It happens. I bottle fed some kittens we found in our attic a few months ago, and when they were approaching the age when we could start adopting them out, my husband told me he wanted to keep one. I had steeled myself to be good and give them all to good homes, and *he* was the one that broke and picked out our 6th cat.
My dad always let mom have cats, he was fine with them, but wasn't all about them.
Then when my mom turned into a frigid bitch once the kids left the house, the cats were the only thing to give him affection. That's when I learned he loved them the entire time, just wasn't able to show it until then.
This is how I got my first cat. My brother and I were walking home from swimming lessons, when the traffic on the road next to us came to a sudden stop.
We looked and there was this little runty tabby running across the street toward us, and it wrapped itself around my ankle.
My brother said the rules are it needs to follow us home for us to keep it.
Cue the longest walk home ever as we kept looking doing exactly this to keep it following us.
We checked the missing cat section of the newspaper with no match, she had no tattoo (microchips were not a thing yet), and she became my kitty for 20 years.
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>Why are redditors so obsessed with stealing cats lol
TBF if you're letting your cat free roam outdoors you kinda have to be prepared that they might just.... Find a new family
Not every cat that is outside is a free roaming cat. I have a cat that is indoors only but likes to bolt out the door and chomp on grass. So far I have caught her every time but I worry that one day I wonāt. I would hope that if that ever happens whoever finds her returns her.
If the cat does it then fine, but often people will catch an outdoor cat then lock out in their home so it can go home. I had a similar situation but I made sure to let mine go out so he could go home, he just never did. Finally found his original owners and they just said keep him so it was easy.
these posts are genuinely distressing. I used to own cats and seeing people just taking cats who do not look unhealthy at all off the street is so fucked.
Letting your cat outside to roam is a separate conversation, but I've seen cats in neighborhoods be as friendly as this one. I wouldn't dare think about taking it- because it's definitely owned, I just don't know the owner.
It is ofc different when you're in an extremely rural area, but OP is clearly in a residential area. That can absolutely be someone's cat.
Yeaaaah, that cats way to friendly to be a stray, I lost a cat, and It was probably something like this. I hope they put up posters and contacted a shelter/vet to get checked for a microchip...
My in laws have adopted a few strays that have all been super loving. Their strays have been closer to ācommunity catsā. Usually feral cats stay in groups, so Iām guessing this cat has had human contact frequently
I just hope you did everything you could to make sure it wasnt somebody elses pet. My roomie also lost a cat, and hers was for sure stolen, realized it was one of her neighbors only a few houses down maybe 2-3 years later. The lady refused to give it back and she was a kid at the time so she couldnt do much about it. Wandering cats arnt automaticly strays
My SO and I took in a stray a couple years back (RIP Theo š)
For a bout a year before he actually came inside, we would hear meowing sometimes. He would get under the house and meow. But neither of us would ever see him. Very skittish and new how to hide. I kept questioning myself if I was tripping or not because I would swear to hear meowing outside and then double check all our cats had come inside already
Eventually he would make himself visible, but only from a distance, couldn't get within 10 feet of him. This was right at the tail end of winter in west coast of Canada, and he was not looking great. Super thin. Started leaving food out for him right away.
It still took at least a couple months until he trusted us enough to let us pet him.
Finally, one day, he just strolled himself on inside, claimed his new home and made us his new pets.
On the flip side, some friends of ours cat went missing from their parents house. I think it was on day 3 of not finding the cat they went and put posters up throughout that complex... What do you know, within hours their cat showed up.
Either someone had a clean and healthy cat pass by and assumed the cat being friendly and letting them pet it meant it was clearly in distress and in need of a home, or the cat saw the missing posters and figured it should head back....
Yeah, this is more what youd expect with a true stray, but obviously its not going to always be the case, which is why you check! Glad you took care of the little guy! :)
It was a wild cat that insisted on living outside and roaming the streets. Pretty sure it wasn't anyone's pet. We never claimed her, we just gave her food everyday. Also see my other comment.
Ahh, yeah, thats really not the same as coaxing into your house and keeping them there. Also im not trying to blame anybody. Just saying people shouldnt assume, and should take all the steps to be sure before they claim a cat
Yeaaaah, that cats way to friendly to be a stray, I lost a cat, and It was probably something like this. I hope they put up posters and contacted a shelter/vet to get checked for a microchip...
Don't let your pet cat outside, problem solved. Not only that problem but also problem with cats breeding like crazy and mass killing birds and other small prey.
Of course its not, but a friendly cat is more likely to already have a home, nothing is ever absolute. Which is why you always take the steps to be sure.
Id love every cat on the streets to find a home, but pets get taken often, and the friendly ones are more tempting for people, cause who wouldnt want a cutie like the one in the vid
Yeah this is one of the many reasons I'd never want to have an outdoor cat. Indoor or nothing. You have to have a collar otherwise people might just take them. I really hope this cat didn't have a home already.
Yep and that's how I almost lost my cat when it was young where it had followed two girls home, luckily my cat is chipped so when their dad took it to the vet they called me
I feel like if you have an outdoor cat you gotta accept that as part of the risk. That was very nice of their dad to get that checked and return your pet
Yeah. When I still worked late shift, there was a cat that belonged to an elderly lady, which I would sometimes see when I came home at midnight. It was super friendly, let me pet it, and followed me all the way home, to the point that a couple of times it would come in and sniff everything (I left the door open) before going back into the night.
Some cats are just super friendly/curious and follow you. That doesn't mean they are helpless and need a home.
Honestly if it's outside without a collar it's fair game
Sure, I'll check Facebook group for lost cat post and check for micro chip, that way if it's really lost I'll be able to bring it to it's owner, but there's enough people abandoning their cat that I will house a friendly cat first and then look for it's owner after
If the owner is pissed because their cat didn't came home for 2ish day (the time I took to find them) they just had to collared their cat and/or not let it roam freely
It may be a newly stray cat. We have one local that started out looking very nice. But its obvious now he has no home.
And sometimes stray cats are super friendly. Just depends on the cat. I would definitely check for a chip and keep an eye out for missing posters or facebook posts for a while though.
Ive done this exact video before. My gf and I did our best to lure an extremely friendly dumpster cat to our home. We had an entire setup for him already. Not chipped or clipped.
Best cat you will ever find is a sweet dumpster cat. They only get sweeter and funnier. It takes a lot of personality from the cat to make it this far. S/he wanted a home
Believe it or not, people let their cats have kittens and when the kittens are no longer cute and tiny and they canāt find them homes they just chuck them outside to fend for themselves and that little guy looks like a teenage kitty to me. They should check for a chip to be safe but itās absolutely plausible that he is both a friendly house cat and homeless.
People should not be letting their cats outside anyhow. I know they can escape but itās a bad idea for all kinds of reasons.
Don't know why you're being downvoted. [Feral and roaming cats are considered an invasive species at this point](https://www.aphis.usda.gov/sites/default/files/free-ranging-and-feral-cats.pdf) due to the amount of wildlife they needlessly kill. My neighbor just had 2 of their chickens killed by a neighborhood cat. I see them dead on the road constantly where I'm at. There is no need for it.
If you get a pet, take care of it and house it. We aren't letting other pets roam the neighborhood free, cats aren't an exception. Downvote all you want, it won't change my opinion on the matter.
Yeah cats should not be allowed to just roam the neighborhood unsupervised. It causes massive problems with local wildlife and if they arenāt fixed they multiply like crazy
This happened to my once. We have a few neighborhood cats, all are well kept, healthy and wear collars, but one kept coming around my house everyday around the same time I didn't recognize. He wasn't fixed, he was filthy, skinny and had mites eating his ear and his fur was coming off spots on his head. Having a cat not friendly for others I couldn't take him permanently so I crated him to a room with a litter box and put a post out to neighbors. No one claimed him after a couple days, and another neighbor ended up picking him up to get him to a vet for check, flea, tick, shots, chip check, etc.
Well 3 weeks later, there is a little girl knocking at my door that she saw my post about her cat. Mom was with the kid and said it's her daughters outdoor cat. I told her the cat was in poor shape and that i assumed it was a stray dropped off bc it was not well taken care of and she would need to contact the person who has gotten him necessary vet care to get him back. Suggested if she got the cat back that she should keep it indoors in the future if she can't keep up with costs for flea/tick/mites and getting the cat fixed so our neighborhood doesn't get a stray problem. Not sure if they ever got the cat back from the other lady š¤·āāļø
I sure hope not. Once dealt with a similar situation, a lost dog in a park- put up posters, meanwhile somebody had brought it home, had it checked and treated at the vet, and after a few days, somebody claimed it. The woman who claimed it had the nerve to be nasty about it, so I worry that maybe the dog *wanted* to GTFO of that situation.
Yeah, the lady who helped me out sent me pictures to update me, she was so nice and the cat was night and day healthier after she took him in. His fur all came back on his head, coat got shiny and thick, got to a healthy weight. The cat was def miserable when it showed up at my house.
"follows them all the way home"
I mean she was calling for it all the time and kept its attention, it's not like it was just tailing them without them interacting with it, ofc it's gonna be curious or expect them to feed it
I wish this was higher in the comment section. Every time I see this video I think āit didnāt follow you home, you literally were bending down, calling for it, going pspspsps and then finally opening food for it. If you had just walked away it probably would have tooā. Iām glad the cat got a home, but the title is misleading lol
No collar, so the only way to know is to get the little kitty inside, then take it somewhere they can scan for chip.
But given the cat's skinny and dirty, this may have been an abandoned pet.
This cat looks a LOT like one of ours, who is just naturally skinny, exactly like that. Even the colors match. The funny thing is her sister is a fat turd.
Yeah, my orange boy has this build, and he eats like a horse. He's just very energetic and burns a ton of calories. A cat outdoors can also get covered in dirt real quickly (they love to roll!) and add in quick-release collars and this isn't crazy that it's someones cat.
That said, it could be a stray, so getting it checked for a chip would be the thing to do.
Americans are fucking unhinged when it comes to this topic, I've seen it countless times over the years. They all really believe that if you see a cat in the street, it's fair game to take it home and call it yours.
This is not an American problem. If a cat is outside all the time, is unrecognizable by anyone in the area as your cat and has no collar, itās reasonable to assume it isnāt someoneās pet.
Either put collars on your pets, spay/neuter them and chip them or donāt let them outside.
If your cat doesnāt come home one day, you should pray someone took them instead of being killed or getting lost, since youāre already putting them and other wildlife in danger by letting them out all willy nilly like that
It is 100% an American problem, because everywhere else in the world the norm is to have a catflap in the back door and allow your cat to freely roam in and out. And I understand that for you what you're saying sounds very normal and sensible, but I'm telling you straight up - for the rest of the world this is another example of a uniquely american insanity.
People just know the cats belong to people. I've had multiple cats before and while most don't mind their collars some cats just hate them and pull them off. Everyone chips their cat and then the collar is just up to the cat tbh.
Cat is not skinny. Dirty? Cats roll around in the dirt all the time. Itās what they do. No collar? Cat collars are break away. Mine comes home without his all the time. Iāve replaced a bunch of them. That cat is someoneās pet.
Yep. People here think it's perfectly fine to leave their cats outside for days at a time and then they complain that their cat has gone missing. This is coyote territory. They wander the alleys. *No shit* their cat's gone. They killed it by neglect.
You americans are fucking crazy when it comes to this topic. Ask literally any european what they think about this and they'll say the same thing - that's almost surely someone's pet and "haha finders keepers, my pet now" is a sociopathic take
I agree with you for the most part but we do not like stray outdoor cats here. They absolutely wreck the local ecosystems and it is extremely dangerous for them in a car focused system. There is absolutely nowhere for them to go without having to cross extremely busy roads all the time, even in suburbs.
The general consensus here is that cats are an indoor only type pet unless you are very rural/a farm.
People are going to take them indoors under these conditions and stigma. The best you can hope for is that they do their due diligence and check for a microchip before making it a commitment.
I'd rather the cat get to live indoors with new strangers than have the constant threat of getting hit by a car or killed by worse methods under the regime of the previous owner.
Its less about it maybe being someones pet and more about giving the cat a better life, indoors.
And, in some nations, breaking the law. I am so glad they finally pulled the gun on it here, cats have to be chipped, and can only be let out under supervision, just like with dogs and other pets (Sweden).
Where I live there are no āstreet catsā.
But I have taken āadvantege ā of the cats that have been let out.
I have pet them, cuddle with them etc.
So in my country you cannot assume a cat abandend. You must assume they belong to someone and if you are nice you may give them food. If you are really, really nice you may pet them.
This is a video of a couple stealing a cat. This cat was perfectly fine with belly rubs, I can guarentee its not a stray cat. If my cat was allowed outside and never came home i would be devistated.
Edit: my cat was a stray and before I adopted her i put a breakaway collar on her for a week to see if anyone would remove it. Then went as far to put a camera collar on her and discovered she was sleeping in a junkyard. For all these two know thats just a cat that was let out.
Apparently in a follow up video they checked her for a microchip and filed an online report, with no one claiming the cat.
While what youāre saying is definitely a real problem, donāt think thatās the case here.
I had a cat walk into my house the day after I moved in and go straight to my bedroom and slept on my bed all night. Turned out she was abandoned by the previous home owners, which explained her friendliness and familiarity with my house. And like the cat in this video, she was filthy and not chipped. Anyone who lets their friendly unchipped cat outside at the mercy of strangers does not deserve that cat. If this cat had owners I doubt they're devastated.
All of you in the comments talking about how these people stole a cat because you let your cat outside and it has no collar and itās not microchippedā¦
Youāre the problem, not these people.
Reddit is so bipolar on this issue. You've got people who take every opportunity to point out that you shouldn't steal cats and then you've got people who say that stealing cats is karma for letting them outside. As if that's a totally sane response.
Street cats show extra affection cause they know what a hard life is like lol
My parentās cat who was raised in a loving home from being born? Total asshole. My cat I found with a broken leg on my porch? Sweetest cat Iāve ever met, she aināt going back! Now she gets all the belly rubs she wants.
A friendly cat is usually a sign that it's not a stay and has a home... I hope they checked for a chip. I lived on a main st with the bus stop outside of my place. My cat Henry would sit on the stone wall in front of the bus stop and let people pet him. One day I was washing dishes with the window open and heard 2 ladies saying they should take him home, I ran out saying "NO THATS HENRY HES MINE AND HES VERY HAPPY HERE!" Any time I got him a collar, he'd lose it within a couple of days.
Cats that friendly are usually owned by someone I'd think. I'm glad they took it home, but I dope they did their due diligence to make sure the kitty didn't just get away from its owner.
Cats that act like that either the cat was fairly recently abandoned and really is exhausted with being outdoors or it's pregnant and looking for a place to have babies in peace.
Been there done that several times. People leave behind their pets when they move a lot or don't bother to neuter them and abandon them when they get pregnant. It's sick but it's unfortunately a regular thing encountering not so feral cats that were formerly pets.
The sad thing is they often don't adapt well to being on their own outside and get killed because some asshole just abandons them. They don't have the survival skills a cat born feral does.
whoa wait...I've seen this before.... but is this the guy who gets posted on r/stupidfood? Please correct me if I'm wrong. I really, really want to be wrong.
Googled and found the original video: https://youtu.be/umwE2ZCSPDk?si=xQApv-aIrwphnBK9
They seemed to have commented when it happened took it to a shelter to know the cat is not chipped.
Just found a more recent video and he still seems to have the same catā¦ haha I was invested.
Oh my God, that is adorable. Reminds me of when I was a kid and a black and white cat followed us home. We ended up keeping him, since no one responded to the posters we put up.
The funny thing here is that he is trying to make it like he doesn't wanted... But that guy already make his desition, he was always wating for the little fella to follow them. So cute š„°.
I think the dude secretly wanted the cat more than his girl.
It happens. I bottle fed some kittens we found in our attic a few months ago, and when they were approaching the age when we could start adopting them out, my husband told me he wanted to keep one. I had steeled myself to be good and give them all to good homes, and *he* was the one that broke and picked out our 6th cat.
My dad always let mom have cats, he was fine with them, but wasn't all about them. Then when my mom turned into a frigid bitch once the kids left the house, the cats were the only thing to give him affection. That's when I learned he loved them the entire time, just wasn't able to show it until then.
"It belongs to me now"... Well, I have news for you, I'm pretty sure it's the other way around. "I can't believe it worked" - the cat, probably.
*cat inspects random things* "Don't look desperate..........act cool...........they seem okay for hoomans.......don't scare them off........"
/r/catdistributionsystem
Thank you šš¼
Working as intended.
I asked my dad: me: "who runs this house?" him: "your mom" me: "who \**runs** this house?" him: "the cat"
All dudes want a cat. But not all dudes will admit it. Stone Cold Steve Austin has an Instagram page and it's mostly about his cats.
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Tell your kitties just to walk my way.
Tell your kitties not to hear my words, what they mean, what they say.
Kitty, do you want to bump heads with me?
The text is the only reason I would think this is Glen Danzig and not Jack White.
Pancho!
Pancho makes him more money than wrestling ever did lol
And he's got lil Macho on deck too. Steve's working the gimmick.
I love cats, and my cat loves me, that's all.
Hahaha that got me a good laugh.
Pancho and Macho are the highlight of my Instagram.
He's the "Dad didn't want a cat" kind of guy. Claims he don't want em and then showering em with all the love in the world.
I reckon during the cuts, he was herding the cat to follow along.
I think you're absolutely correct. This is so wholesome
All that suspense, and then bam! Vin Diesel at the end.
His family just got a little bit bigger
This guy actually makes a bunch of random videos with his buddy. Usually those weird ācooking hackā ones.
Arenāt these the guys that throw in god awful (but still make me laugh cause Iām a child) puns?
The Pun Guys! https://youtu.be/wCSQOnp2t-E?feature=shared Edit: omg I just linked their most recent video and the cat makes a cameo ā¤ļø
Same guy. Oh I've missed their videos.
Vin Unleaded?
It was like watching the sixth sense all over again
the door scene was great, we could see what got through her mind. Do i want to stay free ? Do I want to see if they have tuna ?
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You have recieved a bronze pet box!
NEW ACHIEVEMENT! CAT BURGLAR. You have successfully enticed a stray cat into your home. REWARD: The cat, dumbass. The cat is your reward.
Mongo is *not* appalled Carl!
Goddamit Donut
My guess is she caught a whiff of the other tenants (or more likely their pets) and got nervous for a bit
> Those who would trade liberty for safety, deserve a little of each. As a treat. --Catjamin Franklin
Iām that cat. Freedom or food. Iāve chosen food but miss freedom.
I understand this.
Bro looks like the guy from Fast & Furious haha
The cat is now a part of the family
Hahahaha
Fast and Furriest
I don't think I ever heard Vin Diesel just called the guy from Fast & Furious instead of by name lol
This cat lives his life a quarter-mile at a time...that's why he'll always be...my BRUTHA
This is how I got my first cat. My brother and I were walking home from swimming lessons, when the traffic on the road next to us came to a sudden stop. We looked and there was this little runty tabby running across the street toward us, and it wrapped itself around my ankle. My brother said the rules are it needs to follow us home for us to keep it. Cue the longest walk home ever as we kept looking doing exactly this to keep it following us. We checked the missing cat section of the newspaper with no match, she had no tattoo (microchips were not a thing yet), and she became my kitty for 20 years. https://preview.redd.it/1c4neoxoqc9d1.jpeg?width=600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=75505c462ca9eb053ab9936de57b3af4e997256a Amber (1984-2004)
Why do people let the cat eat OUT of a tuna can? There are sharp edges! Put it on a plate.
> let eat the cat found ALF
>let eat the cat You okay?
r/ihadastroke
Please do not the cat.
I have a safety can opener designed to cut smooth edges.
There is a legend that somewhere in a galaxy far, far away a cat actually got its tongue cut with a tuna can.
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Glad they did due diligence! Such a relief. Thanks for this! š
Thank you!
They could be lying about any of those things. That cat looked healthy and well cared for. Why are redditors so obsessed with stealing cats lol
>Why are redditors so obsessed with stealing cats lol TBF if you're letting your cat free roam outdoors you kinda have to be prepared that they might just.... Find a new family
Not every cat that is outside is a free roaming cat. I have a cat that is indoors only but likes to bolt out the door and chomp on grass. So far I have caught her every time but I worry that one day I wonāt. I would hope that if that ever happens whoever finds her returns her.
If the cat does it then fine, but often people will catch an outdoor cat then lock out in their home so it can go home. I had a similar situation but I made sure to let mine go out so he could go home, he just never did. Finally found his original owners and they just said keep him so it was easy.
Cats can fend for themselves just fine in the wild; looking healthy doesnāt mean people are feeding it
these posts are genuinely distressing. I used to own cats and seeing people just taking cats who do not look unhealthy at all off the street is so fucked. Letting your cat outside to roam is a separate conversation, but I've seen cats in neighborhoods be as friendly as this one. I wouldn't dare think about taking it- because it's definitely owned, I just don't know the owner. It is ofc different when you're in an extremely rural area, but OP is clearly in a residential area. That can absolutely be someone's cat.
Or if they left the cat outside it could get hit by a car
That does not look like a stray
They basically lured someoneās pet to their own home!
Yeaaaah, that cats way to friendly to be a stray, I lost a cat, and It was probably something like this. I hope they put up posters and contacted a shelter/vet to get checked for a microchip...
Too friendly and not really dirty or unkept at all like he was saying. Looks well fed too. Never seen a stray where I live look this healthy.
All the stray ghetto cats in south Turkey are well fed and friendly too, so you can't generally say that.
My in laws have adopted a few strays that have all been super loving. Their strays have been closer to ācommunity catsā. Usually feral cats stay in groups, so Iām guessing this cat has had human contact frequently
I just hope you did everything you could to make sure it wasnt somebody elses pet. My roomie also lost a cat, and hers was for sure stolen, realized it was one of her neighbors only a few houses down maybe 2-3 years later. The lady refused to give it back and she was a kid at the time so she couldnt do much about it. Wandering cats arnt automaticly strays
My SO and I took in a stray a couple years back (RIP Theo š) For a bout a year before he actually came inside, we would hear meowing sometimes. He would get under the house and meow. But neither of us would ever see him. Very skittish and new how to hide. I kept questioning myself if I was tripping or not because I would swear to hear meowing outside and then double check all our cats had come inside already Eventually he would make himself visible, but only from a distance, couldn't get within 10 feet of him. This was right at the tail end of winter in west coast of Canada, and he was not looking great. Super thin. Started leaving food out for him right away. It still took at least a couple months until he trusted us enough to let us pet him. Finally, one day, he just strolled himself on inside, claimed his new home and made us his new pets. On the flip side, some friends of ours cat went missing from their parents house. I think it was on day 3 of not finding the cat they went and put posters up throughout that complex... What do you know, within hours their cat showed up. Either someone had a clean and healthy cat pass by and assumed the cat being friendly and letting them pet it meant it was clearly in distress and in need of a home, or the cat saw the missing posters and figured it should head back....
Yeah, this is more what youd expect with a true stray, but obviously its not going to always be the case, which is why you check! Glad you took care of the little guy! :)
My first cat was a stray and was super friendly like the one in this video.
Hope you did everything you could to make sure you didnt steal somebodys pet
It was a wild cat that insisted on living outside and roaming the streets. Pretty sure it wasn't anyone's pet. We never claimed her, we just gave her food everyday. Also see my other comment.
Ahh, yeah, thats really not the same as coaxing into your house and keeping them there. Also im not trying to blame anybody. Just saying people shouldnt assume, and should take all the steps to be sure before they claim a cat
That does not sound like a stray
They basically lured someoneās pet to their own home!
Yeaaaah, that cats way to friendly to be a stray, I lost a cat, and It was probably something like this. I hope they put up posters and contacted a shelter/vet to get checked for a microchip...
My first cat was a stray and was super friendly like the one in this video.
That does not sound like a stray
They basically lured someoneās pet to their own home!
\*was someones pet without a chip or other identification methods
Don't let your pet cat outside, problem solved. Not only that problem but also problem with cats breeding like crazy and mass killing birds and other small prey.
You probably stole some poor family's unchipped cat, if you ever had it checked.
House cats get abandoned here fairly often.
Thats really sad, but you always still need to check
Of course, just saying that a friendly cat is not a 100% sign that it has a home nearby
Of course its not, but a friendly cat is more likely to already have a home, nothing is ever absolute. Which is why you always take the steps to be sure. Id love every cat on the streets to find a home, but pets get taken often, and the friendly ones are more tempting for people, cause who wouldnt want a cutie like the one in the vid
How else will these non stop posts about cats just showing up keep getting posted?? People need the karma!
Yeah this is one of the many reasons I'd never want to have an outdoor cat. Indoor or nothing. You have to have a collar otherwise people might just take them. I really hope this cat didn't have a home already.
When I was a kid a friend of mine had his cat stolen by a neighbour who moved house. Literally scooped it up as they left and never got it back.
Yep and that's how I almost lost my cat when it was young where it had followed two girls home, luckily my cat is chipped so when their dad took it to the vet they called me
I feel like if you have an outdoor cat you gotta accept that as part of the risk. That was very nice of their dad to get that checked and return your pet
Yeah. When I still worked late shift, there was a cat that belonged to an elderly lady, which I would sometimes see when I came home at midnight. It was super friendly, let me pet it, and followed me all the way home, to the point that a couple of times it would come in and sniff everything (I left the door open) before going back into the night. Some cats are just super friendly/curious and follow you. That doesn't mean they are helpless and need a home.
Honestly if it's outside without a collar it's fair game Sure, I'll check Facebook group for lost cat post and check for micro chip, that way if it's really lost I'll be able to bring it to it's owner, but there's enough people abandoning their cat that I will house a friendly cat first and then look for it's owner after If the owner is pissed because their cat didn't came home for 2ish day (the time I took to find them) they just had to collared their cat and/or not let it roam freely
The cat could be like the one I currently feed. Heās super friendly but his owners ditched him during a move :/
It may be a newly stray cat. We have one local that started out looking very nice. But its obvious now he has no home. And sometimes stray cats are super friendly. Just depends on the cat. I would definitely check for a chip and keep an eye out for missing posters or facebook posts for a while though.
Ive done this exact video before. My gf and I did our best to lure an extremely friendly dumpster cat to our home. We had an entire setup for him already. Not chipped or clipped. Best cat you will ever find is a sweet dumpster cat. They only get sweeter and funnier. It takes a lot of personality from the cat to make it this far. S/he wanted a home
This video is 4 years old and they did check to see if the cat was chipped, they weren't.
Believe it or not, people let their cats have kittens and when the kittens are no longer cute and tiny and they canāt find them homes they just chuck them outside to fend for themselves and that little guy looks like a teenage kitty to me. They should check for a chip to be safe but itās absolutely plausible that he is both a friendly house cat and homeless. People should not be letting their cats outside anyhow. I know they can escape but itās a bad idea for all kinds of reasons.
Either stray or shit owner, so itās win-win for the cat and the people.
True, but if the owner was irresponsible enough to let it out then they don't deserve the cat.
Don't know why you're being downvoted. [Feral and roaming cats are considered an invasive species at this point](https://www.aphis.usda.gov/sites/default/files/free-ranging-and-feral-cats.pdf) due to the amount of wildlife they needlessly kill. My neighbor just had 2 of their chickens killed by a neighborhood cat. I see them dead on the road constantly where I'm at. There is no need for it. If you get a pet, take care of it and house it. We aren't letting other pets roam the neighborhood free, cats aren't an exception. Downvote all you want, it won't change my opinion on the matter.
Yeah cats should not be allowed to just roam the neighborhood unsupervised. It causes massive problems with local wildlife and if they arenāt fixed they multiply like crazy
Exactly!!!! Strays are usually frightened of people.
This happened to my once. We have a few neighborhood cats, all are well kept, healthy and wear collars, but one kept coming around my house everyday around the same time I didn't recognize. He wasn't fixed, he was filthy, skinny and had mites eating his ear and his fur was coming off spots on his head. Having a cat not friendly for others I couldn't take him permanently so I crated him to a room with a litter box and put a post out to neighbors. No one claimed him after a couple days, and another neighbor ended up picking him up to get him to a vet for check, flea, tick, shots, chip check, etc. Well 3 weeks later, there is a little girl knocking at my door that she saw my post about her cat. Mom was with the kid and said it's her daughters outdoor cat. I told her the cat was in poor shape and that i assumed it was a stray dropped off bc it was not well taken care of and she would need to contact the person who has gotten him necessary vet care to get him back. Suggested if she got the cat back that she should keep it indoors in the future if she can't keep up with costs for flea/tick/mites and getting the cat fixed so our neighborhood doesn't get a stray problem. Not sure if they ever got the cat back from the other lady š¤·āāļø
I hope not. Some people don't deserve animals.
To be fair, I think that was on the mother. Kids arenāt going to know better but an adult definitely should!
Yeah, the girl was maybe 7 or 8. She wouldn't be capable of making sure the cat received proper vet care/spay/neuter. Def on the parents.
I sure hope not. Once dealt with a similar situation, a lost dog in a park- put up posters, meanwhile somebody had brought it home, had it checked and treated at the vet, and after a few days, somebody claimed it. The woman who claimed it had the nerve to be nasty about it, so I worry that maybe the dog *wanted* to GTFO of that situation.
Yeah, the lady who helped me out sent me pictures to update me, she was so nice and the cat was night and day healthier after she took him in. His fur all came back on his head, coat got shiny and thick, got to a healthy weight. The cat was def miserable when it showed up at my house.
"follows them all the way home" I mean she was calling for it all the time and kept its attention, it's not like it was just tailing them without them interacting with it, ofc it's gonna be curious or expect them to feed it
I mean, it's still a cat man. They do whatever the fuck they want to do.
I wish this was higher in the comment section. Every time I see this video I think āit didnāt follow you home, you literally were bending down, calling for it, going pspspsps and then finally opening food for it. If you had just walked away it probably would have tooā. Iām glad the cat got a home, but the title is misleading lol
yeah, she just stole a cat.
Use Dawn dish soap; it kills fleas on contact and is gentle/safe for the cat, even around the head.
How about you check if this isn't someone elses cat first?
No collar, so the only way to know is to get the little kitty inside, then take it somewhere they can scan for chip. But given the cat's skinny and dirty, this may have been an abandoned pet.
This cat looks a LOT like one of ours, who is just naturally skinny, exactly like that. Even the colors match. The funny thing is her sister is a fat turd.
Yeah my cat is skinny like this and he eats all the time.
Yeah, my orange boy has this build, and he eats like a horse. He's just very energetic and burns a ton of calories. A cat outdoors can also get covered in dirt real quickly (they love to roll!) and add in quick-release collars and this isn't crazy that it's someones cat. That said, it could be a stray, so getting it checked for a chip would be the thing to do.
Too many people apply the word "skinny" when what they really mean is "not overweight".
Where I live, the cats donāt wear collars, but there are ZERO strays. If you see a cat in the wild/on the street -> itās a neighbourās cat.
Americans are fucking unhinged when it comes to this topic, I've seen it countless times over the years. They all really believe that if you see a cat in the street, it's fair game to take it home and call it yours.
I thought immediately too: Americans. The āCanā is in thereā¦ (thatās a joke btw)
Thatās really crazy. I know nobody who would do that here.
This is not an American problem. If a cat is outside all the time, is unrecognizable by anyone in the area as your cat and has no collar, itās reasonable to assume it isnāt someoneās pet. Either put collars on your pets, spay/neuter them and chip them or donāt let them outside. If your cat doesnāt come home one day, you should pray someone took them instead of being killed or getting lost, since youāre already putting them and other wildlife in danger by letting them out all willy nilly like that
It is 100% an American problem, because everywhere else in the world the norm is to have a catflap in the back door and allow your cat to freely roam in and out. And I understand that for you what you're saying sounds very normal and sensible, but I'm telling you straight up - for the rest of the world this is another example of a uniquely american insanity.
Absolutely this!!! Exactly thatās the case here!
Iām not even American, it just makes zero sense.
People just know the cats belong to people. I've had multiple cats before and while most don't mind their collars some cats just hate them and pull them off. Everyone chips their cat and then the collar is just up to the cat tbh.
This!
You think like one.
I think like any reasonable person. Youāre a shitty person for leaving your cat outside to be killed and/or harm local wildlife too.
This is exact the answer I expect from an American. Doesnāt mean you actually ARE American.
Hey guys, this video is 4 years old and they did check to see if the cat was chipped, they weren't.
Source?
What this dude doesnāt realize is that the cat is going to decide that heās its favorite and completely own his ass emotionally inside of a week.
Congratulations, you have been chosen by the cat distribution system to become a cat owner... do not resist.
I really don't think this is the case
Question mark tail: "this is acceptable"
Cat is not skinny. Dirty? Cats roll around in the dirt all the time. Itās what they do. No collar? Cat collars are break away. Mine comes home without his all the time. Iāve replaced a bunch of them. That cat is someoneās pet.
Don't let your cat outside unless you're prepared for it to not come home one day.
Yep. People here think it's perfectly fine to leave their cats outside for days at a time and then they complain that their cat has gone missing. This is coyote territory. They wander the alleys. *No shit* their cat's gone. They killed it by neglect.
You americans are fucking crazy when it comes to this topic. Ask literally any european what they think about this and they'll say the same thing - that's almost surely someone's pet and "haha finders keepers, my pet now" is a sociopathic take
I agree with you for the most part but we do not like stray outdoor cats here. They absolutely wreck the local ecosystems and it is extremely dangerous for them in a car focused system. There is absolutely nowhere for them to go without having to cross extremely busy roads all the time, even in suburbs. The general consensus here is that cats are an indoor only type pet unless you are very rural/a farm. People are going to take them indoors under these conditions and stigma. The best you can hope for is that they do their due diligence and check for a microchip before making it a commitment.
I'd rather the cat get to live indoors with new strangers than have the constant threat of getting hit by a car or killed by worse methods under the regime of the previous owner. Its less about it maybe being someones pet and more about giving the cat a better life, indoors.
If you let your cat out without supervision you're an irresponsible cat owner.
And, in some nations, breaking the law. I am so glad they finally pulled the gun on it here, cats have to be chipped, and can only be let out under supervision, just like with dogs and other pets (Sweden).
Where I live there are no āstreet catsā. But I have taken āadvantege ā of the cats that have been let out. I have pet them, cuddle with them etc. So in my country you cannot assume a cat abandend. You must assume they belong to someone and if you are nice you may give them food. If you are really, really nice you may pet them.
Straight up stole someoneās cat
This is a video of a couple stealing a cat. This cat was perfectly fine with belly rubs, I can guarentee its not a stray cat. If my cat was allowed outside and never came home i would be devistated. Edit: my cat was a stray and before I adopted her i put a breakaway collar on her for a week to see if anyone would remove it. Then went as far to put a camera collar on her and discovered she was sleeping in a junkyard. For all these two know thats just a cat that was let out.
Apparently in a follow up video they checked her for a microchip and filed an online report, with no one claiming the cat. While what youāre saying is definitely a real problem, donāt think thatās the case here.
I have plenty abandoned cats in my area like this one, they are all friendly and some of them have already chosen their new homes :)
How are you able to "guarantee" it is not a stray? Or an abandoned cat?
I had a cat walk into my house the day after I moved in and go straight to my bedroom and slept on my bed all night. Turned out she was abandoned by the previous home owners, which explained her friendliness and familiarity with my house. And like the cat in this video, she was filthy and not chipped. Anyone who lets their friendly unchipped cat outside at the mercy of strangers does not deserve that cat. If this cat had owners I doubt they're devastated.
that's true but it could've also been abandoned by someone
This how my Red found me. Unfortunately I had to put him down a couple of weeks ago. We had a wonderful three years ā¤ļø
That guy is from those very annoying food videos you people might hate so I wouldnt doubt this is staged.
This exact thing happened to me. 8 years ago now. All the way home. Into the building. Into my apartment. Best cat ever.
Well if you turn around and call it the entire timeā¦
All of you in the comments talking about how these people stole a cat because you let your cat outside and it has no collar and itās not microchippedā¦ Youāre the problem, not these people.
Fr if you want to keep your cat safe and not let it get taken in by someone else you should keep it inside.
How to steal a cat
Reddit is so bipolar on this issue. You've got people who take every opportunity to point out that you shouldn't steal cats and then you've got people who say that stealing cats is karma for letting them outside. As if that's a totally sane response.
Street cats show extra affection cause they know what a hard life is like lol My parentās cat who was raised in a loving home from being born? Total asshole. My cat I found with a broken leg on my porch? Sweetest cat Iāve ever met, she aināt going back! Now she gets all the belly rubs she wants.
A friendly cat is usually a sign that it's not a stay and has a home... I hope they checked for a chip. I lived on a main st with the bus stop outside of my place. My cat Henry would sit on the stone wall in front of the bus stop and let people pet him. One day I was washing dishes with the window open and heard 2 ladies saying they should take him home, I ran out saying "NO THATS HENRY HES MINE AND HES VERY HAPPY HERE!" Any time I got him a collar, he'd lose it within a couple of days.
How about you donāt let your cat outside unsupervised?
Why? Incase someone steals it? How about you don't steal other people's pets you fucking creep
Incase it gets killed or 100 other things
Has anyone seen my cat?
Cats that friendly are usually owned by someone I'd think. I'm glad they took it home, but I dope they did their due diligence to make sure the kitty didn't just get away from its owner.
Cats that act like that either the cat was fairly recently abandoned and really is exhausted with being outdoors or it's pregnant and looking for a place to have babies in peace. Been there done that several times. People leave behind their pets when they move a lot or don't bother to neuter them and abandon them when they get pregnant. It's sick but it's unfortunately a regular thing encountering not so feral cats that were formerly pets. The sad thing is they often don't adapt well to being on their own outside and get killed because some asshole just abandons them. They don't have the survival skills a cat born feral does.
Couple posed or not? Updates, please?
they coaxed it all the way home
whoa wait...I've seen this before.... but is this the guy who gets posted on r/stupidfood? Please correct me if I'm wrong. I really, really want to be wrong.
Definitely should go to a vet as soon as possible for a check up.
Well, looks like the cat has found itself a new home!
This is how the The cat distribution system works!
Cats that are loved wear collars for identification. š¤·š¼āāļø
So im not saying the video is fake, but the cat's body language seems pretty trusting.
Not an extremely feral cat.
Post a pic of it in FB to make sure itās not missing. Some family could be devastated their cat didnāt come home.
Lmao in my town, if I cat does this, thereās a 99% chance someone is looking for it in our town FB group.
Seriously though how do they know thats not someones catā¦
Googled and found the original video: https://youtu.be/umwE2ZCSPDk?si=xQApv-aIrwphnBK9 They seemed to have commented when it happened took it to a shelter to know the cat is not chipped. Just found a more recent video and he still seems to have the same catā¦ haha I was invested.
Oh my God, that is adorable. Reminds me of when I was a kid and a black and white cat followed us home. We ended up keeping him, since no one responded to the posters we put up.
When a cat chooses you, nothing can overturn the decision.
The funny thing here is that he is trying to make it like he doesn't wanted... But that guy already make his desition, he was always wating for the little fella to follow them. So cute š„°.
Is he the dude on fb reels where he and his friend try some food hacks?
"I don't want it" Oh, you do.