He’s Fed Up With His Girlfriend’s Best Friend, As She Keeps Bringing Her Service Dog Over To Their House Every Day And Scaring Their Cats
It can be hard when your pets and your partner or friend’s pets don’t get along. As great as it would be to share a space from time to time with your animals, if they don’t mesh well together, you most likely have to do something else.
One man is fed up with his girlfriend’s best friend, who keeps going to their house with her service dog, who scares their cats.
He lives with his girlfriend, who has a new job that allows her to work from home.
“Prior to this, her friend Carrie, who also works from home, would come over to our place a few times a month,” he said.
“Carrie has a service dog, and I have two sibling cats who do not do well with dogs at all.”
Anytime Carrie and her dog went over to their place, he would take his cats into his bedroom and hang out in there with them until she left.
The cats would still be paranoid about the dog even when it was gone and walk around their home, acting skittish. The cats would even avoid any areas where Carrie’s dog may have been sitting.
His girlfriend was aware of this issue, but things only got worse as she started working from home full-time, and Carrie started coming over to work with her daily.
“This has been going on for almost a month, and my cats are suffering for it,” he explained.
Photocreo Bednarek – stock.adobe.com – illustrative purposes only, not the actual cat
“They slink around if they do come out of any room, they’re skittish when they eat, they avoid all the furniture and worst of all, they were having accidents in the bedroom because they were too scared to leave. I moved the litter box into our room, but my girlfriend complains about it.”
He asked his girlfriend to talk to Carrie about this issue, but she never did because she felt bad knowing that Carrie needed her dog to go everywhere with her and didn’t want to come off as unkind.
He proposed compromises, including seeing if they could work from Carrie’s place more often or make an office out of their spare room.
Every idea he came up with was shot down with an excuse by Carrie, who feels that their home is better because they have a yard where she can let her dog out instead of having to walk her dog like she does when she’s home.
He finally had to put his foot down the other morning when he was late to work because he had to wait around for Carrie to get to his house so he could put his cats away.
He told Carrie and his girlfriend he was done dealing with the negative effects her dog was having on his cats and told them they had to either work outside on their screened-in porch or Carrie had to stop coming over every day.
“Carrie said they needed to work together because they both got lonely during the day working from home, and my girlfriend was helping her out,” he recalled.
“Carrie got mad that I was putting cats above a human and [that] her dog is non-negotiable.”
Carrie suggested that he re-home his cats, to which he responded that the cats weren’t going anywhere, but she could. He also got so angry that he told Carrie he couldn’t care less about her health problems.
Carrie ended up storming out and hasn’t returned to his house since. His girlfriend has said she understood where both he and Carrie were coming from.
Although she hasn’t been distant or cold with him, he’s wondering if he was too harsh with Carrie.
Was he too harsh with Carrie, or was he right to put his foot down?
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