She’s Refusing To Let Her Parents Babysit Her Children Because Her Cat Wound Up Dying While In Their Care
About a year ago, this 26-year-old woman moved to a different state to live with her husband, who is 24. And while she was in the process of relocating, she had a pet cat named Kylo.
“He was the cutest little tuxedo cat with a personality to follow,” she recalled.
But, while she was moving, she was forced to house her pet cat with her parents until she and her husband could afford to move him into their new place.
Now, she had already owned a few other cats in the past– all of whom wound up passing or running away.
Her first cat, named Shy, died in a hit-and-run. Then, her second cat, Ashlee, was reportedly poisoned by a “nasty neighbor.”
Finally, her third cat, Pumpkin, sadly ran away, and she never saw the feline again.
So, when she dropped Kylo off to her parents, she gave them strict instructions.
“I explicitly told them to keep Kylo inside and that he was strictly an indoor cat,” she said.
Well, even though her parents agreed when she first dropped the cat off, she started receiving messages from her parents, implying that they wanted to let Kylo outside. For instance, they would claim that the cat was “curious” and “just wanted to see” the outdoors.
kathomenden – stock.adobe.com- illustrative purposes only, not the actual cat
It’s also important to note that her parents already owned three dogs of their own. So, the back door was left open pretty much all the time.
Still, she constantly told her parents no and reiterated that Kylo was an indoor cat. She also begged them to respect her boundaries and really thought that she had gotten her point across.
But that was until she received a horrible phone call from her dad just yesterday and learned that Kylo had been hit by a car.
She immediately broke down into tears and was screaming at her dad about how she had told them to keep Kylo inside. However, her dad showed no sympathy.
“Oh, stop, it’s just a cat,” he responded.
This pushed her to just hang up on her dad and call her best friend for support instead. Then, after having a good cry, she and her husband thought that her parents needed to face the consequences.
More specifically, they decided that her parents would not be allowed to watch her kids– their grandchildren– without her or her husband there, no matter the circumstances.
“If they can’t respect my one wish with my cat, what is to say they will respect my wishes with my children?” she reasoned.
Still, ever since refusing to let her parents babysit her kids anymore, she’s been left wondering whether that was a justified repercussion or not.
Why do you think her parents blatantly disrespected her boundaries? Would you trust them with your kids after that? Do you think she made the right decision?
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