She Forced Her Husband To Send His 18-Year-Old Cat To A Shelter And She’s Asking The Internet If She Shouldn’t Have Done This
A woman moved into the same house as her husband about one year ago. She came along with her 3-year-old dog, an American Bulldog, and her husband came along with his 18-year-old cat.
This woman says that they took things slow in regards to having their dog and cat meet, and at first, they did not put them in the same room.
They then began having the dog and cat get used to the other animal’s smell before graduating to having them in an area where they could view one another without getting too close.
It seemed like things were going well and there were not going to be any issues between the cat and the dog.
Then, things changed drastically. Suddenly, the cat made it obvious to everyone in the household that it did not like the dog at all.
To fix the problem, she and her husband put gates up in their house to make sure the dog and the cat stay apart from one another if they cannot be home to make sure they are being watched.
When she and her husband are home, they take water and put some on the cat when it starts fighting with the dog.
That solution was helping for some time, but then it stopped working and now all the cat does is try to fight the dog.
She and her husband decided to bring his cat to the vet to see if there were any physical issues causing the fighting, but the vet took a look and felt the cat was in great health.
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This woman revealed that she recently became pregnant, and now she is worried that the cat will try to act the same way towards her baby.
“I brought up the idea of taking the cat to a cat sanctuary, where it would hopefully be able to find a new home, in a relaxing environment and without fear of being euthanized, since we can’t take it to any family members, since his family is refusing to have the cat, and my family is in the UK,” she explained.
Understandably, her husband was upset about dumping his elderly cat like that, so they fought for several days about what to do with his cat.
Eventually, her husband gave in to her demands and he dropped his cat off at the rescue. Despite the fact that he did what she wanted, he is angry.
“I feel really bad for my husband, however, I do feel like it was the right decision, not only for the dog but our future baby,” she said.
Here’s what the internet had to say.
“It’s an 18-year-old cat. Not only is it incredibly unlikely to find a new home, but think about how stressful that would be for the poor thing.”
“Please go back and save his cat. I’d honestly never forgive you if I was in his shoes.”
“I honestly would have left the marriage over this. Not even sorry. She should know how much that cat means to him. With her selfish self.”
“Am I the only one that had my SO bring his dog over to my house to meet my cat before even considering moving in with him?”
“I understand the “slow introduction”, but I literally had him bring his dog to meet my cat on her turf when they first met.”
“My cat growled and smacked the living daylights out of the dog (claws weren’t out), they met several times and then were BFFs when we moved in. My cat was devastated when we broke up and she lost her huge, clutzy BFF.”
“Had they not gotten along, we would have had to figure it out, but it never would have come to either of us having to rehome their pet.”
“I have a 16-year-old cat and I would drop a partner so fast at the mere suggestion of rehoming. I am all she’s known, I could never do that to another living being.”
“Why didn’t you rehome your dog? Better chance of finding a home for a 3-year-old dog than an 18-year-old cat that is 3 years past its life expectancy.”
“Why can’t you just lock the animals up in separate rooms? Our last cat lived to almost 20. She stayed in the master suite away from the dogs and was happy to lay in the window sill and chortle at the birds in the backyard.”
“And what is this nonsense of the cat attacking the baby? Just admit you don’t like cats…”
You can read the rest of what the internet had to say about all this here.
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