Pet owners are weird?
Pets seem to elicit a strong response from you all with lots of stories about why pet owners can be weird as flatmates...
Natasha from West Midlands said that her weirdest flatmate was "The woman with her 12 cats. We started out with 5 cats, but unfortunately they bred into 12 cats which made it for me time to leave. They weren't allowed outside, so you may guess where they had their accidents. And we had a problems in that house with mice as well. They all slept in her bedroom, yugh!"
Leona from London sent in this comment about her feline flatmate. "She also had an elderly cat who used to fill up litter trays in the kitchen (yum) and she was too lazy to clean them so it was up to me. When I went on holiday, she left them dirty for two weeks in a London heatwave...I could smell the flat coming down the street...it was time to leave..."
Charlie from the UK mentions that one of his flatmates used to let their cat lick the butter! Gross!
Personally I think pets can make great flatmates - they won't steal your clothes, your girl/boy friends and if they are well trained, they rarely make a mess. Got any weirdo pets and flatmates stories?
COMMENT:
AUTHOR: Johnny mad dog
EMAIL: johnny@hotmail.com
DATE: 2006-04-26 10:03:46
I was had a flatmate who left the kitty litter tray in the bathroom. It was totally disgusting. Can you imagine all the heat and steam from the shower and the effect it had on amplifying the toxic smell eminating form the tray??! Not to mention the constant smell of cats pee everytime you went in there. Kinda puts you off having any pets at all, ever. Yuk!!!!
Comments
DATE: 2006-05-18 12:59:14
I had a flatmate with a cat who would leave for holidays for a couple of weeks (not telling myself and our other flatmate) and leave the cat in her bedroom with the door closed. With only a bowl of dried cat food and one of water (incidently, the bowls were my picnic bowls...). The poor cat was so distraught it scratched up the carpet under the door, and our other flatmate and I only found it when we came home from our own holidays (as this was over Easter we had been with our respective families for the weekend).
People like that should never have pets! gosh, at least she could have put it in the garage where there's more room! Although I know we would have preferred her to get it professionally looked after - I mean kate and I ended up feeding it and letting it out because it was so distructive left in the bedroom.
Also, this girl never paid for the damage her cat did to the bedroom, and as she left before the lease ended (without telling us as well, grrr), kate and i ended up losing all bar $170 of our $1300 bond because of it.
Hence I am never living with someone wiht a pet again!
Posted by: liz | July 10, 2006 08:44 AM