'She's been trapping my cat in her bedroom every night': Woman becomes obsessed with roommate's cat, starts calling herself "parent" to the cat, cat owner seeks advice from internet

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Briana Viser • Writer and Editor
Oct 11, 2025 5:00 PM EDT

Roommates can really make or break your home life. I've had my fair share of roommate experiences. When you live with your best friends, life at home can be a paradise. Coming home to hang out together, have a built in support system, cook together, watch movies, and you never even have to make actual social plans. Or you can live with people you have who make you so uncomfortable. Coming home and feeling like you have to run to your room is a horrible feeling. In the story here, the protagonist has a roommate that causes tension due to her cat. 

This cat owner has had her kitty for 11 years and raised her from a kitten. In one or two months of living with her older roommate, the woman is calling herself a "cat parent" and even locking her cat in her room every night. The owner goes to the internet for advice, and she gets some tough love. 

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    Roommate is obsessed with my cat

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    And not in a cute way. Every roommate I've had has loved my cat and one roommate even got cats of her own after her
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  • I've had my fair share of bad roommates, but I never had one try to lock my cat in her room. I did have a bad roommate who always said my cat was the “best” roommate in the home, while simultaneously refusing to feed him or give him water if I went on vacation. 

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    experience living with my cat. But this roommate is obsessed in a way bordering on psychotic. After living with me for barely over two
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    months she called herself one of my cats "parents," I raised my now 11 year old cat from a kitten so to say this was offensive is putting it mildly. She's lately been
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    trapping my cat in her bedroom every night (my cat has for 11 years always abhorred closed doors), so I don't know what she's
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    doing to keep her in there but I know it's not good. This girl seems to have never met a boundary she doesn't like to
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    cross. Has had anyone else dealt with this? What do I do? I imagine she's using treats and food because my cat is ultra food and
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    catnip motivated, and I'm also afraid if this keeps up her health will decline because she's being overfed by this crazy person who
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    doesn't respect that the cat isn't hers. The roommate has no friends and no partner of any kind or any prospects, and has
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    had issues with all former roommates (which should have been a huge red flag but we were a bit desperate at the time), her
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    obsession with my pet is freaking me out (she also has no animals of her own, she's immature and irresponsible so I know she
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    doesn't have the capacity to handle her own pet). Also she's in her late 30's so youth is not an
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    Home
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    excuse we can use for her behavior. How do I make it really clear that she needs to be more respectful?
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    Jibrille 22h ago You're being way too polite to someone who's literally trying to steal your cat. I'd
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    just open the door, let the cat out, and confront your roommate.
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    That said, you really need to think about how to distance yourself from this person, either by moving out or
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    getting her to leave. I've seen this kind of situation before, and like others have said, it usually doesn't end well.
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    IllustratorOk1647 • 22h ago I've heard stories about this exact kinda situation and it almost always never ends well, with the roommate
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    Cat
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    freaking out and/or just straight up stealing the cat. Id recommend getting the cat chipped that way you can prove you're the cat's
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    owner, and maybe try and get a new roommate if it starts to worsen? until then I'd also make sure that whenever they trap the cat
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    in their room, you shut that down immediately and let the cat out. If you let them do it repeatedly, they're
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    going to think it's okay and continue doing it unless you stand up for yourself, so I'd try being more assertive and confrontational about your boundaries.
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