OMG I am soo angry right now

[paraka]

I know I've made little whiny mentions that I want to move out of my parents house, but I think I've finally hit the end of my rope. I am so angry right now I'm crying.

God.

So I just had a fight with my family.
As I've mentioned before, I have a cat. I almost didn't move back home because of the cat, but in the end, my parents said to bring her. And, everyone fell in love with Tigger. My dad and sister adore her, and my mom, who hates cats, has been caught snuggling her. Despite all this, I'm the one who has to do all the work to take care of her. If she throws up or something (she's getting old, so it happens), they'll leave if for me to clean up, even if I'm not there when it happens and everyone else in the house is. My mom, who I think is delusional, is always harassing me to clean her littler box, because she thinks it stinks, even if I just cleaned it the other day. About the only thing I don't do is feed her, but that's just because other people seem to do it before me. I used to it all the time, but, well, Tigger loves food, and it's the fastest way to her heart.

The thing is, she's kind of loud. Especially in the morning. The thing is, normally you just leave her to it, or snag her into bed and snuggle her, and she's quiet in no time, but the rest of my family isn't patient. They got into the habit of feeding her whenever she meows in the morning, and now, it's one of the only ways to shut her up. I am not a morning person, so days I get up and let her out of my room while still asleep, other times I sleep right through it. Often it's my little sister who gets annoyed enough to go do something. But she bitches about it endlessly. God, I hate her whining more than Trigger's. She'll come into my room and sit on my bed and snuggle with my cat, which can be quite distracting, and then complain to me about how annoying she is.

Well apparently she's taken it up one level, and now my parents are blaming me for it. There is nothing I can do in the morning to stop Tigger, not really. But they're saying if I don't get her to stop they're going to have her put down.

Over my dead body.

So yes, I think it's time I moved.

Comments

[paraka]

Heh. Maybe I should just move to Texas and we can have loud cats together. :P

As for getting from being loud to killing her. Well, they've killed annoying cats in the past. When my aunt went to Australia for a year, she left her cat with my grandmother, but the cat started peeing in the vents, and so my mom convinced my grandmother to have the cat put down, and they lied to my aunt.

I made the argument that she's only *my* cat when she's being bad, the rest of the time everyone loves her and claims that she's the *family* cat, so they can step up once in a while if she's annoying them. My dad said that if she's his cat, he's going to put her down rather than deal with it.

[maekala.livejournal.com]

Maybe I'm just too much of a cat person in that I treat them like my children, but that really would be like saying, "My child is making too much noise, so I'm gonna put him down." *shakes head*

Four loud cats all in the same apartment...we'd definitley have to get something bigger than what I have now!

[paraka]

I know, in the middle of the argument I had to leave the house. I just got in the car and started driving. But as I was replaying the argument in my head (don't you always come up with the best comebacks *after* the conversation), I so wish I had said something like "Well Mom snores and keeps everyone up (she seriously does, my dad sleeps on the couch most nights because she's too noisy) and no one talks about putting *her* down!

[maekala.livejournal.com]

Why is it the best comebacks always come to you after the arguement? Still, you should keep it in reserve in case it comes up again.