just as I'm going to sleep...

[winterbadger]

End of a long day. Up earlier than usual, in to the office early (but later than I meant to be). Had to be at a meeting for work, wear a suit, talk. Slightly stressy as I got to the meeting late. Worked for a solid 9.5+ hours, taking very little time off for web surfing or emailing. Come home drained. Dinner, a little hanging out with the housemates, dozed off in front of the telly. Got up, gave the cats treats, made a cup of tea, off to bed. Settling in with the tea and a book and... felt... a damp spot.

A large one.

In the middle of the bed.

Smelling of cat pee.

*UNDER* the covers. So it's soaked into the mattress.

So much for sleep...

Maybe when I move I *won't* take cats with me...

EDIT: My mistake. NOT under the covers. THROUGH them. Duvet cover, topsheet, totally soaked. I'm thinking of throwing the duvet out at this point, as this is the second time. And that would be the second duvet.

EDIT: Well, an hour and a half later, I'm completely awake, the bed is fully changed (after I sprayed the mattress with cat-pee killer), and the bedclothes are in the wash. Good thing I was already half thinking of taking the day off tomorrow.

I'm *seriously* thinking about life without cats.

Comments

[snow-lion.livejournal.com]

Evil, eeevil cats. I know your pain, and I sympathize. Time to crack out the vacuum.

[winterbadger]

And vacuum up all the cats! Excellent! I like it...

[zoefruitcake.livejournal.com]

And you'd given them a treat and everything. Damn.

You love them really...

[rolypolypony.livejournal.com]

Oh, you love them - you know it!

They're probably just jealous of your new lady friend?

My grandmother used to have a Shih-Tzu that would pee on her bed when he was mad at her!

[shalmestere.livejournal.com]

Have you taken the cats to the vet? I can't address passive-aggressive issues in cats (having never been owned by one :-D), but dog people are generally advised, wrt housebreaking lapses, to check first for health problems (you don't want to punish the dog for a UTI, frex).

[winterbadger]

Yeah, the (IMO) likely culprit just came back from the vet. I think the issue is likely to be old age, achy legs, and the litter box being a long way away.

Alternately, it's the young one who likes to get under the covers who crawled in and then panicked when he couldn't find his way out right away, especially if he fell a sleep first and got disoriented.

[winterbadger]

I do love them, dammit.

If they were jealous, they've had plenty of time since she showed up to do this. I think it was more likely an accident. It has happened before.

[winterbadger]

*sigh* I do. I'm not prepared to make mittens out of them for somethign that isn't probably their fault.

At least, not now that it's morning I'm not.

[dwarfrage.livejournal.com]

One of my friends who has cats has a waterproof undersheet -

All of a sudden, you smell the all too familiar stench of cat pee. Yes, one of your cats peed in your bed. You swear at the world, but secretly thank the person who invented water proof mattress pads.

[plutosonium.livejournal.com]

Yes, I have a waterproof mattress pad on the guest bed for this reason.

[redactrice.livejournal.com]

I wonder whether putting one of the boxes in your bedroom or the bathroom (maybe with a hood) would make a difference. Like you, I suspect it's probably Gilbert, and I'll bet that since he's old and creaky, sometimes he doesn't want to head all of the way to the box when he's dozing. If one were nearer . . .

[winterbadger]

Yeah, I was thinking about doing that and/or eliminating the waterbowl in the bathroom.

Of course then one has a nasty, stinky catbox in the bathroom; I'm not sure if the litter I use is flushable, and they make an unholy mess of the surroundings (the cats do, with the litterboxes).

My suspicion, especially since the wet clearly was in the sheets (it went up to the duvet cover, but it didn't go through, so it wasn't straight through from the top, as I though at one point early this morning), is that this was Mr Nicholas, the little badger...