AITA if I do not give cats back to their original owner?
About 4 years ago my boyfriends brother's kid got severe allergy to cat dandruff and originally they gave the cats to a shelter. They called us at night and asked to get the cats back because the kids were crying and they were going to see if they can mitigate the allergies so we went in the morning and adopted the cats back and brought them back to them. The shelter wouldn't give the cats back to them directly, they tried. Then they couldn't mitigate the allergies and boyfriend and I decided we will keep the cats, even though we already had a pet. At the time we lived in a smaller apartment and now we moved to a bigger one because 3 pets in a 1 bedroom wasn't working.
Its been a few years with the cats and I love them, but the brother was throwing around an idea that once the kid goes to college, the cats can go back to them. Excuse me? Legally, I adopted the cats from the shelter under my name and now I had them for 4 years. Now thats its convenient to them I have to give them up? I have entire room for them, with cat shelves and entire closet I built for the litter box. I didn't say anything at the time he made the comment, just looked at my boyfriend and he seemed just like me taken back by it. If brother brings it up again WIBTA if I outright refuse?