Hey everyone,

It’s been a while but here is my update lol. Unfortunately, the subreddit wouldn’t let me update in the sub, so I just posted it here.

A day or so after I posted the AITA post, C and her boyfriend tried to break in with a crowbar and a hammer... yikes. Fortunately, I had taken the night off of work and was actually responding to reddit comments when my neighbor texted asking if I knew that there were people outside my window? I had no idea. Police were called, and C told them that she had left her jacket in my apartment and was just trying to get it back. When I said there was no jacket here, she changed her story to me abusing the cats, but I feel that it’s abundantly clear that my cats do not get abused. Both of them (C and the boyfriend) were arrested, and I haven’t seen C since.

I was looking through some screenshots of C’s social media and to my horror, I realized that some of the photos were taken AFTER she moved out and that I wasn’t the one who took them. The cats had collars that I had gotten them for the holiday season, my Christmas tree that went up 12/6 was visible in some of the photos, and so on. The next thing I did was going through the footage that was recorded on my pet cams when I was at work and wasn’t surprised to find out that C has been letting herself into my apartment to take photos of my cats and eat my food. I submitted this to the police as a follow-up to the police report I had made.

Since then, my mental health has been on a rough ride. I did get the locks changed after the attempted break-in situation but realizing that C had been in my apartment multiple times without me knowing really threw me off. C never showed up at work again and there was a bit of gossip that she had ended up in an in-person psychiatric care facility. I didn’t know if she still had access to the schedule, and so my paranoia got pretty bad. I was also uncomfortable working with C's friends as my coworkers, so I ended up putting in my two-week notice in mid-January. I also decided I wanted to move, but it’s actually really really difficult finding a place that accepts three cats >.<

My move was finalized in late February and I was able to move in early March. I injured my wrist right before the move, so it took me 2 weeks longer to move (couldn’t move too much stuff at once) and that definitely stretched my savings because I was paying rent for two apartments, with 2 security deposits and such. But since then, I’ve been working and continuing therapy and outpatient psychiatric care. Maybe I’m a wuss but it was definitely a little traumatizing to realize how close I got to things turning out differently. Recently (late March), C messaged me asking if we could talk. I was hesitant but eventually, I called her and she apologized for scaring me and asked if we could still be friends. I said I didn’t know, because I no longer trust her, and she accepted that. We haven’t talked since. Still no clue what prompted the crazy but I don't want to know or have her around because in true crazy cat lady fashion, I only need my cats lol

If anyone wants to be linked to my instagram for the cats, feel free to dm me, I suppose? Here is some more cat tax as well!