Woman ends 3-year relationship after her partner adopts a kitten with no preparations and then decides to return it during a crisis: ‘I personally believe that adopting an animal is a serious commitment.’

When your partner reaches such a debilitating state that they can't take care of the kitten they decided to adopt - we wholeheartedly support the decision to break up with them.

Look, we're not relationship advisers, but if there's one thing we do know we have some sort of expertise about, it's cats. We're not only the people who bring the online cat community their daily dose of feline funnies, and we're not just mere humans whose hearts flutter over the cutest Cat Distribution System stories that we rush to share with you. We're cat people through and through - we love cats, and we know a thing or two about them (to say the least). We're not "working in internet cats" by accident.

So when we hear about a person making a kitten's life difficult, our veins could boil. It's a known fact that cats like stability - in fact, they thrive in predictability and a stable territory they can call home. Sure, there are many more factors to a cat's happiness, but this is the basics, the 101. So if you're a person who decides to adopt a kitten only to give it back, making the smol floof's life difficult - and we're in a relationship with you - we'd also break things up. This is a color to their character that we see as a red flag. So no, we're not relationship advisers, but we're sure as fluff unrelenting cat lovers.

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We wholeheartedly agree witht his statement! And we're definitely not surprised it comes from someone who's already a cat pawrent, who knows the responsibility needed to care for an animal. It's taking care of another soul with needs, feelings, and a whole life of their own - which you're committed to be responssible for.
Also, a person who sees this in the adopted kitten. We're not surprised that someone who sees the lack of commitment and responsibility for another living being (a precious cat, of all things) as a red flag, has a moral compass guiding them away from that person. Long-lasting relationship or not - the moment your moral compass doesn't allow you to align yourself with your partner's actions, it's probably time to go. And when it comes to morality and cats, as cat pawrents, we know the cat comes first.
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That's very true. All people have their breaking points. Mostly, when it comes to morality clashes, when we're talking about relationships. A person who values the well-being of a kitten, who was supposed to be taken care of by their partner, who in turn throws all the responsibility into the bin, is definitely a valid breaking point. We'd probably feel the same.
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