I'm sure I'll laugh about this experience a week from now, but this morning I thought I was going to have a breakdown. I thought I'd share because it is rather comical.
So as most of you are aware, I've been staying with my co-worker (Catherine) since being evacuated from our apartment Monday morning. Before the fires started, Catherine had been staying at our boss's house, pet-sitting his two dogs and his cat while he was out of town. On Monday around 5:30 a.m. she learned that she had to evacuate, so she packed up his animals and moved them to her house near downtown San Diego.
Since then, she and I have been rotating shifts at work, and rotating the pet-sitting duties. So I've been helping watch two highly excitable dachsunds and a 23-pound cat.
Keep in mind that I'm not much of a "pet person." I love animals, don't get me wrong, but I prefer that they stay outside in the wild.
After a couple of very long days, including three nights in a row of four hours of sleep or less, I woke up this morning around 4:45 a.m. to a bad smell. I turned on the light, and saw that the dogs had peed all over the kitchen floor. They had also peed all over the pillow they were using for a bed, and it was sopping wet. I was not happy, because only four hours earlier one of them had pooped on the kitchen floor.
So I mopped up the pee, bagged the pillow, and headed for the bathroom to wash my hands...and discovered that the cat had pooped on the bathroom floor. Next to his litterbox.
By the time I cleaned up all of their business, took the dogs outside for their morning tinkle, and came back upstairs, 45 minutes had passed and it was time for me to get ready so I could go to work and relieve Catherine, who had been working the midnight shift at the hospital.
And THAT, my friends, is why I'm not a pet person :-)
3 comments:
Maybe Murdock was talking to these pets and encouraging them to act out?
OK, I am laughing out loud. Only Tania would call 2 dogs and 1 fat cat a farm!!!! I can actually see the look on your face looking at the mess!!!! I am still laughing!! Actually I am going to share this story with Tish at work who has a dog she claims she is going to kill every day. She lets him out to go whenever he looks to go out and then comes back in and poops all over the house. This is the same dog that did so well at obedience school!!!
Anne, you are so right. Clearly Murdock had something to do with this...he and his evil cat ways infiltrated our menagerie all the way from Michigan.
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