I feel bad, but I really want to get rid of our cats

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Put her down

This thread is almost 6 years old, dumbass.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Try craigslist for a week and if no interest vets can usually put them to sleep for a couple hundred dollars. In the end its more humane to put them to sleep rather than release them to the outdoors or have them be pent up in some shelter for years until they die.

Ugh. Not Craigslist. You don’t want your cat becoming bait for a dog...

[Anonymous]

Someone gave me two kittens/young cats about 5 weeks ago. Very big mistake for me to accept them. Since I took them my house stinks, which doesn't help my asthma, they constantly jump on my kitchen counter tops making me have to rewash my dishes and they scratch the hell out of my sofa. There is no way I intend to put up with them for the next 15 years. I also won't feel like I'm doing anything wrong when I find another home for them because if I hadn't taken them on, they would most likely have been put down already.


I never thought cats would be so troublesome. I grew up with a cat, but that cat slept outdoors except in the winter or when it rained. I never saw a hairball or cleaned up cat poop in my life until I got these two. These two cats stay indoors and it's been a horrible experience.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Someone gave me two kittens/young cats about 5 weeks ago. Very big mistake for me to accept them. Since I took them my house stinks, which doesn't help my asthma, they constantly jump on my kitchen counter tops making me have to rewash my dishes and they scratch the hell out of my sofa. There is no way I intend to put up with them for the next 15 years. I also won't feel like I'm doing anything wrong when I find another home for them because if I hadn't taken them on, they would most likely have been put down already.


I never thought cats would be so troublesome. I grew up with a cat, but that cat slept outdoors except in the winter or when it rained. I never saw a hairball or cleaned up cat poop in my life until I got these two. These two cats stay indoors and it's been a horrible experience.

I'm sorry you feel this way. Kittens are more work, did you not realize this when you adopted them?

Cats are the most beautiful, loving and rewarding animal that a human could be lucky enough to share a life with. You are truly missing out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Someone gave me two kittens/young cats about 5 weeks ago. Very big mistake for me to accept them. Since I took them my house stinks, which doesn't help my asthma, they constantly jump on my kitchen counter tops making me have to rewash my dishes and they scratch the hell out of my sofa. There is no way I intend to put up with them for the next 15 years. I also won't feel like I'm doing anything wrong when I find another home for them because if I hadn't taken them on, they would most likely have been put down already.

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I never thought cats would be so troublesome. I grew up with a cat, but that cat slept outdoors except in the winter or when it rained. I never saw a hairball or cleaned up cat poop in my life until I got these two. These two cats stay indoors and it's been a horrible experience.

I'm sorry you feel this way. Kittens are more work, did you not realize this when you adopted them?

Cats are the most beautiful, loving and rewarding animal that a human could be lucky enough to share a life with. You are truly missing out.

Like I said, I grew up with a cat, actually two, one when I was a little kid and the second when I was a teenager. Both of them did their pooping outside. Very minimal maintenance. The cat we had when I was a teenager used to follow my mum to the bus stop but be back home waiting on the front door step when she got home. Those cats were well stimulated, these two that I have must be bored when I'm at work, sitting at home scratching my sofa. Before I got them I was going to buy a new sofa, now I'm going to have to wait.


For people that say cats must not be let out of the house, I let these two go out into my back yard for 20 minutes or so every now and then. When I go to open the patio door they can't wait to get out. They play in the grass and walk around sniffing everything and try to wiggle free when I pick them up to bring them back inside. Yes, cats might live longer if they never step outside, but I would too if my parents were still alive to look after me and I never left the house either.


They have their moments when I'm sitting on the sofa and they jump up and put their heads on my thighs while resting next to me, but the rest of the time they are a handful. My marriage didn't last forever so I don't see why I have to live with these cats forever.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I found this thread in hopes of justifying getting rid of my 16-year-old cat. Through no fault of her own (she's just a cat) she has negatively impacted our home. She pees and poops wherever because she is obese, arthritic and old. It's not her fault, but I want a home I can relax in. I realize it's not right to get rid of a living thing because it becomes a gross, stinky, blob incapable of grooming its own anus. However, as a society, we are quite capable of placing ageing parents into old age homes -but we are selfish if we want to do that to our pets.

You can't justify it - it would be cruel and heartless and appalling. Don't you do it.

How do you deal with peeing everywhere. Serious question. Have geriatric cat and come home from work and pee is all over. On sofa, printer, dining table, wood floor... rarely in the cat litter boxes on the same main level. We’ve tried numerous types of litter, litter boxes, no uti, nothing physically wrong. We can’t have anyone over anymore because it reeks- need to get the hard wood and carpet replaced (all the cat enzyme stuff can’t seem to penetrate below the carpet and wood), floor scrubbed and sealed and then new carpet, but can’t do that until our cat passes. I’m extremely sad.

[Anonymous]

if you don't want to take care of your cats, do the right thing and have them put down by a vet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I found this thread in hopes of justifying getting rid of my 16-year-old cat. Through no fault of her own (she's just a cat) she has negatively impacted our home. She pees and poops wherever because she is obese, arthritic and old. It's not her fault, but I want a home I can relax in. I realize it's not right to get rid of a living thing because it becomes a gross, stinky, blob incapable of grooming its own anus. However, as a society, we are quite capable of placing ageing parents into old age homes -but we are selfish if we want to do that to our pets.

You can't justify it - it would be cruel and heartless and appalling. Don't you do it.

How do you deal with peeing everywhere. Serious question. Have geriatric cat and come home from work and pee is all over. On sofa, printer, dining table, wood floor... rarely in the cat litter boxes on the same main level. We’ve tried numerous types of litter, litter boxes, no uti, nothing physically wrong. We can’t have anyone over anymore because it reeks- need to get the hard wood and carpet replaced (all the cat enzyme stuff can’t seem to penetrate below the carpet and wood), floor scrubbed and sealed and then new carpet, but can’t do that until our cat passes. I’m extremely sad.

I would get rid of that cat fast! As soon as the 'pet' starts to become a liability to the way you live it's time for it to go. Don't ask anyone's opinions, just do it. If you ask peoples opinions you are always going to get the bleeding heart cat lovers telling you how the cat is part of the family, like a child blah blah blah.

[Anonymous]

I know this is an old thread but it's hilarious all the same and I can relate to so much of it.

14 years ago, my then little daughter convinced me that she wanted a cat from a litter of cats that her friend had. I agreed and we got a female cat out of the litter. She was an indoor cat because I did not want her to get hit by a car or get any diseases outside. Well 2 years into having her she made an escape outside and brought me back 4 kittens. So now, Mama Cat is 14 and the "kittens" are 12. All are going strong. The thing is that my life has changed so much over the years that I no longer have time or even the energy for them and just like the other posters in this thread, the hair, the litter box, the puking is all getting to be too much for me. I have to haul 40 lbs of cat litter and big bags of cat food. I have been shoveling cat poop and pee, cleaning up puke, cleaning hair from all over the place for 14 years staight with no end in sight and I'm tired. Not to mention the furniture and carpet they destroy and the woodwork in my home that they destroyed. I am counting down the day til they all die.

The problem is that cats have ridiculously long life spans. Upthread another poster said that her cat is 21 years old! That's crazy. Why does a cat need to live that long? I am trying to soldier through to the end but each day gets harder and harder that I don't even know if I will last until the end of thiss year. And knowing we are coming up to a new decade makes this nightmare seem even more pathetic. I have had them since 2005 and 2007 and they are still going strong so I am guessing that by the time the last one dies it could be 2025-2027. Again, absolutely depressing to even think that this nightmare will go on that long. I will NEVER have another pet after this and my now adult daughter feels the same. Cats and dogs are better enjoyed when they live outside.

[Anonymous]

To 5:16, put the cats down and move on with your life. Pets should not make your life a nightmare. And thank you to ruin this thread for reminding me why we are pet free!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Someone gave me two kittens/young cats about 5 weeks ago. Very big mistake for me to accept them. Since I took them my house stinks, which doesn't help my asthma, they constantly jump on my kitchen counter tops making me have to rewash my dishes and they scratch the hell out of my sofa. There is no way I intend to put up with them for the next 15 years. I also won't feel like I'm doing anything wrong when I find another home for them because if I hadn't taken them on, they would most likely have been put down already.


I never thought cats would be so troublesome. I grew up with a cat, but that cat slept outdoors except in the winter or when it rained. I never saw a hairball or cleaned up cat poop in my life until I got these two. These two cats stay indoors and it's been a horrible experience.

I'm sorry you feel this way. Kittens are more work, did you not realize this when you adopted them?

Cats are the most beautiful, loving and rewarding animal that a human could be lucky enough to share a life with. You are truly missing out.

So unhelpful. Blame the poster but not the cats. Then make highly debatable claims—you’d get a lot of disagreement from dog lovers and even parrot lovers about your “most beautiful, loving, and rewarding animal” claim.

Posters like you give cat owners a bad name. Get some perspective, and try to be even a tiny bit helpful.

[Anonymous]

That sucks.

[Anonymous]

I love my cats, and have had several. However, when they can’t use their litter box properly, or vomit continuously, and the vet can’t help them, it’s time to let them go.