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Good Meowning my fellow cat owners,
I've been in a kind of tricky situation with my newly adopted, four year old cat.
I am 23 and I just moved out of my parents house to go to university, just two months after I adopted a cat, which now have been two weeks.
I'm living in a shared flat, with two other people, one of them also having a cat. I couldn't let my cat meet his yet, as his cat got worms and he hid that fact from me. (I would have thought twice of adopting in that moment when would have known that). But that's not the point right now.
I'm kind of feeling guilty about the fact that i just left home, left my home cat and adopted a new one for my own pleasure of not being alone.
She's a house cat, she's very sweet, very cuddly and loves playing with laser pointers.
The downsides would be that she's very picky, she only eats wet food,I tried making her used to dry food by putting just a few bits into her food and she literaly picks out every single piece with her paw and throws it across the room. And she's very hairy, which i dont know if it happend because of her diet but she also hates being brushed to bits. Which is resulting in biting,scratching and hiding from me, like I tried to kill her.
As these "problems" wouldn't be hard to solve by own (I would love tips and tricks on these topics above), I've always been ever since i got her in denial, if it was really the right decision to take her in (every single person around me says it was right), I saw her and decided in a whimp that I'd take her, not considering every other fact around my life.
I'm living 4 hours apart from my partner, who when i visit, visit for a week or two, or at least several nights.I don't know how a cat would be okay with travelling so long? As she only eats wet food I can't leave her for the night and stay over a friends place, as she needs the care. My two roommates are basically never home, so I can't ask them for any help. And I can't take her home with me when I go there for New Years.I don't have friends who can forster her for the time being, as they're also busy.
I just feel like it doesn't give me the freedom I need for now that i moved out of my toxic parents home, yet i don't want to give her up. I feel like a bad person and a bad cat owner.
I really do need some help and opinions on all of this. I've been having several breakdowns because of this in the last two weeks..
I've been in a kind of tricky situation with my newly adopted, four year old cat.
I am 23 and I just moved out of my parents house to go to university, just two months after I adopted a cat, which now have been two weeks.
I'm living in a shared flat, with two other people, one of them also having a cat. I couldn't let my cat meet his yet, as his cat got worms and he hid that fact from me. (I would have thought twice of adopting in that moment when would have known that). But that's not the point right now.
I'm kind of feeling guilty about the fact that i just left home, left my home cat and adopted a new one for my own pleasure of not being alone.
She's a house cat, she's very sweet, very cuddly and loves playing with laser pointers.
The downsides would be that she's very picky, she only eats wet food,I tried making her used to dry food by putting just a few bits into her food and she literaly picks out every single piece with her paw and throws it across the room. And she's very hairy, which i dont know if it happend because of her diet but she also hates being brushed to bits. Which is resulting in biting,scratching and hiding from me, like I tried to kill her.
As these "problems" wouldn't be hard to solve by own (I would love tips and tricks on these topics above), I've always been ever since i got her in denial, if it was really the right decision to take her in (every single person around me says it was right), I saw her and decided in a whimp that I'd take her, not considering every other fact around my life.
I'm living 4 hours apart from my partner, who when i visit, visit for a week or two, or at least several nights.I don't know how a cat would be okay with travelling so long? As she only eats wet food I can't leave her for the night and stay over a friends place, as she needs the care. My two roommates are basically never home, so I can't ask them for any help. And I can't take her home with me when I go there for New Years.I don't have friends who can forster her for the time being, as they're also busy.
I just feel like it doesn't give me the freedom I need for now that i moved out of my toxic parents home, yet i don't want to give her up. I feel like a bad person and a bad cat owner.
I really do need some help and opinions on all of this. I've been having several breakdowns because of this in the last two weeks..