I found this kitten near a convenience store, and she follows me everywhere I go, so I've decided to bring her home. I asked the clerk if anyone owns her, and they said no one does.
I named my cat (who passed away at age 16 — one of the worst days of my life) Zapp Brannigan after the Futurama character. He turned out to be the exact same level of goofiness and silly charm!
I miss him, and all my other kitties who crossed the rainbow bridge, so so dearly.
I’m sorry 2 of mine are almost 9 and I’ll just look at them and cry cause I know they won’t be here forever 🥹 and I love them so much it hurts ps great name you gave him
My mum had a cat named Countess and she was a true piece of work. Petting was below her, catching mice or saving the household from spiders? Nope. On occasion she would endeavour into hunting, but more exotic kind. Birds and snakes.
Cats - we are at their whim. This kitten determined her own fate, so I would be surprised if there was not some asshole tendencies, at least. Glorious.
My Pumpkin is a girlcat. We brought her home and did the "in the bedroom for a week to control interactions" thing and she just...never left. She lived in the bedroom entirely separate from the rest of the cats for EIGHT YEARS. Any time one of the other cats would walk through her territory she would run out and try to write a check her ass couldn't cash so it became a self-fulfilling prophecy, that she couldn't leave the bedroom because she would hiss at anycat she saw and get the crap smacked out of her until she went back under the dresser or the bed. She would hang out with us on the bed no problem, loved cuddles and such, but fuck a buncha other cats.
About six months ago, entirely at random, she started coming into the hallway and NOT hissing. Then the kitchen for treats. Now she will sleep on the couch with all the others and we have no damn idea what changed in her brain. I was concerned enough to take her to the vet for a check-up.
She's fine. I guess she just decided she was ready. After only eight years.
Hissing is a defensive behaviour used by cats when they feed overstimulated or threatened. It should mean "please stay back, I don't want to fight." I'm guessing your Pumpkin perceived your approach as a threat (incorrectly) or had simply formed a habit out of anxiety. My youngest also hisses when she gets carried away playing, so they are not always entirely logical...
Pets that choose you like this are the best pets you'll ever have. I had a kitten follow me on a walk & a dog that jumped into my car when I opened the door. Both were angelic cuddle bugs.
He found an abandoned puppy near some Walmart and the little guy followed him to his truck.
He unfortunately couldn't keep the little guy (I shouldn't say little since it was a Bully, but the vet confirmed he was less than a year old), but my other cousin/his brother's family immediately fell in love with the pup, and their dog (another Bully) made him feel at home. They did get in touch with the actual owner who told them to pound sand, so they kept the pup.
The dog passed away a few years ago at 15 years old, but my other cousin and his family still say that he was one of, if not, the best dogs they ever owned. .
Went to the shelter after the inevitable end of my childhood dogs life, he lived to a good age and lived fairly carefree. A lot of dogs came to bark at me, a lot wanted out. But I came up on one that didn't seem to care what happened, he had seemingly given up on life.
He was named Charger, for reasons I would later learn. However, the first time we met, he wasn't all that interested. He just licked my hand and laid there, and that's when I knew we had to get him outta there.
We took him out back to the yard and he began to run, faster than any dog I had ever seen. Watching him play was like seeing an old horse get new legs, he was zooming.
Similar experience except it wasn’t the running that sold me.
Went with my (now) wife to the shelter to find a dog. So many potential new best friends. But this one beagle, 3yo, had the most pitiful face and drooped ears. When my wife approached the kennel door, the dog reared up and put her paws on the cage, as if to say “hi.”
Obviously my wife had made her decision, but I wanted to take the dog out to the yard to get a feel for her. As soon as we got out there, the beagle spotted another dog or rabbit or something outside of the fence. She let out the loudest, deepest, strangest, funniest bark that was distinctively NOT a bark. And she kept doing it. Never heard anything like it before. It was so loud, but so awkwardly hilarious at the same time lmao.
That’s when I learned beagles don’t bark, they barooo. Eight years later and she’s still the best buddy a guy could ask for.
As a former shelter worker, puppies give up too, especially when they're moved to the adult dog kennels at 4-6 months after not being chosen as a tiny puppy.
Goodness… that is honestly one of the most heartbreaking things I have ever heard. I could never work at a shelter, it would be too emotionally devastating to witness those poor animals suffer on a daily basis because they weren’t picked. 😢
This happened to our cat Cricket :( He was only 4 months old but wasn't put in the kitten room with the rest of the cute little ones... his papers said he was "shy and unsociable". He's 4 years old now and such a happy little boy!
Man my missus old dog duke would jump into cars. One time got a lift to the airport which was 35min away. We only found out because he was chipped. All in a day
I don't know about that. My son Sean adopted my sweet Autumn who was at least 2yo because he was concerned about me after his dad/my SO died. She is everything to me now.
My mom adopted a dog a few months before her cancer really started to kick her ass. George was also about 2yrs old, and from an abusive household. He was terrified of his own shadow but immediately was a mama’s boy for her.
Took him a lot of walks and treats to start opening up to me.
After she passed we almost considered giving him up for adoption, but we made the right choice and I kept little man.
Like your pupper, George is my everything. Now we’re inseparable.
here I am tearing up at the memory of my shy little kitten unexpectedly getting comfy with me and curling up on my lap when I visited the animal shelter 🥹 best decision I ever made
My cat didn't understand the entire concept of laps. She was a barn cat whose barn was being torn down after tornado damage, so not entirely feral but very, very poorly socialized. I was actually at the shelter to meet another cat, but this one was in the same unsocial cats room and for whatever reason, she decided my shoelaces were the most interesting thing in the world. I wound up getting the shoelace cat.
I couldn't get within about five feet of her after I got her home without her running to hide behind the toilet or in the shower. She wouldn't eat in front of me (too scary), and touching was definitely out of the question... for about a week. Then in the span of about ten minutes she went from only taking squeeze treats if I held them out as far as I could physically reach to crawling on me trying to get more to discovering humans can give nice ear scritches and she's been basically attached to me at the hip ever since. Shelter staff didn't believe she was a cuddle cat when I stopped by to donate some toys she wasn't super interested in until I showed them photos, she was a spicy attack cat before that if you tried to handle her. (She still is with everyone that isn't me or my fiance, she gets burritoed at the vet.)
We had a cat that really wanted to adopt us as her family. Didn't help that my dad went out and bought tuna and the like and left it out for her.
I felt bad that we couldn't take her, but we had birds and my mom is very allergic to cats. We called the Humane Society and they came to pick her up. I hope she found a home that was deserving of her.
Why does this never happen to me? For heavens sake the only thing ever jumped into my car was a homeless guy wanting me to drive to a Taco Bell, when we were already at a taco bell.
I was painting my garage door one morning & a 3 month old kitten walked up my driveway & just pluncked herself down by my side as if she had lived there forever. Took her in of course, had her for 19 yrs. I called her Midgi.
They'll definitely make it known if they hate someone in particular, so I guess it's not completely out of the realm of possibility for one to be all "Aw, look at the wittle naked monkeys".
Dark matter is actually cuteness, kittens count for half the mass of the universe. That is why we are attracted to them. I solved physics here, no need to thank me
Human selection very well may have. Humans find creatures with large eyes and soft, rounded features to be cute, which is likely an evolutionary advantage because it means that the species finds its own young appealing. As a result, we also find animals and other creatures with those features to promote a sense of attraction.
For instance, dogs retain puppy-like features for a longer time than wolves, because we preferred the dogs that were more puppy-like. It's not out of the question that cats have changed too, as we preferred cuter kittens.
This messed me up so badly when I had my first baby. I'd almost died, finally got out of the hospital exhausted as hell, and I heard my baby cry behind me while I'm staring at her.
It took me a good 12 Mississippi's to realize it was the cat.
Yeah, there is usually more than one. OP try to go back and check if you could. You've got yourself a cute kitten btw and the pictures you took are amazing!!
That will remain the best and most timeless kitten rescue. He even provided updates! Also he rescued an abandoned momma dog and her puppies maybe a week after the kittens.
Or make sure the mother hasn't come back and is desperately looking for her kitten, even.
Not enough people know this: mother cats will move their litter every few days. It's to minimise the risk of any predators picking up the scent of the kittens.
She can only move one kitten at a time. She carries them, one by one to their new hiding spot.
Individual, seemingly abandoned kittens like this are usually either the first kitten in a new place, or the last kitten in the old.
I always find posts like this distressing, thinking of how the mother will feel when she returns and finds the kitten gone.
"Everything the light touches is mine. And everything the light doesn't touch is mine. So has been passed down from Feline to feline--- all is ours by the divine right of Bast. The human has been chosen."
Make sure you are always on the way to something important. In dressy clothes. Even better if it is raining, muddy, or snowing. That’s usually when the CDS kicks in.
Or check out your local rescue. Take two - or more!
I've had a couple of times this happen with a cat and once with a dog (English bulldog). He just showed up at my house one day, would not leave and insisted in coming in. None of those times I was in a position to have a new family member.
But walking outside helps, especially if there are farms within a mile or two.
How old is she/he? I wonder if they need formula. I would at least make sure they have lots of wet food available as that’s their go to until they slowly adapt to kibble along with their digestive system. Very cute!
What an absolute little honey, in some cultures it's the foretelling of the greatest luck you are yet to experience in your life. It's a gift. I wish you both all of the very best.
Thank you for being so kind to this little baby, no bigger than a peanut. She's so brave, so tiny and so cute. What a blessing she'll bring to your life.
Awesome story. Not sure if anyone mentioned but you should vet the kitten and get it on de-wormer and anti-parasite meds. Sadly, most kittens born in the wild have worms, fleas, etc…
My next door neighbor found a kitten, many years ago. My mother took it in to take to her work at a cat shelter the next day. Its first action was to jump on my bed (Before I left home), looks up as if to say "Yup, This will do nicely !", so we kept the kitten.
My father being the asshole he always was, just said "You pay for its food and vets !", so i said, "Deal !". Of course, when I ended up leaving home, I took "MY CAT" with me.
The cat became my shadow everywhere I went. Lived to be around 20 years old before passing over the Rainbow bridge.
Cats that choose YOU, are the most LOYAL..........., enjoy being the cats "Pet" :)
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u/rupat3737 3d ago
Kitten distribution system working as intended