Woman legally adopts her roommate’s cat, ‘Luna’, after she abandons her for a 4-month backpacking trip to Thailand: ‘Luna deserves better than being treated like a houseplant [she] can abandon for months’

Cat meowthers know that our feline fur babies reek of independence; that is, until they realize they don’t have opposable thumbs and can’t open their gigantic bag of dry food (or use a can opener to pry open some Fancy Feast).

The common myth is that cats can go days without their hooman taking care of them. This could be further from the truth in my experience, especially if you’ve nurtured an indoor cat from kittenhood. They need their litter boxes cleaned, their water topped up and replaced (if you don’t use a fountain with a filter), and of course, attention! Though cats like to play hard to get, they actually want someone to at least be in the room so they can ignore you. I know this ritual well…

In this next story, a cat mom (if you can even call her that) abandons her Persian cat, Luna, to go on a multiple-month trip to Thailand. Her roommate was left to care for the cat, and after over a month, she took Luna on as a legal pet. When the absent cat mom returned from her trip, she expected everything to be fine. That’s not how it works in these parts. Scroll below to read the entire story.

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