'You repurposed it': Internet slams man for 'disposing' his girlfriend's dead Maine coon cat
A man faced the internet's wrath after he gave his girlfriend’s dead cat to be taxidermied as she said that he could do anything with it. The 35-year-old man claimed his girlfriend's Maine coon died unexpectedly while she was away caring for her terminally-ill grandmother. “Unfortunately my girlfriend's grandmother was terminally ill at the time and she lived abroad, so my girlfriend was away when her cat passed,” he wrote.
Writing on the ‘Am I The A******e (AITA)’ subreddit, the boyfriend said that his grieving girlfriend asked him to get rid of the cat’s body as she didn’t want to see it. “I asked my girlfriend how she would like me to dispose the body, and whether she wanted ashes or anything. She said she did not care as she does not believe in afterlife and that I should just dispose it however is most convenient for me,” he wrote. The man then made a sudden decision and gave the cat’s body to his friend, who is an animal lover, rather than getting rid of it.
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'He keeps the body as a decorative item in his house'
“When my friend heard about it, he asked if he could have the body, my friend has always been fond of her cat whenever he came over and found him very majestic,” the man wrote, adding, "My friend paid for an expensive taxidermy and keeps the body as a decorative item in his house.” He then lied to his girlfriend and claimed his friend took care of the feline's body for him. However, the truth soon came out as his friend’s sister told his girlfriend about the taxidermy.
"After my girlfriend got back, my friend's sister mentioned the taxidermy to her as they are friends and did not know she was unaware of it,” he wrote. Since then, his girlfriend has been furious at him, and his friend is also annoyed, arguing that he should have checked with her. “But I did tell her I gave the body to him and I thought she did not care about how the body was disposed of,” the man concluded.
'The title is VERY misleading'
The post has garnered immense social media attention, with users slamming the man. “You didn't dispose of it. You repurposed it. These things are fundamentally different. She didn't want her cat's body put to use, she wanted it gone. Apologize,” a user wrote while a second asserted, “The title is VERY misleading. She didn’t tell you to do whatever you wanted. She said DISPOSE of it. I don’t care what anyone says, taxidermy is disrespectful at minimum and disgusting at most. You gave someone her beloved animal to gut and stuff. The friend is even more disgusting for even wanting to do that.”
A third user said, “This whole post creeps me tf out… taxidermy is fine and all, but you chose her dead cat whom she even told you that “she did not want to see the body” yet kept and got stuffed? Bruh.” Another user chimed in saying, “YTA. If seeing the body is too upsetting, and your GF wanted you to dispose of it, how did you think taxidermy was an appropriate use? Dispose of it means bury it cremate it, not turn the upsetting corpse into a statue!”
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