End of my tether

I softened after locking the two cats in the bathroom overnight, and allowed them to sleep on the sofa in the living room last night. First thing this morning, when I got up, Mr Naughty did a poo in the litter tray in the bathroom, and I'd accidentally left the bedroom door open, so he hopped straight onto the freshly-laundered bed clothes and did a huge wee.

That was the last straw for me. I opened the doors but he would not go out, even when I tried to chase him. Eventually, after about half an hour, he did go outside, then came straight back inside again. I put him out again and closed the doors, and he just lay there.

I put his breakfast outside the door, but he didn't come near.

Meanwhile, Mrs Polly Wolly was hiding in the storeroom and wouldn't come out for her breakfast. I went out, and when I came back, she had eaten it and gone back to disappear in the storeroom.

Mr Naughty has now disappeared and his breakfast remains untouched.

What a disaster!!!! I paid $250 for him, followed shortly by $100 for a vaccination, and $100 for her. Flea and worm tablets cost $55, and remain unused, as I can't catch either of them to administer them. Then there's the cost of food - probably about $3 to $4 per day, and litter. And, after two and a half months, not a single cuddle from either. What did I do to deserve such a problem?

Banished to the bathroom

Oh dear, what did I do to deserve such problem cats? After two and a half months, nary a cuddle from either.

And bed-wetting!!! Yesterday I got up early to wash the bed linen. I took the sheet, pillow slips and doona cover off the bed and put them in the washing machine. When I walked back into the bedroom, Mr Naughty had piddled on the electric blanket, and the wee had gone through that to the mattress cover. Fortunately, these days electric blankets are washable, so I threw these two into the machine.

The day was warm and windy, so everything on the line dried. When he got home from work, Philip came to help me make up the bed with the fresh linen. (In the morning, I had thrown a top cover that Mr Naughty has shredded, onto the floor, as it wouldn't fit into the machine. I always put it on the top so he doesn't get the chance of shredding any other doona covers.)

We'd put the mattress cover, the electric blanket, the  sheet and the doona back on the bed, and I leaned down to pick up the shredded top cover. Oh my god - it was soaking wet!!!!!!!!!!! There was no smell, and I hadn't noticed in the morning, so it had lain there all day. I had kept the bedroom door closed after discovering the wet electric blanket, so that naughty cat had obviously piddled in two places in the morning.

I was beside myself, and locked them both in the bathroom for the night. But they looked so forlorn (see photo) I knew that wouldn't last long. So, this morning I've allowed them into the living room but not the bedroom.

I really don't know what to do.

A little bit of good news - Tommy out till next court case

This is a great article by Douglas Murray, setting some of the facts about Tommy Robinson straight:

https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/05/tommy-robinson-grooming-gangs-britain-persecutes-journalist/

I particularly like this section of the article:
"The problem — as I said in 2015 — is that any challenge Robinson presents is all a secondary issue. The primary issue is that for years the British state allowed gangs of men to rape thousands of young girls across Britain. For years the police, politicians, Crown Prosecution Service, and every other arm of the state ostensibly dedicated to protecting these girls failed them. As a number of government inquires have concluded, they turned their face away from these girls because they were terrified of the accusations of racism that would come their way if they did address them. They decided it wasn’t worth the aggravation."

This is a video by Andrew Norfolk, the Times journalist who first exposed the rapes and coverup by the Establishment:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7P7ih1GuuQ

One of the comments following the above video:

Alex Busby

"Great work Andrew Norfolk and the Times. Proper journalism at its best. Those responsible for suppressing this scandal should hang their heads in shame, 'though it's pointless demanding those directly responsible hang their heads in shame, as they have none. The UK is in a dire mess with this particular type of 'enrichment', and it will get much worse before it gets better."

Channel 4 interview with two of the raped girls:

Published on Nov 9, 2017:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAvRj6BQ0AM

Thank goodness Tommy is getting a lot of support from decent people all round the world. Including me.