Employee gets adopted by “stray” cat at work, he discovers the owner is 50+ miles away and forgot about him, so the worker brings the wholesome feline home fur good: ‘I've never known a cat so affectionate and appreciative’

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Blake Seidel • Managing Editor & Brand Manager
Mar 11, 2025 12:00 PM EDT

It's a special thing to be adopted by a cat. It often happens when you least expect it, and usually, you have no say in the matter. Once the cat has chosen you, that's it. You are now committed to serving this beautiful, meowjestic creature for the next 15 - 20 years. It's a purrfectly glorious responsibility, and you get lots of cuddles and 5 AM wake-up calls in return. The cat will be the most grateful cat you've ever had. It will love you until the end of time. We think it's just meowgical.

When one feline-loving employee noticed a "stray" cat showing up at his work, he just assumed that it was someone else's cat. But then the cat kept showing up. And then started following him, eventually never leaving his side. He took the cat to the vet, and found out that the cat's owner was over 50 miles away and didn't even realize the cat had escaped. What else is left to do but adopt the cat that already fell in love with you? The full thread is below, so read the whole thing with just one simple scroll. Enjoy!

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    He had been appearing on and off at the warehouse I work since mid January. For the first couple of weeks, just sitting in a high spot, observing. He had no collar but we all assumed he was someones pet and was just exploring and decided he must just enjoy coming to watch us. He eventually jumped down to greet us and soon would spend a couple of hours at a time there.
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  • Oh, well, hello there! Just popping in to say hello? Watch us work? Whatever the reason, we're glad you're here. It never hurts to have a cute, fluffy feline around while you work. We enjoy working more, but we get significantly less done.

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    After a couple more weeks he would start to be there every morning when we opened up and he seemed to like me more than the other fellers I work with and would follow me around in particular. If anyone else gave him a fuss, he'd still run to me after. We never tried to encourage him to stay or come back by feeding him because, again, we believed he was someones pet.
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    After about a month of making appearances, he just stopped leaving the warehouse altogether and would just run straight back in if we took him out. The workload was picking up so it would end up getting dangerous for him to stay so I said I'd take him to the vet to check him over, see if he was microchipped and get him back to his owner.
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    He did have a microchip and it turned out they lived 50+ miles away! He must have managed to sneak on a delivery truck or something and that's how he ended up on the industrial estate where I work, so far from home.
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    The vet phoned the owner who was an elderly lady who didn't really understand that the cat was hers, as much as the vet tried to explain. They then got hold of the lady's son who explained his mum was in her 90s and has two other cats but after 2 months missing, she simply doesn't remember the third one anymore due to her declining memory and that she insisted that she "didn't want another cat", not realising it was already hers.
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    The son said he didn't really want to drive the 50+ miles to collect him nor take care of him hisself so said I could take him to a rehoming centre or keep him myself if I wanted.
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    So he has now been with me for just over 2 weeks and I've never known a cat so affectionate and, if it's at all possible, appreciative. Since the moment I got him home he has acted like he's always been with me. After nearly 2 months apparently living in a dusty, cold warehouse, he seems to be loving life in a warm, comfortable home, getting fed properly and doing all the cat things a cat should do.
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    The pictures kind of chart the journey from his first appearance to now.
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    chubbyblossomkiss 12h ago "I kinda like this human"
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    g-wolf90 OP. 10h ago When he was hanging around at work he was dubbed "Ken" after the DJ Ken Bruce who is on the radio station we have on at work. Since I took him everyone at work asks "how's Ken doing?" So it's pretty much stuck.
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  • Ken seems like the purrfect name for this little guy. He's just Ken, anywhere else he'd be a 10….did you get this reference? It doesn't really work because Ken already is a 10 in our books, but it was a Barbie reference. Never mind.

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    Beach- . -309 14h ago Congrats! You have been chosen, it's the greatest honor any of us can ask for.
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    MindPerastalsis • 14h ago Amazing I love how things just work out...the universe knows what it's doing
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    HighRiseCat · 11h ago He's so gorgeous, lucky you and and he's landed on all 4 paws.
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    Mijder 10h ago What are the chances this lady shipped the cat instead of the toaster/whatever she meant to return?
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    wildgarlic13 10h ago • This is such a sweet story! 69 69 69 and he is gorgeous!
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    MiaMiaPP • 9h ago . Please keep posting about Ken. I love him so much already. Is he fixed? You should also change the microchip into your name too.
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    petaahah 9h ago Some one else in the comments mentioned that he is a flame point Siamese and I concur, have one myself and they are great !! You should definitely post this in the flame point sub reddit, congrats on becoming your cats human.
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    Silvertongued 99 10h ago • If he wasn't being fed by you guys, I wonder who was feeding him in that time. Did the vet do a check up for parasites and the like, in case he was eating mice?
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    Glad_Island8295 10h ago congratulations on your new baby! he's handsome and very lucky to have you as his caretaker
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    ganggreen651 · 10h ago • I've had an extremely appreciative cat. Would always stop mid meal to jump in my arms to give me chin headbutts among other things. Just stereotypes man. All animals have a personality just like people.
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    • GreekVicar 13h ago You were truly chosen
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