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Teacher by day, Mommy by night
Juggling the demands (and insanity) of being a high school teacher, a wife, and a mother to a toddler
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hmoeckli - > Teacher by day, Mommy by night -> It's my HOUSE, Stella and Ripley!
It's my HOUSE, Stella and Ripley!
Stella and Ripley are not the names of my children (thank goodness right? that'd be a little movie obsessive.)

No, they are my cats.

Stella, who's about 8 years old, is a beautiful Russian Blue mixed with Siamese. She is beautiful, but psychotic. Absolutely. She will cuddle with you one moment and turn into viper kitty the next. She's actually mellowed with age, but lately she has been driving me crazy.

How, you say, is this cat so maddening? Well, she demonstrates her angry via urination. Litter box dirty--let's pee on the bed. Daddy not being attentive--let's pee in his drawer. Family gone for five days--let's pee on the bed, in the kid's crib, and pretty much anywhere else we can.

I hate her.

Then, there's Ripley. Typically, I feel sorry for Ripley. She's quite large, 20 pounds approximately. I've taken her to the vet, but they couldn't find anything wrong except...get this....she's FAT. (That was a good 500 dollars wasted.) She doesn't eat much during the day, but she just cannot seem to lose weight. Therefore, she can't clean herself.

Eww.

We leave a mat for Ripley by her litter box, and she takes care of her...um, business. But not this week. No, she jumped on the angry train with Stella and wiped herself all over our carpet. All over our house.

I hate both of them.

For those who do not have pets, this all seems very gross, I'm sure. Good. Don't get pets. They're icky.

Stella and Rip are enjoying the lovely weather outside. Once the weather turns, they will enjoy our lovely, spacious garage. I'm sure I'll let them in soon. But not unsupervised.

I do not enjoy.
Topics: pets, vacation
posted by hmoeckli on Monday, December 29, 2008 at 04:04 PM
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posted by wifemotherdaughtersister on Dec 30, 2008 at 06:21 AM
cats are such b*@#!es.  but i love em.
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posted by AmandaS on Dec 30, 2008 at 07:57 AM
I would like to tell you that this is all your fault for having cats in the first place, but that is sort of like kicking someone when they are down. My sis has a beagle named Ripley and she is very sweet but has VERY bad table manners when it comes to other people's food. Maybe its the name. When you find yourself wiping feline a$$, think about how much fun it is to be a grown up.
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posted by hmoeckli on Dec 30, 2008 at 10:12 AM
As I was reading your comments just now, I heard Stella puking, then scratching the couch. Urgh.She is the devil!
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posted by creatress on Dec 30, 2008 at 10:31 AM
Eeeewww. We had our share of cat anger in the past as well. Now it's dog anger. We were also gone, and had a pet sitter come twice a day. That still didn't stop our smaller dog from peeing 3 times. Now I saw this in about 1minute upon coming home (and smelled it sooner!) So why was it invisible to our $200 dog sitter?! Rrrg, don't get me started! At least you didn't PAY MONEY for your cats to make a mess! Hahaha.
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posted by MiaMama on Dec 30, 2008 at 11:03 AM
Girl, I feel ya!  We have 4 cats and one of them is always either... puking, scratching at the door to get in, hissing at the other one, the list goes on.  Oh and let's not forget Mia always trying (and succeeding) at tackling one of them or grabbing at their tails.  And last but not least, my oldest 14 year old cat has an ICKY ear!

Oh ya, I almost forgot that one day one of them decided to pee in Mia's bathtub!  Although we cleaned it out with bleach one of them did it again and THEN one of them took a crap in it last week.  Mia does not use this bathtub anymore!
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posted by AmandaS on Dec 30, 2008 at 06:48 PM
Hil, you need to post pictures of these beauties. Especially Ripley. Wow. What a cat. All 500 pounds of her.
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