I have this cat. I've had her 4 years. She's had her problems through the years, mostly because my first boyfriend beat her senseless as a kitten, so she's had urinary problems ever since. IE: pees in my shower, and on my bathroom floor, sometimes on my carpet.
I've tolerated it, I bleach my floors and shower, and I shampoo the carpet a lot. However, today was the last straw.
I came home, and thought my house was on fire. I smelled burnt electrical wiring, and something else, material? I didn't know. So I search my heat sources, I throw my school books down and practically fly over to the heaters, nothing burnt, turned them off anyway. Next check, drier, nothing burnt? Oh shit, snake cages! I run to the cage downstairs, turn the lamp off, nothing burning?
....
I go upstairs. The smell is increasing as I dart up the stares, now I'm in a state of panic. My house must be on fire. It has to be.
I turn the corner to see my snake lamp face down on the floor, smoking.
My cat, being the only creature in the house that can go upstairs, because I've puppy gated the upstairs, has knocked the lamp off. It's on the floor, burning the wiring for the heat pad that also goes under the cage, and burning a hole in my floor.
I don't own this house. I rent. Carpet is expensive. I now, when I can gather the strength and courage to tell my landlord, have to tell him about the carpet. I will have to pay to replace it, I just lost my job 2 days ago. I literally threw the cat into the bathroom and locked the door and started crying.
I can't take this, I have 3 dogs locked downstairs and 2 snakes, the only animal capable of it was Pariah. On top of that, I catch her sitting on top of the snake cages all the time and have to chase her with a spray bottle. She almost burnt my house down. I could've lost my house, my dogs (my kids), ...everything. I've lost so much in the past year as it is.. I can't handle this. I can't keep this stress with this cat. She's always chewing computer wires or breaking collectables I own or messing shit up.
So I put her on Craigslist and advertised her on my facebook to give away...
I feel terrible but, am I so wrong to do so?
I guess I just want you guys' opinions. I just.. I feel bad but, I almost lost my home. If I was minutes later, it would've caught on fire. I'd have lost my snakes, my dogs, my computers (with all my homework on them)...my home. I'd be homeless.
I've tolerated it, I bleach my floors and shower, and I shampoo the carpet a lot. However, today was the last straw.
I came home, and thought my house was on fire. I smelled burnt electrical wiring, and something else, material? I didn't know. So I search my heat sources, I throw my school books down and practically fly over to the heaters, nothing burnt, turned them off anyway. Next check, drier, nothing burnt? Oh shit, snake cages! I run to the cage downstairs, turn the lamp off, nothing burning?
....
I go upstairs. The smell is increasing as I dart up the stares, now I'm in a state of panic. My house must be on fire. It has to be.
I turn the corner to see my snake lamp face down on the floor, smoking.
My cat, being the only creature in the house that can go upstairs, because I've puppy gated the upstairs, has knocked the lamp off. It's on the floor, burning the wiring for the heat pad that also goes under the cage, and burning a hole in my floor.
I don't own this house. I rent. Carpet is expensive. I now, when I can gather the strength and courage to tell my landlord, have to tell him about the carpet. I will have to pay to replace it, I just lost my job 2 days ago. I literally threw the cat into the bathroom and locked the door and started crying.
I can't take this, I have 3 dogs locked downstairs and 2 snakes, the only animal capable of it was Pariah. On top of that, I catch her sitting on top of the snake cages all the time and have to chase her with a spray bottle. She almost burnt my house down. I could've lost my house, my dogs (my kids), ...everything. I've lost so much in the past year as it is.. I can't handle this. I can't keep this stress with this cat. She's always chewing computer wires or breaking collectables I own or messing shit up.
So I put her on Craigslist and advertised her on my facebook to give away...
I feel terrible but, am I so wrong to do so?
I guess I just want you guys' opinions. I just.. I feel bad but, I almost lost my home. If I was minutes later, it would've caught on fire. I'd have lost my snakes, my dogs, my computers (with all my homework on them)...my home. I'd be homeless.
