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"Detaching" without being "Detached" is tough!
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<blockquote data-quote="Farmwife" data-source="post: 384240" data-attributes="member: 8617"><p>If you figure out the secret to detaching let me know.</p><p> </p><p>As for my difficult child, thank goodness he does have hygiene habits, not great ones but I don't smell him so no worries. Of course his clothes leave an odor in the dryer after washing and well, ewwww when I get my load out. *sigh* I think it's the hormones, oh well. His room and level of responsible kitty kat care is another matter. His cat also has some digestive issues. I'll leave it at that just so you know the ick factor is pretty common. lol</p><p> </p><p>About the baths, I have a sort of twisted sense of humor. I would lock him outside and hose his rear down if he wanted to come in. We have well water so it would only take once because it is icy even in summer. ; ) My solution for the cat, the litter is in his part of the house so he can live with it. If it gets bad all I have to do is threaten just once that the contents will be left on his bed as a reminder to get to his chore. That jars his memory and he starts moving.</p><p> </p><p>Not a perfect system but I get a couple laughs and he responds with no rage. I wish all our issues could be handled that way. It's like I can be the meanest Mom in the world but if I am laughing and making his "torture" amusing he doesn't get mad...he's always been a jokester himself too.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Farmwife, post: 384240, member: 8617"] If you figure out the secret to detaching let me know. As for my difficult child, thank goodness he does have hygiene habits, not great ones but I don't smell him so no worries. Of course his clothes leave an odor in the dryer after washing and well, ewwww when I get my load out. *sigh* I think it's the hormones, oh well. His room and level of responsible kitty kat care is another matter. His cat also has some digestive issues. I'll leave it at that just so you know the ick factor is pretty common. lol About the baths, I have a sort of twisted sense of humor. I would lock him outside and hose his rear down if he wanted to come in. We have well water so it would only take once because it is icy even in summer. ; ) My solution for the cat, the litter is in his part of the house so he can live with it. If it gets bad all I have to do is threaten just once that the contents will be left on his bed as a reminder to get to his chore. That jars his memory and he starts moving. Not a perfect system but I get a couple laughs and he responds with no rage. I wish all our issues could be handled that way. It's like I can be the meanest Mom in the world but if I am laughing and making his "torture" amusing he doesn't get mad...he's always been a jokester himself too. [/QUOTE]
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