On Wednesday a friend was over here, a friend of a friend really, I had only been talking to her for a month or so. She was however fully aware of all of my animals before she came over. Anyone who knows me, knows about my animals, there are pictures of all of them on my cell that I am constantly showing people. Anyway, she had been here for about an hour I would say, and I didn't really like how she was treating my cats. I guess it wasn't really how she was treating them at that point, more how she was talking about them, like they are property which I really don't like. Well that and about how dumb cats are (she's a dog lover, which is great, I grew up with dogs, but I love all animals, not just dogs). Mercury is very friendly, so he came up to say hi. She was talking to me at the time and I am not sure that she saw him come up on the couch but when he decided that he was going to climb onto her lap, she turned around and smacked him! It wasn't like a surprised jump/smack either, she looked at him and hit him off her lap. She had to hit him pretty hard too because he is a pretty solid cat. Needless to say I was not happy and I told her that if she couldn't respect my animals, I would like her to leave. I think I was pretty calm about the whole thing too considering what had just happened.
So everything is fine yesterday, then today, I have three emails and two voicemails from a combination of my "friends" (the ones I have in common with this girl) and a few people that I don't even know telling me that I am a horrible person basically and that what I did to so and so was totally wrong. I was called any number of names . . . one of the emails accuses me of liking my cats more then humans, I am VERY tempted to reply that yes, I do, and people like them are the reason why (this is one of the people I don't know).
Do you guys think I really overreacted? I honestly don't think I even raised my voice, I just walked to the door, opened it, and told her to leave.
So everything is fine yesterday, then today, I have three emails and two voicemails from a combination of my "friends" (the ones I have in common with this girl) and a few people that I don't even know telling me that I am a horrible person basically and that what I did to so and so was totally wrong. I was called any number of names . . . one of the emails accuses me of liking my cats more then humans, I am VERY tempted to reply that yes, I do, and people like them are the reason why (this is one of the people I don't know).
Do you guys think I really overreacted? I honestly don't think I even raised my voice, I just walked to the door, opened it, and told her to leave.