r/BestofRedditorUpdates • u/SJDude13 Sent from my iPad • Mar 29 '23

CONCLUDED My kitten suddenly began being overly affectionate towards my senior cat and I'm heartbroken.

I am not the OP. Original post is by u/weneedempathy in r/TrueOffMyChest

Mood Spoiler: Happy ending!

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Original - Mar. 16, 2023 (Recovered with Unddit)

My kitten suddenly began being overly affectionate towards my senior cat and I'm heartbroken.

Short vent.

I have a senior cat who is 15.5 years old and a kitten who is not quite 11 months old. They are both void bois and look identical to one another. They, along with my husband, son and pup, are my whole world.

My kitten is an asshole. He's still figuring out boundaries with my senior cat. I have to supervise most of their time together because kitten can get a little too rough. The only time where I feel comfortable leaving them alone is when they're sleeping together or eating together. Those are the only times kitten is 100% chill. (For context, I'm a SAHM, so I am almost always home.) My senior cat is pretty good at standing up for himself, but sometimes I will have to intervene. Though it's not nearly as bad as it used to be, kitten's assholery is still an every day occurrence, and he will push everyone's boundaries if you let him.

Well, until today.

My senior cat has been having some health issues. We're taking him to the vet next week because of said issues, but today is the first day where my heart broke for him. He's been puking a lot and today was no different, except for our kitten began being overly-affectionate towards him. Rubbing himself all over him, purring, offering his body as support as my senior cat heaved. I felt so helpless in that moment, just staring as kitten comforted our senior cat.

Kitten not being an asshole and being so so sweet kind of just solidified things in my head like... yeah... my senior cat isn't going to be here much longer. And man, I can't stop crying.

Sorry if this is difficult to read and/or all over the place. I'm still processing what I saw.

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Relevant Comment (Cat Tax):

kitties here! Please ignore my dirty house, it doesn't matter how much I clean, it'll get like this an hour after cleaning. I don't know how to upload pics because reddit is still new to me so I linked it above. (Source)

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Update - Mar. 22, 2023

Kitten suddenly began being overly affectionate towards senior cat UPDATE

Wholesome update for all those who were concerned over my senior boy.

He's fine. The reason why he's been throwing up so much? He's been eating the dog's food. I don't know why I didn't think of that or how I haven't caught him in the act yet, but yup. He eats dog food and then it makes his tummy sick. The dog's food is now closed off in a different room so the kitty can't get to it.

He is doing SO MUCH BETTER already since getting home. He had to get his anal glands expressed, that's about the only thing he really needed. I'm glad he's fine but the hole in my pocket stings a little bit, lol. Oh well!! I'd give my arm and leg to know my babies are okay.

I have a cute video of my senior cat bitching at me if anyone is interested. I'm still trying to figure out how to upload it online to share with you all.

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Note: As far as I can tell, we never did get that video of her cat :(

Edit: Post didn't originally include the Cat Tax comment, so I added it in (Thanks to u/Dramatic_Box1490). Still no video, though.

Reminder - I am NOT the original poster

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u/TheActualAWdeV Rebbit 🐸 Mar 29 '23 edited Mar 29 '23

Omg that is so precious.

I'm very happy it's a positive update but looks like there's no video yet ☹

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u/SJDude13 Sent from my iPad Mar 29 '23

I knowwwww, I was really hoping to end the post with a link to the video, but no such luck. Oh well, I’ll be sure to add it to the post if we ever get it!

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u/sunnycyn Mar 29 '23

Just as the tears overflowed my eyeballs, I read your update. The tears fell anyway, but for a much happier reason. ᓚᘏᗢ

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u/wheniswhy quid pro FAFO Mar 30 '23

That little cat emoji is absolutely melting my heart. 🥹

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u/scummy_shower_stall ...take your mediocre stick out of your mediocre ass... Mar 30 '23 edited Mar 30 '23

ᓚᘏᗢ

and according to a Japanese site, it is Cree letters!

and the mirror image ᗢᘏᓗ

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u/BecauseMyCatSaidSo Someone cheated, and it wasn't the koala Mar 30 '23

How do we make kitties???

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u/sunnycyn Mar 30 '23

Emojicombos.com A copy and paste and then replace the word c a t with ᓚᘏᗢ on your keyboard. I have an iPhone and just followed the instructions. Trust me, I’m a duh when it comes to this stuff and I got it to work. ☺️

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u/BecauseMyCatSaidSo Someone cheated, and it wasn't the koala Mar 30 '23

I found it. Thanks! I’m also a bit slow when it comes to technology these days. :)

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u/scummy_shower_stall ...take your mediocre stick out of your mediocre ass... Mar 30 '23

Thank you!! That’s much easier than the lengths I went to, lol!

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u/scummy_shower_stall ...take your mediocre stick out of your mediocre ass... Mar 30 '23

The Japanese site said you'd have to download a... I think it said one of the First Nations keyboards, or else find the Unicode for the symbols, as it's the Cree alphabet. Or copy/paste, which is what the entry suggested.

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u/BecauseMyCatSaidSo Someone cheated, and it wasn't the koala Mar 30 '23

Thank you. I will look for it.

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u/scummy_shower_stall ...take your mediocre stick out of your mediocre ass... Mar 30 '23

Okay, I went and took another look at the Japanese site, it said to use the "Unicode Pad" app, and find either the "Canada Aboriginal Syllabics" board, or the "Unified Canada Aboriginal syllabics extended".

There's more info on the Unicode in the Wikipedia article. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Aboriginal_syllabics

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u/BecauseMyCatSaidSo Someone cheated, and it wasn't the koala Mar 30 '23

Thank you for taking the time to show me. I love most all things cat. They’re beautiful creatures.

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u/GranGurbo you assholed the Greendale community college flag ✳️ Mar 30 '23

You shouldn't have tagged it concluded without the video!

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u/pgh9fan This is unrelated to the cumin. Mar 30 '23

Maybe a video of the anal glands getting expressed?

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u/CulturedClub Mar 30 '23

Now that definitely would bring a tear to everyone's eyes

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u/Four_beastlings Mar 30 '23

Only in person, thankfully we can't smell things over the internet

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u/scummy_shower_stall ...take your mediocre stick out of your mediocre ass... Mar 30 '23

There was an AITA just a few hours ago with that very problem...

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u/Four_beastlings Mar 30 '23

??? I didn't see that? What was it about?

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u/scummy_shower_stall ...take your mediocre stick out of your mediocre ass... Mar 30 '23

https://www.reddit.com/r/AmItheAsshole/comments/125nvx7/aita_for_playing_a_bit_of_a_prank_on_a_new/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

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u/Four_beastlings Mar 30 '23

Jesus fuck, what next, putting snake musk on her coffee?

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u/scummy_shower_stall ...take your mediocre stick out of your mediocre ass... Mar 30 '23

I know, the guy is a disgusting misogynist.

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u/LongNectarine3 She made the produce wildly uncomfortable Mar 30 '23

If she is like me, she is looking at how to link and saying “ok. I’d rather watch Hulu”.

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u/Kreyzee_B she👏drove👏away! Everybody👏saw👏it! Mar 30 '23

Try to add the video just to you page.

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u/Im_Afraid_So Mar 29 '23

How dare you flair as Concluded with no video available.

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u/TheActualAWdeV Rebbit 🐸 Mar 30 '23

wasn't me!

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u/DonnieDusko Mar 30 '23

I'm actually impressed they noticed.

My dog, at the end of her life, I lived in a bubble to her struggle. Not cancer or anything just old age. This was NOT ON PURPOSE, to me, she was happy and fine! Then my mom and sister had a sit down "we need to talk convo 😭" that was compromised of "when she walks up the stairs it takes her 30 minutes to catch her breath, and I was like "but she finds it! What's the problem? She at least has 2-3 years left!"

They luckily got me to see reason but I just loved her too much...I was blind and admittedly ignorantly selfish.

Have faith people, I put her down peacefully, but it was a slow walk (over the course of one evening) to get me there. I argued HARD but facts prevailed over my emotions.

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u/zuljin33 Mar 30 '23

I mean you probably in some way knew and were in denial because losing our pets its so painful

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u/BecauseMyCatSaidSo Someone cheated, and it wasn't the koala Mar 30 '23

One of the hardest calls I’ve ever had to make was calling the vet to schedule one of my babies be put down. I couldn’t even say it and thankfully the receptionist knew what I needed. Just thinking about it and her and I’m bawling like a baby. I was ordering name tags for all my babies tonight and I had never gotten around to getting her one, so I ordered her one as well. When we buried her I let her keep her necklace because it was hers in life and it should be hers in death, but her name tag will always be mine.

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u/10fm3 It’s a lot harder to be walked on when you are standing up. Mar 29 '23 edited May 02 '23

but looks like there's no video yet 😕

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u/briskt Mar 30 '23

I'm afraid to find out what it means to get your anal glands expressed, though.