In a bizarre incident, a man has confessed to replacing his wife's cat with another one six years, and she still has no clue about the swap. The husband said that he did so when they were just dating.?
He explained while she was away for a week to see her family, he was looking after the cat who was apparently aggressive and scratched everyone.?
"Six years ago, I swapped my then-girlfriend now-wife's cat with a more well-behaved lookalike. She had an all-black cat that was extremely aggressive. It scratched everyone, hissed at everyone, and didn't use its litter box half the time," he wrote on Reddit.
He said, "My wife insisted she could get it to behave better. One week she went out of town to visit her family and I was supposed to go to her apartment and feed it."
So, when the feline scratched him on the first day, he joked that he would swap it, but realised that it was not a bad idea.
¡°The first night I went over, it scratched the s*** out of my arm. I joked to the cat that it's not special and I'll replace it if it scratches again. The joke stuck with me until I had thought about it enough that it wasn't a joke," he said.
He continued, "The next morning, I went to the local animal shelter. I found an identical cat who was already litterbox trained and acclimated to people but was a little skittish. But overall, it was a lot friendlier and better behaved, and the skittishness would help it resemble the original cat."
So, he adopted the cat and took it to his girlfriend's apartment. He then took the original cat to a nearby town,?"because I was paranoid my wife would find out if I took it to a local one."
He added, "It's been six years since then. We got married four years ago. We still have the swapped cat. It answers to the original cat's name. My wife knows nothing. She loves this cat and brags about how much better behaved it is."
However, Redditors had mixed reactions to this swap.?
One user said, "How do you all lie to your spouse so easily? I can¡¯t keep anything in for more than a couple of minutes without cracking. Feels so fundamentally wrong."
Another wrote, "Delete this post. Delete this account. Never tell anyone, ever. I have seen people divorce for less and I wouldn't blame her."
A third user commented, "As someone who¡¯s had a cat taken previously, I would hate you if I were your wife. It¡¯s been 12 years and I still get emotional about it and if I were you, I¡¯d ensure your wife never finds out. Don¡¯t tell friends, nothing."
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