We have 3 cats. 14 year old male snuggle buddy who acts like he’s lord of the manor but the two girl cats push him around and do what they want. Got him when we bought a mobile home for my mom and he was part of the package. 3 year old female, fluffy gorgeous diva with a purr like a puma. A coworker’s cats made unexpected kittens and she had one extra, and we had lost a cat to cancer a few months earlier, leaving his lordship in a deep depression. She rejuvenated him and they’re BFFs now. 2 year old female, orange, another cuddler, devoted to me because I snuggled and comforted her when she was a 3 week old abandoned kitten with a respiratory infection that our daughter-in-law who works at an animal shelter was caring for at home for the weekend while we were visiting. When the kitten got to 12 weeks we adopted her. The little squirt was so happy to see me again she literally jumped into my arms and snuggled up on my shoulder. Amazingly all three get along great, too, which is a real blessing.
We paid an adoption fee to the shelter for our two fur balls :3
same. it was cheaper than getting all the snips and chips ourselves
I’m ok with that
Don’t purchase designer cats! Adopt cats!! Or if there’s street cats, bring them inside.
I don’t know anyone that has paid for a cat. I’ve had two that needed a home. My wife brought three to our marriage, one from a shelter and two from litters of people she knew.
I’ve paid the local cat shelter adoption fees, but I don’t think that counts. It helps them stay in operation, and covers things like spaying/neutering.
I’ve had a few cats in my life and I’ve never once paid for one, Hell I’ve never even gone to a shelter to adopt one, they just show up. Naturally every time I take to the vet to get checked out and see if they’re chipped. nope. just random kitties that decide “you seem nice and seem like you’ll feed me”
Good advice. Adopted cats do taste the best 👍
My sister’s family kept losing their cat, Ace. they put a tracker on him. Turns out he had, like, 4 families. One had named him and everything. They called him Otis.
Of my current 3 cats:
- 16 year old queen of the house, the best lapdog of all time, gotten from a shelter 13 years ago along with her bother (very recently deceased)
- 13 year old from the same shelter, dumped on us when daughter moved out of the country with limited notice and didn’t care where said cat ended up. Horrible bitey monster, but not letting her die on the streets or in a shelter
- 1 year old who wandered up to my back door in October, starving and quite obviously pregnant about a week or two after we started feeding her. Now sleeping on HER ottoman in the front of the house, very content
Every single cat I’ve had as an adult has been from a shelter, a stray or the product of a stray.
I’ve had three cats so far. All of which were rescues because I don’t believe breeders should get any business. No cat should die alone in a shelter or on the streets.
This is lovely! I’d love to adopt old cats to give them a happy life. I‘m living next to a heavy traffic road though, and most cats here are outdoor-ish.
I got Nacho as a baby. The friend of mine had an appointment for castration of his cat, but she was pregnant and he wanted her to have the babies. I took Nacho and his brother got to live with an old lady, who sadly passed away but now he lives with her daughter as “the best cat she ever had”. Yoshi was found as a 2 week old kitten behind the brakes of my dad‘s car when his dog barked at the car.
As the owner of a very opportunistic cat this is dangerous advice. Don’t steal my cat just cause he wandered into your house to accept some of your food.
My cat is also a wanderer. My wife picked him and his sister (now deceased) off the streets of Asbury Park. It’s funny because she was there working with the homeless population and came home with homeless cats, she really cannot help herself.
Rudi was a homebody and a mess of an individual, diabetes, mean but also always up in your business. She died after she swallowed something and it got stuck in her intestines. $10k for a surgery with a 10% chance of success wasn’t it, unfortunately, so I had her put down in our home, which I like to imagine was easier for cat who hated getting in cat carriers.
Bruce Willis is an animal and has fought remaining indoors since we brought him home. If it’s raining, or if it’s too sunny, or sometimes not sunny enough, he will stare out the open door and then walk back in the house. He will also scratch at the door from the outside to come in, I will open it, and he will wander away. But every neighbor knows him because he just goes to everyone’s houses. Some people feed him, it is what it is. He’s not fat so whatever.
He is uncollarable so he is just a black cat that roams, and has been for the last decade plus. He has outlived, as far as I can tell, the rest of the stray/other neighborhood cats that we used to see, grey cat, big black cat, orange cat. He used to fight them. Sometimes he comes home injured. I dunno, it’s just the life he likes to live. If he’s inside at night, you can bet he will wake me up sometime between 1 and 3am to go out, and will not take no for an answer. So when it’s between outdoors or just locking him in the basement, the basement seems cruel. I know people will say he may meet his demise this way, but I honestly think he’d rather that than wilting away in the basement, although he absolutely wilts away in the basement on the couch all day, just not at night.
I liked reading this, cats are cool af.
I also call him Douche Willis sometimes, because he can be a douche. But yes, I agree. I totally respect his vibe. He is just living, doing what he does. Sure, he complains for food, but he doesn’t need anything. Sure, he stabs me demanding pets, but then he also completely ignores me when I try to play with him. Nothing but respect from me.
maybe don’t let your cat out and be a responsible owner then?
It seems there is some difference in cultural norms or opinion on cats being outside. Where I live most domestic cats on ground floor anywhere are free to go outdoors as they please…
Get him chipped if you haven’t already.
I’ve had cats before that have conviced all the neighbors they’re starving. They’d go to each house in turn to spend a night there before coming home
They know what they’re doing
Ok but keep your cat indoors and on a leash outdoors.
It seems there is some difference in cultural norms or opinion on cats being outside. Where I live most domestic cats on ground floor anywhere are free to go outdoors as they please…
One morning a few months after our first cat died I opened the door and there was a dirty, tailless cat with a long hairless scar running over his hips and wearing a blue bowtie. He put one paw up on the stoop, looked up at me and very politely asked, “Mrow?” So of course I said “Come in Sir”
Turned out his name was in fact Sir, and he’d fled from the kittens he’d sired. He was our little deadbeat baby.
This is how cats became pets in the beginning of time. Since they were killing mice, we just allowed it.
I got mine from the local petsmart that a rescure was operating out of. They had like a small area where they have a few cats that they displayed for adoption and my cat was the one that rolled around in the cage and exposed her belly so that’s the one I adopted.
My manager has kittens she wants to get rid of but doesn’t know how. They are weened and driving her crazy. I told her to put them in a box and take them to the nearest big box store and sell them for $5 each. She doesn’t think it will work.
So my partner and I “picked” our cat in that we went to a shelter and looked at different cats. But what really happened is our now cat saw me, meowed, and aggressively rubbed on me when we opened the cage. The attendent was shocked because she never liked anyone touching her before
So really even when you get a cat the cat still picks you
My current cat was like that. She didn’t t come out for anyone. But when I went to the foster carer, she came out and smooched all over me. I couldn’t say no
We always go to the shelter and bring home whatever they have left over.
What, like every month?
Maybe the coyotes keep eating them.
There are coyotes here?
Australia’s next invasive problem, once I get the funding together to import some.
I used to have an automatic feeder that we left outside. We had all the forest cats knowing the time of day and visiting us. And we got regular long-term residents.
All but one I fostered, then ended up adopting.
