Roommate adopts a cat to post pictures of it on social media, gets sick of the cat and threatens to sell it, demands $1,100 from her two sister roommates who want to keep the kitty, then changes her mind two days later

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    "[Am I overreacting] for wanting to convince my roommate to give my sister her cat?"

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    Hi! About a year ago, I found a stray kitten on the street and brought her in. As soon as I walked through the door, my roommate went "oh my god thank you! You know how I've been wanting a cat!" Even though I explained that I brought her in from the street and it was just to save her, not for my roommate.
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    However, I was willing to pay the vet bills to get her checked out and helped in the moment but once that was squared away, I wouldn't be in a place to pay the pet deposit or anything further like a spaying so I was going to rehome her. But since my roommate jumped in, ready to pay whatever, it was a win win for me! New kitty and no pay!
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    As time has gone on though, it's clear her lifestyle is not fit to take care of even a plant. She goes out often and stays at her many boyfriends apartments for days, pawning the pet care off to me and my sister. Even when she's at home, she weaponizes her incompetence, asking me and my sister to help her with medications and to move litter boxes.
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    It is also clear that she doesn't have much of an interest in caretaking. I'm convinced her want for a cat was purely out of materialistic reason. She wanted a cat to post on her story and to look at. She barely even pets her! Let alone plays with her. If she does play, it's her chasing the poor thing even though she's already a skittish cat from being on the streets.
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    In recent events, she's just been spayed (yes it took a year to convince her to spay the cat). The surgery just happened to take place two days before me and my sister left for a week too.
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    The morning of the surgery was a huge fiasco, my roommate yelling and stomping trying to wrangle the cat who is already skittish but was terrified on a whole new level, scratching and biting out of pure terror.
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    My roommates dress was covered in her own blod from it. My sister rushed to help and while doing so, my roommate declares that she is done with Kiki (the cat) and she's going to sell her to a friend.
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    At this point, with all the pet care and quality time, my sister has grown attached to Kiki and had to practically beg my roommate to let her have her. She agreed only on the condition that she pay for the spay and pet deposit (understandable) on top of every single vet procedure the cat has undergone.
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    She was asking my sister for 1100$. However after two days, she came crawling back asking for the cat back and since my sister agreed to pay out of fear that she'd just give the cat away but hadn't paid yet, she had no ground to decline.
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    Now, we've returned home and it's time to take the cone off! She's healed fine but the cone has rubbed her nose raw, plus she's diagnosed with feline herpes so her eye gunk has also irritated her eyes. I've put a picture below.
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    How do I convince my roommate to give her up? My sister would be willing to pay for the deposit and possibly the spay but anything else would be like buying a car and having to pay for all the gas it's used.
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    Plus with all the unpaid pet sitting we've both been doing, I think it's fair to call it even. I just want to make sure the cat is happy and healthy.
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    kvetchup Just take her and give her to your sister at this point. Are the medical bills mainly in y'all names?
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    Vvoodoo_ OP Me and my sister both live with her. And all the medical bills are in her name even though we've been the ones taking her back and forth and picking up her medications. Everything's been paid for by the roommate :(
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    MusicaVIII NOR. And it's bizarre for your roommate to ask for expenses to cover "every single vet procedure the cat has undergone". She had those procedures done when she owned Kiki and is now choosing to transfer ownership. That's on her. And I agree, it's like asking someone to pay for all the maintenance expenses you've ever spent on a vehicle or something. Does your sister live with you two or just nearby?
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    Vvoodoo_ OP She lives with us. She's planning to move out of state next summer but I'll still be here so if I'm scared if she takes Kiki it might mess things up for me. That's why I'm trying to come to some sort of agreement if possible.
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    estrangedskeleton Don't even convince - rehome the cat, or take it when she's out and don't tell her who you've given it to. At that point the poor thing is being neglected and that's not fair, she clearly doesn't deserve the privilege of owning a pet if she can't provide its basic care, so she doesn't deserve the privilege of saying goodbye to the poor thing, either.

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