One Thing Elinore Does That Drives Me Insane!

October 24, 2013

This week for the writers workshop I choose to write about number four which is: Your pets least likable character trait. I chose this one because I could literally list several things that she does that drives me up the wall and this is the one thing that drives everyone in my house insane.

Since I moved back home a few years ago Elinore has started only using the litter boxes to pee in them and not when she poops. She will go out side of the box in the laundry room and on the rug that we have right next in front of the door from the garage. I have no idea why she does this and what made her start doing this but needless to say everyone is tired of it.

When she does go outside and go to bathroom she will poop in the lawn but she will only pee in dirt or in a litter box so it isn’t like she doesn’t know what the litter box is for. She just seems to not want to use it when she poops. I have googled reasons why she has started doing this but everyone knows with cats you never know why they start to do crazy things.

If any of you have any advice on how to stop her from doing this I would greatly appreciate it.

What is one thing that your pet does that drives you insane?

Introducing . . .

May 16, 2013

Today for the Writers Workshop I am going to introduce everyone to Sylvia. I know I have talked about her on here before but I am going to introduce her and add a few clips of some videos that I have with her in them.

Sylvia is about 6 years old and my grandma is the one who picked out her name. I already had Elinore when I decided I was going to adopt a kitten and I wanted them both to have “old” lady names. She has always been a handful and has always hated to be held and picked up. She is to this day still hates to be held. While you are holding her she is growling and hissing.

She does have long fur so she gets mats. Since she hates to be brushed we just brush the mats out when they are little because she will allow us to pet her when she wants to be petted. When she decides that she wants to be petted you have to drop everything and pet her or she will hiss and run away.

She is the first cat we have ever had that is either sitting still or running full speed. She doesn’t seem to go anywhere walking well she never used to but she has had to start slowing down because we redid the flooring in part of the house and she slides everywhere if she runs.

Here a few videos of her: The second one shows what she does when she wants to be petted and I try and move her off of me.

She is also scared of pretty much everything and I believe that is because she picked up on everything that Elinore was scared of in the beginning. Since Elinore was abused before I got her she was super scared of everything and has since started growing out of all of those things but Sylvia is still scared to death of pretty much everything.

That is pretty much all of Sylvia and some of the crazy things that she does.

What crazy things do your pets do?

Flip-Flops

April 9, 2013

This week for the Writers Workshop there were two prompts that I wanted to write about so I figured that I would just write about one today and the other one on Thursday. Right now I am going to write about the latest thing that my cat has destroyed. I am sure most of you know that Elinore was abused before I got adopted her so she tends to have weird quirks.

After I had her for about 6 months I got Sylvia and then all of my flip-flops started to look like one of them was clawing them. For the longest time I thought it was Sylvia because she is the one who has front claws and I didn’t see how Elinore be able to do that to them since she has no front claws.

After I moved back in with my grandparents my grandma finally caught the cat that was literally destroying any flip-flops that she could find which also included ones that my grandpa kept in his closet. It was Elinore!!!!!!!!!!!!! She bites them and then pulls parts of the foam off. If she find any flip-flops that are on the ground she will chew them up and destroy them. I can’t even begin to tell you how many pairs I have had to replace because she destroys them.

Here are a few pictures of a few that we just leave on the ground for her to destroy.

So as you can see she loves to chew them up. I find she mainly does it when she is mad at me for some reason or if she got in trouble. I have started just buying them when they are super cheap at the end of summer and giving them to her. I find that she likes her old purple on the best and I can always tell when she has been chewing on it because there will be little pieces of purple all over the place in my room.

What is the latest thing you pet destroyed?

Update on Elinore & Sylvia

February 4, 2013

So I haven’t written about the cubs in awhile so I figured that I would do an update on Elinore & Sylvia and also introduce them to any new followers that I have that may not know who the cubs are. I have 2 cats that I have always called the cubs because they tend to follow me around like bear cubs follow their mom’s. Their names are Elinore & Sylvia.

Elinore

I adopted Elinore from “No More Homeless Pets” about 6 or 7 years ago. She was abused before I got her. She only has half a tail and the pads on her front feet look like they have been burned or something like that. When I first got her she was super skittish and scared of most things. She has slowly come out of that but she still doesn’t like feet and she isn’t a huge fan of males. She also has start to have issues with using the litter box and I am not sure why she is having them so I can’t fix it.

Sylvia

I got Sylvia from one of my brothers ex-girlfriends and she is about 5 years old. She is by far the craziest cat I have had. She hates to be held in fact she pretty much hates to do just about anything when she isn’t doing it on her own. She only wants to be petted when she says so and at times that isn’t a great thing for us. She loves to sit on my grandma’s chest and get petted at night and she takes a dime view of you not wanting to pet her when she says that it is time. She also loves to play. She would play all day if someone would sit there and play with her feather toy.

Poor Sylvia

December 21, 2011

I haven’t written about my kids in awhile so I figure you might like to hear the latest thing that has happened to the baby of the group Sylvia. If you have followed for awhile you know I have 2 cats Elinore or Alley Cat and Sylvia. My grandparents also have a cat named Vinnie that has to be around 15 years old. I recently received an awesome product to review on my blog (that review will be up in the next few days). They packed the box with paper so that it wouldn’t shift while it was being shipped. Now my two cats are easily scared and my family has been known to torment them from time to time because of how they act. My grandparents cat has always loved paper. So he was playing in the paper and is actually still sleeping on the paper because every time we try and clean it up he gets upset that we get rid of it. Anyway Vinnie decided that he was going to hide in the paper and jump out at Elinore. Now of course she took of running both times he did it which gave me the great idea of scaring the girls myself. Let me just say Sylvia ran into the metal railing as she was trying to get away and go hide in the basement.

She finally at one point decided that it was safe to come up so she came into my room and I was taking her to eat because she hadn’t eaten because I had scared her. My brother hears me coming down the hall holding her and he scared her again. I think she would have been okay if she had only been scared the 2 times but then the next morning Vinnie is hiding in the paper again and scares poor Sylvia for the 3rd time.

Now my poor cat is having a hard time even functioning in the house. I am sure part of it is because the paper is still in the living room because my grandma refuses to throw it out because Vinnie is still sleeping in it. My hope is that after Christmas when the paper is gone and things are back to normal that she won’t be as scared as she is now.

***I know I shouldn’t have done it at all but it was funny. I did get pissed when my brother did it the second time but there was nothing I could do since I had no idea he was going to do it until I walked past the paper and him. If I had know I wouldn’t have walked down the hallway with her.