She Never Realized That Her Friend’s Cat Passed Away On Her Watch, And Her Friend Is Devastated

Krakenimages.com - stock.adobe.com-  illustrative purposes only, not the actual cat
Krakenimages.com - stock.adobe.com- illustrative purposes only, not the actual cat

For a few months, this woman and her friend have been watching each other’s pets when needed. She has a dog, while her friend and her friend’s husband have three dogs and three cats.

Understandably, she and her friend both know how expensive boarding their pets or hiring a pet sitter can be.

So, watching each other’s pets instead of paying a lot of money to have professionals do so has worked out well.

“When I have to leave to go somewhere for work or travel for multiple days, my dog goes to their house rather than being boarded. When they need me to watch their animals, I stop by two to three times a day to feed and take care of their animals (I can’t have four dogs at my house, so this is easiest for me),” she said.

She and her friend have done this multiple times already, so the pet-sitting has become a routine.

“Her requirements when I take care of them are to 1. Let the dogs out; 2. Feed the dogs every day; 3. Keep the cat food and water full. Not much to it. The cats are cats. Not a whole lot of activity or care to be done. I will give them scratches or pets and be on my way,” she explained.

Three months ago, she watched her friend’s pets. When her friend and her friend’s husband got home, her friend called, with her husband also on the phone, and said that she and her husband found that her orange cat had died and was near the stairs on the second floor of the house.

They were understandably devastated, but they started to blame her, asking her why she hadn’t gone upstairs at all to look for the cat when she’d stopped over at their house while pet-sitting.

“I explained to them that the cats (including that one) do not always appear while I am there. And, I do not go upstairs in their house (there is no reason for me to). I expressed my apologies and was extremely sensitive to what occurred,” she shared.

Krakenimages.com – stock.adobe.com- illustrative purposes only, not the actual cat

However, her friend and her friend’s husband continued blaming her. They questioned her repeatedly about why she didn’t smell an odor that would have been in the air since they thought the cat had been deceased for some time.

She tried to tell them that even though it had been warm in the house, she hadn’t noticed any particular smell at all, so she really didn’t believe it was accurate that the cat had passed away several days ago.

She reiterated to them that she didn’t go upstairs because she never had a reason to do so. The situation didn’t feel resolved after hanging up.

The following day, she decided to send her condolences before she had to go out of town. She brought flowers and a box of candy to her friend’s house, but no one answered the door when she knocked.

She left the gifts at the front door and sent her friend a text to let her know that she’d stopped by and left something at the door for her and her husband.

Then, she added that she was open to giving more information if her friend still had more questions about what happened with the cat. But all her friend said in response was, “Okay.”

Now, she hasn’t heard from or seen her friend since this incident. She feels awful about what happened and wishes that she’d noticed what happened to her friend’s cat.

However, she still believes that she hadn’t done anything wrong because none of the cats came out to greet her when she’d go to her friend’s house to check on the animals’ food and water dishes and let the dogs outside.

Do you think she was in the wrong for not noticing what happened to her friend’s cat?

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