I've seen a couple of listings where there is a "pet interview" as well.

After Ruby has been in the car, in her carrier, hauled into a strange place, and then have a complete stranger reach in to the carrier and try and touch her?

Oy.

Do cats really trash an apartment? Do they mean like, spraying?

but how the fuck do I get a reference for my cat?

Has your cat ever attended school or had a job? If so, you should be able to get references there. Otherwise, you might want to consult with experts in the fields of string or small mammals.

Hello, all. We heard about Miers withdrawing at a business lunch, and spent the rest of the hour feeling kind of sorry for her. We wondered if the whole thing had been a really mean high school joke, like Dick Cheney said, "Hey, let's nominate the ugly girl. "

Perhaps my mind is stuck on Veronica Mars.

At least poor Harriet saw the writing on the wall, and did not put herself through an in-person humiliation. But the person who comes across most poorly in all this is GWB -- I can just see C.J. Cregg beating him on the head with her handbag.

The tenant in the place before us had a cat and she scratched a hole through the vinyl floor in the kitchen and they had to replace the entire thing.

Notice me, over here, not commenting on the damage a cat can do. Nooooo, my cats would never do anything like that.

Do cats really trash an apartment? Do they mean like, spraying?

Some do. I've seen staircases that had to be pretty much recarpeted because cats used them as really long scratching posts. And then there's cat piss soaking through the carpet, the pad, and into the flooring. My downstairs neighbor has to keep her front window closed or the cat comes up to the screen and takes a dump through it. Which isn't exactly trashing the apartment, but doesn't sow joy among the neighbors.

But most of that seems to be cat-and-owner problems combined.

Nutty, I wanna see that, too, despite seeing maybe ten WW in my whole life.

Notice me, over here, not commenting on the damage a cat can do. Nooooo, my cats would never do anything like that.

Heh. Ruby sounds a bit like Devi, which is to say, minimal impact on the infrastructure. Back when he was sick, I spent lots of money on special cleaners for where Mister Kitty was peeing. Thank god, not on the carpet.

Actually, almost all of the damage that Ozzie and Perkisn do is to the furniture, not the apartment itself. In my last apartment, I got all of my money back, even the carpet cleaning and defleaing amounts they said they would take out.

Thank god for Resolve carpet cleaner though.

Sometimes she pees over the side of the litter box in the bathroom. But that mops up and gets neutralized with baking soda.

And the screen in the kitchen will have to be replaced due to occassional hanging on it when something terribly interesting is happening outside.

That's pretty much it, though. She's pretty good.