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The original was posted on /r/AmItheAsshole by /u/budgameing on 2023-08-31 17:26:55.

So my boyfriend isn’t mad at me for this he actually agrees but it’s is family I’m having the issue with. (Also, sorry for formatting. I’m on mobile)

So I live in Florida, and we just had the hurricane hit, and because of where i live, i couldn’t stay home, so i stayed with my BF’s family. We are all okay. We just had a lot of flooding.

But he has a 6 year brother (S), and he isn’t the nicest to animals. I had to bring my with me, and I told him, and so did his family not to touch or hold my animals.

I have a 13 year old dog and two young cats. S constantly was picking up my cats and laying full weight on top of my dog, and I told him many times to stop.

What ended up causing tension and his parents getting upset was he was holding my kitten by his legs and I told him three times to stop then I had to raise me voice to finally get him to drop him.

Now I get I could have gone over and got him, but I was helping pack stuff up.

I got told not to raise my voice at him, but I asked him three times not to mess with them, but he kept doing it. I didn’t get in trouble, but anytime I tell S not to touch or bother my animals, I always get a look from his dad.

My BF has also told S not to mess with them, but he wouldn’t even listen to him even though the kitten he was messing with is our shared cat.

My animals will ALWAYS come before people, even if they are my BF’s family.

I don’t know if I’m the asshole for raising my voice. I don’t feel like I am it just bothers me that I’m the one in trouble even though he was messing with my animals.

EDIT/UPDATED: okay to clear some confusion I’m seeing in the comments, the house was very small and there was no way for me to put my animals in one room my dog always follows me around she is old and I’m her person and my kitten was getting comfortable and was running around.

It was only S dad that was mad at me for getting on to S. My boyfriend was very supportive the whole time. He kept S way from his brother and tried to keep our kitten in a separate room.

My animals are now way from S and will not be around him for a while unless it’s an absolute emergency like it was now.