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.

[anakisa]

i assumed there was some PPD at hand but soooooo many other women in the comments were saying they felt the same thing and also neglected their pets once they realised the love they felt for them was "fake" after they experienced the ~true love of a child
made me absolutely fucking sick

[therearewords]

What in the

[picturemegone]

omg They only have enough love for one! I can't.

[tekan]

Disgusting. Like you can only feel one kind of love and only so many times, somehow.

After I had my kiddos, I still loved my cat to bits. Just also loved my kids as my kids.

[fromyourashes]

wtf
my dog (a sweet little mini-pin who eventually literally died defending our family out in puerto rico from huge stray dogs) knew i was pregnant before i did. he became so protective and sweet and that was my baby, and when my son was born, he stayed my baby. and i DID have post-partum psychosis. i was suicidal and thinking about killing myself and my son. my sister died 6 weeks after my son was born and i guess it somehow snapped me out of it.

at no point did i love my dog less. i cannot pretend to understand the post-partum brain, though. the partners and friends and family really need to start stepping up and being less afraid of overstepping boundaries, seriously. overstep. maybe you lose a friendship or relationship, but maybe you save a life.

sorry, i'm just rambling but jesus, this is all so upsetting.

[asnindie]

Ugh I hate that shit. Ofcourse you have unconditional love for your child but why can grown ass people not be able to share affection with others just because you've had a child. Honestly the worst type of person.

[sluttyroyals]

Yeah, my cousin was like that to her Chiweenie. Thankfully he’s in better hands now.

[benihime99]

Neglect and abuse are two different things
Many neglect their pets because of lack of Time/exhaustion/pp
She was very conciously abusing her pet

[pulseraroja]

Barf, what in the narcissist hell

[phililen3]

So you "realise" that you "don't really love your pet" so you neglect them? These people are horrible. They're the type to not really parent or not realise that parenting is an extremely long term thing. Probably lose interest in their child after the "cute baby" phase. Fuck these people.

[vainandbitter]

What a sweet bullshit excuse for being irresponsible

[steffi_333]

I absolutely fume when people say your love for something is nothing like the love of a parent for a child. Die in a fire.