Okay, more about cats. I've had cats ever since I was a kid. I've never seen a cat chew electrical wires. I'm sure anything is possible, but cats don't generally just chew on stuff. They aren't like rodents where they need to chew stuff to prevent their teeth from growi g through their skull. They aren't like puppies that put everything in their mouth hoping it is food. To say a kitten would destroy his home by chewing wires seems ignorant to me.
Don't get me wrong though, a cat can wreck stuff up. Cats like to sharpen their claws by scratching stuff. A cat might damage the couch or wooden surfaces, but would not scratch electrical cords.
Phil claims he does not know cats since he didn't have any before. We know he live with his parents at the start of his YouTube career 10 years ago, making him at least 25 or 26. We see his parents have multiple cats during the say goodbye to Connecticut videos. Are we to believe that his parents only got cats after Phil left? Or is it likely that they had cats but Phil was so self centered that he never interacted with them? He did completely forget he had ever seen Sammy the cat despite having video evidence of the contrary. Phil also allegedly visited his parents regularly and would have seen him. This seems odd since Phil has a history of "loving animals", trips to zoos and aquariums, enjoying the backyard "wildlife", and going to pet stores regularly.
On another note, anyone who thinks about calling animal control on Phil is wasting their time. They have bigger issues to deal with, actual animal bloodsports, people starving their pets, animal hoarding, illegal puppy mills, etc. Keeping a cat locked in the bedroom is not considered abuse or neglect. Autists called animal control on Amberlynn and they did nothing so I doubt they would do anything to Philip. Plus I hear everyone at animal control are huge fans ever since Heavy Rain and love his content.