I’m a 22 year old university student living with two other students in an apartment in the second floor. We’re all very close and recently decided to get a cat, feeling good about this since the other two roommates have a lot of experience with cats (I expressed concern for not having experience).
Anyways, kitten Sophie has been with us for 5 months (she’s about 6 months old) and we are all obsessed with her. Sophie and I spent hours together everyday and she is the sweetest, most adventurous little thing. We always keep all doors and windows closed since we’ve had her, because we have two balconies on which she gets so curious she climbs all around, even when she’s on the ledge.
Yesterday, my boyfriend came over in the evening, and due to a draft that came when he entered I guess the door to the small balcony in my bedroom opened and was ajar. I noticed it quickly and shut it straight away as I was asking my bf about his day. A few seconds or minutes later I look through the window and spot Sophie sitting on the ledge/windowsill OUTSIDE of the window: she’d slipped outside without me seeing and from the balcony climbed onto the window ledge.
We immediately tried to get her inside, my bf by opening the balcony doors and me by carefully trying to shove the window up so she could quickly crawl inside, but I think the sound or movement of the window scared her and she fell, two stories onto the street. Never sprinted down so fast in my life in panic. She was sitting up on the street, thank the fucking universe alive, though shaking and obviously in pain. I brought her up and while I was putting her in her favorite basket and checking her my bf called my roommate and together they called any emergency vet that was open. We got her there and she’s probably going to be fine, she was calm and sweet but X-rays showed a likely fracture or break in her hips. She’s getting an operation today or tomorrow.
I feel so guilty for not being more careful and that my panic trying to get her inside probably made her fall. I should have been more calm and thought through how to get her inside safely instead of trying it as quickly as possible out of fear. I hate that she’s in pain and feel like I’ve failed her and my roommates, and proved to everyone I’m not responsible enough to take care of her. I love her so much. Also deathly afraid of telling my parents because they can be super harsh and will likely scold me and maybe say I shouldn’t even have Sophie and that we’re not fit to take care of her, even though I know how incredibly devoted we are to her.
TLDR: I was careless, didn’t pay attention for a second and panicked, and because of that my kitten now has a broken hip and needs an operation. People tell me it was an accident and it could have happened on anyone’s watch but I can’t shake the guilt. Any comments, experiences or advice appreciated.
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from Pets https://www.reddit.com/r/Pets/comments/r6dgz3/guilt_after_being_negligent_kitten_fell_out_window/
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