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August 23, 2004
Monday Morning
John has another week of having to arrive at work at 6:00 am. That means that he is getting up at 4:30, and the dogs' and cats' sleeping and eating schedules are all screwed up.
They want to eat as soon as a human awakes. John puts the 3 dogs out to feed them, then brings them back in and I'll put them out for the day. For some reason, this has screwed up Houdini's potty schedule, and it seems that I'll be taking a bath, John has left, and Houdini suddenly has to poop. Fortunately, he does not do it on carpeting. Houdini also managed to pee in the bathroom on top of a huge package of 24 toilet paper rolls. I don't know how he got up there, and I don't know how he managed to just pee on the plastic without it dripping down onto the toilet paper. I also don't know how to get the puddle of pee off the package without having it drip down and ruining that two month's supply of toilet paper.
Bad Houdini!
And then there are the 7 cats - kinda like 7 dwarfs, I guess. They are all indoor cats, so I switched them to cat food made especially for indoor cats, and they have all become bulimic. They gobble up great quantities of kitty food and within 10 minutes, they vomit it - in amazing quantities, then they go and eat each other's food.
It's gross. I gotta get outta this house and go to work!
Posted by Beth at August 23, 2004 6:58 AM
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Get a dog door.
I put one in a few years ago and now I'll never live without one. A cat as well as a dog will use it. I even ordered a special half glass door for my new house just so I could put a new dog door in. Its very important to me to not be a slave to the...call of nature from my animals.
Posted by: Calliope at August 23, 2004 7:27 AM
Ah, well, we have a couple of problems with doing that. One - Houdini is named Houdini because he is an escape artist. Even though we have a 6 foot high fence around the entire backyard, he has dug under it - amazing tunnels - and escaped, so we have to put him on a chain (a very long one, so he has the run of most of the yard) when we put him out.
The other problem is that the cats are not outside cats - we don't want them getting outside where they could run into a feral cat and up with Feline Leukemia or some other awful thing.
Posted by: beth at August 23, 2004 8:13 AM
Yah another thing I thought of after I posted is its a bit of a security concern. While that doesn't bother me much I'd guess John would have a problem with it.
Posted by: Calliope at August 23, 2004 8:57 AM
What a great post. Still laughing. LOL
Thanks!
Posted by: BeeBee at August 23, 2004 10:19 AM
My three boys are sounding really really low maintenance right about now.
Posted by: Boudicca at August 23, 2004 2:19 PM