It’s embarrassing there’s any cat owners at FR. Cats are the most destructive animals INSIDE the house as well. They rip up the carpet, tear up the furniture, spray everywhere....shit anywhere and never come when they’re called. Sounds a lot like a DEMONCRAT.
I had to do a restoration on a rental from CAT DAMAGE that was so bad that sheet rock and some of the particle board decking inside the family room had to be removed. Couldn’t get the STINK out. This was after 4 coats of Zinsser shellac primer...must have used 15 gallons on the floor and some on the walls. It still stunk.
Cats that are allowed to go outside don’t behave that way inside. And if they’re fixed, as they always should be, they rarely spray (and a little daily pill will stop the few who do) and you can barely smell their pee anyway. Unfixed male cats are pretty awful, but then again the sort of people who would keep an unfixed male cat in the house and let it spray all over the place, and who don’t keep the litter box clean and thus drive the cat to relieve itself all over the house, are the sort of people who are likely to do a lot interior destruction themselves (and allow their children to do the same, if they have children).
I’m renovating an apartment right now to use as a rental, and will allow pets. I’m having Tyvek put under the new carpeting/padding. It’s an old Victorian house with the original hardwood floors in good condition, and I’m making sure they stay that way, even if some renter’s incontinent old St. Bernard pees a gallon a day on the carpet. And I’m putting in a pet door and fencing the yard.