'I found out how my roommate treats my cats when I’m not home': Woman catches her 30-year-old "tough-guy" roommate baby talk and love on her cats even though he pretends to be indifferent around them when she's not home

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Mariel Ruvinsky • Writer and Editor
Sep 3, 2025 10:00 AM EDT

In an era when the thing that we see most often on the internet is drama and insanity, wholesome stories - genuinely wholesome ones - are rare. Roommates and pets seem to always cause drama. Roommates lock cats in their rooms even though the cats are not theirs. Roommates adopt cats just to post pictures of the cat on social media, without actually taking care of them properly. Roommates demand that you get rid of your cats for no good reason. It happens all the time. It's like we cannot avoid the drama no matter how much we try. 

And then, we come across this story. And we think to ourselves: "here we go again". Except not. This story, wherever you think it's going to go, we promise you that it doesn't go that way. It's one of the most wholesome stories about cats and roommates that we have seen in a long, long time, and it made us smile so genuinely that we simply had to share it with all of you guys as well. 

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    "I found out how my roommate treats my cats when I’m not home"

    Today 1:12 PM He's been here for like 20 minutes F + Text Message • RCS He's so sweet Delivered
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  • My goodness, when we first read the caption on this post, we were so ready for something different. Too much drama everywhere. We got used to it. We started expecting it everywhere, so suddenly seeing something so wholesome was the best thing that happened to us all day long. 

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    I (24f) live with my cousin (30m). I have three cats (one adult cat and two 12 week kittens), and whenever I am home he will be "mean" to them in a very joking and lighthearted way. He'll call them names (fatss, dumbss, etc.) but it's in that "bu ying as a love language" type way and I have never been afraid of him actually mistreating my cats, especially because they clearly adore him. He plays and rough houses with them, he pets them, but he never gets all lovey dovey the way I do with them...
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    I live in a two story townhouse with my bedroom being on the second floor and I always keep my door open so that the cats can go in and out. Yesterday morning I had woken up but not gotten out of bed yet and my two kittens were playing on the landing just outside my bedroom door.
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    I hear my cousin start to walk up the stairs and I stayed as quiet as possible. I knew he thought I wasn't home because when I am home he always calls up to me to ask if he can come up (I have given him permission to go in my room. when I'm not home to play with my cats).
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    My door was cracked open about a foot and I see his arm reach, he says "Scoop!" And grabs a kitten. Then I hear about a minute straight of kissy sounds and baby. talk.
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    I'm just quietly watching from my bed, trying not to let out a giggle, when he suddenly stops, slow turns, and makes stunned eye contact with me through the crack in my door. When he realized I saw/heard the whole thing he got embarrassed and said "oh... I uh.. I saw them running around up here and thought I'd come play with them."
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    I laughed and said it was totally fine, but he retreated back downstairs to put his tough guy persona back on. The photo above is one he just sent me having a cuddle session with baby George
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    Tl;dr: my male roommate pretends to be indifferent about my cats, but secretly baby talks and loves on them when I'm not around
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    Bed WORLD OF FLOWERS
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  • These are the kinds of roommate stories that we want to hear every day, it's the kind of “family drama” stories that we want to hear, it's the kind of cousin dramas that we want to hear. This. Just… more of this. 

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    "Update: I found out how my roommate treats my cats when I’m not home"

    A while back I made a post about how I caught my roommate baby talking my cats, and I have a new adorable development.
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    A couple months ago I went on a family vacation so my roommate took care of my cats while I was gone. During that week, he accidentally started a new routine with them.
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    Each time he'd fill their food bowls, he'd stand there and give them pets and scratches while they ate. After a couple days, they decided that that is now a requirement. Only with him though, they don't make me do this.
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    Now, every day when he gets home they run to the door to excitedly greet him and then run to their food bowls. They'll sit there and yell at him until he goes over to give them pets while they eat.
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    The funniest part of it is that they free feed. I just keep their bowls full so that they can eat whenever they are hungry (I know some people frown upon that but my work schedule is too unpredictable to keep them on a consistent feeding schedule and none of them are overweight so it works for us). Even though they have constant access to food, they'll wait for him to get home from work to have dinner so that he can give them scritches. So sweet
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    LittleHouse82 I love this. My dad was very much a gruff 'meh pets' kinda guy. He ‘let' us get a cat. Then decided we had to get him a friend and got a second. They started out with me being their human, but then when I went away for uni (college) he very much became their human.
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    greeneyeraven I came here from you other post, they made me smile! Thanks for sharing
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