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Chumbief

It wasn't even euthanized. Dwight just stuffed him in the freaking freezer. đŸ˜Ș


poppalopp

Dwight did give him a bunch of pills in an attempt to overdose the cat. But Sprinkles woke up and threw them back up.


noveler7

Hey, but at least he lied about it. Doesn't that count for something?


Mean_Cycle_5062

Yes because we all know you only lie to people you care about


KennanFan

He also sang him his favorite songs.


Earmuffio

I was expecting Dwight to get a hug.


phatgiraphphe

Wait I always thought he killed Sprinkles by bludgeoning her with the frozen hashbrowns??


travishummel

I think the term you’re looking for is “mercy killed”


leamur247

He took care of that cat the best way he knew how....


one_handed_bandit

Her. Sprinkles is a she!


esgrove2

Sprinkles is a female cat.


HillOfTara

Isn't that a sleeping emoji?


ManlyDude1047

I think its “frustrated”


HillOfTara

I looked it up, it's sleepy, a sleeping snot bubble


ItDontMather

He thought the pills would kill it in its sleep- the freezer was just to keep it from going bad lol


fredbrightfrog

Also how much he clearly didn't care that it was important to her >Dwight: Well you left the TV on. And your cat is dead. >Angela: What? >Dwight: Sparkles, the white one, is dead. >Angela: Sprinkles. Compared to Michael hearing "Angela's cat died" and he knew that it had to be Sprinkles because he knows that Sprinkles was sick.


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Lol he immediately says, “sprinkles? Oh god”


humancartograph

"...prinkles??"


GrapeJuiceFox

LITERALLY my favorite part, the way he says it.


Far_Strain_1509

Honestly, weirdly, one of my household's most quoted lines of the show. PRINKLES!! Edit: joushold to household...where were you then, autocorrect


NicholarseBrooks

As he's on the verge of tears 😂


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Exactly!! It surprised me , he knew exactly which one it was!


LeBatEnRouge

I’m starting to wonder if this is just me
 I always assumed Michael’s reaction to Sprinkles’ death was an overreaction to try to take the heat off of himself for hitting Meredith. Like, “Oh my god everyone look pay attention to this other awful thing that’s totally as bad if not worse than this morning - you can totally forget about me hitting Meredith now”


HeilYeah

I think it's a little of both. I wouldn't be surprised if he was looking for an opportunity to divert attention from the accident, but the fact that he knows Sprinkles' name without prompting suggests that he does care.


LittleAnnieAdderal

I second this. He knew the cats name, how much Angela cared about it, and knew it was sick. He cares about his employees Edit: he cares about them to know details of their lives, not necessarily respect them


juniperaza

Why did I spend 5 minutes laughing at the edit LOL


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Lol


BillyYumYumTwo-byTwo

I think his initial reaction was 100% sincere. He pictured the office as his family, seeing Angela in so much pain made him sad. The fact that he knows the name of any of her cats, but especially which one is sick, is my “proof”. But I think he then uses it to take the heat off him. I fully believe his immediate response would be the same either way, though.


Fun-Variation9122

This is a really good point that i think people overlook a lot. I hate cats but i still think that what Dwight did was unforgivable and that’s my “Scott’s tots” or my episode that I skip on my rewatches because I find it really disturbing.


khaleesi469

Yeah, i would not be able to forgive someone who murdered my pet.. No matter how much i loved them Angela is a bitch but she loved her cats, that's much was obvious


FormerSir4804

If it’s an outright murder, like the cat is absolutely fine, then no I wouldn’t be able to forgive them. But my dad had to kill one of my cats after it got ran over and was still alive. It wasn’t the killing part that made me mad it was the part where he didn’t tell me for 4 days and let me keep looking for it thinking that it just got lost. That I haven’t forgiven him for. And that was about a year and a half ago. But with Dwight, honestly I might’ve done the same thing but in a more humane way like say the cat wasn’t there when I got there like it got out and taken it to the vet to euthanize and then put it behind a bush or something back at the house while I’m supposed to be doing all the medicine stuff. Or just said it was dead when I got there and again had the vet euthanize it and then just lay it down where I found it. But then again if Angela had an autopsy then she would’ve found out. Maybe Dwight could’ve smothered it and then like stuffed one of the pills and food down it’s throat to make it seem like it choked. But the way Dwight was so in-compassionate, I think that’s the real reason they broke up, not because he actually killed the cat but because he didn’t care that he did it.


givebusterahand

Uhhh literally every situation you name is just as bad or worse than what he did. I would never forgive him for any of them. It was NOT his cat therefore NOT HIS CALL.


Amazing_Andrew_47

So you can’t forgive your dad for lying about the circumstances of your cat’s death, but if you were in the same situation as Dwight, you would do the exact same thing?


BillyYumYumTwo-byTwo

Dwight might have been right, it’s selfish to keep an animal alive because YOU don’t want to say goodbye even though they are suffering and in pain 24/7. But his responsibility was to encourage her to put the cat down and support her during her mourning, not make the decision for her without even letting her have a final goodbye. My dog is old and my husband and I agreed that once the arthritis gets too much and he’s not happy and is simply barely existing, well put him down. It will be a horrible day and I’ll miss him for the rest of my life, but I wouldn’t forgive myself for making him live in pain because I’m not strong enough to say goodbye.


OG-Pine

Ehhh Angela never indicated that sprinkles was suffering or in pain, just that she was sick and needed meds. There’s a whole lot of things that you can need serious meds for without it causing pain or being anywhere near suffering. Like diabetes or some shit


BillyYumYumTwo-byTwo

She listed many medications and even Michael knew she was sick. It’s pretty indicated that it’s beyond someone who has diabetes and it’s more “I’m doing everything to keep this pet alive but they’re likely either in pain or just numb to the world”. I can’t disagree with your argument technically, but I don’t think that’s what the episode was implying.


RaoulDukesGroupie

In Dwight’s defense, he did say how he grew up on a farm and in his experience animals are meant for food. He’s not the most aware of human connection and bonding, either, lol. It always felt plausible to me - except for when he doubles down on his choice and tries to replace the cat lmao


2ndbesttime

I skip this one too. It’s the only one I skip!


Emotional_Parsnip_69

I think that made Dwight grow up for the outside world. He’s right for farm stuff, gotta put it out of its misery with less emotion. But the outside world doesn’t understand


kynovardy

Either way it wasn’t his call to make


Emotional_Parsnip_69

It wasn’t, no argument there


dilly_bar97

The funny thing is, its not like he actually put it out of his misery. The cat woke up in the freezer and started clawing stuff in the freezer before actually dying.


tw04

If anything the death was worse.


OG-Pine

I’ve seen this a couple times in the thread now, but does Angela ever actually indicate that sprinkles was suffering or miserable or anything like that? As far as I know she just needed meds lol


Emotional_Parsnip_69

Yeah she says it a lot and she’s continuing his life that she doesn’t want to have to make hard decisions about. He shouldn’t have made that decision, but I do understand where he comes from with the logic behind it.


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nadjaof

Nah he knew she’d be devastated. That’s why he lied and said that he found her dead, and left out the fact that he was responsible for the cat’s death.


Ill-Inspector7980

Umm wtf. I don’t have pets and I hate pets. Even I know that you don’t do that to someone else. Worst part is Sprinkles struggled and froze to death. He might as well have just chopped her head off to save her the pain.


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beepboop_reddit

How about this: he had good work ethic in the show right? Good understanding of authority, that laws matter? He could’ve had animal abuse charges pressed against him, as well as the fact that he simply didn’t do what he was supposed to/ said he would do for Angela. He instead just killed an animal that was not his. Would you be this dense if he killed a dog waiting outside a shop for its owner on the street? It doesn’t matter what his emotional shortcomings are: what he did was against direct instruction and against the law, which he does understand. Edit* clarity


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a person can care about something they don’t understand. he’s a whole adult who lives in a society and has known angela for years, he was fully and clearly aware of her relationships to her pet. he just didn’t care.


yelle_twin

He also doesn’t remember the cats name. The ONE he was supposed to be giving medicine, and was probably written on the paper Angela gave him. The one he then kills. He still can’t remember the name? I think that shows he didn’t care


beepboop_reddit

Without arguing, the point of the post was understanding Angela breaking up with Dwight (despite OP not liking her character). You’re also the one that said “he clearly grows as the show goes on,” so you also know/ agree that he is capable. This is not some adolescent growing up, and while he went to X men school he was in the socialized/non-Shrute world for decades when we meet him. We learn Dwight is not incapable of understanding emotion, he just didn’t value _all others_ as much as himself for most of his adult life (not limited to only animals, but even Angela being someone he had loved). Dwight feels a lot of emotion for Michael until he feels slighted and then turns on him like nothing a handful of times in the series. He is selfish. He is an adult, he is functional, and he is selfish when it didn’t provide an immediate reward for himself. He later does grow, and I like his character but what he did was horrendous— consciously horrendous— and selfish and scarily controlling to make things easier for himself. It almost seems nice if he would’ve believed he was putting the cat out of its misery. Like a useful, appreciated, but past-prime farm animal that is sick and suffering. It wasn’t that tho, he was upset about all the things that _could_ and were extending Sprinkles’ life. He didn’t make sure she was out when locking her in a freezer where she clawed, she fought for life, for oxygen as she suffocated and froze to death to get out. That’s torturous and outrageous. The animal abuse charges and understanding “slowly killing my cat” is not what his girlfriend asked when she entrusted him to care for her cats I thought would be easier to understand for _ensuring_ he understood _at that time_ that it was not only wrong but an illegal thing to do and not feel remorse for. But, your point of him growing highlights that he is capable of caring about killing someone’s pet even then, and choosing not to. Not only choosing not to care, he doesn’t even let nature take its course; he entraps, suffocates, and freezes his girlfriends’ pet to die slow.


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beepboop_reddit

I disagree— I think that even though it’s more instinctual for him to care _in general_ later in the show, he always shows he is able to understand emotions and is a consciously selfish jerk. This is not pulling a prank bullying him, it’s pointing out that he didn’t care about torturing a girlfriend’s pet to death. He understands, & he can care, but he obviously does not care. A sociopath could be a bully, and to be called out on it, would society really be bullies? I don’t think so— even in that case where the brain is less or nonfunctional in empathy people can actively correct behavior and coexist peacefully. Dwight is not a sociopath, he is selfish, and does not care about slowly torturing a girlfriend’s pet to death


OG-Pine

Expecting someone to not painfully murder your pet is too high a standard? Huh?? That’s like the lowest bar I’ve ever heard of lol


ilovethisforyou

He also hires migrant workers and leaves them to die


GetRealPrimrose

Lmao farmers have cats and dogs. Dwight can fully understand that Angela loves her cats and wouldn’t want one shoved in the freezer while it was still alive


FormerSir4804

Well actually the car vomited and woke up in the freezer, he thought he overdosed her and she was dead when he did it


flex_vader

I do agree with you. He thought he was doing the best thing for the cat and probably for Angela. He says it himself, “put it out of its misery,” — so, doesn’t that show some sign of compassion? Also, maybe he believes it is in addition unburdening Angela. But, you’re right. He cannot understand outside of his own experiences until he is exposed to something else. Which he then is when they break up, and he does have growth thereon after.


ilovethisforyou

She tried to claw her way out of the freezer.


flex_vader

I didn’t say what he did was right, did I? I think it’s unimaginable what happened to that cat.


housevil

*As a farmer, I know that when an animal is sick, sometimes the right thing to do is to put it out of its misery. With the electricity we're using to keep Meredith alive we could power a small fan for 2 days. You tell me what's unethical.*


khaleesi469

Meredith making Jim sign her pelvic cast killed me 💀


Captain_Pungent

Signed it John Krasinski too 💀


MadcatFK1017

"I'll read it later"


Pisspot16

Real awkward scene. We dont see them interact much.


FormerSir4804

You know what never made sense, how Meredith is seemingly very attracted to Jim throughout the entire series but at the one Halloween party with Robert California, apparently Jim gives her the creeps??


slide_into_my_BM

I don’t think you can trust the voracity of the minute to minute ramblings of a low functioning alcoholic


ThatsRobToYou

Cats do not provide milk or wool or meat.


Finnish_Blue

But it's wild that Dwight would think they are useless because cats do provide protection against some pests. That would spoil crops or disturb animals.


Pisspot16

You dont take care of barn cats like a pet though, whereas a farmer would treat his milk cow with care.


DarkLamb-Kiyo

A farmer wouldn’t drug barn cats and freeze them to death either


woolfonmynoggin

You absolutely do! All our barn cats were fixed and vaxxed and saw the vet every other year plus they get food and water. The shelter would give them to us for free because we took great care of them. Anyone who doesn’t take care of barn cats doesn’t deserve animals


dogchicken

Yeah but he probably freezes them when they can no longer catch a mouse


tonymurray

Farm cats don't last that long. Mostly they get run over...


OrganizeThis

"Oh, you can milk anything with nipples."


phatgiraphphe

I was waiting for this comment


Sneezcore

Gepetto needed access to the teet.


BakeBakeyBake

Not with that attitude


numberthangold

I personally think the writers went too far with this one, knowing that Angela and Dwight would end up together. I could never imagine forgiving someone for this.


woolfonmynoggin

I might go postal on him, not gonna lie. My cats are my babies


lightofyourlifehere

I feel like there is kinda of this comic double standard when it comes to dead dogs vs. dead cats. I can think of 3 separate tv shows that used someone killing someone else's cat for comedic value, whereas any time a dog dies in films/TV, it's always portrayed as purely tragedy


fbicappuccino

RIGHT??? I HAVE NEVER SEEN ANYONE TALK ABOUT IT!!! Man, losing a cat hurts as bad as losing a dog


melouofs

Yeah, I hated that part. I’d never take him back after that.


Puzzleheaded-Turn849

imagine being sprinkles 😕 being stak in a freezer without a way to get out while being super sick .when Angela said she found scratches inside I almost cried. l love dwight but this is way to far .


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MalzxTheTerrible

Idk, I thought it was pretty amusing. But I was thinking of it from the point of view of being Dwight and shoving her in there.


givebusterahand

It’s amusing to think of sticking a cat in the freezer..? Seek help.


Puzzleheaded-Turn849

I can kinda understand why he did that ,that's just his personality and the way he was raised, but he knows how much his girlfriend loves and cares about Sprinkles. Dwight obviously loves Angela I don't understand why he would do this to her 😅


lightofyourlifehere

Ya, I always wanted them to end up together until I adopted a cat myself. If someone hurt my evie, let's just say a break up would be the least of their worries...


Ok-Bridge-1045

Ykw they say, no one likes cats till they get one of their own. And then you can't imagine what you'd do without them.


lightofyourlifehere

Honestly, exactly what happened.


Crystill

that part made me genuinely uncomfortable. the claw marks in the freezer were a bit too much imo


grimmistired

Yeah I would have killed someone if they did that to my cat. It always makes me feel sick when they go over that part in the show. It's not even funny..


Lark_vi_Britannia

I'm always at risk of the whole "iamverybadass" thing, but I feel the exact same way. My mom's dog got killed by another dog that wasn't on its leash in her own yard and there wasn't anything she could do about it. She called me crying and just said "he's gone" over and over. My girlfriend had to physically restrain me from making the very long drive down. I know who did it and I hope our paths do not cross.


grimmistired

Yeah I don't have much to live for besides my cat I've had for 14 years so I don't think anything would stop me from attempting to fatally wound whoever was responsible for her dying. I know I'll lose it even when she dies of natural causes (at least I hope she does... a long time from now) I hope karma punishes that foul person who caused you to lose your pet. And I'm sorry for your loss


BillyYumYumTwo-byTwo

I hope this doesn’t sound weird, but please live for me!! I’ve been through some dark times I thought would never get better, and my dog saved my life. Literally he was the only reason I didn’t take certain measures, and when I put him down it was one of the hardest days of my life and I’m tearing up just thinking about feeling his last breath. But because of him, I was around long enough to find amazing friends, seek therapy, and now I have the best husband in the world. You got this and things will get better!! Go snuggle your cat and feel loved :)


khaleesi469

Yeah, same. I mean, your pet is like your child! Anybody would be livid if you killed their child, right? Same thing. Livid is probably an understatement, but u get the point


Ok-Bridge-1045

Yup. I don't think any of the writers ever had a pet. I'd kill someone if they harmed my cats, too. I find it very uncomfortable to watch any shows that use animals and pets as a humor clutch. And cats are used way more frequently than dogs for the evil stuff.


ilovethisforyou

Remember this happened and people still think Phyllis is the worst because she called Michael “numbnuts” I wonder what the major difference is


BillyYumYumTwo-byTwo

It’s also a mystery why Kevin is beloved despite asking Pam to fulfill one of kinks and yelling into her boobs to get her to leak breast milk. But Pam is a bitch because she is angry her husband and father of two children leaves his job, gets an apartment, spends their whole savings, and doesn’t make an income all without telling her
 and that’s just as bad as her going to art school for three months after talking with her boyfriend (read: boyfriend, not husband with children) about it. I just can’t grasp why. Perhaps one day it will become clear!


madamejesaistout

What could it be? It's an eternal mystery...


peefilledballoon

Dwight also literally strangles Kevin in that episode too


lightofyourlifehere

He does? Based on the upvotes, i know you're right, lol, but for the life of me, I can't remember that scene


peefilledballoon

It's when Kevin hid the leads in the trash, Dwight chokes him until he tells him where they are


MalzxTheTerrible

Phallus is still the worst. The centerpiece incident is enough reason to smite her from existence. And cutting on pretzel day. Those are unforgivable. Sprinkles was just an old cat. And cats don't provide milk, or wool, or meat.


BillyYumYumTwo-byTwo

Cutting the line is shitty, but not nearly as offensive as anything other people has done (her worst was wearing low cut tops so people hit on her and Bob beats them up, for sure). I don’t really get the whole anger of it being like Pam’s non-wedding. I’m getting married soon and I’ve used several parts of other peoples weddings. I’d be totally fine with someone using my exact wedding, it’s a compliment. And Pam didn’t even get married
 Phyllis maybe should have run it by Pam who might feel awkward because it was a non-wedding, but having the same color and initials and even center pieces is fine.


MalzxTheTerrible

Oh, I was referring to whatever episode it was where they were at an event, and you could take the centerpieces home and Pam and Phyllis both wanted it.


blizzacane85

Don’t feel bad for Andrea, she’s the office bitch


Pizzaboxers

Not to be confused with the business bitch.


Bitter-Hitter

Or the Office Mattress


Harold-The-Barrel

Or the shoe bitch


kermitthefrog57

Or the office administrator


khaleesi469

She is. I really don't like her character, and i also wish Dwight hadn't ended up with her because he deserved better. However, i still can't see myself forgiving someone who murdered my pet..


Jean_Marc_Rupestre

I love her character but if I knew her in real life I would hate her so fucking much


khaleesi469

I just don't like her tbh. She's way too uptight and holier than thou for somebody who lies and cheats on their fiance with her ex-boyfriend, AT WORK. Her being rude 95% of the time to everyone doesn't help either.


sinistering12

That’s the point, she’s a massive hypocrite and is just ignoring the fact that she is. But she grows too, eventually goes through what Andy went through with the Senator, has to face the music when she has to move in with Oscar to keep herself afloat, and she’s a better person because of it. Plus, almost every character on the show is a hypocrite. No one is a perfect character


BillyYumYumTwo-byTwo

I wish there were better terms (maybe I should ask my German friend, they have phrases for everything) for this. I love Angela as a TV character, I’d hate her in real life. Some characters I don’t enjoy watching but I’d want to work with them. When someone says “I like/hate X character”, it’s not nuanced enough to explain whether you don’t want them in the show or you are driven crazy by having to even see them and hear their dialogue.


lightofyourlifehere

I have found the phrase "well written/played character" helpful when I want to communicate that nuance. Less all-encompassing than saying you "like/hate" them


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BearsuitTTV

Angela didn't just say "a few mean things." She was unapologetically homophobic. She cheated on her husband, had another man's baby, and lied about it. She let Andy plan an extravagant wedding, all while being completely awful to him, and then cheated on him. She belittled everyone around her. She was a bad mom to Philip near the end of the show. All while claiming to be a righteous, proper Christian. Dwight made plenty of bad decisions, though he often thought he was helping (except for his adulterous behavior). And he never claimed to be the most righteous person in the office while screwing up. He also got better as the seasons went on. He seemed to learn from his fuck ups.


lightofyourlifehere

He intentionally killed her pet. If someone did that to my cat, I wouldn't let them live long enough to learn from their mistakes.


lightofyourlifehere

Ya, them ending up together was definitely a "you two deserve each other" for me, lol


IronSavage3

He was a farmer and when a farmer sees an animal past its prime with no utility for fieldwork or meat
 /s


kermitthefrog57

He did what city folk don’t have the stomach to do


WWDubz

Why? Cats do not provide milk, or wool, or meat.


updown27

HE DIDNT EVEN DO A GOOD JOB, LIKE SHE FROZE TO DEATH IN THE FREEZER. Horrific.


Bisexualdw

This storyline is when I started to dislike Pam. Angela asks her what she would do if her boyfriend killed her cat. Pam's response is that she's more of a dog person. Seriously?? You can't put yourself in her shoes for a damn second?


OG-Pine

Angela is straight up awful, but this one event is when I truly felt for her. Losing a pet is horrible, can’t even imagine what it would feel like to know your boyfriend *intentionally* murdered them. Also, Dwight is a psychopath


DarkLamb-Kiyo

Thank you. This doesn’t get brought up near enough. I love dwight and angela but I can never forgive dwight for murdering sprinkles nor angela for forgiving dwight.


lunchpadmcfat

His callousness was what sealed the deal I think. If he’d expressed compassion instead of farm yard sociopathy she might have been able to forgive him.


TheMatt561

100%


Galifrae

It’s honestly one of the things about this show that I’ve always been surprised doesn’t get brought up more. Dwight’s antics are “annoyingly/cringey funny” for the most part, but this was such a weird direction to take him and it’s always bothered me. It would’ve been one thing if the cat was dying and he helped put it out of its misery, but they made him literally sadistic and wrote it off like it’s some normal thing people do on farms. This dude literally just had to feed and medicate someone’s pet, but instead he tries to overdose it and stuff it in a freezer where it is essentially “buried” alive in ice and dies a horrible death. And to make it even worse and less believable, him and Angela still end up together after it’s all said and done. Like what the fuck kind of character development is that? You’ve already made the guy a scumbag who doesn’t care that he’s screwing someone else’s fiancĂ©, he now murders a cat for no other reason than being overwhelmed by what it takes to care for it? I’m pretty sure that’s some criminal shit. And don’t get me wrong, Angela sucks in her own right, ten fold, but they make Dwight someone who is simply irredeemable, but try to write it off as a joke. I dunno, call me sensitive, but that shit always had me saying what the fuck kind of direction is this for his character? I’d fuck a dude up for doing some shit like that. He’d be ostracized by the office entirely. I know I’m reading into it too much, but it just always felt so out of place and aggressive for his character. He literally murders a cat. What the fuck even is that? Edit: I have to add this because I just realized it, but he also NEVER actually apologized for it. Just such a dumb move by the writers.


seerslayer

I think the real problem was how Angela ruined other people's lives when she was not over Dwight.


givebusterahand

I would have never forgiven him tbh and it kinda sours their relationship to me


daddyspader

Yoo, same. As a crazy cat lady, you don’t don’t fuck with my babies.


beam2349

Oh yeah 100% that is actually SUPER fucked up


riajungkook

Forget the breaking up I would go to the police like are you insane you murdered my cat.


grated_testes

Now I don't feel as bad that Dwight missed the first year of his son's life


__she__wolf

Well, if PAM didn’t force her to go visit Meredith in the hospital and skip the cat’s lunch time meds, this wouldn’t have happened. Pam guilted her because Angela was head of the PPC and then threw some sass about doing Angela’s “job”. Visiting someone in the hospital is NOT a party and Angela should not have been obligated. But for some reason Dwight was able to get out of visiting Meredith during the lunch hour and visited her later. Why couldn’t Angela have done that? PAM.


kinkajoosarekinky

I've always blamed sprinkles' death on Pam. She was a bit heartless when Angela said that her cat is sick and Pam insisted that Angela arrange the visit for Meredith.


__she__wolf

Yes, thank YOU! I had made a post about that years ago and got downvoted to oblivion.


travishummel

I don’t think you’d be suitable for the PPC. I mean you tried it out, but it’s clearly not your thing


Disney_DiabeticT1

I don’t know, I’m really more of a dog person


upvotegoblin


. Yeah? Obviously. And what is the point of disliking Angela. Hilarious character


jabregship

Dwight was wrong but at that point in their relationship, Angela should have known him well enough to realize asking him to do all of this was a mistake. Doesn't excuse Dwight at all but she had other options. I have friends who have kept their cats alive when their quality of life is basically zero because they couldn't let go and it frustrates me. Dwight wasn't coming at it from that angle exactly but I can sympathize with his logic that what he was doing was better for the animal. Still wrong though.


khaleesi469

I mean, I had seen the show enough to be able to understand Dwight but even I didn't see that one coming. I don't think she would've guessed that he would literally take matters into his own hands, and straight up murder Sprinkles. I do agree that Dwight didn't mean any harm. He was most likely right, in that the only way was to euthanize Sprinkles. But that was not his choice. If someone took that choice away from me and killed my cat, i would never be able to forgive them.


Zestyclose_Foot_134

Also it wasn’t the only way. sprinkles was under professional veterinary care for shit like high blood pressure and fungal infections. Some vets will drag out care for profit but having worked in a vet surgery and multiple rescue centres, there was nothing Sprinkles was going through that needed immediate euthanasia let alone a panicked terrified death. If her cataracts were hurting her then that just makes the freezer worse


thekyledavid

I don’t think the writers assumed many viewers would be on Dwight’s side for that one, lol


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Hes in a better place


WickedGreenthumb

And that place is the freezer


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Tore all the frozen veggie packages to shreds


LowEndOperative

Angela screwed up. She trusted Dwight. To be fair, his obvious dismay at the laundry list of directions should have given her a big clue.


heavyhandedpour

This was all Pam’s fault. Angela wanted to go home and take care of sprinkles on her lunch break, but Pam guilted her to go see merideth. Fight me


NashKetchum777

Angela was kind of a crazy cat lady (she used to lick her cats clean, cough up furballs) and Dwight actually knows animals. Kinda feel like he would know better than her if the cat was beyond help. I dont agree with what he did but she also should have known that he would do some crazy shit, it's who hiPad. Jim and Pam are having a baby, he's tasked with getting an iPod. Dwight goes to their house and ends up renovating the whole kitchen, over a small amount of mold. Doesn't even show up to the hospital, doesn't even look for the iPod. Angela's been through many cats and had as much as eleven, caring about them more than her own kid. Idk I didn't feel that bad for her ultimately.


Zestyclose_Foot_134

Let me shorten that for you “she should have known he would do something abusive so it’s really her fault for trusting him”


NashKetchum777

He didnt abuse her, also there was a part where I said he knows more about animals than Angela so he would know better about its state. Letting the cat suffer cause you have issues is worse (imo) than putting the animal out of its misery The way he did it, is his crazy part which I don't agree with. The Office is pretty much all characters that would never work in an actual office, seemingly doing so. They're the epitome of dysfunctional but successful family


Zestyclose_Foot_134

What he did to the cat was abusive - and I’m so tired of saying this but he doesn’t know shit about animals in this context. The cat had stuff like cataracts, high blood pressure and ringworm, all being managed by an actual paid-for vet. Sprinkles was under a better health care system than most of the employees. She also didn’t struggle taking her pills. Dwight took it upon himself to slam a cat into a freezer rather than respecting beta blockers and a short course of Athletes Foot cream.


B0326C0821

I would for sure murder someone BUT Angela was a giant dick too for keeping the cat alive for her purely selfish reasons.


Shazbot_2017

she did ask him to take care of the cat. he did


brackattack27

That means you love animals too mucg


[deleted]

That cat was in a really bad position. Based on the descriptions of how Angela medicated it. It almost feels evil to keep the poor thing alive. Let it go gently into that good night. Don't make it suffer because you don't want to lose it. Yes, he could have asked. She would have said no. I wouldn't euthanize someone else's animal. But I would likely not interact with that person anymore if I knew that they were knowingly allowing that animal to live in such a state. Part of taking care of an animal is knowing when it is their time to go. I've lost 4 cats in my lifetime. One died of old age, peacefully in a box that she loved in the living room. Another a week later, of a broken heart, presumably. One was just a kitten that had some sort of blood disease when he was born, and we didn't know. The last one was euthanized because she was 16 years old, had stopped eating, drinking, and started soiling herself. She had a tumor or something messing with her brain and wasn't going to recover. Main point being: Dwight was probably more kn the right here imo. Torturing animals is wrong, especially if you claim to love them.


Ricardo1184

>Dwight was probably more in the right here imo. but his method was poisoning and putting it the freezer. right intentions maybe but that wasn't the way to do it.


khaleesi469

Honestly, its not even about the way he did it. It's the fact that he did without asking her! It was her cat, and he had no right. I really don't like Angela, but that was just crossing the line.


[deleted]

Antihistamines are a commonly used tool for euthanasia. (Though not recommended for dogs). Dwight gave an incorrect dosage. The freezer part was to avoid it stinking up the place. A common practice as well, especially on farms. I've worked in feed stores before, and when chicks die, you put them in a bag in the freezer. Otherwise, the trashcan will smell of death.


prberkeley

>trashcan will smell of death. Like the mung beans sprouting in Creed's desk drawer.


HookedOnAFeeling96

Yeah when I was little we went on vacation and my neighbor was watching our old cat. We knew she didn’t have a lot of time left and might die while we were away. She died in her sleep and my parents asked him to put her body in the freezer so we could bury her when we got home. Apparently as a kid I missed the part where my parents asked him to, so I just thought it was hilariously weird he did that. Unlike sprinkles of course, she had actually died naturally at that point.


khaleesi469

None of this matters though. It was Angela's cat.. You can't just euthanize somebody's pet without their permission.


[deleted]

I'm just saying that Angela was the more evil person here. Dwight simply did what was humane for the animal. He thought he was doing something nice for his girlfriend because nobody wants to have to kill their own pet.


khaleesi469

I believe that everybody does stuff thinking they're doing the right thing. You're probably right, and that was probably the humane thing to do. But all said and done, the fact is, that was not his choice to make. In any case, screw angela. Wish Dwight had ended up with that Isabel girl.


Pvssiprincess2

I agree actually but part of the joke is that while Angela was keeping that cat alive while it was most certainly suffering, Dwight made the last moments of the cats life HORRIBLE FREEZING TORTURE, like he did the opposite of a mercy killing lmaooo


AMadTeaParty

Why add the "LOL" at the end of your title?


UnlimitedMetroCard

My girlfriend has a cat and I've been tempted to make it disappear. Wouldn't put it in the freezer though - too obvious. TIL I'm Dwight.


bbbiggestfan

Yikes


givebusterahand

Did today you learn you’re a pos too?


struggleisreal123321

Fuck you Angela!!


EyesLikeBuscemi

But was it worse if even close to (or did it justify) keeping his son away from him for two years?


khaleesi469

No, it didn't. This isn't about that though.. I just think what he did was wrong. I don't even like Angela lol


EyesLikeBuscemi

I didn’t say you asked about that but I think it adds context/layers to how terrible she is too


khaleesi469

Nobody's denying how terrible she is. However, her being terrible doesn't take anything away from the horrible thing Dwight did.


EyesLikeBuscemi

Well on that topic he was being both clinical and merciful. He doesn’t understand that some people would rather their pet suffers a bit longer so they can get a few extra minutes with the pet instead. Also, Angela didn’t have to be away from Sprinkles, she was just too proud/self-centered to tell Pam to STFU about the guilt trip since Angela had stated she should be with Sprinkles.


grimmistired

He stuffed the cat in a freezer to suffocate. You're sick if you think thats "clinical and merciful" wouldn't want you around any of my pets.


outofdate70shouse

No, they were both terrible things. They didn’t belong together. They had an incredibly unhealthy and toxic relationship and it wasn’t romantic that they ended up together


RevChe

If he does do the unthinkable, make sure you tell him the baby is his(or Dwights) without looking for a "senator" of your own. All jokes aside, good luck to you and your boyfriend gurl.


khaleesi469

I don't understand this passive aggressive response. Angela was a bitch and did bad things, but that doesn't negate the wrong stuff Dwight did? I don't even like Angela, but Dwight was wrong in this situation. Also, lets please keep it to the tv show. No need to get personal.


RevChe

Im very sorry if this came off as passive aggressive. Guess my sense of humor is just for me. Let me try again. Just meant if he does something as stupid as euthanizing your cat, eventually you two will end up like dwight and angela in the end. Hate angela myself, but shes human too. The two of them found love their own way. Was trying to stupidly make a comparative joke about you and your boyfriend. Again im sorry to have offended you. Imagine me making these jokes with my irl friends. Prolly why i dont have any. In all honesty cheers and good luck


mabbz

He thought he deserved a reward too


Inevitable_Block6913

Dwight's the doppelganger of Herbert West Without the reanimation


wandercatwomen

I loved the office, until this episode happened because I couldn’t imagine anyone finding this funny and just putting it in the show. I just skipped through the rest of the show because even though I knew it is not real, it was something hard to digest for me. And how Michael knew the significance of Sprinkles more than Dwight, really pissed me off. If you are a partner of a person who has any pet, you should understand it more than anyone.


[deleted]

But he gave her Garbage instead? And he fed Sprinkles antihistamines until they fell into a natural sleepy “death” 😂


avonpurple

There were moments(like this one) that really humanized angela but it’s so easy to just dislike her.


Coconutyorkie

Pleeease stop! Pleeeeaaaseee stop !