I'm Sleeping on the Couch

I am still ticked off over it. I adore my cat but he is going to have to deal with sleeping on the couch for a few weeks. It's not like I'm throwing him outside into the cold or anything. He is spoiled rotten and he can deal with not being able to sleep in our bed. Our cat hogs the bed, particularly my side of the bed, and I can't have him flopping all over my legs or pushing me off the bed right now. If my boyfriend wants to sleep with the cat so bad, maybe he can join him on the couch!

@Srbageldog Have you told him that already?

@toniganzon No, but if it comes up again at bedtime I most certainly will.

@Courtlynn Now things have calmed down and he's back to his normal self...I don't know what that was all about. I'm still ticked off over it.

He left the bedroom door open when he left for work this morning too, and then didn't lock the front door so I had to get up and lock it and then chase the cat away from the bedroom. It's almost like he's trying to start another fight. I guess the one on Saturday wasn't enough for him.

@Srbageldog yikes.. youd think he'd be there for you and making things easier and everything not all that

@Srbageldog Well I pray that didn't happen again and you were able to just sleep in your bed. I hope the healing process goes quickly for you.

I was able to sleep in the bed once the cat came out of the room. I would have removed him from the room myself but I'm restricted from lifting anything that is more than 10 pounds, and our cat is FAT. I tried luring him out of the room but he was not budging, and neither was my boyfriend. That better not happen again tonight!

@Blondie2222 Thank you. Last night our cat removed himself from our bedroom without any issues. Hopefully tonight he won't try to get in. It's a shame cats can't understand what we tell them!

@Srbageldog No, I don't think you were overreacting at all. A lot of the women I know, including myself, would have felt the same way in this situation.

I'm glad to know I wasn't overreacting. I think most women would be mad over this!

@dodo19 I would feel the same.

No reason to bring his parents into it, but I can't believe he did that either.

@gullver He is a strange person sometimes.

@Srbageldog Honestly, what he did is very very strange

I think he felt guilty the next night because he ended up sleeping on the couch when he couldn't get in our room without the cat running in and jumping on me. Our cat is like our "baby," and is spoiled rotten, so I just think he feels bad suddenly banning him from the room. We were both tired the one night when I went to sleep on the couch and he probably just didn't want to deal with chasing the cat out of the room. Luckily for the cat, the ban has been lifted. And everything is fine now.

I agree. I love my cat (more than most people, actually) but...people still come first. And it is insulting when your grandparent removes all of your family photos from his home to hang up framed pictures of his second wife's yappy little dogs. My grandpa had no pictures of his own children or grandchildren, but plenty of pictures of those damn dogs. And he hadn't even had those dogs very long at all -- he replaced all of our pictures as soon as his second wife moved in with him. What's even more bizarre is this is a man who used to shoot his family's pets to get rid of them back in the day. I mean I've heard some stories that made me cringe about how he treated his kids pets when they were growing up (he buried my aunt's cat alive when it was dying -- who does that??) but back then an animal was an animal and he was putting it out of its misery. Now an animal is not just an animal, it's part of the family. People even get outraged if people leave their dogs tied up outside while they're away at work, but what are you supposed to do with a dog when you're not home? Not like they can be left in the house alone for 8 hours if they're going to crap or pee all over the place. I don't know when it was that pets started becoming equal to human family members, but I find it bizarre and I love and pamper my cat -- well, he's my baby. But if I had a human baby there would be a difference. (I think I rambled off topic...just thinking about people treating pets like they are equal to human family members.)

Our cat is spoiled rotten. It's not like we're just throwing him outside either. He's still spoiled, he just can't come in our room for now and sleep on our bed like he's used to. For once he's being treated like a cat!

Thank you. I don't know what that was about last night but he better not try to pull it again tonight!

I definitely will do that. He better not try to pull that again.