New York magazine speaks on cat abuse article they ran

[milotic2]

A pet is sometimes a starter child. Then the real human child arrives and the pet suffers. My postpartum loathing of Lucky made me wonder whether I might be a late-onset psychopath. https://t.co/4Wb560IBGW
- The Cut (@TheCut) August 12, 2024
On August, the cut ran an anonymous article by a woman who, after having her baby, starts abusing and

Comments

[delleve]

What the fuck?! Seek help. Rehome your pet. I haven't read the article, so I'm going to grant some benefit of the doubt and assume there's some postpartum mental illness going on here, but damn. I truly hate how mean some people can be to animals. They're a living thing with nothing but love to give; not a punching bag for your own issues.

[kawaiiairbender]

I think there was some postpartum mental illness going on too.
I'm kinda like why didn't the husband intervene. But I guess it was her cat not his, so he really shouldn't be rehoming them?

[tekan]

If he witnessed the abuse and did nothing, he's also a monster.

[vainandbitter]

Yeah she made a point of mentioning her husband, I did not understand why he was also incapable of refilling the cat's water to the point he/she was forced to drink out of the toilet.

[kawaiiairbender]

Why not rehome the cat? Why are you wishing your pet to commit suicide bc of your neglect?

I just don't understand. Did the s/o have strict I don't take care of the cat rules?

I know post partum can be hard and I think feelings can change. Considering some people don't feel love for the babies right after they birthed them. But what was the resistance of finding a new home for the cat? :(

[erin805]

My sister had bad PPD with her second pregnancy she also had 2 kids under 2 and she started resenting her dog so bad, it would bark and wake up the kids, it wanted attention so after getting to a point where all she did was feel guilty about not paying the dog any attention she took it to a shelter (non kill) and the shelter listed the dogs story and the comments were VICIOUS calling her every name under the sun when in reality her keeping the dog would have been so much crueler, so ITA this lady should have sheltered her cat and people need to understand rehoming isn’t the worst option

[serenachan]

were people really harassing the editor in chief because one of the people the magazine profiled was shitty? if so, i would hardly call this statement "trying to silence". people need to get a grip, if a magazine interviews a serial killer it doesn't mean they're pro-murder.

[britneyspears]

that's not exactly comparable

an apt comparison would be if they gave an active serial killer a platform to discuss their ongoing murders and protected the person's identity

[queenursula]

Exactly.

[kebedes]

The writer wasn't profiled. They were paid for and their identity was protected in the article they wrote about abusing their cat. It is reasonable to write or express outrage at the editor-in-chief who chose to do that.

[allbegintoburn]

Well here's a thing I wish I had never read. Ugh. Just bring the cat to a shelter and be done with it that way.

[astrofisica]

I'm not against provocation so I read the article. And tbh it sounded like the owner was also dealing with untreated PPD that she unfortunately took out against her cat. NY Mag should've passed on that confessional for that reason. I don't think it reflected the aim of their theme issue very well.