catnapper
09-03-2005, 06:36 PM
Long story short:
My son had the whole third floor as his bedroom. TECHNICALLY half was his room, the other half was the guest room. Allen considered the guest room as HIS room. When Tony went away to college a few weeks ago, we shut the door to the 3rd floor thinking we'd have less hassle and less electric bill if we closed that off while our son was in school. Allen reacted by peeing everywhere. We took a few weeks to finally understand WHY he'd suddenly decided to spray.
My oldest daughter has the smallest bedroom, and my youngest has the largest bedroom on the second floor. (when they got to choose rooms, the largest room was decorated for a boy and my oldest daughter didn't want a boy's room so she chose the more girly room.... never did she think we could paint the room and take down the football themed curtains! :rolleyes: So her younger sister ended up with the larger room)
Today they all decided that since Tony was off to college and will not be home much anymore, that they'd move everything around - youngest daughter up to son's room because she'd be here the longest before heading off to college. My oldest daughter would take her sister's newly vacated room. My son would then end up with the smallest room, but it wouldn't matter since he's a college boy now.
Got all that?
Now, EVERYONE is mad at ME because I happened to bring up one little issue that would arise with this great room swap scheme. Minette would still go with Heather.... so she'd leave her little ivory castle and head up to the 3rd floor. Only she doesn't LIKE other cats, and if she goes up there, how is Allen going to have access to HIS room? He's going to start peeing everywhere again.
Ok, then I suggested they lock Minette in the one room on the 3rd floor and still let Allen access to the guest room, otherwise known as "Allen's room". No, hubby doesn't like that because then Minette would have a smaller room than she has now and he thinks she should have the entire floor to roam. She should - thats why I hope to some day find a home of her very own.
Ok, then why not leave her in the room she's already in, and still do the swap? No... Ash doesn't want to have a cat in her room, and Heather really wants to stay with Minette. URG!
So now I'm the big bad guy because I pointed out that we'd have a cat uproar over the move. Now nobody is moving and everyone thinks I'm out to spoil their fun. Why am I the bad guy? Its not as if I was opposed to the idea. They act like I was against it and made up this "crisis" to spoil their fun. GRRRRRrrrrrrrrr.
Ok, besides venting, I made this post to see if anyone has any ideas as to how this move could still work, making both the human and feline parties involved happy.
My son had the whole third floor as his bedroom. TECHNICALLY half was his room, the other half was the guest room. Allen considered the guest room as HIS room. When Tony went away to college a few weeks ago, we shut the door to the 3rd floor thinking we'd have less hassle and less electric bill if we closed that off while our son was in school. Allen reacted by peeing everywhere. We took a few weeks to finally understand WHY he'd suddenly decided to spray.
My oldest daughter has the smallest bedroom, and my youngest has the largest bedroom on the second floor. (when they got to choose rooms, the largest room was decorated for a boy and my oldest daughter didn't want a boy's room so she chose the more girly room.... never did she think we could paint the room and take down the football themed curtains! :rolleyes: So her younger sister ended up with the larger room)
Today they all decided that since Tony was off to college and will not be home much anymore, that they'd move everything around - youngest daughter up to son's room because she'd be here the longest before heading off to college. My oldest daughter would take her sister's newly vacated room. My son would then end up with the smallest room, but it wouldn't matter since he's a college boy now.
Got all that?
Now, EVERYONE is mad at ME because I happened to bring up one little issue that would arise with this great room swap scheme. Minette would still go with Heather.... so she'd leave her little ivory castle and head up to the 3rd floor. Only she doesn't LIKE other cats, and if she goes up there, how is Allen going to have access to HIS room? He's going to start peeing everywhere again.
Ok, then I suggested they lock Minette in the one room on the 3rd floor and still let Allen access to the guest room, otherwise known as "Allen's room". No, hubby doesn't like that because then Minette would have a smaller room than she has now and he thinks she should have the entire floor to roam. She should - thats why I hope to some day find a home of her very own.
Ok, then why not leave her in the room she's already in, and still do the swap? No... Ash doesn't want to have a cat in her room, and Heather really wants to stay with Minette. URG!
So now I'm the big bad guy because I pointed out that we'd have a cat uproar over the move. Now nobody is moving and everyone thinks I'm out to spoil their fun. Why am I the bad guy? Its not as if I was opposed to the idea. They act like I was against it and made up this "crisis" to spoil their fun. GRRRRRrrrrrrrrr.
Ok, besides venting, I made this post to see if anyone has any ideas as to how this move could still work, making both the human and feline parties involved happy.