Oh, we had a feral bring us a cat delivery as well once!
Uncle Albert let us feed him, but had no desire to come indoors
One morning he came up from the basement stairs, paused, and called
And a lovely half-grown cat came upstairs in inside as if she lived here
1/2
Later we found where someone had dumped her
There was a cat carrier in some bushes with some food dumped inside and the door open
That hadn't been there the day before
Albert must have found her
Led her to his lair in the basement
Then called her to come meet us when we put out his breakfast 2/2
I found this little girl beside a building. She was only weeks old and all alone. She looks big and scary here, but she’s delicate and docile. A sweetheart.
I have three free cats! This little wild Pilgrim just joined us a month ago. He isn’t too sure about humans, but he very much likes the yummy food, soft bed, and the lack of bitey scratchy raccoons indoors.
Our city has a program where they give you traps and when you take them in they will spay and neuter them. If they are too old for adoption they re-release them where you caught them. Such a good idea.
We made a neighborhood game out of catching them a few years ago when for some reason there was a bumper crop of street kittens 😂 unfortunately one poor cat that was dumber than the rest just kept getting recaught over and over
I have a WHOLE bunch that go through my yard and sometimes just hang out there as well as some that wander through my house with varying levels of frequency. They all have other homes but one of them spends like 60+% of his time here. I ended up putting a bowl of water out for them.
This young lady needs a home asap. Spayed, chipped & dewormed today. We're picking her up soon & she'll be ready to go. We already added 2 from the colony to our crew, so we can't add more. Plus we have 2 more scheduled for June. Anyone in or near Philly who needs a cat, I can def hook you up.
the one that comes into my house the second-most often has almost never deigned to let me touch him, it's hilarious. I'm pretty sure he lives two doors down and has napped on my bed a few times but won't let me pet him.
I call him Mr Kitty because I don't know his name but he has an air of gravitas and dignity that requires an honorific. He's a big orange boy who looks very soft but I have only ever been allowed to touch the top of his head.
I forgot I had posted this until it popped up again today. Then I realised he's lying butt to butt with our little dog, this was their favourite cuddle/nap position. We lost her in July, a bitter sweet memory prompt ❤️
That cat is the boy, he's still with us. It was the tiny little dog that you can see behind him that we lost. The cat is sunning himself happily in the front windowsill as I type.
Which I have as yet neither read nor seen. Guess I need to get to it.
(Though everything I've read recently either has an introduction by Neil Gaiman or includes a story by Neil Gaiman. In fact, I think the only non-Neil Gaiman content I get on my Bluesky feed is... posts by Neil Gaiman.) 🤪🤷♂️
May I recommend Istanbul where there are literally thousands of cats happily roaming the streets. If you look needy & easily manipulated they will come and make friends with you in return for snacks
What a treat! Cat people are the same across the centuries 😂 Thanks for sharing! Reading this with my cat, who showed up one day 12 years ago, leaning on me being very warm.
We, too, cat chose us, in a way. Young, first apt on Beacon Hill, Boston (we are 1972). Cat in stairwell, dumped. Took him in, only food we had was a can of tuna. Next morning it looked like.. His name therefore Tuna Fish. Took care of us from then on, riding with us on my red Trumph Spitfire
It ended good, it ended bad. We moved out to my parents' in Lincoln. Shrubbery. They had a Golden Retriever. Cat and dog were cool. We moved away, cat and dog remained. Cat hunted. Got run down. Dragged himself home, died. Everyone cried.
I go through a distributor. It's very efficient. The cats all know where to find her; word has apparently gotten out. They keep showing up at her place.
She supplies fine, high quality felines.
Yea, that's how we ended up with 5 cats - a preg mom ran inside and had 4 kittens, we were able to give one away, and then we found a Siamese during a snow storm, our previous 2 cats were free outdoor guys too
My cat Gabriel Gallop ran around outdoors at a friend's apartment complex. (Frenemy, actually--long story.) He slept under a bush. I met him a few times before I took him home.
I will. He will greet the news with his usual stream of Happy Complaints.
He woke me up yesterday by grooming my beard at the crack of dawn. He spends all day being Big Independent Boi (he is not, EMPHATICALLY not) and all night being the stealth snuggle monster. 😻
They're featured in credulous articles about young entrepreneurs who are able to retire whenever they want. Three quarters of the way through the article it says, "Owl's pregnant mother was taken in by a family of animal lovers. Owl spends 90% of the day sleeping with his person or his siblings."
My roommate was smoking on the stoop when an emaciated lil cat crawled into his lap and purred. He brought it inside and six hours later we had five more free cats. Feline trojan horse.
They can be very expensive free cats though. One of ours turns out to have asthma, which we found out after an visit to the emergency vet to spend the weekend in an oxygen chamber. He’s fine now though, just needs an inhaler twice a day. Would 100% do again.
My first Siamese had been abandoned outside and (at 18 or so months) weighed under 2 lbs when I got him — he was definitely not able to "fend for himself" (likely because his "OMG! Ima gonna hunt this bird!" kek-kek-kek song was so loud, lol)
Samson (what I named him since I knew he'd have to be strong) wasn't the runt — apparently when the people (using the term lightly) who had him before me were moving he scratched and/or bit the guy trying to force him into a carrier so they just left him.
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This one was brought to us by a feral cat that lived in the woods by our house. One day, he showed up with this little miniature version of himself.
His dad was too feral to get near, but we brought this little guy in and now he is a huge 18-pound ball of cuddles
Uncle Albert let us feed him, but had no desire to come indoors
One morning he came up from the basement stairs, paused, and called
And a lovely half-grown cat came upstairs in inside as if she lived here
1/2
There was a cat carrier in some bushes with some food dumped inside and the door open
That hadn't been there the day before
Albert must have found her
Led her to his lair in the basement
Then called her to come meet us when we put out his breakfast 2/2
This is a stupid comment I'm sorry💀
My brothers in fur were born to a kitty who was found soaked to the bone and crying in a terrible rain storm. They are awesome and i love them.
https://bsky.app/profile/redconversation.bsky.social/post/3kqc37i6qh52r
I'll tell ya though, free does not mean cheap 😅
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(Though everything I've read recently either has an introduction by Neil Gaiman or includes a story by Neil Gaiman. In fact, I think the only non-Neil Gaiman content I get on my Bluesky feed is... posts by Neil Gaiman.) 🤪🤷♂️
I can pet the gray one
It sort of happened just like that.
And why I’m squinting at some of my cats wildly guessing who I am talking to.
Miles? No, Sisko..Whoopi? Oh, it’s you, Odo. You are Odo, right?
Etc etc
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45173/jubilate-agno
https://bsky.app/profile/jnxouaquaga.bsky.social/post/3kpic7r343a23
She supplies fine, high quality felines.
Frankly, I think the nozzle has been clogged for a while now. Probably too much cat hair.
He woke me up yesterday by grooming my beard at the crack of dawn. He spends all day being Big Independent Boi (he is not, EMPHATICALLY not) and all night being the stealth snuggle monster. 😻
It’s me, to a T. 😂
It’s like passive income except I spend a lot of money on cat food and litter.
Trust me, I’m trying.
He’s a gentle little guy and we don’t think he would have done well outside long-term