ICanHas Community Members Tell Us Purrfect Stories About Meeting Their Feline Friends

Adopting a cat is always a special experience. Every cat is different, every cat brings something unique into our lives. Every cat adoption story is different as well. Some come from shelters, some get rescued, and some wander into our houses and refuse to leave. This phenomenon occurs ever so often, and we are all about it. Today we're taking a moment to shine a spotlight on our pawesome ICanHas community who took the time to share with us their adorable stories about how they met and adopted their cats.

Cats in general are known for taking a while to warm up to their humans and they tend to be very cautious creatures, but those strays are hungry and can easily be swayed in your direction with a little food, or the promise of a warm home to relax upon the couches of. There's this totally unjustified stigma out there that cats don't actually love their humans, but every single cat owner knows otherwise. Cats can be incredibly affectionate. They have their own weird ways of expressing it. And sometimes they express it by adopting a hooman!

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via Sheena Callahan

Well folks, here we have a classic case of a cat adopting a human. The cat simply sets up camp in the human's house until it is determined that he is a resident of said house. Pure cuteness overload.
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via Anne Carroll Dieringer

That old lady cat, there always has to be one grumpy old cat amongst the bunch! For us, it's our siamese queen, Sheba. She does not take any sh*t from anyone, cat siblings included.
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via Jade Dietz Dance
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via Ruth Starkey
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via Fi Wynn
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via Renee Marie
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via Michelle Nemoto
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via Billie Ponomarenko
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via Jeannine Sherrod
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via Andrew Shaw
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via Corey Phoenix
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via Alex Marie

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