I had wanted a cat for awhile and knew deep down inside that it was an irresponsible choice to make. But a week ago I decided to visit an adoption center and adopt this beautiful sweet little kitten. Absolutely nothing wrong with her. She’s even cool around the dogs who are almost alarmingly way too excited when they see her walking around. She just minds her own business and is interested in exploring the house. I think the fact that she’s perfect makes this even more hard and kind of hate myself even more. I adopted her thinking that she would help complete a part of me. But as the days have gone by my emotions have been highlighted and I can’t ignore them anymore. I keep on thinking if I can’t even take care of myself how am I going to take care of this cat. She could’ve been adopted by a nicer person who’s patient and has a nice big house. Or even someone who was a better match than me and enjoyed her more than I ever could. I feel like I almost ruined her life after only five days of having her. Each day she gets more and more affectionate and it hurts my heart. It’s like I’ve known her for years and just decided one day to dump her in shelter. The part I feel most stupid about is that I have no other reason to be giving her up besides me not thinking I can handle it. I feel like it’s unfair to her that I put this expectation of love out of her that she’s given me and still I regret ever putting her in my life. The center I adopted her from is no kill and I explained to the woman that nothing is wrong with her and I just don’t think I can’t take care of if her. She said that if the kitten is perfectly healthy and good behavior wise, she will just be put back up for adoption. I genuinely think that I hit a breaking point and adopting her was a horrible decision on my part. Thinking about letting her go back to sleep in a kennel makes me burst out in tears but I don’t know what else to do. If I spent more time with her than I would feel the same way but just more attached which would hurt me even more or maybe for the both of us. I keep on trying to find similar experience from other people but can’t find them. I guess I just needed to get this off my chest and maybe even ask what other people think of my decision.
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