Cat Owners Shame The Person Who Found Their Cat For Taking The $500 Reward They Promised In The Missing Cat Posters

They also loudly whispered how unbelievable he was to even ask for the reward money

Chelsi

• Published in Interesting
• October 25, 2022

I was recently approached while walking my dog by a group of kids handing out flyers for their missing cat. They said it was their grandma's cat who wandered off after a door was mistakenly left ajar.

I promised to keep an eye out for it but unfortunately haven't seen it anywhere in our area. OP and his wife faced a similar situation in their neighborhood.

They were discussing the missing cat posters they saw when they were walking to get lunch. OP and his wife have a few cats of their own and regularly joke about being crazy cat people.

As luck would have it, they saw the cat from the posters chilling on the roof of a car. OP approached the cat and it was friendly, so he took a picture and walked to check the reward poster from the block before.

They confirmed that it was the same cat and went back to pick it up. OP's wife then called the number on the poster and got in touch with the owners who live four blocks from where they found it.

The kids that owned the cat ran out happily when they saw OP approaching their house with the missing cat. OP saw that the mom was tearing up because of the joyous reunion.

As they were walking back to their house, OP said mentioned the $500 reward that was promised and asked if it applied to the situation but reassured them that it was fine if it didn't

The dad looked at OP like he committed a sin while the mom asked him if OP really wanted them to give him the reward

OP replied that he wasn't trying to make the situation awkward but he did find their cat and they promised a reward for it

The dad went inside and gave OP $320 and said it was the only cash he had on hand but told OP he can e-transfer it if it was that big of a deal with OP. They were talking loud enough about how shameless OP was for taking the reward as they walked back to their house.

OP's wife is on his side but their friends and families are torn if OP should have let the money go. Was OP really shameless for taking the reward money?

It's not like OP asked for money out of the blue — they promised to reward $500 to anyone who can return their cat and that's exactly what OP did

For a reward, $500 is a lot but they did promise it

They could have at least been fake-nice to OP, he did find their missing cat for them

They were so wrong not to offer it immediately and made OP ask for the money

They shamed him within earshot. Who does that to a person that just helped you?

OP can ask for the rest of the money or take the cat back. Now, doing the second one would definitely make OP the a**hole.

You can't walk back on a promised reward and OP could have actually taken them to court if they denied him the $500

That's worth at least two weeks of grocery and nobody would turn that down

People went out of their way to help you and it's only right to thank them for the effort. It was their choice to offer a significant amount of money.

A law student explained the unilateral contract that was discussed by the other commenters

Someone went against the grain and said they wouldn't take the money unless they actually personally paid for some of the animal's needs but commenters were quick to jump in to defend why taking the promised money wasn't wrong either

Not taking the money would have made OP a gallant and kind stranger who happened to find a beloved family cat. Asking for the reward wasn't wrong either — it's not like OP named his price and refused to release the cat unless they gave him cash.

It was awkward that OP even had to ask for the money in the first place. OP shouldn't lose sleep over this since he did the right thing and is now $320 richer.

Chelsi