I want to use an arbitrator but I don't know how to present it really. I'm moving out in less than a year and I plan to take all 4 cats with me, but the **** is going to hit the fan when I try to take a certain one, her name is Widget. If you talked to my stepmom, she'd say that her name is Angel.
To h**l it is, all she did was bring her home one day. She says that that's the same reason the other three are mine. Sorry, but my cats have a little thing called love and affection towards me. As the owners of the house, my dad and stepmom buy the food and the litter. I, on the other hand, feed them, change the litter, play with them, let them sleep in here, take care of them at all hours when no one else is awake or around, and they, including Widget, all come to me first if they're hungry, bored, or sad.
These people I live with are always either in their room, where they don't let the cats, or on the couch if they aren't doing some sort of chore or aren't out of the house. So the only time they actually have anything to do with the cats is when they're on the couch in the living room and the cats just happen to be in the same room as them.
Trust me when I say I'm not exaggerating. Here comes the part where I want to pull in the arbitrator, 'cause I'm fairly sure I'll win with one--they don't like taking care of their medical needs. It took me over half a year to get my dad to deworm one of them. I was so sad for her because she had to sleep on a pallet outside my door instead of being able to come in my room, and she thought she'd done something wrong to deserve it. They only took them all when a different one had kittens and they wanted to get the girl cats fixed so they wouldn't have any more to "deal with." Once, Widget had some sort of sore that exploded from her side and they just waved it off, saying with some peroxide she'd be okay.
Right now Widget has some grease on her coat and the evil stepmother yelled at me for trying to bathe her since it was "her" cat, even though she never, and still doesn't do anything for her. I tried to take her to Petco to get her groomed since I couldn't do it and she still got in the way saying she wasn't mine to help.
Apparently though, if I don't take care of her, no one will. My stepmother is basically very childish, and there won't be a way to beat her for good unless I call in a legal force. I don't mind paying for it at the end of the year, when I plan to move out, and I'm sure I can get help from my pet-loving friends, but how do I go about it? Sorry it took this long to get to my actual question but I had to explain it in detail.
So how do I go about explaining to to whoever I need to explain it to and getting a legal arbitrator to finish this issue off for me? Thanks for anyone taking the time to help me. Also, let me know if this topic would do better in Pets, I just thought I'd get a better legal answer under Law & Ethics.
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