My fiance and I will be getting married in November and we have just moved into a new house together. He is not the loser as mentioned in another thread - he is absolutely wonderful! The only thing that has come up in our relationship is the cats.
My cats have always had free run of the house. They sleep on my bed, my head, my pillow with me or next to me, and even under the covers with me. I could care less about sleeping on a pillow with cat hair. My cats (and my dog) are my babies.
He doesn't dislike the cats but he doesn't understand cat behavior and he doesn't have the bond that I do with them. One of my cats is extremely jumpy - especially around people other than myself. It annoys him that the cat runs from just about anything and everything. I understand the cat - we have a special bond different from the other cats (my bond is different with each of them).
Furthermore, upon moving into a house together he has made it a rule that there is to be no animals in the bedroom (he does not want to sleep in a bed full of cat hair he says). He also gets annoyed by them when they get into things - like when they want to get up on the cabinet tops right underneath the kitchen ceiling (he says that allowing them to do this will create cat hair in the kitchen that will get into our food). Well cat hair can get anywhere not matter what!!!
He really and truly doesn't dislike the cats, he feeds them and does the litter boxes and will pet or play with them. It just really hurts that they cannot sleep in the bed with me anymore. One of them has been crying at the door to come in because she used to get under the covers with me every night.
Any words of wisdom out there?
My cats have always had free run of the house. They sleep on my bed, my head, my pillow with me or next to me, and even under the covers with me. I could care less about sleeping on a pillow with cat hair. My cats (and my dog) are my babies.
He doesn't dislike the cats but he doesn't understand cat behavior and he doesn't have the bond that I do with them. One of my cats is extremely jumpy - especially around people other than myself. It annoys him that the cat runs from just about anything and everything. I understand the cat - we have a special bond different from the other cats (my bond is different with each of them).
Furthermore, upon moving into a house together he has made it a rule that there is to be no animals in the bedroom (he does not want to sleep in a bed full of cat hair he says). He also gets annoyed by them when they get into things - like when they want to get up on the cabinet tops right underneath the kitchen ceiling (he says that allowing them to do this will create cat hair in the kitchen that will get into our food). Well cat hair can get anywhere not matter what!!!
He really and truly doesn't dislike the cats, he feeds them and does the litter boxes and will pet or play with them. It just really hurts that they cannot sleep in the bed with me anymore. One of them has been crying at the door to come in because she used to get under the covers with me every night.
Any words of wisdom out there?