'I found out how my roommate treats my cats when I’m not home': Woman catches her 30-year-old “tough guy” roommate going full softie and baby-talking her cats despite always being aloof around them

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Mariel Ruvinsky • Writer and Editor
Apr 24, 2026 8:45 AM EDT

Macho on the outside, a softie who baby-talks at your cats behind your back on the inside. The cutest 30-year-old tough-guy roommate. 

A part of you always worries about the way that your roommates treat your cats when you're not there. You're afraid of the worst. Because you're the internet, and you have seen the worst. You have seen roommates steal cats, locking them in their rooms. You have seen roommates mistreat cats and expect you to take care of them. You have seen roommates allow cats to escape and then act like they didn't do anything all that wrong. And then, something good happens with your cat and roommate, and somehow, that is way more shocking than the other stuff. 

Having a manly, macho 30-year-old man roommate who is indifferent to your cats kind of seems like a good deal in comparison to all of the other things that we have seen. Indifference is not positive, maybe, but it's certainly not negative either. Catching that manly macho man baby-talking at your cats behind your back when he thinks that you are not home to see it, shocked into stillness when he sees you looking… yeah, that's much better. We wish all roommates were like this dude. 

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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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    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.
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    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.... Or so I thought.
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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 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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  • Sigh. Truly, we don't know what it is about macho men that makes them think cooing at kittens is unmanly. Everyone coos at kittens. Because it's impossible not to. If he legitimately felt indifferent or cold about the cats, that would be the strange thing. Men who love cats are the best kind of men, and we will stand by that statement until the very end. He seems like a genuinely wholesome dude. We approve. 

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  • And there you have it. The cats. You have looked at the pictures. You have seen the cuteness. You want to tell us that there is someone out there who would withstand cuteness like this? Who would not aww at it? Who would not go straight into baby-voice? We don't think that such a thing is possible. If we were living with these cats, you would catch us cooing at them about 2 million times a day. On average. 

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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. 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).
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    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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