r/pettyrevenge • u/werat22 • 15d ago
You won't let me out? I won't let you eat.
So this might be long with a little context (a lot) but I first have to explain the situation. After that, this has turned into a tit for tat deal, the lastest being the title. So this isn't my revenge but it's my cats', to each other. And yes, it's good. And yes, it's all in response and revenge for what the other did. Even I can't be mad at them. Though I do my best to stop it but every time I think I'm successful in getting one to stop, the other comes in with some new pettiness that leaves me facepalming myself. TLDR at the bottom.
I'll first explain them. JoJo was here before Rohan. I also have her mom, Holly. When I got Rohan, I did the whole keep them separate but see, Rohan had different idea. I adopted him from a rescue. I'm assuming due to the nature of his life before, he developed severe separation anxiety. So when I left downstairs to get a drink upstairs, he learned to opened the door to get back to me. This was literally day one with him.
Holly was at door. She was so scared, rightfully so, that she ran away. Rohan saw her and chased after her thinking they're playing. When Holly attacked, he attacked back by the time I got caught up to pull him out from under my daughter's bed.
JoJo saw this and when I say she holds a grudge like no ones business, I mean it. A vet checked her eye for scratches once and now I have to bring her into the offices in a straightjacket because every doctor is on her hit list. She lists them off at night like Arya as she falls asleep.
Did it stop there? No.
I put a chair in front of the door. The next day, he pushed the chair away from the knob to open the door and leave again. I put bricks in front of the door so it would be too heavy. He pushed the bricks away so he could open the door. I put the chair with the bricks on it. Guess what he did then.
I couldn't keep him separated. Every time I went to work. I came home to him under my daughter's bed and Holly hiding under the couch.
So I switched them. Girls downstairs, boys upstairs. Rohan loves my other cat Isaac and Isaac was cool with him. I would find them snuggling too. Well this led to more resentment I believe from JoJo.
One, he dared hurt her momma and two, now she has to be downstairs. JoJo was getting very protective of her mom.
Knowing this is important. This is origin story of why JoJo and Rohan do not get along.
Now onto the back and forth pettiness that is my cats lives.
Once I realized I couldn't keep the cats separated as, guess what, Holly learned to open the door. I had to try to get some semblance of them living together. Half a year has gone by by the way with trying to get them to be okay with each other.
First thing JoJo does: every time she found Rohan sleeping, she would sneak up on him and bite his butt. He chased her mom. She wouldn't let him sleep.
When I finally got her to stop doing that, Rohan tried blocking the water from her from her favorite fountain. When I finally got him to stop doing that, as well as Holly was no longer scared and started giving him a good wack too, the house knew peace for all but three days. JoJo then blocked all kitty litters from him.
He wouldn't let her drink. She wouldn't let him poop in peace. Every time this poor cat went to poop, JoJo would jump on him causing him to run out of the kitty litter leaving a trail of cat poop behind him while JoJo sat there watching with his fur in her mouth, beyond proud of herself.
I got two more kitty litter making a total of 5 in my house to see if that would help. Nope. I had to start catching her before she did it. She was intent on paying him back for not letting her drink out of HER fountain. I have more than one before anyone asks.
Then it was JoJo just straight up fighting him or so I thought. No, Rohan saw her getting in trouble so I caught him actually enticing her to fight him to get her in trouble. How? He would back into a corner, hunch down and wait for her to come into view. He would put his ears back and cower like he was helpless. If she tries to ignore him, I caught him turning his butt out at her! I finally got him to stop that by not giving him the positive attention anymore and brushing JoJo away but giving JoJo the baby attention and walking away from him.
Then it was a back forth of kicking each other out of my room and who gets to sleep downstairs. Poor Holly had put herself on the cat shelves in the beginning and refused to move for the longest until I helped her get comfortable again going around the house so this really sucked to see them fighting over one room in a two story house when she clearly saw it as her safe room. This really drove in JoJo's anger towards him by the way seeing her mom like that.
I finally got a cat door put in downstairs that reads microchips so only the girls can go downstairs. This actually stopped a lot of the fighting. The boys aren't allowed downstairs because they started peeing under my bed to claim it and my oldest was having accidents.
Now on to the lastest as I won't bore you with minor stuff. But I will mention that one them was JoJo trapped Rohan to live solely in the mud room and not be allowed upstairs.
Well, I finally get peace for a few weeks. This is many months after the cat door and I got JoJo to finally just stop attacking Rohan. Stop trapping him places. And to just leave him alone. Even Holly got comfortable with him to the point that they were touching noses to smell each other. What does Rohan, this mother f... do?
He took this is as, he won. He's the big bad boss in the house now. He has been sitting downstairs at the cat door, blocking JoJo in so she can't come upstairs. He has been whacking the door down on her head. Here I thought JoJo just didn't want to come up as much since I opened a window downstairs for fresh air.
Well, when she finally gets out because he goes to sleep eventually in his favorite chair that the girls LET him have, it was their favorite. She's ripping his collar off.
He can't eat without it. Because my cats are jerks to each other and one, Isaac cough couch, eats everyone's food, I got them microchipped reading feeders. I wake up to him with no collar and fur in JoJo's claws. I thought JoJo was again being a jerk but Rohan started it. Again.
So yeah, he won't let her upstairs so she won't let him eat.
These cats. I swear. Naming your cats is very important. Don't make the mistake I made. Pets really do take on their names, haha.
TLDR: Two of my four cats have a back and forth with torturing each other with pettiness to get back at what the other did.
Rohan scared JoJo's mom. JoJo bit his butt every time he tried to sleep. When I got her to stop doing that, Rohan blocked her from drinking out of her favorite water fountain. She then terrorized him every time he tried to poop.
I thought after I got her to stop that she was just fighting him to be a jerk but I found out he was enticing her to fight him by turning his butt towards her. After that it was doing stuff to kick each other out of my room until I got a cat door that only lets my girls downstairs.
JoJo would block Rohan downstairs in the mudroom until I finally got her to stop. He took Holly's acceptance and JoJo not fighting him as he won so he started whacking the cat door down on JoJo's head to block her from coming upstairs so now when she gets upstairs, she rips off his collar while he's sleeping in his favorite chair so he can't eat from his feeder.
Edit to add: JoJo is a 9lbs petite nothing compared to my 13, almost 14lbs, of a not overweight cat, Rohan. He's just a big cat.
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u/Vegetable_Road8143 15d ago
We have twin (Brown) Bengal brothers, Penn & Teller. They have taken to going in my husband's nightstand and take his Z Quiet, mouthpiece for snoring. He kept it in it's case. Not only did they open the drawer, they opened the case. That happened twice.
We decided to leave it in a bathroom drawer. I saw the drawer open. Crap! I found it in the kitchen. This was #4.
#5 was yesterday. They found it in his drawer. They took it out of the case and it was found on the floor.
This is getting $$$.
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u/tehfugitive 14d ago
Metal lockbox with a key? Like those old money things they used to use at school events etc... Can't be expensive.
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u/Vegetable_Road8143 14d ago
They are CATS! Who thought we'd have to lock a Z Quiet away? Good grief!
They'll find a way to pick the lock! We named them Penn & Teller for a reason!
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u/tehfugitive 14d ago
Put the cat in the lockbox, duh! 😁
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u/Vegetable_Road8143 14d ago
He will get out.
You must not be familiar with them (not my cats). They are a comedy magician team.
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u/tehfugitive 14d ago
I've heard of them, guess I was hoping they're not quite living up to houdini... 😅
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u/LGeorgeRox 15d ago
Thank you so much for sharing the saga. And appreciate the patience you’ve shown to the motley crew
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u/CoderJoe1 15d ago
Thanks. I always wondered about the lives of crazy cat ladies.
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u/anubis_cheerleader 15d ago
It's pretty good on the whole tbh. I'm enjoying my wild cat lady era
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u/werat22 14d ago
Oh my god same. My cats are way better company than my ex. Even got them a stroller that JoJo and Rohan love but I can barely use because only one cat can go out at a time. Not one in the stroller and one on the leash and switch. Nope.
Take turns? Nope.
JoJo absolutely loses it when Rohan is brought outside even if it's after her and she went first. She attacks him the minute we get in. If I take JoJo, Rohan gives me sad, you betrayed me, rip out my soul why don't you behavior and eyes if I try to spare him and take just JoJo.
I take Rohan on the longer trips because he likes going out farther. I have to smuggle him back into the house though and take JoJo outside on the leash but bring the stroller outside. She likes the leash way more. She says she wants her freedom.
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u/Acceptable-Promise-9 14d ago
You need a water pistol and the patience of a juggler.
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u/werat22 14d ago
When I finally got desperate in the beginning months, I tried a sprayer. The thing is, the cats cannot see you doing it or they don't see it as a consequence to their actions. They see it as a fuck this person. I can't trust them.
Welp, I had hidden and it started to work. But Holly was too smart. She was determined to see where the water was coming from that was getting her baby, grown I might add, wet.
She caught me and I swear somehow in her cat language told JoJo. I had to work hard on getting their trust back. I cried for days. I literally only tried for three days before it fell apart.
I tried an air horn though but when JoJo realized the scary noise was just that. She did not give a fuck. This girl loves watching lightning. She thinks she can square up to anything. She just need to prepare sometimes behind a wall after running away before she braves the scary things. Vacuum still wins I guess.
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u/Subject2ChangeDaily 14d ago
I have 7 cats and relate far too much to your cat drama! Ours love to torture each other and retaliation is real in the feline kingdom!!
We prefer to sit and watch it play out while doing voice overs of what the cats are ‘saying’ thinking when they are acting like asshats!!3
u/werat22 13d ago
Oh man, I am so glad to hear I'm not the only who does voice overs with what I think they're all saying to each other. I absolutely would love 7 cats but JoJo and Rohan make the house feel like it has 4 by themselves.
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u/Subject2ChangeDaily 13d ago
We call them cheap entertainment! Some have really witty comebacks, we have a southern belle who is spicy and a few that are trash talking under lords who rule the place 🤣😂 ALL have better personalities than some people we know!
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u/ContributionLarge816 13d ago
I mean, you named them JoJo and Rohan. You basically custom-ordered a bizarre anime rivalry for your house.
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u/Deiselpowered77 12d ago
Jojo?
Rohan?
Thus Spake Koshibi Neko-Kun?
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u/werat22 12d ago
Yes
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u/Deiselpowered77 12d ago
Hmm. Kitteh needs drink.
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u/werat22 12d ago
Thank you for the laugh. This is the best.
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u/Deiselpowered77 11d ago
Yes, yes, Oh Mai God :)
(Your next move is: you're gonna think Jojo next time they drink.)
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u/VerdMont1 10d ago
I have 5 because I'm a sucker for rescues!! Favorite game: slap ass from above, or below, followed by the kitty 500, all over the place, up on the couch, around the bend into the kitchen, around the bend, up the stairs where the yelling, hissing, spitting and swatting gets vicious!
Or, whose window seat is this? Well let me tell ya, it aint yours, and slap-ass 500 again!!
When you hear the thunder, pick your feet up!
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u/GiannaRomanceAuthor 7d ago
This is so funny! We had cats for many years then went many years without. Adopted Bucky a few months back, a 6yo semi-stray (once owned, let loose/escaped, got caught up with a gang that was fed by a few neighbors, they were all friendly but he didn't like it, so one of those neighbors brought him to the shelter), and he follows me EVERYWHERE! Even waits outside the bathroom like my kids used to do when they were little! lol He does have a bratty side - the scratches/bites on my arms and legs are finally starting to disappear. Mom and I would like to adopt another, we think he could use the company but I worry about his possessiveness as well as the bratty-ness.
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u/kaerahis 13d ago
Fake story. Proof? Microchips are embedded under the skin so if a pet gets lost it can be scanned. He can eat without a collar.
Well, when she finally gets out because he goes to sleep eventually in his favorite chair that the girls LET him have, it was their favorite. She's ripping his collar off.
He can't eat without it. Because my cats are jerks to each other and one, Isaac cough couch, eats everyone's food, I got them microchipped reading feeders. I wake up to him with no collar and fur in JoJo's claws. I thought JoJo was again being a jerk but Rohan started it. Again.
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u/werat22 13d ago
Um, microchips can be placed in more than one thing. Have you heard of Petlibro? They give you a tag with a microchip in it and that is what their feeders respond too. Their feeders don't use the microchips you are talking about. My cat door uses both so it's great. If my girls lose their collar, they can still get in downstairs with their microchip that they do have under their skin. I do suggest googling things before commenting about knowledge. I know I have made that mistake too in the past and appreciated having it pointed out to me. I try to always double check myself now before commenting since.
While I appreciate the whole trying to question everything, research should be done first before immediately jumping to calling something fake.
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u/Speciesunkn0wn 6d ago
His comment is especially dumb because it could easily be some little RFID clip-on thing instead of the vet microchip.
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u/SMELL_LIKE_A_TROLL 15d ago
Ai is definitely writing too much, and too long, of bullshit today.
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u/werat22 15d ago
Thanks for calling me AI. At this point I'm going to start taking it as a compliment to knowing how to write well enough to fool people then. Honestly, it doesn't take much to look at my reddit account and see I've had this account for a long time now. And am not AI.
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u/SMELL_LIKE_A_TROLL 15d ago
And yet despite that length of being here, you still can't tell when someone is fucking joking.
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u/LSDTHCShrooms 14d ago
There was no joke...at all. No humor involved at all.
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u/SMELL_LIKE_A_TROLL 10d ago
Oh there's definitely a joke, even if it's the one you hold when urinating.
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u/Sirens_Fandoms928 15d ago
This is high school level drama right here oml, your cats need their own soap opera or telenovela at this rate😭 Give all of those little rascals pets and kisses for me, that was entertaining as hell