observant husbands?

handsome kitty · Jun 25, 2015

Last night I remembered I still needed to clean the litter boxes. Hubby says 'You clean them twice a day?" Had Eclipse for a year now and he just notices!

2 nights ago he asked how many cat trees we have. If you have to ask . . .

Wondering if he'll notice if I take out the asperagus ferns and replace w/plastic or silk. He has said I cannot get rid of them. Doesn't care that they are toxic to the cat.

Kat0121 · Jun 25, 2015

Handsome Kitty said:
Last night I remembered I still needed to clean the litter boxes. Hubby says 'You clean them twice a day?" Had Eclipse for a year now and he just notices!

2 nights ago he asked how many cat trees we have. If you have to ask . . .

Wondering if he'll notice if I take out the asperagus ferns and replace w/plastic or silk. He has said I cannot get rid of them. Doesn't care that they are toxic to the cat.

Unless he's the one that waters them, he probably won't notice if you replace them with silk plants. Some fake plants look very real these days. if he does figure it out and gets upset just tell him that he'd never forgive himself if something happened to Eclipse because he insisted on having poisonous plants in the house. If logic doesn't work, hit them with guilt.

AbbysMom · Jun 25, 2015

A few months ago I was straightening out on my husband's side of the couch and noticed old, dried up cat vomit that would be inches from his head when he is sitting there! I can't imagine how long it was there for! It was on the side on the cushion, so it would be hard to see unless you were sitting there, but if you were and turned your head, you would be looking at cat vomit. Yes, I did take a picture of it and text it to him before I cleaned it. :anon:

twinkles21 · Jun 25, 2015

Kat0121 said:
Unless he's the one that waters them, he probably won't notice if you replace them with silk plants. Some fake plants look very real these days. if he does figure it out and gets upset just tell him that he'd never forgive himself if something happened to Eclipse because he insisted on having poisonous plants in the house. If logic doesn't work, hit them with guilt.

This is truth lol. It's the man-gene, makes it impossible for them to notice obvious things.

Few years ago I decided to give myself an anniversary present and NOT remind DH it was coming up and see how long it took him to remember. It's was 11pm on the night before and he remembered and ran out of the house to buy a present and card. In his pajamas, without his wallet, without his keys. lol Yep locked himself out of the house. He had to sleep at the neighbours hahaha. Best present ever!

sivyaleah · Jun 25, 2015

If I even began to list the things my BF glosses over I'd just get annoyed. He gets distracted way too easily and, has a really poor sense of time going by.

@AbbysMom : That has happened to in our house more times than I can tell. I just don't get it. Casper sometimes throws up on one specific window sills - it's the one easiest for him to get to at his age. I am pretty sure my BF moves the curtains back daily at some point (we have different schedules) and how he misses it is beyond me. I move the curtain once in a while, and I see it immediately. Same with things on the floor - he'll just step over whatever it is.

Sometimes I think he believes we have elves living with us that pick up after us. The elf, of course, being me.

MoochNNoodles · Jun 25, 2015

twinkles21 said:
This is truth lol. It's the man-gene, makes it impossible for them to notice obvious things.

Few years ago I decided to give myself an anniversary present and NOT remind DH it was coming up and see how long it took him to remember. It's was 11pm on the night before and he remembered and ran out of the house to buy a present and card. In his pajamas, without his wallet, without his keys. lol Yep locked himself out of the house. He had to sleep at the neighbours hahaha. Best present ever!

That is hysterical!!!

Sometimes I feel like DH and I have those traits reversed. I; who worked in a card store for 2 years that included while DH and I were dating) will forget the anniversaries. Not our wedding anniversary; but dating and that sort of thing. He doesn't go get cards/gifts anymore; but he does remind me. (We started dating in 2001.) He's also really good at housekeeping tasks.

This year we were out of town for our wedding anniversary. We drove to visit family the day before. On the way up he said "I need to run to Walmart after we get there." He'd forgotten to get a card. And that's when I realized I didn't bring his. It wasn't until we were home a couple days that I realized the card I got for him was actually his father's day card; not our anniversary card. I was shopping with the kids when I picked the cards out and I meant to go back another time for the anniversary card since the kids were getting antsy and I like to read a bunch over before I find the one I like best. He on the other hand; got up early the first morning we were home and went out to buy me a card, flowers and my favorite Lindt truffles.

AbbysMom · Jun 25, 2015

sivyaleah said:
If I even began to list the things my BF glosses over I'd just get annoyed. He gets distracted way too easily and, has a really poor sense of time going by.

@AbbysMom
: That has happened to in our house more times than I can tell. I just don't get it. Casper sometimes throws up on one specific window sills - it's the one easiest for him to get to at his age. I am pretty sure my BF moves the curtains back daily at some point (we have different schedules) and how he misses it is beyond me. I move the curtain once in a while, and I see it immediately. Same with things on the floor - he'll just step over whatever it is.

Sometimes I think he believes we have elves living with us that pick up after us. The elf, of course, being me.

Oh I hear that! :lol3: Whenever Abby starts vomiting he yells for me. :lol3:

Winchester · Jun 26, 2015

Funny you should mention cat puke. This morning, Rick opened the drapes at the living room window. He sat down on the couch to put on his work shoes. I walked into the living room and, right away, I saw the puke on the floor (and on the edge of the cat tree). I don't understand how he cannot see this stuff!

It's right there! Brown stuff! On a white cat tree! How does one NOT see it?? He says I'm like the Superwoman of Cat Puke and I can walk into a room and see cat puke at 50 paces. I looked at him, said,

, got the paper towels and cleaning stuff and cleaned it all up.

I handed him the bag to put into the trash can on his way to this truck. He looked at me and asked, "What do want me to do with this?" What the heck do you think I want you to do with it? THROW IT OUT! For crying out loud.

But to be fair, BooBoo started coughing very early this morning, around 1:30 or so. Rick immediately awakened and put Boo on the floor. Boo got over his coughing spell, hopped back into bed, and we all went back to sleep. About an hour or so later, he got another coughing fit. Rick immediately put him back on the floor. Where he puked up everything from his bedtime snack. Rick did clean it up (probably because I rolled over and ignored the whole thing). He did say, "I could use some water on these paper towels." And I said, "Mmm, hmmm." And he got it himself.

It was not a good morning.

Columbine · Jun 26, 2015

I hope BooBoo's ok. Poor boy..puking half the night can't be nice for him :vibes:

sivyaleah · Jun 26, 2015

AbbysMom said:
Oh I hear that!

Whenever Abby starts vomiting he yells for me.

To be fair, I yell for him

Except if he's still in bed then I'll deal with it. But it's hard to do. Not because of what it is (well that also) but, because of my knees being shot. It's really difficult to bend!

sivyaleah · Jun 26, 2015

handsome kitty · Jun 26, 2015

Winchester said:
Funny you should mention cat puke. This morning, Rick opened the drapes at the living room window. He sat down on the couch to put on his work shoes. I walked into the living room and, right away, I saw the puke on the floor (and on the edge of the cat tree). I don't understand how he cannot see this stuff!

It's right there! Brown stuff! On a white cat tree! How does one NOT see it?? He says I'm like the Superwoman of Cat Puke and I can walk into a room and see cat puke at 50 paces. I looked at him, said,

, got the paper towels and cleaning stuff and cleaned it all up.

I handed him the bag to put into the trash can on his way to this truck. He looked at me and asked, "What do want me to do with this?" What the heck do you think I want you to do with it? THROW IT OUT! For crying out loud.

But to be fair, BooBoo started coughing very early this morning, around 1:30 or so. Rick immediately awakened and put Boo on the floor. Boo got over his coughing spell, hopped back into bed, and we all went back to sleep. About an hour or so later, he got another coughing fit. Rick immediately put him back on the floor. Where he puked up everything from his bedtime snack. Rick did clean it up (probably because I rolled over and ignored the whole thing). He did say, "I could use some water on these paper towels." And I said, "Mmm, hmmm." And he got it himself.

It was not a good morning.

According to my daughter, If you see the cat puke you have to clean it up, and that's why the men don't see it.

Norachan · Jun 27, 2015

My husband notices two things;

1. Food.

2. Boulders.

He's absolutely obsessed with climbing and if he can't get out and cling to a rock face he literally starts climbing the walls. This means I do 100% of the house work. Because he never sees the dirt he never cleans it.

The plus side is he never notices when I sneak another cat in to join the gang.

fhicat · Jun 27, 2015

Norachan said:
The plus side is he never notices when I sneak another cat in to join the gang.

Unless it's a boulder-shaped cat?

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handsome kitty · Jun 27, 2015

Is that a real place?

Norachan · Jun 27, 2015

OMG, where is that!?

Finally a way to combine our two passions into one.

misterwhiskers · Jun 27, 2015

FhiCat said:
Unless it's a boulder-shaped cat?

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Oh, that isn't real--is it??

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Norachan · Jun 27, 2015

misterwhiskers said:
Oh, that isn't real--is it??

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No, sadly not. It's supposed to be a mountain in Ukraine, but it's been photoshopped.

misterwhiskers · Jun 27, 2015

Drat. Cat Mountain has such a cool ring to it. Lol

Columbine · Jun 28, 2015

Fantastic picture

fhicat Such a shame it's not real.

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