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To be so angry at DSS

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guidedoptionaldestiny · 03/05/2025 18:56

DSS is 17. He stays every weekend . Last night he went out with friends and got back about 3 am, was noisy and woke us up and was loudly telling us how he had to walk home then was exclaiming he needed to tell us something else before falling asleep so we just left him on the sofa as seemed the best thing.
He woke up at 130pm and started to talk again about on his way home how he saw 2 little kittens and that they must have been less than 8 weeks as were smaller than our cat when we got it. Said that he knew ‘not to touch them or move them as the mother cat would come back for them and would reject them if they had a persons scent on them ‘ 🤦

I tried to ask him exactly where he saw them and he wasn’t sure, I asked him where he had been drinking / had he been to any of his friends houses etc so I could work out exactly where these kittens might be. Eventually narrowed it down to a road between a golf course and some fields and immediately went looking . DSS refused to come as was hungover and felt sick. I looked for nearly 2 hours no sign at all so I went back and told him he had to come with me to show me where they were . He did and we still
didnt find them. I started to think maybe he imagined it but he said he was with his friend who he called and confirmed it. I’m so cross with him that he didn’t just pick them up and bring them back with him and I’m going to worry about them now and I couldn’t find them.

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EmmaJane2025 · 03/05/2025 19:04

Yeah this rumour/myth that you can’t get your scent on them or the mother will ‘reject’ them is such utter nonsense. It may be true of some specific wildlife but not generally the case. Poor kittens

pikkumyy77 · 03/05/2025 19:03

You are under reacting to teenage drinking and overreacting to this absurd drunkard’s tale.

guidedoptionaldestiny · 03/05/2025 19:00

ChristmasIsComingVerySoon · 03/05/2025 18:58

But surely this could be a good thing? They're not there because they're with the mother?

I hope so but there’s nothing there except fields and a golf course and people drive down that road far too fast . Plus why weren’t they with the mother when he saw them I’m worried maybe she’s been hit by a car and hidden and that’s why they were out ? I honestly feel like going back again just in case

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ChristmasIsComingVerySoon · 03/05/2025 18:58

But surely this could be a good thing? They're not there because they're with the mother?