Anonymous wrote:The cat is 5. We got it when she was 17.

My DC is very responsible and loving to the cat when she is home (for months at a time), but maybe posters are right that the lifestyle of new grads (frequent moves, limited income, etc) don’t lend themselves to cat ownership.

Is your cat Benjamin Button?

Anonymous wrote:The cat is 5. We got it when she was 17.

My DC is very responsible and loving to the cat when she is home (for months at a time), but maybe posters are right that the lifestyle of new grads (frequent moves, limited income, etc) don’t lend themselves to cat ownership.

Some new grads are great pet owners. But it sounds like your daughter is telling you that she's worried she't not in a position to take good care of the cat right now. I hope you both care enough for the cat that after all this time, you can keep her until that changes (if ever).

I think it's pretty unrealistic to think a high school student is going to be the legal owner of a cat, even if she says at the time that she will be. You had to have understood that this was a family cat, not a cat you were simply pet sitting for five years?

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Anonymous wrote:A pet belongs to the adult who allows it into the household, not to the child.

If you got it while she was a minor it is your pet not hers. Take responsibility.

She is just asking. No need to act like she threw it down a well.

Anonymous wrote:A pet belongs to the adult who allows it into the household, not to the child.

If you got it while she was a minor it is your pet not hers. Take responsibility.

The cat is 5. We got it when she was 17.

My DC is very responsible and loving to the cat when she is home (for months at a time), but maybe posters are right that the lifestyle of new grads (frequent moves, limited income, etc) don’t lend themselves to cat ownership.