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Well, this cat has always been a little screwy. She was way worse than taming any feral cat: She had been heavily abused (man, it seems all my animals are either ferals or rescues). Her previous owners threw her like a wet sack of potatoes, shaved off her whiskers, even shot at her. When we first got her, she was legitimately frightened at the sight any person. I've watched quite a bit of My Cat From Hell, and I rarely see a cat on that show that did more damage than Sophie did when we first got her. She would actually charge and attack people that weren't even in the same room; no way in the world were they provoking her. She's a normal cat now, but it took years for her to get over her fear and re-arranging the house to give her plenty of hiding spaces.

But she really can't control her bladder right now. I've seen that cat running as fast as it can to it's litter box wizzing as it goes. It's not an anger issue with her. She is going enough right now to make the litter box seem as if we have 4-5 cats instead of one (and she only makes it there in time around 75% of the time). Sophie the cat, for all intensive purposes, is nearing death and just trying to make her comfortable. It just sucks right now that this time last year I had 2 cats and a dog. 1 cat and the dog have both recently died, and my last cat is on it's last limb due to a nice combo of cancer and diabetes. Yippee.

Fuck her previous owners. Even though it had to be crazy difficult I'm glad she ended up with you since most people would put a cat like that to sleep instead of helping her learn to trust people again.

I hate that the old saying "tragedies happen in threes" ends up really being true for people.

It's entirely up to how you feel, of course, but maybe it would be a lot easier on yourself to take a break from owning animals after this. That's just way too much heartache.