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Hi r/pets, please hear me out on this.
A friend of a friend of mine couldn’t keep their 4 month old kitten for the summer due to changes in their living arrangement, and this mutual friend connected us, as they knew I’d grown up with cats.
Since getting the kitten at the end of April, I’ve come to love her so much - I totally did not expect this when I agreed to care for her, as I wasn’t hugely attached to the cats in my childhood home. I think a big part of it has been that I’ve been working from home for the entire time, and thus we spend every hour together. She is extremely loving and clingy, and we are always close to each other, snuggling or playing.
I want to ask the owner if they would be willing to let me buy the kitten off them. I understand that I have no right to the kitten, but I hope that, because by the end of the summer, I will have spent 4 months with them versus 2 with the original owner, they may be willing to part with them. The owner does not check in very often, and I am not being compensated for my services, so there’s no re-negging on compensation to consider. I am willing to pay the owner $1,800, or buy them a new kitten.
I’d like to ask your advice about how to approach this situation. I want to clarify that I do not by any stretch feel that I’m entitled to keep the kitten, I just want advice on the best way to ask.
TL;DR - unexpectedly became extremely connected to a kitten I’m watching for the summer. How can I ask the owner to let me buy the kitten off them?
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