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Input: My mother has three cats (8yrs, 2yrs, 1yr) and a black cockatoo (4yrs). When I finished uni and went on break, she asked me to move back home and, instead of paying rent, to help out with the animals and housework. This specifically meant entire responsibility over the cats, but not the bird. I was happy to move back in (I love these cats to death). However, a few weeks after I moved in I noticed some oddities with their feeding schedule.

I was told the bird picks at food throughout the day and comes in at night, so only needs a bowl of food in the morning (a mix of fresh nuts, fruit, veggies). This is the specific diet for this bird: bc he was born with a calcium deficiency (broken wing/foot and twisted spine), he NEEDS the nutrients from these food groups to keep his bones strong. But he doesn't eat during the day...

Bc mother feeds him HUMAN FOOD at night. She feeds him anything she's eating (bread and butter, baked beans, noodles, bacon, chips, etc.) and there is a bowl of sunflower seeds sitting on the bench for him to eat at any time. He shouldn't be eating sunflower seeds all the time bc of his calcium deficiency. They're ok as a treat, but all the time? I brought this up and she said "oh, stop it! They're just sunflower seeds!" Which annoys me, bc SHE told ME not to feed him sunflower seeds. Bit contradictory, don't you think?

Also, he EATS AT THE TABLE WITH US! No shit! When we're eating dinner, he is ON THE TABLE walking around EATING OFF EVERYONE'S PLATE! Mashed potatoes, steak, egg, nachos... you name it. I always tell her that I don't want to eat at the table with him, and she just calls me mean. Mean? It's a BIRD, FFS! He doesn't like eating what he's meant to eat during the day, so he just waits until 5pm when he's brought in so he can get WHATEVER HE WANTS. I've told her plenty of times that she's gotta stop letting him sit at the dinner table, but she just says, "What do YOU know? I can feed him what I want!"

This is also an issue with the cats. Our male cat is ALWAYS hungry. He is always eating food and it gets to a point where he starts eating the other cats' food. So when it comes to feeding time we have to physically prevent him from eating all the food (btw he is given more food than the other two). I was instructed by my mother to feed them a pack of mince at 5pm and then put a double dish of food out at 7pm so they can eat through the night.

Mother comes home from lunch and feeds them a pack of mince. I said to her, "they'll get mince tonight, so why are you feeding them now?" And she said, "But they wait for me to come home so they can eat lunch with me!" Um, what? So you've been feeding them at lunch too? Sometimes the youngest cat doesn't eat at lunch and she gets angry at her, but I'm here like "Don't overfeed her, bc it's obvious she's not hungry!" Again, I'm blown off by mother.

So, she feeds them once at lunch and twice at night. What was the straw that broke the camel's back? Woke up early one morning (she leaves at 7am), walk into the kitchen and SHE'S FEEDING THEM MORE MINCE!!!

I was ROPABLE! I couldn't believe she was feeding them AGAIN! Now I know WHY the male cat is always thinking about food - bc he gets fed FOUR LARGE MEALS a day! That's more than I eat in a day. He gets three lots of mince a day and sometimes he gets a slab of it all to himself!

When she came home that day I tried to have a serious conversation about her overfeeding the animals. I told her that if she keeps overfeeding them they'll get overweight, especially our boy. I also told her that the cockatoo needs to stop eating what we eat and solely eat his fresh food. She got defensive and talked down at me like I was five again. She basically told me that I don't know anything, that I'm always on her case and need to mind my own business. Her house, her rules.

I took the male cat to the vet to check his weight. Vet said that although he's not overweight, he is getting very close to being so and that if he doesn't stop eating as much as he does, he WILL be overweight and it'll be hard for him to get out of his eating habits. He said it will be near impossible if he's being fed at the same time as the other cats bc he'll be thinking about eating their food more than his own. Vet recommended different feeding times for the cats.

This didn't go down well with mother. She called it bullshit and a waste of time. She also said I'm full of shit and need to learn to zip it. Her house, her rules... I told her if you're just gonna keep doing this then they won't be my responsibility anymore, and walked off.

AITA for nagging her about this? Am I overstepping a boundary? She's not abusing them - they are very loved - but she is overfeeding them and she instructed me to take responsibility over them. I don't want this to go bad and have her turn this all on me and say it's my fault. Also, our agreement was that I took care of them in exchange for having a place to stay, so I feel bad that I am shrugging off this responsibility bc it didn't go my way. Sometimes I think she thinks the overfeeding thing is funny, bc she always laughs about feeding them lots. I thought it was funny the first time, but now that I know how much she's feeding them I'm not laughing.

Lmk what everyone thinks.

Tl;dr Move home to help mother with pets and found out she overfeeds them (4+ times a day), but every time I say anything I'm told it's not my place to speak out.

arguing with my mother on how she feeds her animals