42-year-old boyfriend repeatedly lets senior cat escape by leaving the screen door open, his girlfriend asks him to stop, she calls her overdramatic: 'I still feel like I was justified in being worried'

Moving houses with a cat is difficult to say the least. We've had to do it a couple of times throughout our lives, and we can tell you, the amount of worrying that we do about our cats during these moves is insane. We worry about their mental state and how they will adjust to the changes, and we worry about external things as well - like will they try jumping onto that dangerous shelf or will they try to hop off our balcony and onto the neighbors? And if the house is on the ground and there is a door leading directly to escape, how do we make sure that doesn't happen?

The first way of making sure your cat doesn't escape is keeping that door closed. And yes, it may be a little inconvenient at times, but you do it anyway, because your cat getting lost is one of the worst outcomes possible. You keep the door closed. Right? Or maybe not. Maybe you let the cat escape four times in a row and then lose your chill at your boyfriend who keeps allowing it to happen.

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It's the lack of patience that is off-putting to us. The screen is supposed to come in a few days. We know that it's frustrating to wait sometimes, but this really is just a matter of being more patient. Escaping four times… that's a pattern, not an accident.
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We do have to say that we appreciate this woman defending him. She's known him for that many years, they've had the cat for that many years, we trust her instinct about it being more foolish than malicious. No, you were not the problem in this situation, and we hope the responses from people gave you the validation that you deserved, but also good on you for defending your relationship (which we truly hope is a good and healthy one).
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