Aimee Chan Angers Netizens With Cat Abandonment
Since pregnancy, Aimee Chan (陳茵媺) decided to part ways with her three beloved pet cats. Afraid that they will trigger allergies during the sensitive time period, she sent the cats away to live with her friends instead. But after Aimee shared the information at a recent function, netizens who clearly disapprove of Aimee’s decision to abandon her cats began to rant on her Weibo profile.
Aimee has lived with her three cats for six years. When she was pregnant with baby Aiden Joshua Chan (陳梓燁), she decided to give away her pets to ensure health and safety. After giving birth, Aimee had no plans to retrieve the cats since she was afraid that her son would develop asthma from breathing in cat hair. She shared the cats are currently living very happily with their new owner, and that she may bring them back when Aiden grows older.
However, many netizens believe it is simply unfair to bring back the cats after a few years of abandonment. They claimed Aimee only wanted to get rid of her pets and used her baby as an excuse. One netizen accused angrily, “Even such a beautiful excuse to abandon the cats cannot hide your evil irresponsibility towards the small animals.” Another netizen was quick to add that Aimee’s action was plain selfish.
Aimee was soon compared to Mimi Lo (羅敏莊), who has seven cats at home. In contrast, Mimi continued to take care of her cats even after giving birth to her baby daughter in 2012. But while many netizens blamed Aimee for her decision, some left comments of support and continues to believe she is a true cat-lover.
Source: East Week
This article is written by Shirley for JayneStars.com.
No one who truly love their pets will abandon them.
Right on!!
Give her a break, people! She did it for the sake of her baby. You’d understand if you have kids. And it’s not like she left them out in the streets or at a shelter for just about anyone to pick up. She gave them to friends whom she trusts would take good care of her cats.
She did not abandon them. She gave the cats a good home. And you must not have kids because any good parent would know that the kids come first. Come on, get real
It might sound dumb to someone like you but my pets are my family, my kids that I raise. Under no circumstance would I give them away. For me the moment I bring a pet home is like an unwritten contract that I would care for it for life.
Yh if she abandoned them then they wouldn’t have any food,water or shelter. She has found a better home for them where they will probably get more attention.
@Leva
What if your child is allergic to animal fur or something. Would you still insist on keeping your pet at home and let your child suffer?
Why do you all bother about how she take care of her cats???
Are cats more valuable than humans? What if you grew up with a severe allergy or handicap because your mum loved her cats more than she loved you as a baby?
Think about it.
Leva…you are way too naive. So you are telling me that even if your child is allergic to pet, you will insist on keeping the pet? So you would rather put your pet first over your own child? At the risk of your child’s health? If you answer yes, then you are going to be a selfish and horrible mother. I would feel sorry for the child. Actually, please save this child by not having him/her.
If I’m planning on having kids I would not be having any pets unless I’m sure my kids is not allergic to them. Even if I have pets I have an adequate place for my pets and children to live without coming in contact with each other. For me my pets are like my kids and family. I bath them, cut their nails, brush their teeth, discipline them, potty train them, when they are sick I take them to the vets, I grief when they die, etc. I do all the thing you would do for a little child. Animals have feeling too
Leva is from a wealthy family… Has a castle for a house. So she can keep her pets and baby apart so they won’t interact… Hahaha I can’t see any other way of keeping both pet and baby.. Happy, healthy and apart .. Hahaha
Wow Leva…you are more naive than I thought. A separate place so that your pet does not come in contact with kids. And a let’s life can lasts many years. During a pet’s life, you can get marry and have kids. So are you suggesting that all single people should not have pets because there’s very good chance that they will get marry and have kids while having this dog. How old are you anyways? You sound like a teenager.
” Even if I have pets I have an adequate place for my pets and children to live without coming in contact with each other.”
Wow, your house is big. Can keep the children and pets separate. Do you live in a mansion?
Even if you live in Buckingham Palace they will bound to see or meet or bump into each other. Aimee is being a responsible mother to her child and responsible to her cat. I don’t get the condemnation and I certainly don’t get all the big words about never ever abandoning your pet. True perhaps, because have seen people abusing and abandoning their own children rather than abandoning their pets. Twisted sense of priority and love.
People are bound to meet animals during their life but you just have to take the precautions when they are little. For all you people that saying I’m naive your wrong. I have a little brother that is allergic to certain animal fur but yet is living happily with animals since he was an infant. Ever since we knew he was allergic we don’t let any of them meet each other until he was older.
I don’t live in a mansion. You don’t need a mansion to own pets and have children
Leva…meeting a pet for a moment is different. You can choose to walk away from the pet. But living with a pet is totally different. That’s great that your brother is happy and nothing happened to him. Some children has more serious and life threatening allergies that can make them really sick and potentially kill them. So yes, you are naive for not seeing that. And actually I feel sad for your brother to have to live through his allergies because his parents made a bad decision to keep a pet that can potentially harm his health. A good parent would not even take the chance to risk their child’s life because you never know what can happen. Better safe than sorry.
@ leva
Omg! You have a little brother and he is allergic to fur and yet your family took the risk and raised him up with pets. You are so lucky his allergy extent is not life threaten! !!
Just keep in mine not everyone would take the risk like yours!
Yeah of course my parent own a pet groomer and pet hotel store that raise us up with those money. And every so often they foster abused and abandon pets. My parents did everything right, my brother didn’t get a trigger response after they knew he was allergic when he was at home. They did every precaution and it pay off.
Aww I see.. Sorry but not everyone owns a pet groomer and a pet hotel store…so Shame on us!
I have come to the conclusion that Leva doesn’t have an ounce of common sense in her. Therefore, it is a waste of time to argue this topic to someone who just doesn’t have the intelligence to understand it.
She is allergic to cats. When she was pregnant she could take any medication for it, she has no choice but to give them away. If she didn’t give them away it would be putting Aiden and her at risk. I personally think she did nothing wrong giving them away but she did wrong by adopting them when she know she is allergic
You can’t take medication when pregnant. Not even for a cold.
Leva, you’re simply a stubborn moron. My children are important than a cat, end of story. Compromising a child’s health over a family pet is selfish. You love your pet so much you won’t sacrifice it for your own children? You need to get your priorities straight, human > cat.
If your baby and your cat was drowning in a lake, and you had to save one, who will it be. The cat or the baby?
For crying out loud. What is the problem here. If she chooses her child to come first then what is wrong with that???. Every true caring mother should! What if the cats did something to the baby, then what would you lot say!!! Jeez get a life, I’m so angry…this shouldn’t even be an issue. There are lots more issues in life than cats being looked after. by someone else, not like she threw them in the streets to fend for themselves.
No one who truly is a human would care about cats more than a baby!
She left the cats with friends, it’s not a freakin crime. She could’ve chucked the cats out on the street but she didn’t. So NO, it’s not abandonment.
I think it’s pretty reasonable for her to do that. She said she has allergies to them but still keeps meaning she does love them but because she’s had her baby she doesn’t know if he has allergies to the cat or not so it’s to benefit both the cat and baby.
Heard of lots of pregnant women abandoning their pets like dogs and esp cats cos they’re believed to be carriers of some strange dieseses which can cause birth defects or still births. Guess she was being careful. But of cos it’s cruel to the pets. Hope she at least ensures that they go to good homes. Just hope she doesnt hv the gall to call herself pet lover in future.Pet lover in good times, pet abandonment when selfishness rears its head.
Actually there is a medical link, which causes pregnant women to be wary. The toxemia parasite lives in cat feces to Toxemia/preeclampsia may occur in pregnant women.
The medical link you alluded to is actually Toxoplasma Gondii which is a parasite that often lives in cats and is easily transmitted by faecal contamination to pregnant women causing severe acute illness that can lead to abortion. If transmitted trans-placentally to the newborn it can cause blindness or other neurological damage. It is a well known fact that pregnant women should avoid contact with cats as much as possible as Aimee Chan will well know.
By the way, toxaemia/ pre-eclampsia in pregnancy is a totally different condition.
Just hope she doesnt hv the gall to call herself pet lover in future.
She did. It’s in the article itself. She said the cats are currently living very happily with their new owner.
She didnt. Not in these exact words.
Anyway, my mom had 4 kids. We share our house with several cats (some come and go at will , so no exact nos available) . We all turned out fine.
Sorry, I copied the wrong sentence. I meant quote “Hope she at least ensures that they go to good homes” which she did.
After I became pregnant. My in law order me to get rid of the dog. I end giving my dog to my sister to take care. Sometime it might be family pressure ! As long as you gave them another safe home it should be fine!!
Some animal lovers are too freaking sensitive about every little thing. I’m an animal lover myself, and I’m saddened by Aimee’s decision to send her cats away. But I support her if she is sincerely doing it for the sake of her family’s health.
I heard at an allergy seminar that dogs living indoors can help prevent kids from food allergies. Not cats though, still don’t know why. More research needs to be done.
If your child living too clean area is also not good. You have more chance that your child have asthma.
The pregnant women’s must search more informations about living with the pets!!!!! Like cleaning the cat’s toilet is not to do by pregnant woman!!!
Pets giving you a lots of love. Also for socializing for a child is very good!!!! I cant without them!!!
100% agree!!.
Dumb woman, pets are live long commitments! Think twice, thrice before you go for any. A friend of mine thought she was ready to have a dog, and then she got married n she sent her dog to live with her mom. When baby came along, both of them were too busy to take care of the dog and she gave him away to her friend. What nonsense! Imagine the poor dog’s confusion of being moved around.
Don’t cal people Dumb!! Is rude!! At the end of the day is her decisions!!
She had cats, NOT dogs! Big different! Dogs are ok to have around while you’re pregnant or having young kids. Cats are different. If you’re pregnant n accidentally mishandling cat’s litter, you may end up with a miscarriage or birth defect. Amy gave her cats another loving home, NOT abandon. Haters gonna hate…no matter what she does. Get a life people!
U r right.. I shouldn’t have called her dumb.. I was just upset after reading this report but upon cooling down, I think what she did makes sense and she has her responsibilities as a mom..
I think you are the dumb one.
Aimee adopted these abandoned cats when no one wanted them and have taken care of them well these years. She has shared many pictures of them at weibo, hugging and kissing them so I genuinely believe she loves her cats. But for Aiden’s health she just had to take extra precaution.
Pity thinking about this way. Like I say kids living with pets is 100% healthy. How clean you living how unhealthy for the kids!
uh… you know not all kids living with pets are 100% healthy… LOL so naive
And this is news? She sure has more news even when’s she’s not acting, lol
Funny article. Am happy she knows her priorities. Come on! Your pets or potential allergy than can kill your baby? No brainer. She is being careful and moreover she didn’t just dump them on the streets or cook them, right?
Exactly. NOT a fan of this two at all, but fair is far.
She gave them to a friend, not dumped them carelessly away to an animal shelter, where their whereabouts-well being thereafter will be unknown.
She can also always visit.
People, can be so judgemental.
how is it funny? you have a messed up sense of humour. guess all Malaysians are cheap and had a messed-up sense of humour.
Who is cheap n messed up? You are the one. Sometimes ppl need to know their priority n make a decision based on that. If she put her child at risk she will be bashed too.Plus she didnt abandon her pet. She gave it to her friend, someone she knows and willing to care for the cats.
Stop being an idiot. Stick to the topic and stop bashing other nationality. Your kind is not that great, you are a great example.
you’re not that great either. how are you better than sasha? lmao. dramaland.
Sasha, this is what we call stereotyping. Just because you disagree with Funn, it does not mean that you can relate that to all Malaysians. I know you do have the right to disagree, but I believe disagreeing can come with a much nicer tone, unlike yours.
Seriously Sasha, you need a knock on your head! Funn’s comment is a fair comment. And what has Funn’s nationality had to do with this?
Yeah, as a mother, she certainly deserves 5 stars from me. As a pet lover, she deserved 5 stars from me too! It’s not like she abandoned them by throwing them out. She gave them away to other people, which is at least a more humane action. I bet she would have felt sad somehow being separated with her cats. She’s just trying to take a precaution in case her son has allergies!
Awwwwhhhh, poor kitties will definitely miss living the good life.
I don’t care how much of a pet lover you are, your kids and family comes first. If your child is allergic to the pet hairs, then you must get ride of your pet. I have a friend whose son is allergic to dog hair but the mother insist on keeping the dog and the son is the one to suffer as he gets sick all the time and gets a rash if the dog hair touches his skin. So I actually think it would be selfish of the parents to keep the pets in the home knowing that their kid is allergic to them. So I am in full support of what Amy. She had to do what she had to do to prevent her baby from asthma. And it’s not like she abandoned them to the streets. She have them to friends and the cats have good homes.
so true. kids and family come first! she has a baby now so she needs to take cautions. not all family members and baby/kids are okay with pets.
She DID NOT Abandon them!! she gave them away. i wonder if people actually understand the word adbandon…
Some of you are really naive. You haven’t been in that situation where you just got to make a decision between keeping your pet an not.. when you really don’t have that option at all.
In this case, Aimee did the right thing. Unfortunately, humans are humans, the child’s health is the priority no matter what even if they’ve loved their pets just like their own child. There’s no compromise when it comes to children’s health.
And it’s not like she gave it to humane society or those animal shelter team. She responsibly gave her cats to a caring and trustable owner. I’m sure she had taken the time to look for a new owner that she can trust.
totally agree with you!
while some people are just…..
I doubt her critics regularly go out of their way to help human strangers. The plight of a celebrity’s cats is just fodder to attack someone they resent for wealth, youth, beauty, fame, whatever.
It’s all about what kind of red guard, are you?
that’s the charscter test re hong kong post handover.
Unless she’s making. Snuff films with them, I really don’t care if she drops them off on the side of the road.
As much as I am not a fan of Aimee, she did the right thing here and handled it as best as one could. Child over pet.
Ditto.
Cats can give u toxiplasmosis ans mental disorders.
Despite how much I dislike her acting and all her news are so irrelevant and getting annoying (lol), I think she did the right thing. She knows she can’t give the cats the same attention when she has a kid. So rather keeping them and chancing to neglect them, she gave them away to a home; mind you, a home and not to some shelter or “abandon” them as the title say. At least, she’s responsible enough to provide them better home and hopefully they ‘ll give them more attentions.
Agree. It’s not like she cooked them or anything. she not only gave them safe home, she also made her own home a better environment for Aiden,
People are just overreacting
I don’t understand why she’s getting so much crap from others. It’s not like she left her cats on the streets to starve!!!!
How can anyone put their CAT before YOUR ACTUAL BABY SON?????
exactly!!!! LOL
some people are so dumb
I agree with this statement.
It is no joke when your child needs to be put on ventolin puffs.
must be a slow news day for JS to post this BS.
Hooray to all the supporters who supported Aimee’s decision in giving away the cats to caring friends instead of leaving them in the open to become feral cats or euthanizing them at the pet shelter. That was the best choice. To those animal lovers who chastised Aimee, they should think back if their parents chose the cats over them and now they are suffering allergies or other ailments due to having pets around the house. I wonder if they would blame their parents then.
Allergy to pet during pregnancy..but how about after giving birth, still allergy? Did d BB also allergy to d pets?
Aimee herself is allergic to cats. When she was pregnant and currently breastfeeding, she cannot take anti-allergic meds. Plus she’s also afraid her newborn son will develop allergy to cats.
Aimee gave away the cats to be cared by someone she trusts. It’s not abandoning them.
It’s not like she abandoned them. She found new home(s) for them, what’s the big deal?
You are are too busy body. If Aimee wants to give away her cat or so whatever, thats her life. Because of cat issues, you all wants to interfere in her life. Too much. Pls let her go and stop interfering with her life. Such a petty issue.
lol those hk netizen are so funny.
Only those who have kids will understand. Aimee did not abandon them, she found someone to take care of her pets.
Oh please. Leave Aimee alone.
Animal lovers or not, shouldnt be bashing her like that. I didnt really read the whole story, but if I’m not wrong, she just gave her cats away and I can accept her reasoning.
Cats fur are really bad for those especially with asthma.
I would feel the word abandon should be more appropriate if she purposely left her cats on the street and became stray cats. But she just gave it to her friends and the cats are well taken care off. I dont see that as abandoned, the netizens are just over reacting.
They’ve not seen ppl abandoning their cats and dogs. I’ve seen so many, some ppl for an instant like the pet, bought it home, when it really comes to taking care of the pet and also after some time they were tired and bored of taking care and threw the pets away. That is abandoned.
It is silly for her to say she might take them back after a few years. Won’t the cats new families want to keep them? So selfish!
Is this a joke or are netizens really that dumb?
She didn’t abandon them, she gave them another home to live in.
It seems like everyone’s overreacting.
Agree. I confess that I’m an animal lover myself but I 100% agree with Aimee’s decision. After all she’s making a careful choice to let her friend take good care of it. It’s not like she’s giving it to some random stranger, putting it down or anything. And for those who think Aimee doesn’t ‘truly love her cat’, wouldn’t it be the best for the cat to have a new loving home instead then?
Jfc are they really getting their panties in a bunch over a mother who wanted to protect her unborn child at all costs? Issue isn’t even worth a second glance.
It’s her choice. Who cares?
If you are pregnant, get rid of the cat. Plain and simple. Very dangerous animals for a pregnant woman. Aimee did the right thing for the child. Once the pregnancy is over, sure, bring the cats back. Those that are attacking her are clueless. They need to read up on toxoplasmosis.
I don’t like Aimee and her acting but she did the right thing to give the cats away because of her baby.
Well, if you have child, and he/she is allergic, then you will know what it means. By keeping them in different parts of the house, will still trigger the allergy, as you sometimes can’t see those small fur with naked eyes. It caused a problem to my girl, who had sensitive airways, and she kept complaining of fur in her mouth, which we cannot see nor feel (as we do not have the allergy) and thus, always getting bad bronchitis due to that. You won’t know, till you face it. My son had no problem when he was young, not with 8 dogs in the house, but my daughter could not even take one dog, nor those soft stuffed toys. Thus, do not be too quick to judge, and say that people are heartless to abandon their pets.
Here is her 2nd reason: http://www.jaynestars.com/news/aimee-chan-denies-abandoning-cats-ill-take-them-back/
You tell me…
lol what is this article even- I thought she left her cats on the street or something. She may not be the best actress, but damn, people are just finding little details to hate her.
I guess you could call that abandoning if she just thrown her pets. It’s still compassion.