• GreenKnight23@lemmy.world
    17·
    15 days ago

    50% of cat owners don’t even know they have a cat yet.

    congrats on joining the other 50% that now know you have a cat.

  • boaratio@lemmy.world
    14·
    15 days ago

    I live in a rural area, and there are “outside” cats, and they regularly get let into my house.

    • avg@lemmy.zip
      10·
      14 days ago

      Cat distribution system does not make mistakes, you are a cat person now.

    • D_C@sh.itjust.works
      43·
      15 days ago

      I came home from work one day to be greeted by two cats in the window waiting for me. Aww.
      Upon entering ‘my’ house I found two more cats on ‘my’ sofa that I had never seen before. And they didn’t move, just lifted their heads to acknowledge my presence and then went back to sleep…
      This is fine.
      Upon entering the kitchen there were two more cats on the rear window board looking out in to the back garden. They turned to look at me and then ignored me.
      Fine.

      After feeding them all ‘my’ two cats went out in to the garden and were quickly followed by the rest of them. About an hour later the usual two cats came back in with one of the newer ones and they all curled up on the sofa with me.
      Fine.

      The new one stayed for a few days until I saw a post about a missing cat. Contacted them and, yep, he was from a few streets away.
      Never had that happen again.

  • betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world
    791·
    15 days ago

    Nobody owns a cat, this one may decide to select you as its caretaker though. If you make the cut, I wish you many happy years in its service.

  • stoy@lemmy.zipEnglish
    8·
    15 days ago

    I remember us getting a call from a neighbor telling us that our cat was inside his house and to please come and get her.

    So I did, she had apparently got in via a ground level window in their basement.

    This only happened once when she was very young.

    • unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      1·
      15 days ago

      This happened recently to my relative, who was housing a young guy from her church. Kind of a shit, but mostly harmless. Everybody knew there was only one cat in her house, a small black cat, and then a huge orange cat next door. He got the two cats confused and didn’t say anything for three days about the strange cat hiding in the house until the neighbor became very persistent.