Unsure how to approach roommate about his pets
TLDR- Lived with my roommate and his pets for a while but now his pets are starting to get on my nerves. His dogs hair is everywhere and the dog chewed up a pair of my nice shoes, and his cat has pissed on a couple of my things. Pets will be pets and things get messy of course when you have a full house, but its not the mess I'm concerned about, I'm worried about more of my things literally getting ruined. I need advice on how to bring this up to him for some solutions in a reasonable way and with realistic expectations.
So I live with one of my oldest friends and it's fine and compatible for a living situation, but his pets are starting to drive me crazy. Thankfully we live in a house so the ground level is his space and the top floor is mine so there is some separation and independence.
I have a dog and a cat, the dog being a short hair older dog and my cat is a typical cat, he is goofy but the most destructive he has been is scratching some corners of the carpet of my living space. My roommate has two cats and a dog. I also want to make it clear that I've lived with these pets for awhile and I love and care about them and their wellbeing, I'm not being bitter about them, I'm just frustrated.
His dog is a husky and there is hair EVERYWHERE. Everything from my clothes and my bedding are all black, so his really fluffy clumps of hair show up and stick to everything. The downstairs living room has clumps of hair in every corner. He also went through a period about a month and a half ago where my roommate trial ran leaving him out of the kennel while we are both at work, and during that time he chewed up all of my roommates pillows (thankfully none of mine) but he did chew up a pair of the nicest vans shoes (I know vans aren't high class but they're all I wear and that pair was my going out shoes and vans are expensive 😭) I had. My roommate agreed to buy me new ones but it hasn't happened yet, but I know he will eventually.
Next is his cats, but I'm mostly singling out one. I caught that specific cat peeing in my bed one day ( I don't fully blame the cat on this one cause we had a friend over who brought one of her dogs that was very hyper and it was stressing out all of the cats) and I had to take all of my down bedding to the dry cleaners and pay 50 dollars, and I even had to throw away one of my favorite stuffies 😭
I let it go but I was cleaning today and found a dried large spot of cat pee on one of my rugs that couldn't have been there for long, but definitely sat overnight or while I was at work. I don't have total proof it was him, but it smelled very much the same as the pee I had to clean off of my bed. It wasn't a typical teary eyes sour smell, it has more of a burnt cat piss smell 🤢 I also have had my cat live solely in my room for over a year straight (it was a big primary bedroom) and I've NEVER had to clean up cat piss from him, I've never seen him have an accident minus some hairballs/ pukes. But I know my roommates cat has had a history of doing it every now and then, for example if my roommate had piles of clothes on his floor than his cat would sometimes pee on them.
This really makes me feel like it is his cat doing this. But I don't know how to approach this, I just feel like it is going to keep happening. I have a faux leather couch and one time long ago one of the cats peed (I definitely can't say for certain who but I have a hunch lol) on one of the cushions and I had to throw it away eventually because after a week of trying to remove the smell it just never came out. I really love my couch and I don't what this happening to my couch again, I mean I can remove the rugs, but what am I supposed to do with the couch? Totally cover it in plastic? Put everything I care about into storage until I move out so I don't have to worry about it getting ruined?
The clear and easiest choice is to move out, but I live in an very expensive state in the US, and even though I'm making over minimum wage I still can't afford to live on my own.
The question I have, is what reasonable expectations should I have when I bring up this to him without coming off wrong? I mean it's not like he can just lock up his cat and quarantine him in the room for the rest of us living together, but it's a cat, he can jump gates and fit through gaps so what can possibly be done? I don't really want his cat anywhere near my spaces now, I don't raise my voice or get even slightly agressive but anytime I see him upstairs I shoo him back downstairs. It makes me feel bad because other than the cat pee his cat is a really chill sweetheart and is best friends with my cat, but I'm just getting really frustrated.
To reiterate, I understand with as many pets we have in the house things will get messy and imperfect, but that is why I personally do light cleanings everyday and fully deep clean my areas every week to help combat it. But even then it's not the mess that is causing the problem, its the destruction of my personal things.
Please help 😭