Yaeh we had a cat live in our yard for half a year hiding in the bushes then a week before we were going to get a new cat from the pound because our old cats had passed away of old age. She started making odd noise and demanded attention and to come inside, 2 months and a week later she popped out 4 boy balls of fur.

That's how it works!

Owner? I'm pretty sure you meant servant...

Exactly. 🐈‍⬛💞

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outdoor cat is a codeword for "I don't take care of my cat"

@@maxluthor6800 yeah, when people say "outdoor cat", do they mean "cat that's allowed outdoors unsupervised but sleeps indoors", or "cat that permanently lives outside that I feed?" Because the latter is what I would describe as a stray 😕

Thank you kind woman

@@jp9707 I call that a stray too. The neighbors across the street have an “indoor” cat. I often see her on our security camera at 3 or 4 am and other times during the day. And, she isn’t spayed. I saw several different people picking up kittens recently.😢

My neighbour adopted a 4 month old kitten, just after she moved in. She brought baby out to meet me, in the driveway. Tizzy *ran* up to me, doing little bunny hops and head bumping my hands, like I was her old friend. I fell in love with her immediately and as I admired and petted her, the thought popped into my my mind: I’m going to end up with this cat. I felt it was prophetic. It took 14 months and sometimes I thought that maybe I’d gotten it wrong-not that it was a voluntary thought-it was just *there.* So, long story short, she came to live with me and lived a happy life. Always felt like we’d known each other before.

He got hit by a car just to get a new owner

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@@woowgmailcom-fk3cg Hello Gary

Exactly.

Nah, animals are dumb af

@@minial0015 ....but they're still smarter than most humans

It's really sad that it took being hit by a car to get them to finally adopt him. I adopted a yellow cat in my neighborhood who turned out to belong to someone else, who didn't take good care of him. The vet found his microchip, and handed him over to his careless owners again. Fortunately they decided to let me own him after they couldn't contain him and he spent a few more months wandering around the neighborhood at night in the winter...

? No, don't judge the prior owner, of you don't know anything.

Hello Kathryn

@@woowgmailcom-fk3cg Hello Gary

That showed that he knew he had sub par owners. Too bad it took being hit by a car to get these people to adopt him. The poor cat could have been killed instead.

@@WWZenaDo my thoughts exactly. The little dude was clearly trying to tell this lady he was done being an unloved and unprovided for "outdoor cat". If she'd recognized the signs or not been so concerned with her neighbor's feelings, he would have never been hit. I say this being guilty giving people the benefit of the doubt way too many times in my life. Lucky it turned out the way it did but 100 % avoidable.

@@Scottthebott Agreed. I was involved in a similar situation, but I immediately adopted the cat, only to have the vet hand him back over to his inept previous owners. They tried keeping him for a few more months (while he wandered the neighborhood at night during a miserable cold winter) until fortunately they finally decided to surrender him to me. He's been my little home boy ever since.

We have a huge black female cat and she does these full on cuddles too. I call them military grade cuddles. She is brave too, facing down a large bulldog that took her by surprise once. She would be a formidable enemy. Glad she's on my team.

i was like, there's no way i couldnt let him come inside or kick him out. he's so sweet

Cats definitely have a preference where they live. I've seen barn cats say "I'm retired" and move indoors, and I've seen cats that were being forced to be inside cats that hated it. Our cat KT (RIP) showed up one day and established himself as a cat that liked options so we let him come and go as he pleased, turns out his previous owner tried to keep him indoors so he ran away. KT lived 15 years with us enjoying his daily outdoor time, coming home for dinner and snuggles.

Couldn't of said it better..

Totally

@@EpwnaExeter Be very careful though and you should try to walk them on a leash or walk with them when they want to go because I worked in MSPCA and there were so many cats that were literally hit by cars. They cannot tell how to cross the road

That's a determined kitty!

The cat saw potential. 😉 😉 🙃

Yeah, he wasn't gonna take "no" for an answer!

@@Milesco Cat faked his own accident to convince the owner..😂😂

It seemed to come across that the accident was traumatic and that he lost some of his "spice" on that account. I hope he's fully recovered, sweet story and folks all around.

My Sassy chose me. 😊

Of course!! 😁

100%

I think this owner loved her cats truly. She knew them and how they felt and respected them and their choices.

@@druid3933 - _exactly!_

Some cats are so dramatic.

yes…”accident”. So he has us believing…

@@anthonyjuarez7543 Cats are smarter than they seem.

On which porch he hid when he was in pain says a lot.

You know.... you might be on to something there...🤔😄

Sweet story, and SO familiar!!

😂

Love this! I won't tell your present kitty!

And I only found out much later in life that Siamese cats are quite conversational, quite vocal with their chosen hoomans...

😆

No cat wants to be only an indoor or only an outdoor cat. If given the choice.

Hoomans and doggo! Love that!

Don't hate.

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This is such a beautiful story.

Glad Larry ended up with you all!

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@@woowgmailcom-fk3cg Hello Gary

@@ScottLeFauxSoy Hello Gary and Gage

You're so right that HE was the one who wanted to keep Kaitlin. I feel like the fact that after getting hit by a car, he goes to her house instead of his original owners! I don't know what his cognitive process there was, like if he knew they'd get him help, or if he just felt more comfortable with them, but the fact that he chose to stay on their property after suffering a horrible injury/injuries is proof of how important their bond was to him.

@@pattym9182 Awesome. Very awesome👏🏻❤️

“For whatever reason” = 2 puppies.

@@sevothtartesama18 yep. She's a cat that likes a quiet house and I think the disruption of two puppies was what got her looking for a new home. It's just me and my 18 year old daughter and no other pets so she gets to be queen of the home and its a calm, quiet house. I'm just blessed she chose us!

@@littleboots9800 I am very glad you three have a happy home together 🥰

@@sevothtartesama18 Thankyou! She really has completed our home! 🐈❤🏠

@@littleboots9800 Cats shouldn't be outside. Plenty of reasons. Look it up if you don't know them.

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@@woowgmailcom-fk3cg Hello Gary

Yeah, my cat Lagertha is like that. She also forced herself into my life from the streets too lol

I call them military grade cuddles.

That's what I saw too. I knew a couple of cats that my friend had, and when she moved to a new house, her cats didn't get as much attention as they were used to. So when I visited, they were just the most affectionate things ever. And I was taken aback by this, because I never knew them to be that affectionate. One of them, a girl, didn't even like me touching her before. But then, she was demanding pets from me, and trying to lick my face. Fortunately, I much more readily accept kisses from cats than from dogs.

Aw that’s sweet, a very sweet gift to what sounds like three wonderful children. I just adopted two kittens and named them Apollo and Artemis so great cat name also.

aw so cute! i’m sure artemis has not forgotten you, although getting spoiled by those determined girls 😁

"Before we learned better?"

@@seigedrakonera5689 Oh. As in before we started to keep our cats indoors. Because for one it's better for the environment as cats are not native here and its healthier for the cat as well, we actually lost one of our barn cats to go to coyotes an one got hit by a car. So we decided to just keep our cats inside, an with a proper "catio" cats can be happy *and* healthy being strictly indoors pets. An when we set up our new barn if you keep all the feed in proper containers and clean you won't have a bad vermin problem. I hope this clears things up better.

My cat does that during our numerous conversations

It really is the best. Lol

Agreed, it sounds like he was desperate for attention.

Thank you for actually mentioning the US part explicitly. Cause it's so interesting how different things are in different countries. In Germany and Switzerland, for example, a large amount - arguably the majority - of shelters / fosters actually demand you to be able to provide cats with outdoor access or they don't let you adopt. Not saying that's ideal (especially since I'd argue say a 3 room apartment and 24/7 love is better than spending years alone in a shelter cell waiting for someone with a garden) - but just saying, it's important to remember statistics and the dangers vary (e.g. in our area we have no strays, veeery few wild animals that would venture close if at all, much more narrow / low-traffic streets, etc.). Though I'll be honest, I personally wish we could escape-proof our garden so the cats could have the best of both worlds but we could still keep them safe. Sadly, not an option at the moment.

You're a good person Syd. Look after that cat and she'll repay your love with all her heart.

They never get to go outside?

@@sweetnothingsasmr1 not without a harness? That's an odd question to ask?

@@sydgamer6665 oh ok cool. I was just curious since you said fully indoors.

Bet he staged the accident, too. :D

I have Charlie’s Owners in my cell phone and they have mine under Charlie’s Carer.

Are you a bot?

Almost word for word what happened to me!..I'm also a dog person but I love my adopted cat as well!..he sleeps with me..I can't believe I have a cat!🤦‍♂️

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You got that right. I think we've been put on this planet to take care of cats! Will they come into our lives we are here to serve. Sort of like doubt and Abbey. They have the whole crew of people waiting on them.

Yep, dogs have master’s…. Cat’s have servants. Get used to it

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So you just stole someone's dog. "Adopting" is a euphemism here, and "didn't seem to mind"...? Yeah, keep telling yourself that, buddy.....

@@TieDyeVikki I'm not a "buddy," I'm a 60 year old woman, and this happened around 1974... When I say, 'didn't seem to mind," I meant my mother spoke to them and they didn't seem to care if we adopted him.

@@TieDyeVikki Kind of like "if you want him you can have him" type of attitude, don't judge without knowing the facts.

@@franceslarsen4037 Yeah, I knew I was making an assumption without all the facts, but I was mostly just trying to be funny. Re-reading my post now, it comes across as serious, sorry. And when it comes to the names Frances and Francis, I'll be honest, I can never keep it straight which is male and female. But I can remember my Mom using buddy for either sex when she was joking around, like as in "sure, buddy, whatever you say...". Anyway, this 54 year old woman is just glad that little dog ended up with the right people. :)

@@TieDyeVikki Thank you for explaining:). Yeah, even knowing that I'm female, I've had some people ask me if it's "is" on the end, and I have to correct them! What's really ironic is that I go by my middle name, Alane, but some years ago I got "unrecognized" by Facebook and I had to put my first name on there, lol!! That poor little guy, they called him "Cortez" so we left his name at that, he was Chihuahua with brindle coloring, I don't think he was happy there and he liked something about my brother I guess... But back in the day, there wasn't as much awareness regarding spay/neutering and my grandmother who lived with us thought having a dog neutered "denatured" him and was cruel in her mind, so this little dog, even though he seemed happy to live with us and we showered him with love and attention, would get out from under the chain link fence and go after this little gal that belonged to my friend Pam. Her name was "Sugar," and she was some kind of Scottish terrier with black scruffy hair, you know.. Tragically, one day he was instantly killed by a car right outside our house, when the 2 of them were coming back from a ditch area:(((. She was pregnant though, and we got 2 little puppies of his, Corrie and Chummie. Chummie lived to age 12, with kidney failure, and Corrie lived to around 16 years, when she had a heart attack or stroke or something when we were out of town and my mother's boyfriend was there. At least we had some healing by giving long, full lives to his children. We only got to enjoy him not quite 2 years I think.

awhh that's adorable!

Hello Suzanne

@@woowgmailcom-fk3cg Hello Gary

Yep 👍 his other home might not even noticed or just figured he ran off he went to her for help

🤣🤣🤣Exactly 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽❤

My situation with kitties much like yours. Now have a stable 8 cats, all about the same age, about, well, 8...!

thats so friken cuuuttteeeee! Says alot about you that you raised such sweet cats

@@Echemusic Well one sweet cat, our other one doesn't seem super fond, but she's a bit of a brat anyways.

@@Dostoron its my understanding that girl cats can be a bit like that

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@@woowgmailcom-fk3cg Hello Gary

😻 'Head Bonks' 😻 Love it!!

Hello Dean

Lol so true