Watching Chantal seethe over the fact that not only has this stranger gone out of her way to rescue a cat that is on its way out, they hired on their family, who in all likely hood barely know much about Chantal but agreed to rescue an animal in need, as his most of people's second nature. They have also proven a multitude of things:
1. Chantal never took care of BBJ beyond basic needs, not even donning leather gloves and trimming their nails or even fucking brushing them.
2. Petes NEVER cared for that, and his rage against chat, while expected, felt more overblown then normal, and proved that he was infact doing bare minimum (if that) care for the cats.
3. She wanted to cut her current life out so bad, damn anyone or cat that got in the way. I'm going to laugh the moment she gets sent back to Canada because Salad boy realized what a train wreck of a woman he took in.
"Animal Services barely did anything tho, wasn't it obvious it was neglected?"
Chances are they did notice some things, and Petes simply nodded and did whatever they asked of him for them to leave. It's been said by drooly doggo Null before: they're not gonna take an animal unless it's in an extremely unhealthy living conditions, like a hoarding situation. Shelters struggle as is, and with retards returning their pets they adopted during covid, it's only made things even worse, so they're not going to go out of their way to rescue old folks like BBJ. I don't know anything about this woman, but the willingness to take on BBJ at their age is admirable, whether or not they hated Chantal, it's respectable for them to care for an old cat that any day is on its way out.