Is AUTHOR wrong in the post ? POST : about two weeks ago a coworker  (CW) of mine contacted me after not being at work for 3 days asking me to go to his home to pick up his two cats. Specifically told me that he didn’t know what to do with them, and thought that I would be able to find a home for them and that he would prefer for them to be able to stay together. He also told me I could have things from his apartment, to take or sell. I asked him if he was coming back for anything, and after a day and a half he responded that he was unsure. 

No one knew what was going on. Not his mother anyone we work with, or the owners of the company.  

After two weeks of everyone worried, vague or no response, CW comes back and somehow the company I work for has agreed to give him a second chance and allow him to continue his employment after essentially 2 weeks of no call/no show. This complicates things because it’s someone I will be working directly with and require and decent professional relationship with CW at the very least. 

Come to find out the reason he left is that him and his husband (HB) got into a fight, ending with him hitting HB and the cops being called. Rather than be responsible and deal with the situation they both decided he should leave before the cops show up. Which caused a warrant put out for his arrest. He’s currently finishing up probation but rather than deal with the situation they both decide to skip town. They drove up the coast with their other two pets, and gave them away in another state 3,000 miles away to someone up there. 

Now that CW is back he spoke with me this morning about taking the two cats back. At the time I told him most likely, but I know that my husband is pretty upset about the situation and that CW abandoned them, which CW doesn’t see it that way because he knew I would get them. I reluctantly told him he could most likely pick the cats up this afternoon, I just needed to talk to my husband. 

Well, I sent my husband a text telling him and he called me telling me his friend (FR)  had been promised the cats already, and that we were just holding them for him until FR closes on his house. FR is a 22 year old, who works a good job, buying his first house at a young age, which I think goes to show that he is a responsible stable person, who is very much excited to take in the two cats. 

I text CW to tell him I was unaware that they had been promised to someone, and we had found a good home for them, but he doesn’t see it that way and he wants them back. In his argument as to why he’s even stated that he “can be 100% sure he can keep and care for them, but if not he is 100% sure his mother or brother could” if he can’t. 

The more I think on it, the more I am hesitant to give an animal back to someone who would leave them, and put themselves in that kind of a situation. 

AITA for not wanting to give CW his cats back, and rather foster them until they can go with my husbands coworker? 
