AIO roommates left doors open while vacuuming and my cat escaped.
Cat in the photo isn't mine (I was worried of them lurking the sun and recognizing him lol).
Anyways, my roommates and I were doing a big spring deep clean together. We have multiple vacuums and a couple of them were vacuuming at the same time. I was downstairs cleaning and when I came up I saw two of my roommates vacuuming with the both front and back door wide open.
I immediately started searching for my cat. He was nowhere to be found in the house and I was panicking and started ugly crying 😭 He's an indoor cat and is not even a year old yet and he's terrified of the vacuum and with the doors open I was worried he would have ran out to escape the noise. We also live by a road. It doesn't have a terribly fast speed limit but it is quite busy and people speed so still I was worried about that too.
Only one other roommate (neither of the vacuuming ones) helped me to look and we walked up and down the sidewalk calling his name and shaking a container of treats and we finally found him. I was so relieved and shaken up.
The thing is, in the midst of my crying I asked my roommates why they would leave the doors open and not tell me. They seemed annoyed by my question and they told me that my cat is my responsibility and I should have been keeping an eye on him. How could I have known they were going to have the doors open though when they've never done that before??? I wasn't acting angry towards them, just extremely distressed. Their reaction seemed almost catty towards me (no pun intended). They didn't even apologize.
All my roommates seem to love my cat so it's not like they'd have some vendetta against him? I live on a separate floor and keep his litter box and food contained. I also get along so well with my roommates we hangout all the time I thought we were all friends so I'm shocked they would react this way 😞 Unless I'm delusional here? Was I overreacting?
TLDR; Roommates left door open while vacuuming and my cat ran outside. When I asked them why they'd do that they told me I should have been paying more attention.
Cat in the photo isn't mine (I was worried of them lurking the sun and recognizing him lol).
Anyways, my roommates and I were doing a big spring deep clean together. We have multiple vacuums and a couple of them were vacuuming at the same time. I was downstairs cleaning and when I came up I saw two of my roommates vacuuming with the both front and back door wide open.
I immediately started searching for my cat. He was nowhere to be found in the house and I was panicking and started ugly crying 😭 He's an indoor cat and is not even a year old yet and he's terrified of the vacuum and with the doors open I was worried he would have ran out to escape the noise. We also live by a road. It doesn't have a terribly fast speed limit but it is quite busy and people speed so still I was worried about that too.
Only one other roommate (neither of the vacuuming ones) helped me to look and we walked up and down the sidewalk calling his name and shaking a container of treats and we finally found him. I was so relieved and shaken up.
The thing is, in the midst of my crying I asked my roommates why they would leave the doors open and not tell me. They seemed annoyed by my question and they told me that my cat is my responsibility and I should have been keeping an eye on him. How could I have known they were going to have the doors open though when they've never done that before??? I wasn't acting angry towards them, just extremely distressed. Their reaction seemed almost catty towards me (no pun intended). They didn't even apologize.
All my roommates seem to love my cat so it's not like they'd have some vendetta against him? I live on a separate floor and keep his litter box and food contained. I also get along so well with my roommates we hangout all the time I thought we were all friends so I'm shocked they would react this way 😞 Unless I'm delusional here? Was I overreacting?
TLDR; Roommates left door open while vacuuming and my cat ran outside. When I asked them why they'd do that they told me I should have been paying more attention.