Comments on: Walter Tango Foxtrot

By: I’ll take Mom and the F-Bomb for 1000, Alex « The friggin’ cat house

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 00:07:55 +0000

[...] MoC saw Wende’s post using the military alphabet code she decided that from now on, she would substitute Foxtrot for [...]

By: Michelle

Michelle — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 17:11:29 +0000

Unfortunately, there is no mistaking the horrific smell of cat pee. At least not for me. YUK. Try putting some aluminum foil where she is peeing. Cats will not walk on it. Inconvenient, but it can work. Put the litter box nearby.

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Yeah, I was worried that that might not stop her… since she doesn’t seem to mind tin-foil. And we didn’t want the litter box in our living room. But we have terrific space for her to hang out while we all sleep… and she’s doing just great there. In fact, it’s a good solution, because now she doesn’t interrupt G’s sleep when she has to use the litter box! ~W

By: janet

janet — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 14:47:11 +0000

I don’t know a lot about cats, but it seems that I have heard that when a cat starts wetting in places like that, they might have a bladder or kidney infection. It seems hard to believe that even though she had the unfortunate previous episode that she would continue to do it on areas she hasn’t before.

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That was our first thought, actually. But alas, she is perfectly healthy; so it’s an issue of re-training. Cats will do this when they’ve been traumatized… and I’ll spare you her toileting habits, but being locked out of her box for so long would have been a VERY BIG issue for her. Even once we got home, she only wet on the couch when I left one of Sophie’s towels on the couch for her to use to hide. Ahem… poor baby. Sadly, an infection might have been easier to treat than retraining her. However, she’s doing fine in her new “suite” at night and has NO issues, using her new box.

By: Cap

Cap — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 02:50:27 +0000

I have no idea why my comment had the odd spacing … but … I think it fits.

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(watch Wende NOT walk through a VERY open door… good Wende, Good! )

By: Cap

Cap — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 02:49:23 +0000

MoC called me to tell me how much this post made her laugh. Now that I’ve read it, I agree. hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

Now that I’ve hahahaha’d you … I can empathize. A little. And every time I see TFC, I say, “thanks for not peeing on the couch! Love ya!”

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Heh, it makes me laugh to think of your mom calling you about my posts. Seriously, I should hire her to promote me. And I don’t even want to talk about that darn cat… NO.

By: katie

katie — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 13:12:51 +0000

aw MAN! And that smell does NOT go away. It’s like nature’s energizer bunny or something. You could burn that futon and 3 years later int he ashes you’d smell bonfire… and cat pee. WTF.

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Yeah, well… she killed the futon. For those of you keeping score that would be:

Kitty 3
Wende 0

But we’ve fixed her, oh yes we have. She now spends evenings and any time we’re all out of the house, in the basement gym. Where the floor is carpeted with industrial grade carpet over concrete… and there isn’t a couch in sight! ~W

By: Margaret

Margaret — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 04:52:40 +0000

Cat pee is unmistakable. We have a stray cat that marks in our garage, which is SO annoying. I love your WTF, so clever.

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Clearly not THAT unmistakable, since IZ keeps insisting it smells like my dog. OY! ~W

By: vicki

vicki — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 03:56:05 +0000

Well, as a cat person, I will say that their pee has a very distinctive and nasty odor. I’m glad MY cats never pee around on the furniture. I went through the whole slide show of beautiful photos (only one with the officiant! ). I love those shirts, BW looks GREAT and so does IZ and I really like the groom with his parents. The bride is stunning and it looks like it was a just plain fine wedding. Nicely done!

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It was a lovely wedding. And be thankful for the ONE photo… if I’d had my way about it, there would be no photographic evidence. ~W

By: Liza Lee Miller

Liza Lee Miller — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 00:55:35 +0000

Took me a minute to decode your message but it was received. Too funny. Greg is always the one who finds where Ruby peed on the rug and I’m always in denial, too. See, she communicates similarly to Sophie — intense stares. She also has ready access to the outdoors via her dog door. But, then again, unless one of the kids has taken to peeing on the floor, I think this dog does it when she doesn’t want to go outside for any reason at all.

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It must be a terrier thing, the eye-contact signal. ~W

By: Stacey @ Happy Are We

Stacey @ Happy Are We — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 23:20:46 +0000

As a culture, we Mormons are famous for making up non-expletive-expletives (see: “What the Flip?!”). But I’ve never thought of Walter Tango Foxtrot. That is too funny!!!

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Hee… we call that fake swearing. And I wish I could take credit for the Walter Tango Foxtrot, but it’s something I saw in the Etsy fora. ~W