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Some background is that my mum is one of those older generation that treats pets like toys where they can be discarded anytime once you get bored of it and believes that pets are a waste of money. When my siblings and I were young, we’ve had several pets that were eventually given away after a short period of time once the novelty of it wears off or when one of us sibling gets injured by it due to the lack of proper knowledge on how to play with animals respectfully as kids. I am child free by choice and have several cats that I do love and treat as my own children much to the disappointment of my mum who keeps pestering me to have human kids instead. Now as adults, we all have our own family and house and my mum is staying alone for now. She has hinted that she would eventually like to move in with me when she gets older but the issue is that I have several pet cats and she still has the belief that they are a waste of money and has a few times told me to give them away and stop wasting money on them. Even when my house was undergoing renovation, I’ve had to pay a large sum of money for their boarding instead of asking her to help take care as she joked that she will ‘accidentally’ leave the door open and let the cats run away. While she has not outright ask to move in, because of those comments of hers, I am extremely unwilling and hesitant to have her move in with me in the future as I believe she will do something to my cats such as letting them run out of the house by pretending to forget to close the gate or cause harm to my cats by ‘accident’. I also do not wish to cage my cats up for majority of the day as I work long hours when they are used to having the freedom to roam the entire house as they like. I am definitely not willing to give my cats away just so my mum can move in with me as well. My sibling is unlikely to let her move in with them either due to bad relationship or lack of space in their house due to children. Because of this, I’m apparently a disappointment and a unfilial child but all I want is to protect my cats.