Cat owner who asked their neighbor to cat-sit for "a couple days" suddenly expects the neighbor to come twice a day for 2 weeks without payment, the neighbor compromises on one week, then gets ghosted: 'The whole scenario feels exploitative'

Despite being such small, fluffy and cute creatures, for some reason, cats seem to cause a whole lot of problems with their neighbors, and we don't really know why. Well, actually, we do know. It's because the neighbors are bad. We swear, people can do insane things sometimes. We have seen neighbors stealing cats, we have seen neighbors holding lost cats for ransom and demanding money to give them back, and we have even seen a person ask their neighbor to keep their cat out of their own yard because it is distracting their dog.

And today, what started as an entirely wholesome interaction between two neighbors turned into… what we have come to expect at this point. Because why wouldn't you con your neighbor into cat sitting your cat two times a day for two weeks without payment when the agreed-upon time was a a few days with payment? Why not?

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"[Am I wrong] for refusing to continue to cat sit for a neighbor that asked for a couple of days of help that turned into two weeks?"

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This started off as an honestly wholesome interaction. A neighbor being kind, trying to help out, even though they don't even know each other that well. And then everything went right off the rails, and we remembered why we are so cautious when it comes to our neighbors in the first place.
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You're not wrong, it's just that you have been put in an impossible situation. We - and they - should not expect you to stay beyond the point that you said you could. It's not your responsibility at the end of the day. It's just upsetting that, out of everyone, the cats are the ones that are suffering the most in this situation.
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