Pissing on the bookshelf

If your cat pisses on your bookshelf every day for a year, you have three options:

1. train them not to,
2. get rid of your cat,
3. accept the scent of urine every time you read.

I understand that it's hard to divest yourself of a pet you love who's only been a problem for the last year or so. Option three is unhealthy. You may regret putting 'em on the street if you haven't at least tried option one, but if you can't train 'em in a year, you probably can't train 'em at all. That leaves only one choice, and if reading is your favorite hobby and that cat is making your life stink, it should be an easy decision.

When Jenna, one of my cats, started peeing everywhere, I told Sarah that our budget was $100 and one month. If we couldn't correct little miss pissytail's behavior within that budget, that cat would have to go. Thankfully, two weeks, one telephone conversation (with a pet psychologist), and forty dollars (worth of new food dishes, new litter boxes, and some dumbass stuffed animals) later, things were back to normal.

This however, is just a metaphor.