Stories Of People Who Said They'll Keep Their Cats For 'Just A Few Days': The Cold Snap To House Cat Pipeline (Viral Tweets)

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Mariel Ruvinsky • Writer and Editor
Jan 5, 2023 12:00 PM EST

For a lot of cat owners, cat ownership happens kind of out of nowhere. Of course, some people plan the adoption for months on end and make sure that they're ready for it. But, for a lot of us, cat ownership happens not by choice. Well, not by our choice anyway. Sometimes, cats choose their humans, not the other way around, and we… well, we are just forced to go with it. 

We have seen it happen many, many times before. We've seen a kitten decide that it's done with outdoor life and sit on someone's driveway until she gets adopted. We have seen a video of a man going on a long hike and returning home with a loud kitten who chose him. We have even seen a teeny weeny abandoned kitten block a man's car and ask him for help. Sometimes, cat ownership just- happens to us. and this is a twitter thread full of those kinds of stories. 

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    Font - 10 congratulations on the new cats to everyone who brought a stray cat inside "just for this cold snap" 9:03 PM - Dec 28, 2022 stick @briggityboppity 1.7M Views 3,767 Retweets 382 Quote Tweets 53.8K Likes
    via @briggityboppity

    Sigh, we remember when this happened to us. It's always just "for a few days". It always starts with us feeling too bad to leave the kittens alone, taking them because they're cute and adorable and soft, then, in the span of those few days, falling in love so hard that we simply cannot let them go. Cats just have that kind of power. 

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    Font - 10 I follow like 6 people who have found kittens crying outside their doors this last week too, and oh no the rescues are closed till after the new year but you'll definitely 100% be getting them handed over when they open back up 9:09 PM - Dec 28, 2022 stick @briggityboppity 66.1K Views 47 Retweets 2 Quote Tweets 3,034 Likes
    via @briggityboppity
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    Cat - stick @briggityboppity I found this thing in a bush when it was potato sized 5 years ago 2:08 AM - Dec 29, 2022
    via @briggityboppity

    A bush, a dumpster, getting followed by one back home. Ask cat owners, and chances are that a lot of them will have a ridiculous story like that instead of a story of planning and going to a shelter to get a cat. When you're chosen, you're chosen. Your fate is sealed, and the only thing that you can do is go with it. 

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    Cat - stick @briggityboppity since so many people were asking to see the potato
    via @briggityboppity
  • 05
    Cat - i bless the rains down in castamere @Chinchillazilla Replying to @briggityboppity yeah. mine wasn't a cold snap it was "just until I can find her owners" but they never responded to any of my signs or listings, and anyway look at her Thank 11:01 PM - Dec 28, 2022 ...
    via @Chinchillazilla
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    Dog - Mary Pat Hooligan @wrongporch Replying to @briggityboppity Cold snap to house cat pipeline ...
    via @wrongporch
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    Cat - wrinkle free lee @theoneleeword Replying to @briggityboppity Imao that's how I ended up with him early this year Kiday
    via @theoneleeword
  • 08
    Cat - Francesco Francavilla @f_francavilla ... Quick update from one of the two babies who went missing for 72h during the arctic blast: he says he likes the current situation way more
    via @f_francavilla
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    Cat - Mariam Zama @mimse8 Replying to @briggityboppity Five years ago this year he followed me home and in the door
    via @mimse8
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    Cat - somehow notable Jess Goodwin @thejessgoodwin Replying to @briggityboppity My grandmother's biggest claim to fame in our family is all the street cats she's brought in over the years. The one she has now was an "oh I just can't leave her out in the snow she'll FREEZE "who never left ALT
    via @thejessgoodwin
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    Cat - Andrea Dekeseredy @AndieYEG Replying to @briggityboppity The "foster" found in a parking lot we have had for 3 years LOL
    via @AndieYEG
  • 12
    Cat - Weetabix @easiestbakeoven Replying to @briggityboppity Thanks I did that last year with a stray that my indoor/outdoor cat made friends with
    via @easiestbakeoven
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    Cat - Ashlea Clemons @AshleaClemons Replying to @briggityboppity It was a heat wave and she was so small she could fit in one of my hands. Funny enough, she really loves snow
    via @AshleaClemons
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    Cat - alex @alexxdolla Replying to @briggityboppity Brought her inside last year bc it was cold, only to find out in the summer that she was my neighbors cat but they didn't care enough to let her in. She's mine now!!
    via @alexxdolla
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    Cat - Bogpyre the Meretricious (He/Him) @Devorum Replying to @briggityboppity Brought this little lady in 3 weeks ago "just to get her past this respiratory infection". She's now a fulloy formed chaos goblin named Adelaide the Hellbeast. 500g to 1.5Kg in 3.5 weeks!
    via @Devorum

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