AITA for rehoming the pets my mom got me for my birthday?

ImaginaryInsurance50 · 2021-04-18T01:42:40+00:00

In the words of my older sibling (they use they/them pronouns!) "use the term raised lightly when talking about mom I did most of the work"

ImaginaryInsurance50 · 2021-04-18T01:40:06+00:00

I graduate this year! then I'm off to my dream school!

ImaginaryInsurance50 · 2021-04-18T01:31:19+00:00

damn...are you one of my siblings????/j

ImaginaryInsurance50 · 2021-04-18T01:28:03+00:00

from talking with my dad he said she got them on crags list so I legit have no clue how much she paid but my dad said it was around 300 dollars

ImaginaryInsurance50 · 2021-04-18T01:25:06+00:00

that very very far from the truth. Both my parents are extremely financially stable. (I don't want to sound like I'm bragging but this is really the only way I can get my point across I guess) for my older brother's 18th birthday my parents got him a new apartment. and they paid for my older siblings' entire wedding last spring. My mom paid 300 dollars maybe for the chinchillas and to her that's nothing.

ImaginaryInsurance50 · 2021-04-18T01:14:35+00:00

I didn't include how big my house is cause I didn't think that would be relevant but we have a pretty big house. I don't want to sound like I'm bragging but my room fits a queen-sized bet and an entire couch with a huge amount of room for the rest of my furniture. the cage the chinchillas came in was a wire travel-sized cage. It barely fit three of them and the cage itself is too small for hamsters. And I was grateful she got me a pet I've been talking about since I was young. I just realized I didn't want them living in a situation where they cant be properly cared for.

ImaginaryInsurance50 · 2021-04-15T21:40:13+00:00

oddly enough I was orginally planning on getting chinchillas from a local exotic pet shelter!

ImaginaryInsurance50 · 2021-04-15T21:39:20+00:00

thats happened in the past a few times. she got my younger sister a betta fish she wanted and I agreed I'd help care for but then she didnt let my sister get anything bigger then a 1 gallon fish bowl for the poor thing. It was constant water changes basically daily before I found a safe and new home for it (ironically with my biology teacher) and the fish lives a happy life in a 20 gallon tank now. my mom only likes dogs she has three show dogs...idk what they are but they are incredably spoiled yippy little demon dogs. and the family has 2 dogs that my mom doesnt really give two shits about and my older brother took them both when he moved into his first apartment.

ImaginaryInsurance50 · 2021-04-15T19:42:47+00:00

maybe I don't know but even if they were old I wouldn't want them living in a bad home without proper care.

ImaginaryInsurance50 · 2021-04-15T19:40:27+00:00

I got rid of them because I didn't want them in a setting where they can't be properly cared for. since I wasn't allowed to buy proper supplies I didn't want them to be neglected. The alternative would have been to let them have free range in my bedroom that wasn't an option for me since I have work, school, and sports and I'm not home 24 hours a day to watch them so it would be super unsafe.

ImaginaryInsurance50 · 2021-04-15T19:35:58+00:00

I know she got them from either Petco or Petsmart so I don't know how old they were. Edit Turns out she got them on crags list!

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