So I recently started staying over most days at my boyfriends flat. His roommate is being evicted in a few months due to her inability to be hygienic or pay rent on time and when that time comes, I’m moving in.
Regardless, she has two adorable sibling kittens but I personally feel like she neglects them and I have no clue what to do anymore.
So here’s the issues:
-the two kittens share a small litter tray. It doesn’t get cleaned for weeks at a time and fills with cat puke, piss and poop until it’s completely saturated through and they end up peeing and pooing in sinks and the bath
-they are locked in a tiny hallway all day and night with one scratching post and no toys or interaction. She doesn’t let them into her room and my boyfriend (who owns the flat) had to put his foot down and stop them from being in the living room since they destroyed the walls and sofa and she has refused to pay any of this back. He never expected them to be left in the hallway, however. The cats have no social interaction with people and are left to both curl up in a tiny cat carrier with a thin blanket on the bottom together. This is the only “comfortable” place they have to sleep by they barely fit on to it
-we have a balcony and when she goes out she lets her cats walk along and play on the thin ledge (we live 3 stories up) and if we get nervous and ask her to take it off, Especially on really windy days, she says no and makes a point of making it stay there
-their water doesn’t get changed for weeks. It’s allowed to totally dry up or fill with cat litter and dust and grime. I placed fresh water for them tonight in one of my personal food bowls and they both ran over and instantly began drinking
-they have had no vaccinations and more importantly they haven’t been neutered. They’re siblings and the male keeps trying to mate with the female which she just finds funny because “inbreeding them could be cute since they love each other”
I feel like the worlds worst person and so does my boyfriend for living with this. We do what we can for them but we both 1. Don’t have the money to be buying the cats what they need 2. If we were to interfere, I know she’d not only make life even more hellish for us but also look after them even less
Both of us want to anonymously tip animal services so they can be rehomed but with the current situation we don’t actually feel psychically safe doing so while she lives here.
I could wait for the few months until she moves out, give her a week then call but honestly I’m just so upset with the situation. I love animals so much and hate seeing them suffer but I’m at a total loss of what to do. I do the little things I can like sneaking them snacks and water while she’s out of the house but does anybody have a better solution?
Removing the cats or calling animal welfare is out of the question as far as I can see. She’s crazy and aggressive and I know if they were removed she would do something extreme to us.
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