34-year-old recently-pregnant sister and her boyfriend, who works part-time and is "very involved", suddenly begin expecting for her older sister to scoop their cat's litter: 'It's your responsibility to clean the kitty litter now'

When you get pregnant as a cat owner, so many thoughts cross your mind at once. So much excitement. You get to see your cat react to you being pregnant, cuddle and bond with the baby before it's even born. You think about the future friendship between the kitty and the baby, the shenanigans that they will get up to. So many good things, and yet… it takes a while to get there.

As a lot of us already know, pregnant women should limit their interactions with cat litter. There could be all kinds of things in there that we don't want the baby interacting with, and so that means that the responsibility of cleaning the litter has to fall on someone else for a while. Now, usually, that is our partner, but it looks like that was not the option here. Here, for some reason, this pregnant woman and her boyfriend - who works part-time, lives 40 minutes away, and plans to be very involved with the baby - thought that the right person to expect to clean the litter is… her sister.

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It's the fact that they expected you to just- do it. Take the time out of your day, take care of a pet that you don't care for, do it on a repeated basis… No. Maybe, if they had asked nicely, we would have reacted differently. But you don't owe them anything just because they decided to get pregnant, and they need to know that.
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It is one hundred percent understandable to us that someone who's not very into pets would not want to deal with the grossest parts of having one. Stand your ground on this, tell them the truth, but we would say that you should also leave the door open - to help when they genuinely need it (and ask for it nicely).
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