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randygiles t1_j68hqe1 wrote

Man this is so sad. That poor cat, I'm glad he found a new home. People need to seriously think for more than 5 seconds about whether they are willing to take on the responsibility of having a pet. Taking him back because he was too affectionate within a WEEK instead of trying to train him is so callous.

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Demonkey44 t1_j69a3ku wrote

Bruno thought he found his forever home with the second family.

The mom in the second home should have just practiced a closed door policy during working hours in her office and at bedtime in her daughters room. That’s what I do. Cats are brilliant about understanding boundaries (and pushing on them).

Her daughter will need therapy after feeling like it was her “fault” the cat was given to a shelter.

I wonder if there was also one of these strict dads or stepdads in the background.

My husband’s father used to give all of his family’s pets away if there were small infractions in tidiness or if someone forgot (once) to take the animal for a walk. It was a control mechanism.

The whole family ended up being very passive aggressive towards the Dad - lots of therapy required by my husband on that end…

People suck.

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potatochipsfox t1_j695kd1 wrote

> Taking him back because he was too affectionate within a WEEK instead of trying to train him is so callous.

True, but also I'm fine with it. If that's how they're gonna be, they shouldn't have a pet.

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Zhuul t1_j695n1q wrote

Also like he was probably scared. My girl spent the first night at my apartment making biscuits next to me with her tail in full bottle-brush mode. Changing environments is tough on an animal.

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LadyBug_0570 t1_j69tlu0 wrote

Awww.

When I first got mine, he hid under my bed. Including the whole next day when I had to go into the office and leave him alone (I felt horrible about that and wanted to cry and leave the office early, but they wouldn't let me). I finally got him out once I came home with some more food.

The next day (Saturday) he hid under every thing he could hide under. But as a single woman with no kids or prior pets... not everything had been cleaned for a while prior to that. So I'd go, move the object hid under, swept and mopped it.

Did he go back to that freshly clean place? No. He went under something else that I realized hadn't been cleaned in 100 years. So I'd go, sweep/vaccuum and mop. He'd find somewhere else.

About halfway through thoroughly giving my place a good cleaning, it occurred to me the lil asshole was not only doing this on purpose... I think this was his way of critisizing my housekeeping skills. Because once everything was all clean... he sat next to me.

Well played, you lil asshole. Well played.

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Zhuul t1_j6a3itr wrote

Real talk, my apartment's cleaner than it's been in years

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LadyBug_0570 t1_j6a5bx0 wrote

Sometimes I think he's still giving me the side-eye on my housekeeping.

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VickNoLogic t1_j694all wrote

Im saying. This a huge responsibility. You have to be ready to love this being forever

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