DP has an intense dislike of cats which he told me about when we first met. I thought it wouldn't matter, we're all different etc but I did warn him that I had one and that me and my DCs are cat lovers. He said fair enough, he just didn't like them. Anyway after a while he would just go on and on about how horrible cats were. He'd say they just use you etc. Like if my cat was moiwing at the door he'd say something like "here it is, to take your food and then bugger off again". I ignored it for a bit but does he really need to mention this stuff EVERY time?? anyway he upset my DD at the weekend with this comment:
"Cats must be amongst the most awful, evil creatures that exist. They just kill things for the sake of it. A poor bird spends ages and works like hell to build up a little nest and what happens, awful cat grabs hold of it, rips it to pieces and what's worse is, it does it for fun. It doesn't even eat what it kills, it just rips innocent animals apart for fun. They're disgusting animals."
He finished it off with a description of a half maimed bird flapping around on the garden path dying in agony. DD is now saying she doesn't want our cat to live with us anymore because it's cruel.
I know we're all entitlled to our own opinions and likes and dislikes but isn;t he going overboard??
AIBU?
To be getting pissed off with DP's "opinion"?
PooMachine · 07/01/2011 11:53
True though innit.
My cat constantly kills stuff for fun, leaves it in the garden... decapitated birds, severed mice.
And it comes in, eats and always escapes upstairs somehow and leaves black hairs on my pillow.
I think I'm with your DP
YANBU.
He should accept that there is a cat in your family, surely? It's not like you bought him a kitten for Christmas, the cat has been in DD's life longer than "D"P has!
I'm in the same situation, by the way - minus the DCs and the comments. DP just has to accept that I have two cats. They live in my house, and now so does he. He gets cross sometimes when they walk all over the surfaces when he's trying to cook, or he treads in a hairball, but one of his favourite stories is about the time Mango (the one on my profile) brought in a blackbird and proceeded to eat it's head all over DP's naked foot . Mango luuuuurves his daddy LOL
I think he needs to be told that you have made a commitment to this animal and, while it could possibly survive homeless, it wouldn't cope as well as he would.
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