Guy Returns Lost Cat To Her Owners But After Asking For The Promised $500 Reward Gets Ridiculed
Returning a lost pet to its owners is a great feeling. If a reward is mentioned, even better. However, some people make promises they have no intention of keeping just to get what they want.
One family offered a $500 reward to anyone who found their lost cat. When a person appeared at their door with the cat in his hands, they couldn’t have been happier.
But the feeling was short-lived when they realized that the kind person actually wanted the reward money they had promised.
The man who brought them the cat was disappointed by this experience, and he asked the ‘Am I the Assh*le’ community on Reddit for a verdict on his actions.
Reddit user Kcmocats’ post on the AITA subreddit has over 15.7k upvotes. He received 3 Silver Awards and was officially declared ‘not the assh*le.’
Most members believe that Kcmocats is right. How can it be wrong to ask for the money that was promised? Why do people make promises they don’t plan to keep? And how can you be mad at someone who reminds you of your promise?
So, what’s the conclusion? Should you or should you not offer a reward in such cases? Unfortunately, there is no clear answer.
Should pet owners offer a reward? Pet FBI states that there is an ongoing debate about this because in the ‘vast majority of successful reunions,’ there was no reward involved. However, sometimes it can help things move faster.
It can encourage more people to be on the lookout for a pet and to do so more intensively. However, it is a bad idea to state the exact amount of money you are offering. Some people house and feed pets before returning them, even taking them to the vet, so they should be reimbursed for their efforts.
Some people believe that offering high rewards may encourage pet-napping (i.e., kidnapping pets for profit).
If someone finds your pet, contacts you, but refuses to hand it over before receiving money, that is called extortion, and you must call the police.
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