This is EXACTLY how we got Bear and Todd! I think they even used a picture of Todd for the meme.
Proof:
They are so cuuuuute!
I’m waiting for temperatures to drop for the feral cat to come by. Cornelius drops by when it gets cold out and makes himself at home. My cats have accepted him. It’s been a few months and I hope he’s doing well. His “owner” hadn’t seen him in months last I checked in.
bros the lone wanderer. just roams around around around
I don’t live in a safe neighbourhood but this post has convinced me to leave my front door open through the night.
Good idea.
On an unrelated note, {grabs knife}, where do you live exactly?Yeah we gotta go keep the door safe for cats {grabs second knife}
Hey wait for me! {Grabs guitar and starts playing Wonderwall}
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I almost got a second cat this way. He was a super duper socialable and friendly cat… but I was fostering another cat who HATED other cats. I dont mean simple hissing and passive aggressive behavior… I mean she went completely apeshit and tried to kill him. Then she tried to kill me and was so berserk she just shat where she was standing…
That other cat was a bit of a neighborhood cat and was friendly with several people. I hope he was OK because… well, he did return during winter and it was freezing outside… but I couldn’t let him in because my foster was still there…
Did the cat only try to kill you when it saw other cats or did it try to kill you at some point period? If the latter, how did you deal with that? Did that ever go away?
Nope, only went berzerk when the other cat was there and after the cat fled. I had to fend off my cat for hours and it took her quite a while to calm down. She was a bit passive-aggressive with me, walking by and hissing softly as he walked, almost like she was my wife who thought she caught me having an affair with another girl…
Believe me, it was scary. Have you ever had a cat attack you? I mean REALLY attack you, like being entirely unafraid of you. I never kicked a cat before in my life, but in this case I had to, both in self-defense and defending the other cat who she absolutely was trying to kill.
I lost my orange boy in January and I’m still waiting for the cat distribution system to re-engage.
Check your city’s subreddit. People occasionally post found/foster cats for adoption.
Facebook groups are the chosen platform where I live
It took about 11 years for us to be assigned our new owner, err cat.
Our shelters practically gave away our kittens when we got them. It was July, less than 20 bucks for a furball with all its shots and a snip
The problem with shelters is that I would feel compelled to adopt 15 kitties instead of a sensible 2.
My solution to that has been fostering! I technically only have a sensible 2, but there’s currently a total of 7 under my roof, and a few more on the way.
Don’t give me ideas. I want to buy a motor coach, live at the beach and foster kittens out of there. Fostering kittens wasn’t part of the fantasy until you and my wife will have someone who isn’t me to blame is gonna be nice I gotta admit. I was just gonna busk and sell wood out of the little wagon I pull behind my ebike that has my kittens in it (the wagon has kittens, not wood, but I sell the wood from there I could do better at explaining this) but like now I got so many kittens in this fantasy I don’t know if I have time to busk.
My nan got all her cats this way. The last few were a trio of kittens she found huddled under the tree at the end of her garden during a storm. She did keep an eye out for the mother, but if she was around she never came back for them.
Most of them outlived her in the end, and my uncle ended up with them.
That’s how we got multiple new cats, because the one that walked in had kittens
I’ve had 3 that were acquired that way. One’s mother moved into our garage and had kittens (we kept one), one literally pushed the screen out of my upstairs bedroom window while I was sleeping to come in (scared the crap out of me - to be fair, we had fed her earlier, so she had some reason to assume she could let herself in), and the most recent was a kitten who yowled at my wife from a bush outside of where she worked until she found where he was and took him home. Definitely qualifies as “I live here now” because he was silent and calm on the drive home.
Pretty much. That’s how I have 9. Occasionally hungry cats come to my garden for food. One of my best buddies passed away last year, I had built a cat house for him from a thing I got online, and I kept it there for other animals to use when the Winters come.
Recently a neighbour’s cat came to my garden, whilst they were out of the house, and she had an abscess on her face, so I was able to take her to the emergency vets and they sorted her out (was a Saturday).I don’t know if it’s just me being high, but I think animals can sense some shit. Was at a park with a buddy last Summer and I was kneeling down to read something on a rock, and a squirrel comes to me and is like, doing those hand gestures like it’s asking me for something. My mate gave him some BBQ Hula Hoops, and the little dude was ecstatic.
I’ve been carrying water with me ever since that day, like, it would be really cool if I feed an animal water on the random.I have nothing to add but “thank you.” You really do make a difference. <3
Animals are a lot smarter than we give them credit for.
I know a lot of science says we “humanize” them but even if they don’t communicate or experience the world the same exact way we do, they’re also living things with complex brain processes like we are.
One day an animal is gonna be really happy to get water from you for sure.
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maybe we’re dumb for shitting on the jellyfish’s way of life.
“No thoughts, head is water” sounds a very appealing way of life.
I compare pretty unfavorably to a sea squirt in the intelligence arena but that’s no reason to be, uh, what were you being?
I’d say jellyfish are surprisingly smart for something that doesn’t technically have a brain.
I live in the wrong neighborhood. I only have one cat that “wandered in” and it wasn’t into my house but a former coworker’s barn.
She went from skinny with a silent meow, to a big orange floof ball that will audibly meow at dinner time.
She was very affectionate from the start so not sure where she came from before that. She’s chipped now though and shows no desire to go outside ever again.
“Outside? No thank you. I have warmth, and love, and HUMAN, ARE YOU MAKING MY FOOD YET??? Oh yes, and servants. I have everything I could ever want. They even clean my poop.”
Precisely how I got mine and it was fucking life changing. I had this weird unexplainable distain (you could call it cat hatred almost I guess) for cats and that SOB moving his pushy ass into my life melted my fucking heart; I’ve been better about premature judgement of pretty much everything ever since. If you haven’t gotten yours yet, keep your eyes open and maybe your door cracked a little sometimes. Give that little fucker a chance to make your life better.
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That’s how Izzy happened.
I’ve never had that happen (U.S.). I’ve either gone to the pound or accepted someone else’s pet when they could no longer care for care for it (due to: illness/death/move requiring dubious 30 day animal quarantine).
Same for a lot of ours.
They come into your life when they’re meant to, at least. You’ve done a great deal of good for all of them I’m sure. /gen
