I’ll start off by saying I love this cat. My roommate(also my best friend) got a cat when it was 3 months old(currently a year and a half old) and never fixed it. Month after month would go by and I would always remind him and try not to be confrontational as best I could because he’s my friend but he just kept saying he would and continued to do nothing. The poor cat never gets attention, meows constantly, and pisses everywhere. I used to spend more time with it but after it sprayed in my room on my bed twice, I can’t let it in anymore. I used to go into the living room and spend more time with it, but I went on a month long vacation, which he said it’d be fixed when I got back—it wasn’t, and now the whole house smells so strongly of ammonia that it burns my eyes. I’ve been actively looking for places to live, as I can’t do this anymore, it’s just not healthy. I can’t even go make food in the kitchen without getting disgusted and just going back to my room. My roommate stays the night at his girlfriends house every single night and comes home to feed the cat here and there. I make sure the cat has water and food as I stay here every night. When he comes home he’s here for 5 minutes and the cat is so happy—then he just leaves. This cat meows all night(deep yell meow)and I feel like I just don’t sleep anymore. The other night he was home and stayed the night and I told him that there were two towels on the kitchen floor that were covered in cat pee and that I didn’t know what to do with them and he just shrugged. That same night we were on the living room couches and started to watch a movie and I felt something wet under my leg, turns out the cat recently sprayed all over the couch I was sitting on, as it was still soaked. I yelled “no no dammit” as I jumped out of the couch, and he just shook his head and said the cats name. And resumed watching the movie. I was baffled. Not only did he not care, but it was also disrespectful towards me.( I left for a week for work and when I got back the towels were still on the floor and he never cleaned the couch.) I feel so guilty hearing this cat meow, I know it’s not the cats fault, but he’s developed so many bad habits that could have been fixed if he would have gotten the cat fixed. At one point I got in an argument with him, and he said “if it’s already a habit, and getting him fixed won’t help him to stop spraying then getting him fixed won’t do anything.” He’s my best friend but his life style seems to have severe issues. Before he got the cat, his lifestyle was his own business but now that there’s another being involved it’s just not okay. I love my friend, but I can’t do this anymore and I don’t know what to do about this poor cat. I would ask if I could just have him but considering his habits, I know I couldn’t take him with me. He does feed the cat and it has shelter, so idk if there’s anything I can do but move out.
What makes this so hard is that he’s got a good heart(my roommate.) It’s like he’s completely oblivious to what’s going on, and turns a blind eye. I think that he knows deep down what he’s doing and feels bad, but he also knows the house is so far gone that he just doesn’t want to deal with it and just stays with his girlfriend.
Sorry for the long post. Any advice is appreciated.
After seeing the responses I will be removing this post.
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