote

By: terra

terra — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 15:10:24 +0000

Cats are great but I think one is enough. With cats, like most animals, you never really know what you’re going to get and it would be horrible – HORRIBLE – to end up with another cat who begs like crazy and who pees on everything.

By: RA

RA — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 15:53:47 +0000

Oh, man. If you could guarantee a well-behaved, well-contained (in the urinary way) way, then maaaaaybe I’d give in, but no, I have ice water in my veins. No more kitties, Andrew! Just say no.

By: Alexa

Alexa — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 03:45:28 +0000

i think if you started with a female, docile cat you could be having a different debate. But, you began your cat family with Howard. Howard is one crazy cat who has to be the only cat. So even if you didnt have a pee problem in HUGE-O, Howie would make the environment inhospitable. Call me, I am your cat counselor!

By: Sara

Sara — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 21:18:51 +0000

I am a self-proclaimed cat lady. The best thing about having multiple cats is that they entertain themselves, there is always one who wants to chill out on your lap while the others are hopped up on cat nip and you will never want for dead “presents” left on your doorstep. OK, so dead birds and mice isn’t really a good thing, but at least it will help your side of the argument, right?

By: lesli

lesli — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 20:50:06 +0000

I am glad Hugo has a wonderful new home in a greenhouse as a Customer Greeter. You did a good thing!

I can’t really give you advice about getting another cat. I have 4 cats and a Pug, and while I probably wouldn’t add another cat into the mix myself, I would like to have a second dog. Yes, we live in a zoo, but we are not going to have any kids–I made that decision a long time ago.

Good luck and hugs!

By: Jen

Jen — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 15:11:29 +0000

well you know that I can relate to exactly where you’re coming from, having found new homes for both of our cats (OH THE PEEING.) It was such a looong process coming to the decision, but I certainly don’t regret it. Knowing they’re in a happy place (Scotty is now outside and has tons of room to roam and chase things and LOOOOVES it!, Gracie is in a quiet house with another quiet cat, no kids. Perfect for her.)

So I am 100% on your side with NO MORE CATS thing. ESPECIALLY if you guys are considering having a baby anytime soon, seriously. When I was 9 months pregnant (read: HORMONAL) I had a complete meltdown when my dad mentioned the possibility of getting rid of our cats after the baby was born because HOW COULD HE POSSIBLY EVER SUGGEST THAT? A year later, we were making plans for it. Because wow do your priorities change (and that’s not really a bad thing, just a fact)

I’m happy that things have all worked out for you guys and The Fat Orange Cat! The no pee smell is lovely isn’t it

By: Nathan Pralle

Nathan Pralle — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 07:21:52 +0000

I’d stick with one; you’ll get used to only having one feline around eventually and the reduction in cat hair, considering how busy the two of you are, is nothing less than a blessing.

We had our Leo, who looks almost exactly like your Hugo, up until Keston got old enough to actively grab for him, and Keston is horribly allergic to both cats and dogs, so we pined for ages about what to do with him. Eventually we were able to find friends who took him and he is in his own cat heaven, happily loved and wanted.

Sad to give him away, but our house is infinitely cleaner and the stress of having to worry about our son breaking out in horrible rashes is gone. Win-win, indeed.

By: the ambitious mrs

the ambitious mrs — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 04:15:57 +0000

I think if you have one pet you’re happy with you’d better just stick with him.

I’m so glad Hugo has found his piece of paradise.

By: Erika

Erika — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 21:51:05 +0000

Our chihuahua pees on any rug, towel or anything. It drives me nuts. We have these makeshift doors to the kids’ rooms that they can step over just to keep Scrappy out. 2/3 of our house is hardwood floors and we have NO rugs. one floor is carpet and it’s nasty, yellow pee spots everywhere (not as pungent as cat pee, however). He is overweight because he eats everything the kids drop, and yappy at every noise he hears. I am so over it, but he is my “lap dog” and I feel so guilty giving him up, even though we have had several people who want him. I wish someone had told us to wait until we had kids to get dogs. I can’t imagine how much less work there would be without dog hair to pick up and having to keep food out of their reach.

By: Katina

Katina — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 19:53:13 +0000

I know what you mean about the peeing–our cat had kittens (she was pregnant when she showed up on our doorstep) and did great with peeing in the litterboxes until the kittens started using the litterboxes. Ivy would pee right next to the litterbox because she felt that it was just too dirty. We had 6 litterboxes, and I cleaned them all in the morning, right after I came home from work and again right before bed. Plus i was mopping the floors every day because I didn’t want the pee smell to stay in the air/floor (we were lucky insomuch that we have stained concrete floors so the pee doesn’t soak in so much). The husband wanted to take her to the humane society which would have been a death sentence (black cat who’s psycho and has litterbox problems, yeah, she would have been a real winner). Thankfully once all the kittens were adopted she started using the litterbox again.

But I can’t say no to stray animals and am currently trying to convince my husband that we need the 8-month old cat that keeps hanging out in our yard. But no, I wouldn’t actively go adopt another cat.