My friend is upset with me

Sorry girls but I need to talk to someone about this because is making me miserable and I don’t have anybody around I want to talk with..

So the issue is with a friend and a cat. A short brief about me, I’m a crazy cat lady and have a baby boy.

A couple of months ago I had to put two of my three cats for adoption. I had a really bad time due to this. Crying all the time for them and feeling like a failure. I did that because my partner and the father of my baby is allergic to them. We’ve been living together for more than a year with all my cats and he’s never complained about his allergy. I used to keep one room free of cats and clean the house everyday throughout. He was taking antihistaminic pills too. It was good.

When I felt pregnant I started struggling keeping everyone happy. Cats, myself and my partner as I didn’t have the best time during my pregnant months. This has nothing to do with my partner, he’s amazing. When I had the baby and had a bit of postpartum depression, I couldn’t handle seeing my cats not being loved as they used to and decided to find the right person and place for them. It was hard but it was the right choice. I know they’re very happy now.

So the issue here is that one of those cats was given to me by my friend when the cat was two years old. He’s now 12. I didn’t say anything to her until last week. She’s very upset with me because I didn’t tell her and she could maybe re homed him. We live in different countries now, and tbh I didn’t even think about her taking him back. I didn’t expect her to be upset with me either.

I explained to her why I had to do it and how I was feeling and feel right now but she doesn’t care. She also don’t care about the other cat I had to rehome which upsets me.

She’s basically saying that she thought I was a friend but it seems differently now 😞

I had the cat for 10 years and I thought it was my cat but it seems it wasn’t my cat after all? I did what it was best for both cats and nobody else. Anyway... I feel so rubbish about this and I don’t know if it’s hormones or what..

Thanks for reading and sooorry for the long post!