Roommates Get Into Legal Battle Over Pet Cat

Ellie Dunn

Dec 3, 2021 4:00 PM EST

Roommates can be difficult. In some ways, having a bad roommate can simply be an inevitable part of being an adult and growing up. However sometimes, roommates go a little bit crazy. Such as threatening to call animal control or the cops, installing security cameras, and leaving a dead rat in your freezer. Yeah, you read that last part right. Today's storytime comes from a set of two roommates, who both posted in Reddit's legal advice subreddit, asking for information about whether what they wanted to do to their roommate was illegal. Both were advised to settle it without getting the law involved, but alas, roommates can be tricky.

We've covered a few crazy reddit stories before, such as the woman who was criticized for taking stray cats to an animal shelter (thankfully that story had a happy ending) or the family who requested that their relative put his dog in a kennelfor thanksgiving because they didn't want to stay in the same house as the dog, but in our opinion, this story is somehow even crazier than those ones. Shocking, we know. So without further ado, we hope you enjoy the unhinged drama of this roommate situation. And don't worry, the cat turned out perfectly ok in the end.

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It all started when this Reddit user posted about an issue she was having with a new flatmate.

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Hmm, adopting a cat with your roommates is honestly never a good idea. Do they plan on living together forever? Who is the cat going to stay with in the end? Something about this story seems like a bad idea already, and it hasn't even started yet.. Let's read on…
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Ah, classic. That's exactly what happens when friends or roommates adopt a pet together, one ends up being responsible for the care and the rest sort of stop volunteering. At least the cat is being well taken care of and everyone seems happy, at least so far…
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Then, the flatmate who had an issue with the litterbox made her own Reddit account and also posted asking for advice!

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Finally, after so much drama, the original poster gave an update:

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Hold up... A dead rat in the freezer?

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Well, at the end of the day, the original poster got to keep the cat and we're left to infer that all of the drama went away.

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