Sometimes I wonder what tomorrow's gonna bring

[lizblackdog]

Oh, for fuck's sake. I took the dogs out and discovered piss all over the floor in the downstairs stairwell. What the everloving fuck?

I don't know if it was Sloppy Drunk Guy in the flat next door but one, the GSD puppy having a bad housetraining day or what, but I do know it was semi-dried, which means whoever was responsible had left it there at least an hour or so without any attempt at cleaning up.

Rang the Council's "Antisocial Behaviour Officer" (we actually have one of those!) and left a grumpy message on their answerphone, more to forestall anyone thinking it might have been my dogs than in the belief they can actually do anything about it. I've no fucking intention of cleaning that up myself.

In other news, the futon collapsed for good when I lay on it last night - the heavy mesh panel that goes under the cushion part detached completely from the frame and basically dumped me and Squish on the floor. Buggerfuckpisswank. Luckily, I had a moment of inspiration and remembered the stack of carpet tiles someone gave me when I first moved in. They're scratchy, bile-coloured and nasty and the only use I've had for them so far has been to put them underneath things like dogcrates to avoid buggering the lino, but a stack of them underneath the futon proved to be the absolute perfect solution. I R SMRT!

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[peaceful-fox.livejournal.com]

I'm almost relieved that I am not the only person who broke a futon this week. (Just kidding. I was pretty pissed, as I am sure you were...)

Whoever is peeing or allowing someone to pee in the stairwell and not cleaning it up is disgusting.

[lizblackdog.livejournal.com]

I strongly suspect it was the GSD puppy; the pee was in a long puddley trail leading to the back door so it looked like he was being dragged outside, peeing all the way.

but yeah, it's the NOT CLEANING IT UP part that gets me. Spike cocked his leg in the stairwell once, after someone's visiting dog had marked there. I was in there with the antiseptic wipes inside five minutes. It's a damn communal area, for fuck's sake!

I love my futon, and I don't want to get rid of it - besides, it's a huge tubular-steel thing that took five grown men to get it inside the flat, so I couldn't get it out of here anyway. I had to make it usable again - I'm quite pleased with my inspired bodge-job!

[cottonmanifesto.livejournal.com]

oh a big ol' wtf about the piss in the stairwell! i hope someone else gets around to cleaning that up in the very near future.

and that sucks about the bed collapse - it could've happen at a much worse time, however. ;)

[lizblackdog.livejournal.com]

Two hours later and it's still fucking there. I'm conflicted. I want it clean and I don't really mind doing it, but that's like telling the pisser "it's okay, you don't need to take responsibility, I'm the Piss Fairy and I'll deal with your messes!"

but on the other hand, I LIVE HERE AND I DON'T LIKE LIVING IN PISS!!

my mother is here and says hi, btw. I think she's falling for Blade kitten, bizarrely enough. She's renamed him Hamish. I'm not allowed to argue about it.

[cottonmanifesto.livejournal.com]

hi mum!!

if you clean it, leave a note.

[lizblackdog.livejournal.com]

I certainly will. In very short words, written in crayon.

[cottonmanifesto.livejournal.com]

i feel like a yellow puddle with a red line through it would probably work.

[lizblackdog.livejournal.com]

Maybe I should just rub their noses in it?

[ex-ramona222.livejournal.com]

I hate it when bad pet behaviour evidence is left where it might incriminate my critters. I remember having a pipe burst and flood one of my spare rooms. It was a room I'd kept shut since day one moving in here - my cats, who use the litter bax faithfully (or in Mitzi's lil ol' lady case the tub), had never even stepped foot in there.

As soon as water hit the carpet the house reeked of cat urine. I over-explained the situation to death when anyone - even the plumber who came to fix in - came over. How mortifying to have a house filled with cats that smells like cat piss! Likewise people don't neuter their toms and let them out, they see my kitties in the window and spray the place so people coming to the door are hit with a noseful of it and then see all the kitties inside. They don't know mine are neutered and never let out of the house! I can handle being a crazy cat lady, but not a crazy cat lady who reeks. It's not fair!

[lizblackdog.livejournal.com]

Yes, exactly!! This is why I always have six or seven plastic bags in my pocket, this is why I go out with two dogs and pick up after four or five on some days, even though other dogs' shit makes me retch. I can't stand the thought of someone seeing dogshit on the pavement and then seeing my dogs.

and this is why I phoned the council, so they don't think it was my bloody dogs. I hope the tenants have more sense, because I've been here eighteen months and really, if my dogs were going to piss in the hallway they'd have done it long before now.

[ex-ramona222.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I thought that was a pretty damn smart pro-active measure, calling the council. It could be a person who pissed there, but pet owners always get the blame first (fair enough to a point - although heaven knows they do the mind does have trouble comprehending humans pissing in hallways). Sure they'd figure it out after kicking you out and seeing the puddling continue, but that wouldn't help you then!

[kyra-neko-rei.livejournal.com]

Isn't there some moron what floods the place with bleach regularly?

1)He'll clean it up, and
2)He'll be made unhappy by the existance of the mess what he'll be cleaning up.

The universe is in harmony.

[lizblackdog.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Shiny-Headed Cheerful Guy, who by the way is showing signs of fancying me *runs a mile*

actually, I prefer piss to bleach. It's not so likely to poison the dogs and the puddles are small enough to walk round and it doesn't stink as strongly.

[kyra-neko-rei.livejournal.com]

Yikes.

[hellfire82.livejournal.com]

prolly won't make you feel any better, but my "new" bed (fine, 2 years old) broke last night, too.

damned cedar. :/