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The original was posted on /r/AmItheAsshole by /u/Icy-Violinist8579 on 2023-09-25 22:15:56.
I (26F) rent a house with my roommate, Jane (27F). We’ve lived here about 8 months.
I came into the arrangement with my cat, Fievel. About 4 months ago, Jane approached me about adopting a dog. I agreed and she brought home a small dog, Max.
I work from home and Jane works in an office so she would frequently text me to ask if I could let Max out or give him dinner if she was going to be late and I never had a problem with this.
A couple weeks ago, I was at my boyfriend’s over the weekend. I was planning on coming home but I saw on the news that there was a bad accident on the highway and it was super backed up so I texted Jane to ask if she could take care of Fievel for the night (basically just give him dinner) and I’d be home in the morning. She said no.
I figured that meant she wasn’t home so I left and sat in traffic for nearly 2 hours and when I arrived home, she was just sitting on the couch. I asked why she couldn’t just give him a can of food if she was home when I take care of her dog all the time and she said, “well you can say no. I never agreed to take care of your cat.”
So I started saying no. Max peed on her clothes every day for a week because I wouldn’t let him out when she asked and now she has to bring him to doggy daycare every day which is way more expensive than I thought it was.
She’s really upset with me because it’s $100s per month that she doesn’t have and is telling me she’ll feed my cat whenever I ask now if I’ll just let Max out during the day but I’m still salty that she made the problem in the first place so I’m fine seeing her waste her money.