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My family has fallen into some unfortunate events and due to financial problems I believe, (along with my older brother) that it'd be best to get rid of our cats and parrot. My mother and two younger siblings disagree. One of our cats, which we've had the longest of the two really helps my sister cope with everything that's happening with our family. So I feel bad giving him away since he's become her therapy pet. But we have a teenage cat who is really having trouble with everything. We got Chip as kitten after Julian died to give company to Bagheera, and my family also thought it'd be best to get me a replacement since it was my cat that died. Due to financial problems we are moving in with family, and we've been in between both our current house and our future home, we've had to spend days at the other house making renovations. When we came back to our current house we found that Chip peed on our dogs bed. So we cleaned the litter box and changed the bed out. But even after that Chip has continued to pee and poo on all of the beds the dog has. And we figured he was acting out because we were gone for so long. So we changed things so we could be back at the house with the cats. But then for school break my siblings and I went away for a couple days while my mom stayed home. When she came back from work he had peed in the bathroom on a towel. Chip is not neutered, and yes, we clean the litter box regularly so he has no reason to go anywhere else. And the peeing did stop once we came back home. But he did it once again when I left for a couple days, and that's the last time he's peed anywhere, that was a few days ago. Anyways, I don't have the patience to deal with him. I know that sounds selfish but I am really busy, and I can't pay as much attention to him as I used to. I have joint custody over me so I'm going to have to leave the house for days at a time, plus I'm 17 and will be going to college soon, and I don't believe I will be able to take him with me. I think our current life situation is stressing him out and then he's just stressing me out and I don't have the patience or time to actually deal with him. And since he's my cat, my mother has put me in charge of dealing with him. I think that gives me the right to give him away if that's what I think is best for him. He deserves a home where people will actually pay attention to him. He's a really good cuddly cat and he fetches and he's an awesome pet. I just can't deal with him anymore. But the thing is, our other cat has gotten attached to him and I was wondering how badly you guys think giving Chip away would affect Bagheera, especially since he already lost one brother. If the strain of losing another friend would be too big on Bagheera then I won't give Chip away, but if you all think he'll get over it in a decent amount of time then I'd feel much better with going through with my decision. Anyways, please give me your honest unbiased opinion.
Older Cat : Bagheera
Teenage Cat: Chip
Cat that passed away: Julian
Jan 30, 17/ Update: I just want to thank everyone whose responses were helpful and informing to the questions I asked. I will be setting an appointment for Chip. And we'll go from there. Hopefully things will get better from there.
And thank you again to those of you who didn't give any judgement. And I hope that everyone before saying anything judgemental to someone in a situation similar to this will think about what they're writing and make sure it's pure of heart, since no one actually knows what's really going on in anyones life.
Older Cat : Bagheera
Teenage Cat: Chip
Cat that passed away: Julian
Jan 30, 17/ Update: I just want to thank everyone whose responses were helpful and informing to the questions I asked. I will be setting an appointment for Chip. And we'll go from there. Hopefully things will get better from there.
And thank you again to those of you who didn't give any judgement. And I hope that everyone before saying anything judgemental to someone in a situation similar to this will think about what they're writing and make sure it's pure of heart, since no one actually knows what's really going on in anyones life.
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