I Dunno, Maybe Get A Kitten

I hate this cat. He peed in my McCarty case, on my slippers, on the carpet, on a goatskin rug ($500), crapped in our plants, de-leafed one of them. My house smells like a litter box and looks like a cat playground. I had to roll up one of our area rugs and put it in the garage until I have to rent a carpet cleaner because he peed on it. So far I've spent money on a carpeted cat tower, cat toys, litter box, cat food and cat medicine. I'm close to a grand in it.

The ONLY reason he's still here is because of my wife. I hate him and it's not gonna get better. This is the worst decision my wife has made and she did it without speaking to me first.

I am not a cat person. ftc

 

Update: It turns out I'm allergic to cats. But, despite this and him pizzing on things and dragging cat poo around the house on his paws and him biting me when I try to pet him and clawing stuff and pooping in the houseplants and eating leaves and ruining my wife's expensive jeans and running up a tab for various toys, food, vet bills and stuff... he's still here.

We've all been learning how to co-exist and figuring out how each other works. He's starting to become less of a jerk. We bought an expensive air purifier so I don't have to take Claritin or wear a mask in my own house now. I guess I'm starting to develop a tolerance too. A squirt gun is solving many of the problems of where he's allowed to go and where he's not allowed to go (planters) plus we raised them off the floor and put them on tables.

The vet bills are just routine shots and checkups. We're finding a flea here and there (not the awesome bass playing kind). He's getting his routines down like when it's time for dindin. When he sits still, he gets good loving and scratches and when he bites, he gets off of us and out on the floor so he's choosing to bit less. Scratching the underside of the couch gets a squirt so he's doing that less, too.

He's moved into the "stay" category. But it was close for awhile...