WARNING: Do not read just before, or just after eating!
My husband should seriously be sainted! Not only does he take wonderful care of me, but also my hell-spawn named Selina. His first random act of kindness was to head out to McDonald's for breakfast this morning while I took Claire out. While he was gone, I went out to the "play room" (where the cats sleep) to assess the damage we'd noticed with Selina. When I flipped her over, I kid you not, there was a clump of half-dried, half-not smeared feces the size of my hand all over her hind-end and legs. And the beauty of it was the dumb@$$ had smeared and rubbed it in so close to her skin, that it had aheared there like some sort of foul-smelling, dry-heave inducing protective covering. So each time she peed overnight, the pee had seeped in behind it since there was nowhere else for it to go -- and it just stayed there, too.
We've spent the last hour and a half cleaning her up in the sink, and then I went out with Woolite carpet cleaner (after putting the cats up in crates) and sprayed the entire play room -- which I forgot to mention she used as her personal roll of toilet paper in the wee hours apparently. While I was doing that, he went on chemical warfare duty in the kitchen to clean everything up she'd left behind -- and now he's steam-cleaning the play room's carpet since my energy gave out. I think I may have cat-scratch fever now. My arms look like mince-meat.
Don't get me wrong -- I love my cat. I've had her since I was 19 years old. We both kinda grew up together. But poor Todd! He had a chance to bail when he proposed, and Selina peed in his shoes almost immediately when we got back to Philly -- but he didn't. He stayed and took her on. Love me, love my cat I guess -- but even I'm starting to look at the fact she's almost 10 as a good thing on days like today! Sigh...thank goodness this is usually only an every 6-8 months occurance...
ick! ack! yuck! I would have been restraining myself from puking the whole time. and YEA Todd! such a good guy. :)
¤ ¤ posted by Lisa on October 28, 2001 at 04:08 PM ¤ ¤
Now THAT's a story to tell people LOL!
¤ ¤ posted by Joanne on October 28, 2001 at 04:55 PM ¤ ¤
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