Leopold the cat gets chased out of his own home by a new dog, finds refuge with the man next door, and slowly makes himself impossible to give back: 'I hate when people allow a new dog to push their cats out.'

All cats deserve a human who loves them, but not all humans deserve to have a cat.

I've heard "Your pet is like your child" many times in the past. And I'm not denying the similarities for a second - especially as someone who's a mother to both a cat child and a baby child. But there's one major difference between having a child and having a pet (and no, I don't mean the biological one - my baby is not biologically mine… she's still 100% my daughter) - you can always find a stray cat, dog, or just go into any shelter and adopt a pet on the spot. Adopting a pet can be done on a whim.

I did it once, bringing a stray kitten back home because he looked just like my cat, and it activated me emotionally. But my actual cat did not take it well, to say the least. But not for one second did I think to stop caring for her to the point that she just leaves, just because a new pet has arrived. Unlike u/sojuicy's neighbor, who literally left his cat, Leopold, to fend for himself when his new girlfriend's dog chased him out of his very own home. That's a man not deserving a cat at all, if you ask me.

One thing that is the same, in my opinion, between pet adoption and having a child - when you take on the role of a parent or a pawrent, you also take on 100% responsibility. And it just seems that this is something that Leopold's legal owner is too busy to comprehend. Too busy with his girlfriend and her dog. The cat spends all his time next door, with the person who shares how much he loves Leopold and wants to officially re-adopt him, and the neighbor seems indifferent to the situation.