'This poor animal': Cat owner leaves cat at home alone for 3 weeks, roommate threatens to break her lease 8 months early

The wonderful thing about cats is that they don't require much from us. Most of them love to keep to themselves and will lash out if you try to bother them. They have strict boundaries, and when you cross them, they will let you know (I have the scratch marks to prove it). You don't need to walk them, you don't need to bathe them, and they know how to use a litter box.

But they're also beings just like everything else on Earth. You trap them in your world (your house or apartment), and they don't have the agency to go anywhere else unless they're master escape artists. So as a cat owner, you have a responsibility to make sure they always have everything they need. It's on you. That's why, no matter how independent cats are, you shouldn't leave them alone for major stretches of time. You wouldn't want someone to do that to you, would you?

That's what happened in this story, when an irresponsible cat owner left town for the holidays. She told her roommate that she had everything covered, but revealed a different reality when she went back to the apartment. Her roommate understandably had a bad reaction to this, and was considering breaking her lease. But is that justified?
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WIBTA For moving out after my roommate left her cat home alone for 3 weeks?

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Commenters were quick to put the roommate in her place when it came to cat parenthood.

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