Moving out and taking a cat with me
I’m going to be moving out into an apartment and starting college next month. I currently live with my mother and we have two cats. One of the cats has always taken to me. She sleeps in my bed at night, and I am the one who primarily refills her food and water, cleans the litter box (that both of the cats share), and plays with her. However, the cat technically belongs to my mother as it was her idea to get it. The other cat does not like me at all (will hiss at and/or scratch me if I approach her) and takes to my mother, however I still refill her food bowl daily and clean her litter box. The reason I feed them and clean the litter box (even though they technically are not my cats) is because if I don’t, those things simply will not get done. I recently brought the idea up to her to let me take the cat with me when I move out and she was completely against it and was not willing to discuss it with me at all. The cat in question was spayed and completely vaccinated when we got her 5 years ago, but my mother has never taken her to the vet. I have a job and have been saving up money, so I decided to take her to the vet. The appointment was this morning. She is now up to date on all of her vaccines (rabies, feline leukemia, etc.) and is otherwise healthy with two exceptions. It turns out she is obese and has gum disease, which are both caused by overconsumption of wet cat food. I do not feed her wet cat food, I only fill her bowl up with dry cat food every morning but my mom will give her 1 or 2 whole cans of the wet food every day (which is the only thing she really does for the cat that I am aware of) I have not discussed the vet appointment with my mother yet. My question is, would it be wrong for me to just take the cat with me anyways once I move out? My mother doesn’t mistreat or abuse the animal, but she is definitely not the most responsible pet owner either. Although I am the primary caregiver for the cat it is technically not mine. I’m not really worried about damaging our relationship, as we do not really have much of one and I won’t be relying on her financially once I move out. I’m more so worried about the ethical aspects of this decision.
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