Daughter Feels Mom Is Neglecting Her Childhood Pets: Internet Weighs In

We love pets, and we love the internet, but we have to say that we never really expected to hear someone advising someone else to kidnap two pets and take them away. But that's what you get when you wade into the internet drama that is pet-related family feuds. We've seen it all basically, from a woman adopting a cat despite her mom being very allergic and it subsequently causing a huge fight, to a daughter prioritizing her cat's surgery over her parents' surgery (shocking, but the details of the story explain it a bit better), to a dog owner being asked to give up her dog's Christmas gifts, it's pretty clear that if a family doesn't get along perfectly then the family animals will also somehow get involved.

We aren't going to spoil the whole story, but today we have the story of a mom who has a dog and a cat, and she doesn't walk the dog, both animals are overweight, and they don't really get many toys to play with. They aren't being horribly abused in the sense that they have food and shelter and aren't being hit or anything, but they definitely could be leading a higher quality of life. The daughter has talked to her mom about this issue already, and they were not able to come to a consensus. The daughter then writes on Reddit asking for help, what would you do in her situation? What would you advise her to do? We won't spoil the rest of the story, but scroll down if you want to hear about everything that happened.

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Wow, so right off the bat its a bit confusing whose pets these are. The OP says they're her pets, but it sounds like they were adopted while she was a kid and so her mom has taken care of them for her for years. It might be hard for her to get the pets away from her mom, even if they're being neglected. Time to read further and find out what exactly happened in this story, it sounds to us like there must be some kind of big communication gap between them.
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Oof, it always hurts to see animals not being taken proper care of. We hope that the dog and the cat are a bit bored or a bit overweight but not being abused in the scary sense of the world. We wonder how serious the neglect is and also why the daughter hasn't tried to discuss it with her mom in a sensitive way. We doubt that the mom was intentionally neglecting the animals, it must have been an after thought for her. Anyway, let's read on…
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