I've just had a terrible dream during a daytime nap. It was absolutely
HORRID and seemed to go on forever, with the most VIVID characters, I was
even thinking I would have to ask for advice in RPCA about how to handle the
situation in the dream and wondering how I would find the time to type it
out and post it, given the huge mess I was dealing with (in the dream)!!

I guess it's part of getting over whatever sickness I had, I need extra
sleep and fell asleep for an hour or so on the couch, and had this awful
dream that I could not distinguish from reality! Sorry, this will be a long
post but there's no way to tell the dream in a brief way.

The setting: My house, which was really my mother's house. It was still in
my present location but was now four stories high with a basement, and much
larger and newer. (My mother's house in real life had been a small,
one-story bungalow, in Michigan). And my mother was alive in the dream. IRL
she has been dead for almost 9 years.

My mother had a couple working for her, a young woman and her husband.
Between them they kept up the cleaning, cooking and yard. Oh, the yard was
humongous also.... I was not fond of either of them, as they seemed sneaky
or something. They lived up on the fourth floor and had that all to
themselves. I had never even been up there but later in the dream I went up
for the first time.

I had the first floor and the basement, and my mother occupied the 2nd and
3rd floors, but the only kitchen and laundry were the ones on the first
floor (mine) and I had to let my mother's helpers use them, as a condition
of occupying the first floor. They also used my doors floor to go in and
out, since there were no fire escapes or anything. So I saw quite a lot of
them.

The horrible part began when I came home one day and found all five litter
boxes missing from the utility room.  I immediately knew it had to be
related to the people upstairs and went to ask about it. She refused to tell
me where they were. I kept searching and finally found four of the five
boxes, empty, out in the garage. I could not find the litter.

I asked the woman what she had done with the cat litter and she refused to
tell me. Meanwhile I have seven cats in the house with no litterbox
available so I am sort of frantic to at least get one box back in there, but
the woman will not tell me where the litter is!!!

Somehow I read her mind and realize that she can't stand being near the
litterboxes when she is doing the laundry and has decided to simply get rid
of them. I am infuriated and start screaming at her, asking if she realizes
that each of those oversized boxes had at least $6 worth of litter in it,
and I have no extra money to replace it, and demanding that she either pay
me for the cat litter that she decided to toss without telling me, or tell
me where the litter is.

Still she says nothing. After a while, her husband comes home. I catch him
at the stairway and tell him what is going on, and he says he put the box
with the Feline Pine outside "to expose it to the sun and reduce the odor".
Like an idiot I explained to him that Feline Pine has no odor and it
crumbles into sawdust that you don't even need to scoop out. I demanded that
he show me where that box was right away so at least I would be able to
bring it in and have one box available for the cats until I could replace
the others.

He walked all over the house looking out various windows on the 2nd and 3rd
floors as if trying to remember where he put the box. Finally he started
going up to the 4th floor. I followed, uninvited. When he opened the door to
his space, there was MY litterbox filled with Feline Pine, along with a
large number of cats and kittens, including the small tuxie that has IRL
been hanging out on the porch lately. I couldn't begin to count the cats in
there. And his wife was laying on the floor, looking up at me but not saying
anything.

In the few hours that the boxes had been missing these folks' cats had
turned the Feline Pine almost completely into sawdust. I said to the people
I can see you needed this and you're welcome to keep it but pay me for it so
I can go buy a new one, it had $6 worth of Feline Pine and the box itself
cost me $12, and they would also need to pay me for my time and trouble and
gas. I finally managed to collect $25 from the guy. But the nightmare was
just starting!

Next thing I knew, they were letting all their cats roam freely through the
whole house and putting MY cats outside! In between running in and out
catching cats and bringing them in, I paid a visit to my mother to explain
what was going on. I was sitting in her lap and she warned me not to speak
above a whisper because the couple had the house was bugged and if they
heard us talking against them, they would kill us!! She said I would have to
rein them in, that she had been through other situations with them and they
always got their way because it was two against one.

So I went into battle against the couple. It went on and on with me kicking
the woman's face in every time I saw her and demanding that she pay me for
the cat litter, stop letting my cats out and their cats roam on the lower
floors.

The only good thing about this dream was waking up from it and realizing
that it was only a dream!