my weekend and stuff

[kippurbird]

Weekend was made of awesome.

Friday played a very cracky Munchkin game with Blender, Bites, Space and Cuthullu. As well as Illuminati which was also cracky fun.

Played Hunter the Vigil with roomie (whose user name I've quite forgotten at this moment) on Saturday. Which was fun! We kidnapped a pastor who was involved in a group who believes free will = evil and so they went to an infant ward in a hospital and lobotomized the babies there (twelve)by sticking ice picks in their eyes, also they've been drugging the homeless with Thorazine to make them happily compliant and dull. After interrogating her, with a bit of torture on the side she was killed and then her body dissolved in lye. Which would make for an interesting confession, I think.

Then on Sunday went to my first ever boffo LARP (again with roomie) played NPC monsters. Ended up very sore. Climbing up the hills and down the hills and swinging the swords or claws and getting beaten and falling down and getting back up and it was fantastic! Must make character for next time. =D

Monday was full of suck. I'm cat sitting for the lady with the four kids and no money sense. No biggie right? Feed cats, clean litter box. Managed step A with no problems. Even if the kittehs were intent on trying to trip me. Then onto step B. The instructions on the fridge said to clean out litter box if needed, and that the sick cat sometimes didn't make it into the box. I try to clean out once a day (or every other day if I just kinda fall dead in bed). Kitties like clean litter.

I open up the litter box and OMWTFBBQPOLARBEAR!!11!! It looks like it hasn't been cleaned in months and there's dirty diaper in it. Which likely means that the little girl took one and put it in there. I get so disgusted I run out and throw up on the patio. No wonder that one cat isn't using the box. I call for back up (my mom <3) and she comes over. She doesn't believe me until I show her. Her reaction was much the same, except for the throwing up bit. Two children does that to you. After much discussion we decide to completely throw away the litter pan and buy a new one.

We go out, find a nice cheap one for ten bucks, bring it back and after some thought spread newspaper on the bathroom floor before putting the new pan on the ground. We fill it up completely with new litter and we shall see what happens when I go back today.

But really! What sort of person does that to their poor cats?!

Comments

[authoressarktos.livejournal.com]

...Yikes.

[kippurbird.livejournal.com]

Yah!

[smurasaki.livejournal.com]

Oh, wow. I'm not sure they should have cats...or children.

[kippurbird.livejournal.com]

I know! It's so very disconcerting. Unfortunately there's no laws to test people on if they'd be good parents/pet owners.

[spoofmaster]

...The same kind of people who don't bother washing out their dog's water bowl when they refill it? Seriously, I at least give Yoshi's water dish a finger scrubbing with fresh water and pour that out before I refill it, because she's a messy eater and drinker and gets gunk and food bits in it. But when I was in middle school and would go to a friend's house after school every day while I waited for my parents to get home, they would never wash their dog's water bowl! The bottom and sides were literally covered in brownish gunk. I started washing it out for them a couple times a week, but they didn't seem at all concerned when I pointed it out. It's just carelessness and a lack of empathy for the animal - they just don't stop and think, "Now, would I be willing to use this water bowl/litter box/pet bed?" And sure, you can't always say that what's good for animals is exactly what's good for people, but you'd think it would be common sense to provide pets with clean things.

[kippurbird.livejournal.com]

...The same kind of people who don't bother washing out their dog's water bowl when they refill it?

Yeeeeaaaah.

It's just carelessness and a lack of empathy for the animal - they just don't stop and think, "Now, would I be willing to use this water bowl/litter box/pet bed?"

That's what my mom always taught me!

[kippurbird.livejournal.com]

Cats are very fussy and clean critters. You better be cleaning it out at least every other day. Other wise you going to have interesting poop locations! So, I think that'll be enough slapping without anyone else doing it for you.

[dryaunda.livejournal.com]

So, what compact/conspiracy was your character a member of?

Also, my condolences to the kitties.

[kippurbird.livejournal.com]

None yet. But I have a mentor who is a member of Loyalists of Thule, but I don't know it yet.

[mistyeyedreamer.livejournal.com]

My kitty would eat me if I ever did that to him...*shudder*

[kippurbird.livejournal.com]

Any smart kitty would. Mine also yowls when I'm trying to sleep if he's upset.

[thelastmehina.livejournal.com]

Eeeeeew.... you didn't tell me about the diaper *in* the litterbox. That's just crude. If there's a dirty diaper in the litterbox, I wonder what the owners really consider to be a 'necessary' cleaning. If it were me, I'd give the owners a firm talking-to when they get back.

Though, glad you had a good time at the larps!

[kippurbird.livejournal.com]

Sorry? Should I have?

If it were me, I'd give the owners a firm talking-to when they get back.

I would like to, but I don't think it would work very well. The owner is very, "laaah diddity dah... well it just can't be help, I have four children and my husband and I can't control them"

[thelastmehina.livejournal.com]

No, but just hearing about the diaper adds an extra level of 'ick' to the one already in my head.

Maaaan.... I'd be so tempted to kidnap the kitties. "You obviously can't take care of them, so they need to go to someone who will."

[kippurbird.livejournal.com]

Me too. But Chaucer would never let us hear the end of it.