Woman says her boyfriend “pranked” her by saving his own feces in the cats’ litter box — and the update only made the breakup sound more necessary
A Reddit user says one disgusting “joke” ended her relationship almost on the spot. In the original post, the 20-year-old wrote that she had moved in with her 30-year-old boyfriend a few months earlier after his longtime roommate moved out, and that while he already liked mean prank videos, she had warned him before that if he ever did something truly mean-spirited to her, she would leave. Then, on April 1, 2026, he told her one of his cats had left a “really gnarly one” in the litter box and pushed her to go deal with it before work. When she checked, she realized the box was filled with multiple large human turds, not cat waste at all. He then laughed and admitted he had been collecting his own poop for about a week just to prank her.
What made the story hit so hard is that she was not just grossed out. She felt disrespected. She wrote that she already hated cleaning the litter box but had still been doing it while he was sick, because she cared about him. Instead of appreciating that, he turned the chore into something humiliating and revolting, then acted like she should take it in stride because she worked in an elderly care home and should be “used to it already.” She made clear in the post that she did not clean it, told him she was moving back in with her parents, and said the prank made her realize how often he already made her feel bad in smaller ways too.
The update six days later somehow made the whole thing worse. She wrote that while she was at work and ignoring his apology texts, he revealed he had been storing the poop in a Tupperware container inside the mini fridge in his room. When she got home, she also found that same container left in the sink with other dishes, smeared brown inside, which she took as one more dig because he clearly expected her to deal with that too. She said that was the moment he seemed to realize she was not bluffing about leaving. He cleaned up the house, bought flowers, cried while helping her pack, and said he had apparently driven his old roommate away with similar “antics” too.
What seems to have stuck with readers most was that the woman did not describe the breakup like a dramatic overreaction. She described it like a moment of clarity. In the update, she said that while some people might laugh at the idea in a sitcom, in real life it just felt degrading. She also said they had been trying for a baby for a month, and that after this happened she kept thinking about what it would feel like if he talked to a future child the way he sometimes talked to her. That thought, she wrote, gave her a full-body chill. By the end of the update, she was back at her parents’ house and the relationship was over.
