AKICILJ (Cat Edition)
Oct. 2nd, 2009 03:35 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rushthatspeaksDoes anyone have any idea how to get blood off non-washable paint?
Our two cats, after living together with only moderate fighting for seven years now, have been going through a spell of being viciously at each other all the time. (We are thinking of trying Feliway.)
A couple of nights ago, there was howling as of the damned at three in the morning, and Ruth staggered up, separated the cats, grabbed one at random (they are both black, and not easy to tell apart in the dark), put him in the bathroom to calm down, and came back to bed. I let him out some while later. He didn't yowl or otherwise express objections to being in the bathroom, or anything, which is why it was so shocking when Ruth opened the door in the morning.
There is blood on every single object in the bathroom. There is blood on the ceiling. There is blood on the lightbulbs above the mirror, there is blood on the mirror, there is an amazing and disturbing quantity of blood on the door, there is blood soaked into the magazines we keep on the back of the toilet. There is blood on the towel rack. And of course there is blood all over the walls, at all heights. Overnight it had dried into, essentially, paint (it does not even want to come off the tiled floor).
Upon anxiously examining the cat, we discovered that all of this apparently came from a very small nick in one of his ears, which has scabbed over and seems to be doing fine.
Upon going over to shut the window of the outer room earlier this evening, I discovered that he had bled not as impressively but quite distinctly on the windowsill, down that wall, and on our couch, too.
We do not have washable paint. I mean, most things can be scrubbed, and the magazines thrown out, but if you get the paint in our apartment wet it starts to run and go streaky. And if you get the paint in the bathroom wet and rub it it starts to peel-- you can get it wet without it disintegrating, but you can't scrub.
At this point I am seriously considering repainting the entire bathroom-- which would have to include the ceiling-- the windowsill, and a significant stretch of wall. We live in a studio. This would be hellish.
Does anyone have any alternate solutions, possibly chemical?
ETA: I also need to remember in future that this cat is not good at telling people when something is wrong with him; this is the same cat who once failed to notice when he set himself on fire. (He leaned on a kettle for... quite some while. He was fine then, too, although he objected strenuously to the way his fur tasted burnt.)
Our two cats, after living together with only moderate fighting for seven years now, have been going through a spell of being viciously at each other all the time. (We are thinking of trying Feliway.)
A couple of nights ago, there was howling as of the damned at three in the morning, and Ruth staggered up, separated the cats, grabbed one at random (they are both black, and not easy to tell apart in the dark), put him in the bathroom to calm down, and came back to bed. I let him out some while later. He didn't yowl or otherwise express objections to being in the bathroom, or anything, which is why it was so shocking when Ruth opened the door in the morning.
There is blood on every single object in the bathroom. There is blood on the ceiling. There is blood on the lightbulbs above the mirror, there is blood on the mirror, there is an amazing and disturbing quantity of blood on the door, there is blood soaked into the magazines we keep on the back of the toilet. There is blood on the towel rack. And of course there is blood all over the walls, at all heights. Overnight it had dried into, essentially, paint (it does not even want to come off the tiled floor).
Upon anxiously examining the cat, we discovered that all of this apparently came from a very small nick in one of his ears, which has scabbed over and seems to be doing fine.
Upon going over to shut the window of the outer room earlier this evening, I discovered that he had bled not as impressively but quite distinctly on the windowsill, down that wall, and on our couch, too.
We do not have washable paint. I mean, most things can be scrubbed, and the magazines thrown out, but if you get the paint in our apartment wet it starts to run and go streaky. And if you get the paint in the bathroom wet and rub it it starts to peel-- you can get it wet without it disintegrating, but you can't scrub.
At this point I am seriously considering repainting the entire bathroom-- which would have to include the ceiling-- the windowsill, and a significant stretch of wall. We live in a studio. This would be hellish.
Does anyone have any alternate solutions, possibly chemical?
ETA: I also need to remember in future that this cat is not good at telling people when something is wrong with him; this is the same cat who once failed to notice when he set himself on fire. (He leaned on a kettle for... quite some while. He was fine then, too, although he objected strenuously to the way his fur tasted burnt.)
