Today, I paid $70 to learn from the vet that my cat doesn't have a UTI, he's just developed a fetish for peeing on plastic bags. FML
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, after seeing my cat struggle to use the litterbox and produce nothing for two days, I caved and took him to the emergency vet, fearing a UTI. It wasn't. $200 and 2 Lyft rides later, he's stoned out of his mind and peeing just fine. FML
Today, I was nervous about taking my cat to the vet for a UTI, because money’s a little tight. Turns out the antibiotics weren’t that expensive, but he wants at least $1,000 for dental surgery she apparently “needs.” FML
Today, I learned why my bathroom has a horrible, seemingly irremovable stench. My cat doesn't squat to pee like a normal cat. She stands up, peeing over the side of the litter tray all over the wall and floor, which are now a permanent yellow tinge. FML
Today, I dropped $1600 at the emergency vet because I thought my 14 year-old cat was constipated or obstructed. He was neither. He just had lots of gas in his intestines. I paid $1600 to find out my cat needed to fart. FML
Today, I took my cat to the vet for an x-ray. They found three dollar coins in his stomach. The surgery to remove them is $600. FML
Today, I'm sitting at the vet's office while they run expensive tests on my cat. This is to make sure he doesn't have a bowel obstruction from eating the condom that my partner and I used last night. FML
Today, I found out after $200 worth of checks and tests, three rugs being ruined from her peeing and pooping on them, that my cat isn't sick. She just has really bad separation anxiety. FML
Today, during my shift as a vet nurse, I picked up a gorgeous cat for cuddles, only to discover it was covered with pee. And now I am too. I still have 4 hours of my shift. FML
Today, I paid $325 to have the vet tell me that my 19-year-old cat ISN'T dying, she just had anxiety shits because we were gone on vacation for so long. FML
Today, I learned that instead of training my cat, she has been training me. She now refuses to drink anything but running tap water, and yowls loudly early in the morning at my bedroom door to be fed. FML
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Freeze_fml 17
Urinary tract infection. Or in your case, unable to investigate.
fenceme235 0
ohhhh. well guess u can go green and stop buying plastic bags
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BighornB 0
It's time for mr bigglesworth to take a long permanent nap
xSynergY 8
I was not expecting a comment like this lol! Totally caught me off guard
coconutClaire 1
This is very common for cats to do. There's something about plastic bags...... Another commentor had a very good idea. Put one in his/ her litter box just for a day, then don't ever leave plastic bags where your cat can access them in the house.
iftheglovefits 0
Ya, my cat likes to rub up against plastic bags, and sometimes chew on them. We don't like to let him chew on them though.
Norrec86 7
That sucks. My cat used to do that
jingersnap721 0
I think all cats do this. Or every cat I've had
juanitad 3
Hey at least your cat has a fetish for peeing on the plastic bags...My cat has a fetish for chewing on plastic bags. No matter what we do he will find a way to chew on the plastic bags.
corrinaswan 0
Wow I never knew cats can get fetishs (if festishs is a word) learn somethin new everyday
alexFYL 11
You are not using the word "fetish" correctly, then.
essex 17
My cat did that as well. It started as a desire to pee on clothes--and who can blame her? They're much softer than litter. Since my father is completely incapable of doing his own laundry, he takes it to be cleaned and it comes back in bags. He's also apparently incapable of putting clothes away, so they would just sit on the floor, occasionally unopened, and become the new cat box. I didn't really pay it too much attention until the cat climbed in my hamper [at the ripe age of fifteen, where she could no longer jump onto the bed] to pee on my clothes.
SwtCherryPie 26
Why the hell do you just have plastic bags laying around your house? Sounds like you probably arent the cleanest person anyway to have trash skewn about your house. Its not hard to throw the bags away after you get your stuff out of them and if you wanna keep them find a bin/box or something to keep them in.
alexFYL 11
My cat likes to pee on plastic bags too. It's kind of annoying, I keep craft stuff that I'm working on in bags so my animals don't play with them or eat them. I came home one day to pee all over some bags with some stuffed animal things in it, I ended up having to throw the entire thing out. I also keep plastic bags under my kitchen table (for cleaning the litter boxes, picking up poop, small trash cans, etc) and I have to barricade it to keep the pee-cat out of it.
Ambsies1574 0
It's actually normal for cats to do that. YDI for not knowing how cats work and owning one.