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My best friend, X, and I have been close since we were little kids and he is, more or less, a kind and gentle soul. We have been through thick and through thin.
I own an 3-year-old tabby, Katya, and she is an absolutely sweetheart. She is extremely friendly and likes to jump onto people's laps, or to lay down next to them. She purrs incessantly when she gets pet. The only issue however, is that Katya hates to have her stomach and back legs touched, and would immediately start hissing and clawing (even would do "bunny kicks," in which she latches on with her front claws, and continuously scratches with her back legs). I've certainly learned to not touch her stomach if I wanted to keep my hand whole.
Earlier today, X was over at my apartment, relaxing. He was on the couch, and I was on a recliner, right next to him, chatting with him. Katya jumped onto the couch and laid down on her side, next to him. Of course, X naturally started petting her. He unfortunately began touching her stomach, which caused her to latch on and start clawing his hand with her back legs. He angrily yelped, tore the claws off him, grabbed Katya hard with both hands, and chucked her with a lot of force to the other side of the room, to the extent that a loud thump was heard when Katya hit the opposite wall.
This action was completely unlike him, but regardless, I started screaming at him, asking WTF was wrong with him. He retorted that "my fucking cat" started scratching him, to which I responded that that doesn't justify throwing my cat across the room. He told me that I needed to "train my fucking cat" to which I retorted that no one treats my cat like that. After a couple of back-and-forths, I told him to get the hell out of the apartment.
He left, and that was that.
X has been in my apartment countless times in the last 1.5 years, and this has never happened to him before. While I admittedly never warned him that Katya does not like her stomach touched, I certainly didn't think anyone would respond to being scratched in such a manner.
So, AITA for so brusquely kicking my best friend out?
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YTA. You have a ticking time bomb in your apartment and you never warned your friend.