So, my wife got a new cat back in June from a rescue. It's a Persian of some sort, 2 years old, and it came with a backstory of having grown up in a cattery, whose owner died, needed a new home, yada yada yada. Supposedly it had been placed a couple of times, but was returned to the rescue because the other cats didn't get along with it or were howling or someone had allergies or some BS. It also came with very specific needs, like it had to have a certain kind of food served in a certain kind of dish arranged in a certain fashion, yada yada yada. My wife had another Persian for something like 15 years, and basically wanted a replacement for that cat.
We get cat home, and there's the normal disruption with the other cats. We expected it, no big deal. They sorted it out amongst themselves. The specific feeding requirements turned out to be BS - the cat will eat anything in a 50' radius that's not locked down.
Now the real problem starts: for the past month or so, she's started peeing in places other than the litterbox. The wife has offered up a number of excuses:
- Maybe the litterbox wasn't clean enough no, it gets cleaned twice a day
- Maybe we need an extra litterbox didn't work, they ignored the new one
- Maybe she's stressed she doesn't act stressed, she plays like any normal cat and isn't scared of anything
- Maybe she's sick nope - took her to the vet and she was fine
She's also tried a $50 pheromone device - like a plug-in air-freshener, only it's to make the cats happier and it's $50.
She wants to try pscyh meds next.
On top of all that, this retarded little cat has breathing issues; her nose is too small to get enough air, so she wheezes. She also has dental issues; she needs several teeth pulled. The estimate for these two ops is ~$800. By that point she'll have $1500 sunk into this monster.
And this cat smells; it does not have good kitty self-grooming habits, it constantly farts (which is probably the food) and it's breath smells like a garbage disposal (bad teeth). I honestly can't see what it has going for it.
I can see if this was a cat that she'd had for 15 years, like the last one, but she's only had this one for a couple of months. My vote is to write this one off and try again. I think this thing got kicked back to the rescue for the peeing issue; my guess is that it was never properly housebroken, either that or it just didn't give a damn.
Today was the kicker - the little fücker peed on/in my laptop case. It was laying on the floor, next to the dining room table, and for whatever reason, she climbed on top of it and peed on it. One of the pockets was open, and was filled with cat pee. I have to take the laptop on a flight tomorrow, which will not be pleasant.
So how do I get this resolved without a divorce?
