fatty mcgee

so, my roommates have a pet. its a VERY expensive (don't even ask how much) papered tortise shelled persian cat. they call her marcie (they followed suit with the family naming convention and stuck with the peanuts theme. the other brown family pets are lucy, peppermint patty, franklin and linus). sometimes they call her maricie marie. i call her more approriately fatty mcgee. she weighs about 11 pounds. now, i bet you are thinking that is not that much, but my youngest sister had 2 chihuahuas that used to live here at chez brown, together they weighed less then 11 lbs. actually its the chihuahuas that stemmed the current problem.

lucy and frankie being as delicate and afraid of the winter like they are used to go to the bathroom indoors on "potty pads" really, flattened out diapers... well. fatty noticed this and decided that she was going to forego walking all the way into the basement and pee on the potty pads too. the potty pads were RIGHT in the front doorway, and i hated that. i thought the problem would be solved when SB took the dogs to olean, NY. boy were we wrong. about a week ago we started noticing that it smelled like cat piss in the entryway. cath was on her knees cleaning almost daily. and every so often it kept smelling like cat piss. well, cath caught her yesterday peeing on the rug, and in two days she had peed on that rug 3 times.

so cath had this great idea to put down moth balls, but conceeded to moving the litterbox up to the front entryway. ugh. i don't know if i am going to get a cat. if i do, its going outdoors... and if it dies, i'll get another one. jesus..

i have a theory about pets too, wanna hear it? here it goes. 1.) i would never get an animal from a pet shelter. those animals are "throwaway animals. someone had it, and threw it away. i know when i throw something away its for a darn good reason. so. i would never get an animal that is garbage. :)

2.) on the other hand, i don't believe in paying 1 grand for an animal. a pet is a pet. i would also like to think i would not own a dog. dogs are a hell of a lot of work. you can't just leave a bowl of food out for them and go away for a week. you have to walk them, let them in, let them out. cats can do all that on their own. sometimes they can even stay out on their own. i also don't believe in paying assinine vet bill for animals. if they are "sick" or get cancer, or some shit like that, put them to sleep, jesus christ. money doesn't grow on trees. why waste your hard earned dough on filing down your rabbits teeth? that is just DUMB..

i believe in getting a kitten for free from a family whose cat got knocked up by accident and they can't raise 9 new kittens. i don't think animals should be declawed either. they should go outdoors with their flea collars, and file their claws naturally on trees and stuff.

can you tell i've had 4-5 glasses of wine?

the dixie chicks kicked off the first concert of their new tour in england tonight at the theater where they made the comment about being embarassed about being from the same state as Bush that got them in all the hot water with the red states... anyway, the entire concert is being webcasted by msn. cath, mike and i were huddled around the computer watching it.. then cath went to bed, and i am writing this. em, mike, cath and i are going to their show in albany at the end of july. i am actually getting really excited about it. their new album is soooo good. i listen to as many songs as my commute allows each day.

the red sox lost. :( they were swept by the twins. maybe its good that i wasn't there.

cath and i talked out on the porch (i only wish it was spindley-not solid) most of the night about fetility and drank wine. i think cath is obsessed. :) but i think thats how mothers get when their children get married.