B!TC# IT OUT!

[Mermaid Kane]

We have a cat that recently started peeing (a few months ago) and the vet had some tips.

If you can come to an agreement with your roommate, ask to keep the cat out of the room first.
Then ask to buy some "happy pheromones" from the vet.
Maybe plant another litterbox in the room?

Sorry to hear that. Such a frustrating issue.

[KatieScottArt]

To clarify, the cat Belongs to my roommate aft my apartment, not my friend's place. Me and the girl also share a room so i can't lock the cat out.

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Ugh, cat pee on anything is the worst thing ever. The smell is so hard to get rid of!
Figured I'd chime in case this helps?? When I want to keep one of our kitties out of a corner of the house or off of the coffee table, I use a motion sensor spray canister called Sscat (30 bucks on Amazon) to train them. Its just pressurized air but it startles them and teaches them NOT to go in that area again. Something like this could be an option for sticking under your bed since you most likely wouldn't be triggering the sensor by walking through your room. Its not a fantastic solution by any means but its something you could consider I guess .

[Mermaid Momo]

Thanks everyone, honestly I'm ready to ask her to send the cat to her parents. Last night when i was getting ready for bed i again saw the cat go under and take a leak. I got some boxes and closed off under my bed. Then when i got off from work today while i was sewing i saw the cat go NEXT to the bed, between the bed and the tote i have there and squat and pee again. The smell is so bad i can hardly sleep and not to mention the smell is now on everything in my area and i can not take this and won't risk my rep as a cosplay commissioner.

What makes me more set on getting rid of the cat is that i am certain she knew the cat was doing it. The room, and my bed in particular smelled like hot piss so badly my eyes watered when i came back a few days ago. How does someone not notice that? And when i told her she said " we can put the litter box by your bed" um, how about no? And the litter box has been empty since i came back. Not one drop of pee or poop. ( I'm actually worried she'll be pooping on something else of mine)



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[Mermaid Oracle]

Momo, you can spray a scent on there that puts the cat off of peeing in that spot. It's a hormone spray. We had to use it for our cat and it worked well.

And thanks to everyone for the supportive comments. I talked to him about it and he apologized. He meant it as a joke. He said he's very proud of what I've learned and complimented what I've done so far.


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[Azurin Luna]

Thanks everyone, honestly I'm ready to ask her to send the cat to her parents. Last night when i was getting ready for bed i again saw the cat go under and take a leak. I got some boxes and closed off under my bed. Then when i got off from work today while i was sewing i saw the cat go NEXT to the bed, between the bed and the tote i have there and squat and pee again. The smell is so bad i can hardly sleep and not to mention the smell is now on everything in my area and i can not take this and won't risk my rep as a cosplay commissioner.

What makes me more set on getting rid of the cat is that i am certain she knew the cat was doing it. The room, and my bed in particular smelled like hot piss so badly my eyes watered when i came back a few days ago. How does someone not notice that? And when i told her she said " we can put the litter box by your bed" um, how about no? And the litter box has been empty since i came back. Not one drop of pee or poop. ( I'm actually worried she'll be pooping on something else of mine)



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We used double sided tape to keep our cat from things he wasn't allowed to get on or touch. Cats hate things sticking to their paws, so maybe you can put strips of tape on places you don't want the cat to get too. Else I would try the hormone things as some suggested.

[PearlieMae]

The cat is peeing because it sees you as an invader and is trying to assert its dominance. Put all your stuff in plastic tubs with lids for the time being, cover your bed with a plastic dropcloth (don't want pee on your pillow!) and pick up a Feliway collar or room diffuser (https://www.google.com/search?q=feli...hrome&ie=UTF-8 ) to help calm the kitty.

Unfortunately, it may take a long time for the cat to accept you, but the pheremones in the Feliway may slow down the peeing. Good luck!

[Echidna]

If a cat avoids her litter box, she will do so for a good reason.

It could be a myriad of things- something simple like the box being put in a place uncomfortable for the cat, or the box not being cleaned regularly- or something more serious, like stress due to the fact she is forced to live with someone who dislikes or mistreats animals, extreme unhappiness, and so on.

It could also be an illness. When a cat is in pain or sick, one often can't tell except for very small signs, and she WILL avoid using the litterbox if she is feeling pain while relieving herself.

Sad to see how unempathethic some people can be.
The only animal that does things for no other reason than to be a jerk is called "human".

[Mer_Adella]

This isn't really a "bitch" but irritating. I keep trying to upload pictures for different things here on the site (on my laptop) and no matter what I get the error code. "your image exceeds the quote by 16.4MB" it never changes from that specific number. I have edited pictures to smaller Jpeg size, png size, web image size....changed the pixel height and width....nothing!!! Does ANYONE have any suggestions ? It used to work fine for me back long ago, but now ......its just so irritating, I can't post pictures of my new tail for a review, I can't post pictures of mermaids I have photographed, or even the silicone work that I am doing or the cup that I need to sell because the buyer backed out. Help!

[Saelyyia]

You can’t upload direct to the site anymore. That’s why. Upload it elsewhere and link it.


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[PearlieMae]

I was having that same issue. Nice of them to let us know we can't upload directly to the site.

[Saelyyia]

I think Iona said something about it a few months back somewhere. I don't remember where. Basically it had to do with the site running out of server space. It was around when they deleted all the user albums too if I recall.

[Mermaid Whisper]

The announcement was from June of 2017 but wasn't clear at the time regarding individual image uploads:

http://mernetwork.com/index/showthread.php?t=15279

Waves and wishes,

Mermaid Whisper

[Saelyyia]

Thanks for linking the post Whisper! You're right that it was a bit vague. i think I just ready this part:

"Also, that when uploading photos to threads, when possible, please do so via URL, and uncheck the box that says, "Retrieve remote file and reference locally".

Doing this will use the space on the host's site, instead of uploading the photo to our server, which of course takes up our server space."and made the assumption on the logic that if it was eating so much server space, followed by the part where there were still people re-uploading the albums after that it would probably be a feature that got turned off entirely in the long run. I tend to be a "worst case scenario" thinker on such things because there are so many of us here and the activity feed can scroll by so fast that sometimes announcements get swallowed into the depths before too many folks see them.

However, I can just as easily see how this that could be misleading into thinking this only effected the user albums and not images in our forum thread posts.

[Mer_Adella]

Nice to know. Thank you for linking that so we can read it I definately would not have known, but I swear people keep adding pictures in the "I just had a photoshoot" section lol. Oh well. I guess if people want to see the types of mermaid shoots I photograph they can go to my page LOL. But thank you for linking it!

[Neerai]

This is not an angry post. It's a sad one.

Some months ago I came in the UK for working until the end of summer. I'm coming back to Spain the next month.
I left my dog in a nice residence/hotel for dogs, until I come back home.

Two days ago, my dog had a multiorganic failure and died suddenly.

I'm angry with the full Universe, and sad, because I couldn't even say her "goodbye".

I will miss her a lot.

[Kwilena]

My condolences. Can you tell us a bit about her?

[Yeka]

I'm so Neerai. Losing a pet is so hard. I lost my dog very suddenly earlier this summer, and she was at the vet without me when it happened. I didn't really get to say goodbye, either. It hurts and I are so sorry that you're going through this.

I agree with Merleece, tell us a bit about her if you can. It's nice to remember the good times.

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[inanna]

sorry for your loss, neerai.

[Neerai]

Thank you everybody.

Her name was Morrigan. She was a mixed breed, black, very funny and energetic. Her caregivers said they did not detected anything because she was playing until her last breathe. She was intelligent and funny. I found her in a diffusion webpage six years ago, and I fell in love with her. When I was suffering for anything, she was there always.
This was the longest time I left her in a dog hotel, until I come back to Spain, and it breaks my heart thinking she will be not with me anymore.

I'm really sad with this.

[inanna]

she sounds like she was amazing