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You are here: Home / Diary / Flashback Friday: Open House Hell

Flashback Friday: Open House Hell

June 8, 2012 By: Sparkle Cat27 Comments

I haven’t done a Flashback Friday for a while, so I thought I would share one with you today. This goes all the way back to August 2006, when my human was trying to sell the house we used to live in. This involved holding something called an “Open House,” which did not seem so open to us cats, since we got whisked away and confined to a room in a house belonging to a friend of my human’s for the afternoon. I did not like that room. It had a lousy view and there was no Bird TV.

Do YOU see any birds? Me neither.

Binga was just as disgusted with the view.

Too bad you can't see her tail flipping in this photo.

She wound up flopped out on the bed, in a very foul temper.

Trust me, there was steam coming out of her ears.

Boodie barely left her carrier. Especially because of Binga’s bad mood.

Boodie has always been good at playing the victim card.

We had to do this annoying “open house” thing not once, but three times! Each time my human brought a disposable litter box for us, but only one of us ever used it.

They say the dominant cat uses it first. Duh.

If you want to see more of what went on, you can go to the post here — I used to update the diary part of my blog just once a month, so the posts are fairly long.

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  1. Savannah says

    June 12, 2012 at 7:16 pm

    OMC!!! my Dad and Mom just had our house for sale…and peeps with kids kept coming around…and they all said “I wanna see the kitty….whine, whine, whine…” AIIIIEEEE…I hid under the bed! Thank goodness D and M took house off, and no one comes anymore…we still have to move…but no more peeps wandering thru…whew..

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  2. Gattina says

    June 8, 2012 at 11:47 pm

    Nothing is better than the own house !

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  3. Penelope says

    June 8, 2012 at 8:50 pm

    Open houses – Yuck! At least yous had a place to go! When we has had ours we has always had to stay on the car!
    Humans!
    kissses
    Nellie

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  4. Glogirly & Katie says

    June 8, 2012 at 8:46 pm

    That’s even WORSE than the cat sitter!!!
    …and a disposable litter box? Seriously. Thank Cod you all survived the ordeal.
    ; ) Katie

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  5. Texas, a cat in New York says

    June 8, 2012 at 7:59 pm

    It must have been a not-so-pleasant time :-/
    But you seem to enjoy your new home now!
    Purrs

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  6. BeadedTail says

    June 8, 2012 at 5:00 pm

    That doesn’t look fun at all! We don’t ever want an open house here!

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  7. Brian says

    June 8, 2012 at 3:39 pm

    I certainly hope you don’t have to go through that again, that sounds like big time no fun!

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  8. Abby says

    June 8, 2012 at 3:38 pm

    Sparkle
    We’ve never had to go through that before, but I can tell we would not like it.

    purrs
    >^,,^<
    ♥Abby♥Boo♥Ping♥Jinx♥Grace♥

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  9. Eric and Flynn says

    June 8, 2012 at 2:35 pm

    The inhumanity! Not content with sending you away, your Human puts you through the indignity of having your photo taken in the litter box. Do these Humans have no shame?

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  10. prancer pie says

    June 8, 2012 at 2:02 pm

    OMC! That is just awful. Then, there’s the pic of you using the “facilities”. What’s that all about?

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  11. Katie Bella says

    June 8, 2012 at 12:50 pm

    Open house is a horrible thing, girls. Thank goodness that isn’t in my immediate future. xox

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  12. Ratty says

    June 8, 2012 at 11:57 am

    Cat open houses don’t sound very fun at all.

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  13. Emma and Buster says

    June 8, 2012 at 10:28 am

    We could imagine how upsetting that is for you kittehs. It’s truly crazy for humans too you know.

    If I were buying a house, I’d like to see kittehs in the house I’m buying dont you think? The kitties would certainly add a lot of character to the house.

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    • Sparkle says

      June 8, 2012 at 1:02 pm

      Along with the realtor wanting us to vamoose (along with our litter boxes!) while the open houses were going on, my human was also worried that people would leave the doors open and we’d run away! So she preferred taking us all to camp out in a room in her friend’s house. She stayed with us the whole time we were there… not that it made it any better.

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  14. Pricilla - Famous SpokesGoat says

    June 8, 2012 at 9:33 am

    Wow, such upset. When the publicist was selling her house in NJ she just let the cats run around even during the open houses. She said the realtors could take her and her house as it was.

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  15. Cheysuli says

    June 8, 2012 at 9:23 am

    The evil open house was horrible. We were all hiding in a room because it was so last minute we could not be moved elsewhere. I HATED it!

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  16. Tamago says

    June 8, 2012 at 9:04 am

    Oh no open house does not sound fun at all! But the last photo made me giggle 🙂

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  17. MaxtheQuiltCat says

    June 8, 2012 at 8:07 am

    That doesn’t sound too great. I’m glad it was a long time ago. Enjoy today…, That’s for sure.

    pawhugs, Max

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  18. The Island Cats says

    June 8, 2012 at 8:03 am

    That sure doesn’t sound like much fun, Sparkle.

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  19. Jacqueline says

    June 8, 2012 at 7:26 am

    Glad that is all in the past and you all have the run of your home with good Bird TV now; the look on your face in the last photo is priceless, beautiful Sparkle!!MOL…We hope you guys enjoy a happy, lazy weekend ahead, precious friends…xoxo…Calle, Halle, Sukki

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  20. The Florida Furkids says

    June 8, 2012 at 6:33 am

    We remember what Open Houses were like and we didn’t like them at ALL!!

    The Florida Furkids and Lexi

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  21. Random Felines says

    June 8, 2012 at 6:21 am

    Yuck….that is no fun.

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  22. Nerissa's Life says

    June 8, 2012 at 6:11 am

    This open house thing sounds horrible. So glad I’ve never been subjected to it. Paws crossed I never will. So glad you all made it though. purrs

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  23. Hannah and Lucy says

    June 8, 2012 at 5:24 am

    Well of all the indignities – shipped off to an alien dwelling, photographed in the litter box, put in bags to be transported – thank goodness you didn’t tell us more – did you all have to take tranquillisers afterwards?
    Luv Hannah and Lucy xx xx

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  24. Marg says

    June 8, 2012 at 4:34 am

    Well that doesn’t look like fun being whisked away to a strange house. Yikes. We would have totally gone UTB. Glad you dont’ have to do that any more. Have a super day.

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  25. d'ArtagnanRumblepurr (@rumblepurr) says

    June 8, 2012 at 2:09 am

    Noooooo… never get Binga upset! Boodie, I’d hide with you!!

    I’ve got my vote in for you today!!

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  26. Punapippuri says

    June 8, 2012 at 1:05 am

    Being taken away while the house got opened up – that is an outrage, We hope such things never happen to you now!

    We would like to thank you for the suggestion of Slippery Elm Bark for Stran-veli. We used this when Rilli-ukko had bad stomach acid and it soothed him a lot. Stran’s problem is at the other end but Äiti will investigate whether SEB can help here too. Apparently it is now banned in the UK for sale, and definitely not available here in Finland. Luckily we have a pack in the fridge!

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