Injured cat gets rescued by wholesome hooman who already owns 5 cats, her boyfriend voices concern and envy over the 6 cats: 'Are the cats more important than me?'

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Briana Viser • Writer and Editor
Oct 23, 2025 3:00 PM EDT

We're all familiar with the stereotype of the crazy cat lady. She's unmarried, lives alone, may spend a little bit too much time alone, and she has way too many cats. How many is too many? In the story below, the protagonist's girlfriend has 6 cats. Yes, 6 cats. Too many? Let's unpack the story. The protagonist is a guy who's dating a 27-yearpold woman who already has 5 cats. She works as a waitress and doesn't have a ton of funds for cats. Her boyfriend is worried for several reasons. He doesn't like to see that her "rescuer" instinct is this drastic, as well as feeling like she's devoting a little too much of her time, attention, money, and sanity to the cats. 

He even asks her if she cares more about her cats than she cares about him, and she says she chooses the cats. He wonders how far things will go after she adopts a 6th cat, and if she will eventually adopt much more. 

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    Am I in the wrong for expressing my displeasure with my girlfriend after she rescued a homeless cat (She now has 6 cats)

    Lots of cats
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    Title. My girlfriend is 28 and lives by herself. She has 5 cats, which i thought were a lot but just this past weekend, she brought
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  • The crazy cat lady stereotype is really real. I had a friend who was basically the epitome of the crazy cat lady. She was older than me, she lived with 10 cats, I kid you not. That's getting to be a concerning number. 

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    another one home. She claimed that the cat was injured and she took him in. My girlfriend is all about rescuing animals, which is
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    fine, but i feel that 6 cats is getting a bit extreme. When i voiced my concerns about this,
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    she simply said that she would have more cats if she could. When i jokingly asked if the cats
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    were more important than me- she said yes and it wasn't even a question.
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    Also, i feel that this was a bit irresponsible on her end. She has other cats with health problems
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    (blind, seizures) and a hefty vet bill each time she goes. She told me that she just spent close to $600 on the cat that she just
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    rescued over the weekend. She is a waitress and doesn't really have all this money to continue to do
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    this and even she agreed that she spends way to much on her pets.
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    Is this a red flag? My friends like to joke with me that I'm going to be married to the crazy cat lady in the future.. we have a good
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    relationship all of that aside and she is pretty much everything i want in a partner.
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    Comprehensive F... I would say YTA. You don't live with her, and it's her money. You are not wrong.
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    to have an opinion about it, but what did you expect to happen when voicing it? Did you expect her to put
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    the cat for adoption or were you just worried? Did it come from a place of worry for her situation or from a
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    place of judgement? It makes a big difference for me.
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    Though I understand that it could be an issue if you want to live together, which would be a valid concern,
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    right now she can do as she wants, and as long as she's fine financially, it's not your place to judge.
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