Thursday morning I woke up thinking it would be like any other day. Well I was wrong. When I came downstairs the downstairs smelled like poop, come to find out it was the cat. At 5:30 in the morning the cat was bugging Sarah and wouldn’t let her sleep so she put her out in the hallway and shut the door. Well then the extremely mischievous cat started jumping and clawing at the door knob which isn’t exactly easy to sleep through. Sarah put her further down the hall in the cat carrying case in hopes to be able to sleep. The cat then proceeded to go to the bathroom in the carrying case and then lay in it. Sarah had to give the cat a bath, which the cat did NOT agree with. While Sarah was in the bathroom giving the cat a bath I went up stairs. Michael had a friend stay the night before so I went in to check on them playing. As I walked in the room reeked of urine so strong you just wanted to choke. I asked the kids while the room smelled and they didn’t know. I let the dog out just in case he had to go really bad and maybe it had been him, then I headed up to the room again to see if I can find any wet spots. I couldn’t find anything that would cause that smell. I headed downstairs wondering how to tell Sarah that not only does the downstairs smell like poop but the upstairs smells like pee. She came out of the bathroom holding a very wet cat in a towel, dried the cat off and then looked at all of her battle wounds from giving the cat a bath. I told her that Michael’s room smelled and she asked if it smelled like and an animal did it or a human. When I started to think about it I realized unfortunately that it was probably human. As she was standing in the kitchen looking and all of her cat scratches it dawned on me that it had been mentioned that Michael’s friend had a bladder problem. “A bladder problem?” I asked as it came to me. Sarah looked at me,” Yeah, have them go to the bathroom.” I run upstairs and tell them all to go to the bathroom. I went over to where Michael’s friend had slept on the couch and lifted up the blanket to find a pretty big wet spot on two of the leather couch cushions. He had an accident during the night and was too embarrassed to tell anyone so he walked around in wet clothes all morning. We had him take a bath and we washed all his stuff. Sarah was searching the internet to find out how to clean pee off a leather couch. She found that tea tree oil is a great cleaner and we had just happened to buy some recently. We got all excited that we had found what was said to be a good cleaner to clean the couch. She continued to read about it and found that it is harmful to cats and they can die from tea tree oil. As if our day wasn’t crazy enough she realized she had just washed the cat in a tea tree pet shampoo. This discovery prompted a call to the vet. They said to bring her in, where they decided to keep her all day to observe her. Thankfully the cat was fine. I thought it was going to be a normal day.
Note: All of these events occured before 10 am
