Hi, I'm really conflicted and I'm hoping some of you can give me some insight on this.
I've been talking and researching about cat adoption for almost a year now, but some of the contacts I made fell through, and so I put it off for the last few months, thinking maybe it wasn't meant to be. Then, mid last week, a friend asked if I was still looking for a cat, because a friend of hers had adopted one two weeks ago but her daughter was allergic and she had to give the cat away.
It all went very quickly, and I got the cat Saturday afternoon. It was really shy for the first few hours, but eventually came out from behind the toilet and started exploring. He's eating, popping, sleeping, won't come very close to me but headbutts me and let's me pet him from a small distance, even purring. The problem is me.
I've had this feeling of regret ever since I arrived with him. I've been living alone for three years and I'm a first time pet owner (I've had birds and fish but they were my parents'), I'm feeling a bit trapped, like my independence and my routines have been shook and will never be the same. I've cried multiple times about this, and I'm feeling like a terrible person for considering giving him back to a shelter, but that has been on my mind.
I'm kinda lost here...
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