Cat people chime in with this situation
Im writing this to let it out and also to be seen.
So i made a choice to get a cat a few days before going in for a mastectomy with DIEP flap reconstruction as I have been dealing with breast cancer.
So the cat is not to be found the day before I go into surgery.
The day after the people we adopted him from are reaching out about microchipping him because they didn't do it before and I tell them he is hiding.
They are concerned and I tell them im in the hospital as I just had surgery which they dont seem to care about.
They offer to come over and look for the cat and they are concerned that my husband is sitting on the couch eating dinner while they are searching as they text me this.
So they proceed to report him missing and go on a mad hunt for the cat in the neighborhood, all the while texting me and asking me what I am going to do to find the cat and im literally laying in a hospital bed thinking..and telling them that I cant do much.
Anyway, days later I get released. I have 3 drain tubes coming out of me. One night I put some clues together that the cat could be in the garage as one of my plants lay broken as it fell from its place but it wouldn't fall because it likely got knocked down.
I start calling for the cat and i find him. He'd been hiding in a tiny hole that he crawled into.
I hesitate to tell the cat people because at this point they hadn't contacted me and likely assumed the worst.
The cat seemed fine. He ate and drank and was acclimating to things and we were so happy to have found him on our own.
I contact the cat people to see if they can microchip him as was the plan before but as soon as I do, they ask to come get him and take him to the vet. Before they do, I ask them if they will return him and they say, of course they will.
They pick up the cat and we start texting and they basically start calling me and my family inhumane.
All the while they never acknowledge what I went through with my surgery and proceed to refund me the money I paid.
I was distraught.
I know im not inhumane. My husband may be a bit as he expressed it wasnt the right time to get a cat.
But these people lied to my face and revealed such an ugly side. There's a part of me that wants to retaliate but I am also still in recovery and dont habe bandwidth for this.
What would you do? What is your opinion of this situation?
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Some cats hide until they are ready to come out and explore. In my opinion you didn’t do anything wrong there.
They have the cat and refuse to refund you? That is not right. Where did you get the cat from? A Facebook page? If so you could go to that page and explain your whole situation if you are comfortable and show screen shots of her refusing and calling you inhumane and report her to the admins. You may not get the cat back I’m not sure there but at least you could make others aware of her
It sounds like they wanted a pet sitter for a few days and had no intention of letting you keep the cat. Also if they were to take it to the vet to get it microchipped it would be microchipped as their property in which later they could claim you stole the cat or something. It’s probably for the best that you don’t have to deal with it anymore. Find a different cat :(
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