I am a bad person…

We own a cat that I don’t like, yet won’t get rid of.

Background- When my son was about two and a half, we had put our last cat down and decided it was time for a new pet. We were actually thinking dog and to further that, we went to the animal shelter. To get to the dogs, you have to walk by the cat cages. As we walked by, this little black cat meowed at Soren. I didn’t think anything of it and we went out to the dogs. They started barking and it scared Soren a LOT, so I took him back in while Hubby looked at the dogs to see if there was a likely prospect. As we went to look at the cats, the cat meowed at Soren again. This cat could have cared less about me, but kept talking to soren, and soren BABBLED BACK! (at this point he was hardly talking and usually had to be pressed to make any sort of attempt). Hubby came back and I went to look at the dogs, but there really were no good prospects. We went back to the cats, and soren was still talking to the black cat. I pointed it out to hubby and he agreed that maybe the cat was the best plan. So we adopted the kitty and brought her home. They claimed she was two, but since she grew after we got her, I don’t think so.

Now she is still Soren’s buddy, although as he has gotten bigger, she has taken to playing rougher with him. Sometimes she even scares him. But that’s not what annoys me. It isn’t even that I had to get rid of my fish tank because she eats the fish (although that annoyed the crap out of me). Its that she likes to play with me, specifically if I am on the phone or on the bed reading. She will pounce with both claws and teeth and no matter what I do, she wont stop. Sometimes I have come away with bruises and bleeding from her "Play". So yeah, I am a bad person because even though I pet her, let her sleep with me, feed her, etc. I hate that cat…