14 year relationship vanishes in a week
last weekend after 14 years of cohabitation, my cat logan and i parted ways. logan is a lovely cat, sweet, loving, quirky. her one caveat is that she refuses to pee in a litter box. 14 years of peeing on the floor begins to wear on a person. years of peeing on carpet and wood floors wears them too. i’ve struggled with pee vs. cat for a long time and cat always won. a few months ago dog was added to the equation and push finally came to shove. my sister has a husband who has a dad who works at a place that has a farm and the farm has some cats and logan is now one of those cats.
i feel guilty and horrible and generally rotten that i abandoned my cat. i felt like logan was my cross to bear and i just dumped my cross at a farm cause my cross happened to pee on the floor. that’s the one side of me…
the other side of me feels an incredible weight gone from my shoulders. i’m enjoying a life free of pee.
i visited logan on saturday, one day shy of her one week anniversary of farm living. now i’m sure i’m just anthropomorphizing here, but the you’re dead to me glare that i received from the cat that one week previous was my best friend sure looked like a “i hate you for doing this to me” sort of look. it was painful. i had to leave.
i miss logan.
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I’m the sister who has the husband who has the dad…etc and I think Logan will love the farm! What cat wouldn’t want wide open spaces, lots of rodents and mice to chase, free food and water, many cat companions (as well as goats, horses and worker people) and a hay barn to sleep in at night. Sounds cozy to me. After 14 years of house living, Logan just needs some time to get used to this fun new adventure. You did the right thing–for Logan and for your carpet, wood floors and general sanity:)