unhappy conclusion

I am getting rid of the pets.

All of them consitute more work and aggravation than they are worth to me personally and frankly it rankles my animal-lover heart that the people who supposedly "love" the animals the most and cry at me not to get rid of them simply cannot bring themselves to consistantly help care for them. It has been a year since any of them have seen a vet or gotten their shots. The cats are still urinating on MY laundrey as well as my kids' stuff. I am completely disgusted with the whole endeavor. I have begged, pleaded, threatened and cajoled and still I am left constantly cleaning up after them as well as making sure they get minimal attention to their needs. The laundrey room (where the catboxes are) stinks and if my clothes fall out of the dryer they fall in loose litter-bits. I am completely sick of the situation. The people who supposedly love these animals so much have promised me time and again they will help me or at least take the animals to the vet and yet they still do nothing. I've had it. I cannot keep house for four adults and three kids and still keep up after three cats, a dog and a rat. At least my rat does not whine at me every time I walk into the room because she's pathetically unhappy about being shut-in. At least my rat manages to keep her personal refuse where it belongs, rather than all over MY things. At least my rat doesn't pretend to love me just to turn around and ruin my carpet.

You know, everyone agrees that if you don't have the time/money to really pay attention to a child's needs, you shouldn't have children. But having a pet means just petting it occasionally? No, people, pets need visits to the doctor, consistantly feeding, playtime, exercise and a fucking maid. If you don't want to be a maid for an animal, don't get a pet.

I'm done this time.

wow

Who'da thought that trying to find good homes for the animals would spur such anger, vitriol and heated BS? I had my fun with it for a while but between that, the teacher conference, the kids coming home, the housework and the impending migraine of the day (got my prescription refilled YAY!) I am tired and must bow out earlier than I usually do when attacked online. It wasn't as fun as some of the political "debates" I've gotten into, but it served to entertain me throughout the day.

I hope no one here ever attempts to use LJ to place their pet... that is unless you like donning a suit of emotional armor first!

I'd laugh but I must take my medicine first.

(oh no, here come the aliens.... is that a eyeball drill I see? Yeppers, here comes the hot lead in my jaw.... mmmm migraines!)

situation with the animals

Here's the thing; I plan to be pregnant within six months. When that happens, I will NOT be able to take care of the cat litter boxes AT ALL. I won't be able to even get near them. Seeing as how I pretty much am the main litter-cleaner, it seems the best thing would be to get rid of the animals BEFORE this becomes a serious issue. The "inconveniance" of their urinating on my things, the hassle of dealing with them, yes that's an issue, but that ws not the catalyst for this decision. That was just what I chose to post about because I wanted to bitch a bit. The fact is, I won't have a choice (hopefully) soon and it's wrong to keep pets that aren't properly taken care of. I didn't bother to mention this in the thread because 1) the nubnut who kept badgering me would have gone off in the direction of whether or not I "deserve" to have more children and I'm just not feeling up to THAT particular flame-war 2) it's really no one's fucking business why I say I can no longer keep a pet 3) I'm a little supersitious and I am uncomfortable talking about my plans beyond the operation (don't wanna jinx it ya know)

So, for the benefit of those who actually know me, there you have the whole story. I was going to mention it in a randomized post but it looked like I should go ahead and just tell you now.