As soon as Todd and I bought our house we ran out and adopted two kittens. Seriously, we closed on the house on a Thursday and we adopted the cats on the following Saturday. We didn't even have a dent made in the boxes we needed to unpack!
I had no regrets about the adoption, up until recently. Now that I am not working anymore I have to see them and deal with them all day long. They were used to getting all of my attention, but now I have a baby who needs much more attention than the cats could even wish for.
On top of the endless attention-needing (one cat is worse than the other), the cats puke, poop, and shed all over the house (well, they don't poop all over the house, thank God, they limit that activity, as well as peeing, to the liter box~knock on wood).
I have aluminum foil spread out over my kitchen table to keep the cats off of it. I have to vacuum every other day to pick up their hair so Jocelyn doesn't have to play in it while on the floor.
On top of that, these cats are the jumpiest cats ever. My cats give new meaning to the term 'scaredy cat'. We can barely move a limb or drop a pencil on the floor without a cat running, scared, for cover. My male cat hides for hours on end in the basement just because I open the door to the closet that the vacuum is housed in. I find these characteristics so annoying.
Having said all that, I feel this guilt that these cats live with an owner who is slowing getting more and more annoyed with them each passing day. On Saturday I actually looked up animal adoptions and printed out an application for a HTH (Home to Home) adoption. This happened after one of my cats had a puking party...I cleaned up cat puke from four different places that morning and was so grossed out, annoyed, and angry that I just wanted them gone.
I wonder if I actually went through with the adoption process, and found a new home for the cats, how I would feel. Would I feel guilty for the rest of my life? Would I feel relief that I don't have to worry about all the crap that goes along with having cats?
Would I be sad?
Would they be sad? 
I think I need to find a way to give them a little more attention so they can feel loved once again...I must be the WORST cat owner EVER!
brookie, i think u would miss them but not thier puke.
ReplyDeletei think u will be sad and they will be sad
ReplyDeleteyou're definitely not the worst cat owner! i want to get rid of mine! where did you get that application? :)
ReplyDeleteYou are NOT the worst. I go through these same feelings, too. I think I would regret it big time, so as long as they behave, they'll stay. But if they touch one hair on B.'s head, it's on like donkey kong. :)
ReplyDeleteAnd they sound EXACTLY like my two cats. Scaredy, leaving cat bombs on the floor and I, too, try to vacuum every other day. But B. adores them, so that helps. Hang in!!