Well... this gives me hope. I've done the same thing from time to time with my cats, and I've wondered if I have so little patience if I could ever be a parent.

It's just exhaustion for me... when my emotions are frazzled and I can't take any more frustration, and something goes wrong, and I can't walk away, it's too much, and I'm ready to go berserk.

And yeah, I don't, but I still feel like the world's biggest ogre for yelling or shoving away a cat who just wants me to give some pets and scritches.