My roommates don't understand my cats. They see them as these crazy out of control creatures that are always getting into mischief. I have to lock them in my room at night to ensure they don't knock everything off the counters or destroy the kids toys or pee on all the furniture. They are constantly yelling at them for various reasons that don't make sense. "She was going to bite the baby" or "he was going to scratch the boy" or "one of them was about to pee on one of the toys on the floor" stuff like that.
But see... When I got these cats, they were 8 weeks old and very impressionable. I brought them into a home that already had a kid, and talks of another kid in the near future. That was over 3 years ago, and now the other kid is here. But in that time, I've put in a lot of work to teach my cats to be kid friendly. They don't scratch or bite humans, they know it's only acceptable for toys, and know the difference between toys vs hands and feet. The older kid has never been hurt by either of my cats, and now that there's a baby, she hasn't been hurt either. So I don't get why they are constantly accusing my cats of "trying to bite the kids."
As for the peeing issue... My boy has inflammation and clogging issues, as that's common for male cats. I stay on top of it, as soon as he's showing signs of a struggle, I get medicine from my vet to reduce the inflammation and to manage pain, and he's on a lifetime prescription food to keep him in check. While he's having an episode, he stays locked in my room until he's recovered, and I clean up all messes immediately. Neither of them "go" outside of the litter boxes because of behavioral reasons. Most of them time when my roommates accuse my cats for "about to pee" somewhere, they are just getting in a comfortable position before they sit down or lay down.
They don't knock things off the counters. They have only broken two non cat toy items in their 3 years of life, and those were both my fault for leaving it in their way. First was a glass cup I left on the edge of my bed, and it fell when my cat jumped up, the second was a ceramic bowl I left too close to the edge of my dresser and my cat bumped it while walking by. They have never purposely knocked anything down unless it was a toy, they aren't destructive, they don't scratch the couch because we have a scratching post close enough that they prefer, and outside of the rate occasion that they decide to push boundaries, they stay off the counters and table.
I've set up the baby monitor in the living space while I'm away to see what my cats are up to just in case maybe they are up to no good without my supervision, but they are very well behaved there as well, so I don't understand what is their deal?
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