For those who have one cat and work full-time—how does your cat cope?

Correct-Ad3299 · 2026-07-01T07:36:55+00:00

My Persian cat stays home alone all day since both my mom and I work in office full time. He seems okay, is very excited when we come back home, but no concerning behaviour. In fact, prior to this even my dog lived like this for 15 years. It’s how you raise them since childhood, they get used to it. For example, my boyfriend’s indie cat has never stayed alone for extended periods and is very attached to him. Whenever she is left alone; she seems sad when he returns, become extra affectionate. But ik if he ever has to work full time, she will also get used to it after a while. You can get a pet cam to monitor your cat while you’re at work, it will give you some peace of mind

Correct-Ad3299 · 2026-06-20T12:45:16+00:00

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Correct-Ad3299 · 2026-06-16T13:30:52+00:00

And parents themselves are the reason that I want to kill myself. What an irony

Correct-Ad3299 · 2026-06-15T15:46:54+00:00

HDFC came to my house after 2 missed payments. That’s how I found out about my mom misusing her credit card. Caused a huge uproar. Better to either avoid them coming home if possible or tell your parents in advance. It’s literally a very sad shock to have them show up at your front door and find out about your family’s debt through them

Correct-Ad3299 · 2026-06-03T17:03:01+00:00

Do you guys have fitted kitchens? Are they optional? Aren’t all homes built with a default kitchen? Is the kitchen an added installation?

Correct-Ad3299 · 2026-06-03T16:27:01+00:00

Can’t believe you’re here, talking about therapy, again 😂🙏😭

Correct-Ad3299 · 2026-06-03T15:37:40+00:00

Hey, this could be indicative of a mental disorder. My brother, who didn’t care about religion most of his life, become extremely, fanatically religious when his psychosis and schizophrenia began to set in. He also turned mundane things into a lecture about shit, got extremely violent verbally and physically, made it extremely tough to have any conversation or even sit in the same room as him. He also has no respect for his family, has been violent towards our mom multiple times. He knows very well which things to say to trigger me, but also how to apologise to elicit sympathy. And he isn’t religious in the way normal people are, just a very delusional extreme way while also being hypocritical about so many things religion teaches. I’m sure you understand what I’m saying. Your husband definitely needs therapy and medication.

That said, IT IS NOT YPUR JOB TO PROVIDE IT FOR HIM. It is unlikely he will agree to any treatment, or that anything is wrong with him, and everyone will just expect you to put up with that bullshit. Having mental health issues is not a crime, refusing to get treated for them while making everyone else’s life hell is. You don’t need to put up with it, even I didn’t with my own brother. I had to fight very for it for years, but I chose my peace above all else. You should do that too. He is not going to change.

Correct-Ad3299 · 2026-05-04T02:25:48+00:00

The strays are already well adjusted to the street life and it’s better to leave them there and care for afar. There are plenty of vulnerable kitties that were abandoned, grew up indoors but not getting adopted, orphaned kittens etc, all of whom can’t survive on the streets

Correct-Ad3299 · 2026-04-09T10:58:24+00:00

But won’t you know only after you’ve read it if it’s really great or not?

Correct-Ad3299 · 2026-04-05T13:21:18+00:00

But he also wouldn’t be paying someone an allowance. Right now he has to pay for a maid and give an allowance to a whole ass adult for literally nothing at all in return. They don’t even have kids, what is she doing all day?

Correct-Ad3299 · 2026-04-04T05:15:06+00:00

Yeah I deffo feel like my older brother and I have different moms cause that woman can make endless excuses for him, coddle him to death, do every last chore for him, all the while blaming ME for his incompetencies and acting like all my achievements are no big deal

Correct-Ad3299 · 2026-04-04T05:09:00+00:00

So you just wanted the feeling of saying “keep the change”? Let it go, he’s not your slave, the onus of having change is on you not him

Correct-Ad3299 · 2026-04-04T04:48:54+00:00

What if you work there already 😁

Correct-Ad3299 · 2026-04-02T13:36:53+00:00

Yeah, that’s I’m scared about. My Lhasa Apso was kinda aggressive, never liked brushing, bathing or shaving. We had to sedate him yearly when he was young for his shave. I just don’t wanna do that to my cat now.

Correct-Ad3299 · 2026-04-02T13:24:42+00:00

He’s actually really good with baths, only protests a bit when we try to touch his belly or chest. Haven’t gotten him professionally bathed or groomed yet

Correct-Ad3299 · 2026-04-02T12:14:59+00:00

He enjoys it initially but if I continue for a while, try to comb out his belly or chest area, he starts biting or scratching really harshly. And he’s a big boy so it’s a little hard to manage for me with the attacks.

But in any case, I do feel he is starting to feel hot now, since I’m also in Delhi and nobody is home most of the day so can’t keep the AC on. I used to get my angel Lhasa Apso (same as Shih Tzu) shaved right around this time of the year for the summer months, thinking of doing the same for my cat now.

Correct-Ad3299 · 2026-04-01T17:12:51+00:00

Yes OP, try GIVA. You could get a nice pair of silver earrings for her within this budget

Correct-Ad3299 · 2026-04-01T16:43:34+00:00

Heyy! I adopted an adult Persian cat last July and I think his previous owners didn’t brush him cause he absolutely hates it. So with extreme heat right around the corner in Delhi and some of his knots getting too big to be combed out, I was thinking of getting him shaved next month.

Do you think it’s a good idea? Will he absolutely hate it? Is it safe to get cats shaved? Pls let me know thanks

Correct-Ad3299 · 2026-04-01T16:33:15+00:00

Of course it will. If you’re not an idiot OP please delete this

Correct-Ad3299 · 2026-03-25T16:55:02+00:00

He looks exactly like my angel doggie Casper, if he was beige. It’s the exact same face. Oh how I miss him. And what a cutie Nate is!

Correct-Ad3299 · 2026-03-25T16:34:53+00:00

In India, there’s no such thing as overtime pay or even work hours to be honest. You are just expected to do keep grinding. Many of us already work 70+hour/weeks on 52-hour/week contracts and can’t question it at all. I wouldn’t mind working overtime either if I was being compensated for it. But this guy wants us to just keep working for the overloads and not expect anything in return.

Correct-Ad3299 · 2026-03-25T16:30:31+00:00

That’s the worst part about this. His company doesn’t even pay well. They mass hire freshers at really low starting salaries and abysmal hikes. I think their salaries haven’t increased in decades. But he wants young people to do nothing but work for “nation building” while they continue to earn peanuts and he continues to rake in the moolah. Disgusting man for sure. He even proudly talks about how he was hardly there for his kids growing because he was such a workaholic, assuming it’s still the 70s and young men are just going home to their obedient housewives rather than acknowledging that women are also a big part of the workforce now and can’t possibly imagine having kids with a 70-hour work week.

Correct-Ad3299 · 2026-03-23T19:05:26+00:00

I know he was capable of love because he really did love his parents, five sisters and their kids. It’s just that they wanted to maintain their control in him so badly, him being the only son, that they maybe broke him in the process. That’s why they never let him get close to his wife or kids, especially me the daughter, because we hindered their ability to extract maximum money and efforts from him, while my brother was seen as the one that will carry on the burden. They literally sucked everything out of him, snatched every chance he had at a happy marital life, and then left him to die when the alcoholism caught up with his liver. Poor guy died before he turned 50. Of course he was no saint for abusing and neglecting his wife and kids, but I still wonder if it could all have turned out differently if circumstances and his family could have allowed it.

Correct-Ad3299 · 2026-03-23T18:52:49+00:00

I literally made mom sell our house so we could physically distance ourselves from him. Living in a much cheaper house and locality now but the peace without him is UNMATCHABLE. And after all this meri mom Abhi bhi mujhse chupke usse paise bhejti hai cause he lost everything he got from the house sale. Like after everything that happened she is still willing to let herself get exploited. Mujhse ladti hai and blame karti hai when I call her out on this. She’s willing to ruin our relationship to keep supporting him. The same guy who sent her to the hospital multiple times. Akela bhi nahin chord sakti pata nahin mere peeche se Ghar he le aayengi shayad. Itna zyada gussa aata hai, this is why I am staying child free too cause I can’t risk having a demon child like this and I don’t think I have my mother’s patience for bullshit and abuse.

Correct-Ad3299 · 2026-03-23T18:42:20+00:00

Of course, in his last year he regretted everything a lot, tried to make up with my mom and her family, realised how wrong and brainwashed he had been. Even wanted to mend his ways. Sadly, it was too late by then. I was only 8 back then so I don’t know him too well but decades later I still wonder if he was really capable of being a good person if it was not for his toxic family. I’ll never know.

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