📝 AITA for not wanting to throw away my childhood cat?

By Supa_Marshmallo • Score: 0 • April 5, 2025 6:12 PM


I'll try to make this story short. I am 20F and I love cats, and I have a total of 9 cats in my house.

Back when I was 9, I adopted this stray cat who liked to wander in the streets near my local spa, I took her home, and named her Mimi.

When Mimi was two, she gave birth to cats, and then created a whole new generation. Which was very exciting!

When her daughter Noona got older and got pregnant, the pandemic came and we had to cage the cats most of the time.

Though, not long after, we let them out and let them roam freely, just not outside the house. Although, Mimi was different. She started to have unreasonable aggression to the other cats, even to the kittens.

This went on for a year, then Noona's son, Muyo got older, he was the most fierce and boldest cat in the house. He was the only cat to ever fight Mimi back.

Thats when until Muyo disappeared. He left the house, and he never came back. Thus, the aggression got worse.

Me and my sister tried to call some animal communicators to try and answer our questions for Mimi, but none of it answered our questions.

My household is pretty big, my family including my maids. Mimi is causing a huge problem to the household. Not only is she peeing everywhere, is harmful to the other cats, paying for animal healthcare isn't cheap...

We discussed about this and came up with a solution that maybe Mimi could be caged during day time, and let out during night time when the other cats are in the cages and resting.

Though, Mimi is a very loud cat. And my mum has trouble with sleeping due to health and sometimes has to rely on sleeping during the day, but with Mimi meowing and practically being an alarm, it made more problems.

My mum and my brother always hinted jokes to maybe 'throwing/giving Mimi away' due to her being such a nuisance, plus her peeing everywhere. And as much as I love Mimi, I have to agree.

Then, this was when my mum took it seriously. Last night we had an argument how Mimi needed to be tamed and she needs to be thrown away. I disagreed, I offered some solutions that could maybe help but she was just done with everything. So was my brother, he was on her side.

I'm not sure what to do now. My dad tells me to just follow what my mom says but I can't let go of Mimi so easily.

AITA?

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