Irresponsible Pet Owners

I decided to dedicate this post to something that really gets on my nerves: people who shouldn't own pets, but do.

Back in April I decided that I wanted to increase the size of my pet family from one little kitty to 2 little kitties. I was approached by a Marine getting ready to deploy who was looking for homes for all 4 of his cats. After scouting out the prospects, I settled on a very small female cat named "River". 


River was 2 years old and wasn't spayed. Fearing that she was going to end up at a kill shelter because of her intact ovaries, I decided to adopt her. Not many people are willing to adopt unspayed females because of the annoying heat cycle that comes with them.


A few weeks after adopting her, a friend of my husband's came over to do his taxes and fell utterly in love with the cat. As he was leaving he asked if he could have her, because he really wanted a kitty. I told him he could, but she wasn't fixed so she was going to go into heat and it would be annoying and he should probably fix her. He swore up and down that he would.


Fast forward to July and the cat's heat cycle was too much for him, so he let her go outside..just for a few days. She came back 3 days later....with fleas, worms, and some nice kitten fetuses growing inside her. 


The kittens were born in August. He wasn't able to re-home many of the kittens, so he did what any loving and responsible pet owner does...he released them into the "wild". But he kept the mom.


Fast forward again to December. I got a frantic phone call from him one day telling me that he was going on leave and needed a place for his cat. I agreed to take care of the cat while he was gone...little did I know that he had no intention to actually come and get her again. 


Being without a cat carrier, he drove to my apartment with the cat zipped up in his hoodie. Immediatly after I saw her it was obvious that she was skinnier, seemingly emaciated, and covered in fleas. I did the best I could to wash her off, I quarantined her from my other 2 cats, gave her food and water and flea medicine and she finally started to gain weight.


She gained so much weight, in fact, that her stomach began to bulge out like a pot-belly, her nipples tripled in size, and she stopped going into heat. 


That's right folks...she's pregnant. Again. No good deed goes unpunished, so now instead of rescuing one cat from an irresponsible douche bag I'm rescuing a soon-to-be-born litter of kittens as well, and all I can think is thank GOD he gave her back to me, otherwise there would be even more unfixed kittens running amok outside, getting hit by cars, starving to death, and popping out litter after litter of of cats. 


She's due in mid January and I've been working to find home for all the kittens and so far it seems like their fates are all nicely secured in the hands of RESPONSIBLE family and friends who are already established cat owners and actually know wtf they're doing. 


But I have a message to that dumbass who owned this cat before me: 


ARE YOU STUPID?! The first rule of cat ownership is to have your cats spayed and neutered. I lay part of the blame on myself for not fixing her before adopting her out, but I'm not the one who let her go outside while in heat (not once, but TWICE!)


Do you even know anything about having a cat? Is this fun and games for you? Because I guarantee it's not fun and games for the cat. Worms, fleas, starvation, and 2 litters of kittens is very taxing on her little body. When she came to me she weighed only 5 lbs. What kind of sick fuck lets a full grown PREGNANT cat waste away into a 5 lb ball of fur? 


And transporting her without a carrier? Really? She could easily have gotten out, ran under your feet and prevented you from controlling the vehicle. She could have jumped out of your arms on the walk up to the door. So help me God, if I find out you have adopted another cat, I will be calling ASPCA and wouldn't be surprised if they found you with yet another starving, flea-ridden, unfixed cat and litter of kittens.

You're a mean one, Mrs. Grinch

Well December certainly got away from me. It feels like just yesterday I was driving back from the airport after visiting family in Utah for Thanksgiving. In fact, I haven't even unpacked my suitcase from that visit (I know, I know...LOL) and yet it's 3 days until Christmas? Umm...WTF?!?!?!


So this year I am being a bit grinchy. Well, every year around this time I start to feel a bit grinchy but this year it just seems so much worse.

I was planning on going home for Christmas again, as I have for the past few years, but upon further inspection my car tires are dry rotted and in no condition to drive 600 miles, and money issues prevents me from getting new ones anytime soon or from buying a plane ticket. My dad offered to pay for a plane ticket, but then by that point I was just so out of the holiday mood that I would rather sit at home drunk than go anywhere (and I didn't want to un-pack my suitcase.) Having 3 cats also doesn't help, since they are all so destructive. Then of course my husband is gone, and my self-esteem has been at such an all time low, it's a miracle I even wake up at all anymore.

So in the end I decided to stay here for Christmas....by myself...a thought that obviously doesn't lend itself nicely to positive thinking. My christmas tree has been lying on it's side for the past 2 weeks, since one of the cats climbed up it and destroyed it from within, so that seems to be the direction the holidays are going for me this year.


Having once been a starry-eyed child who's entire state of existence was based around how many days it was until Christmas, I never thought I'd actually say this....but I wish I could skip Christmas. Like maybe go to sleep on December 23 and not wake up until the 26. I don't even really celebrate Christmas that heavily, but there's something about everyone else out being joyous and you being in your apartment eating days-old chicken nuggets and drinking wine out of the bottle that just really really sucks.

If I could convey my Christmas spirit right now, this is it:

BAH HUMBUG!

BLOG WINNERS

So I finally got around to picking the winners to my blog giveaway, done via the completely random name in a hat method.

The winner of the Apron is: The Mrs, over at Diary of a Mrs

The winner of the cupcake kit is: JsnsWfy at Memoirs of Mental Illness  (P.s, add her..she's new to the blogosphere)


The winner of the Envelopes is: AF Wifey at Swindy's Stories


So my blog winners need to contact me sometime in the next....maybe 2 weeks so I can get their prizes to them. 


And now, since I asked you all to ask me questions when you entered, I'm going to reveal the answers:

Here's an update on my hair. It is freakishly dry, but I didn't have to shave my head and instead settled for a nice red topcoat, since that appears to be the only color that my hair will even let me do. LOL. 

"What made you and your husband decide to join the military?"

My husband enlisted because he wanted a stable job that would allow him to travel, that had good benefits, and was badass. That and his family has a history of military service.


"What's your favorite holiday recipe?"

If only I could cook haha! It would have to be brazelis, which are Swiss German cookies from my family that are made on a special iron to make them look like skinny waffles.

"What was the hardest thing for you and your husband to deal with when you two were first starting up your home together?"

My addiction to home furnishings and that fact that we aren't an endless pit of pier one giftcards.

"Whats your favorite thing about being a military spouse?"

Living in San Diego!!!

"What is your favorite thing to watch on TV?"

I don't actually have TV (something about rebelling against the "distraction") so I watch online (the new distraction haha). I watch: Grey's Anatomy, Vampire Diaries, The Walking Dead, Modern Family, Community, Glee, and America's Next Top Model.

"What is your favorite and least favorite duty station so far?"

We've only had 1 duty station (Pendleton) but I did live at Fort Leonard Wood for a few months and would have to say that although I love the small town feel, summers in Missouri are so miserable.

"Whats something that helps you cope with deployment?"

My boyfriends (Jose, Jack, Tanqueray, Bailey, Smirnoff, etc)


"What's your least favorite color?"

 I LOATHE the color yellow. It makes my eyes hurt, and makes agitated and it's the color of pee.

"Who was/is your favorite boy band?"
 
The Pet shop Boys. I don't know if they really count as a "boy band" but it's a band comprised of 2 boys lol.

"What music do you listen too?"

I listen to everything from punk to metal to pop to classical to 80's hair bands. I even listen to Irish folk music, pop, rap/Hip hop...I more or less have favorite songs as opposed to favorite genres.

"What would be the first thing on your bucket list?"

Live in another country. It's something I really want to do.

"If you could wake up tomorrow and be someone else, for ONE DAY, who would you want to wake up as?"

Dita Von Teese. She is gorgeous! And knows burlesque dancing!

BLOG GIVEAWAY!

I'm re-hosting my giveaway now!!
I'm giving away 3 badass prizes!

The first is this retro apron from Domestically Challenged on Etsy! Now, I have seen this apron in person and seriously, I am jealous of whoever scores this prize because it is CUTE AS HELL!

The second prize is a cupcake kit with these custom-made cupcake wrappers from Etsy seller That's a Wrap. I am completely obsessed with cupcakes. They remind me of my favorite book/movie Alice in Wonderland. The cupcake kit comes with adorable printed cupcake tins, a cupcake book, a cupcake mix, and these lovely custom-made wrappers (delicious frosting not included):

The third prize is especially for all your ladies with deployed men. It's a set of vintage airmail envelopes. Every time I write my husband letters, I always send them in these vintage envelopes. It makes my letters stand out and helps me channel my inner retro diva. I'm also including with this prize some pens made by yours truly with the camouflage pattern of the winner's own branch.

So how do you enter to win these prizes? Simple! Follow my blog and comment on this blog post with 1 question you really want to ask me. That gets you an automatic entry! But, you can get more entries a few other ways:

1. Blog about my giveaway = +1 entry
2. Follow me on Twitter = +1 entry
3. "Like" my facebook community page = +1 entry
4. Add my blog button to your blogroll = +1 entry

Make sure you include in your comment that you did all of that too (or if you have to, you can leave another comment).

I'm going to leave this giveaway open until 11:59 PM on FRIDAY, December 10...so just consider this an early Holiday gift!

The winners will be announced sometime next week on my blog, twitter, and facebook page.

*Those of you who entered this giveaway the first time are already entered and have been given an extra entry to boot*