I lost you guys for a few days, but found you again. Sounds like it's been never a dull moment over there! Chemicals are nasty, and cats' sense of smell is so much more acute than ours, it's no wonder you both felt yukky! I'm sensitive to those things, too, and try to limit them as much as possible. But in an apartment you don't have as much control over it...I remember I used to have running battles with my manager when I lived in an apt. over spraying for roaches, with my cats and me having to live in a tiny single and deal with that. There were 20 units in our building and 30 in the one right across the courtyard, so of course there were roaches! So glad not to have that to deal with any more. I try to use the gentlest cleaning products that are still effective, opting for cruelty-free whenever possible.
I'm very wary of people these days, because of things that have happened in my life -- and interviewing contractors and other people I need to have in my home is fraught with stress. Fortunately I've done pretty well so far, I guess. But there are just so many AWOL people in this society, one never knows!
Yeah, people are so forgetful these days and no wonder on that, either, the way life is every single day in this crazyhouse society. Good on ya for doing the right thing!
And I used to have problems with my alarm going off in that same apt. building -- at all hours, even when I was asleep! That happened once with the hardwired one they installed, and my neighbor upstairs called me, irate, understandably. I had to ask him to come downstairs and rip the thing out of the ceiling. It was horrible.
May you and Artie have a GOOD evening & night with no nasty smells and no nasty people!
