'Now we have SIX cats': Kind hooman adopts a stranded kitten and shares the cute news, prompting people to tell how the Cat Distribution System chose them too

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Ayala Sorotsky • Writer and Editor
Jun 24, 2025 2:00 PM EDT

Here at the I Can Has Cheezburger office we take the Cat Distribution System™ very seriously. After all, how else can you explain the meowgical moment a random cat shows up at your doorstep, stares into your soul, and decides you're now their hooman?

When one kind hooman shared how they found a lone kitten outside their home and simply said to themselves "Well… now we have six cats", it struck a chord. Because let's be honest, cats don't ask - they just arrive. And you don't adopt them - cats adopt you.

We went around our cat-pilled office and asked: "How did the Cat Distribution System choose you?" Here's what we heard from our fellow cat pawrent:

  1. "She walked in through the window, curled up on my laundry, and never left."
  2. "I found him sleeping on my car's hood. He screamed at me until I opened the door. Now he screams for snacks."
  3. "I said I didn't want a cat. Then she jumped into my lap at the shelter and started purring. I was wrong."
  4. "My dog brought him home. Like literally carried him into the house. They've been inseparable ever since."
  5. "I fed one stray. Now the neighborhood cat council meets on my porch daily."

The Cat Distribution System works in mysterious (and hilarious) ways, and we're so glad it does. Do you love to hear about wholesome cat adoptions? Because you've arrived in the right place.

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    Cheezburger Image 10518900480
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  • Before we even start, it's so wholesome to see this kitten has already made herself at home, snuggling up to one of her now-older-brothers and using him as a fluffy pillow. Such a smol, smiley, and cozy princess.

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    "if I cry outside relentlessly for ten hours surely they will let me in" Awarded a Cat
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    Cheezburger Image 10518900224
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    We placed food and drink outside...ha!
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    This little clown literally cried, fussed and meowed at the kitchen door, the sliding glass door at the back, AND the windows and door at the porch until we broke down and now Iwe have SIX cats,
    via u/Akavinceblack
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    Greetings from Girl Harvey aka Tater Hater! Second photo is her making herself quite at home on Biscuit.
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    Live-Okra-9868 ⚫
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    He stayed under my car and yelled at me every time I went outside. Some cats just demand to be adopted, lol. Congrats on the forced adoption. 1.7K > Reply
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    Akavinceblack OP. "You WILL love me!" 922 Reply
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    belladonnagilkey ⚫ "And in return I will give you mostly-de id things, and be very adorable! I will also cause your uncle from Flagstaff to have a severe allergic reaction, but you didn't like him anyway so it gets him off the guest list forever!"
    via u/belladonnagilkey
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    CowardlyChicken ⚫ I once had a cat literally leap into my arms and explosively purr when I went out the front door of my appt complex to find the source of the screaming cat sound! Brought her to our appt, she knocked me onto the couch and aggressively nestled into my lap. She then proceeded to go up to the two cats we had to more or less tell them "I live here now."
    via u/CowardlyChicken
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    butter_battle ⚫ I mean, you really had no choice. ✩ 575 Reply Akavinceblack OP ⚫ Even the old man, who pretends to hate cats, broke down and here he was a day later 1.1K HUDSON ◇ Reply
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    HARLEY. IDSON
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    horwaith ⚫ r/dadswhodidnotwantpets need this photo. 413 Reply Akavinceblack OP ⚫ Oh there are SO MANY. Three of the cats especially DOTE on him and he is a (sour) sucker for them. He's draped it cats anytime he takes a nap. 810 ◇ Reply ...
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  • Ha, that's definitely a man under the category of “Dads who didn't want a cat, but are now the best friends of the house fluffy emperor, totally submitted to the meowing rule of law.”

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    NoDoctor4460 This photo is very inspiring somehow 267 Ok_Run_4039. Reply Life goals, tbh. ✩ 91 ○ Reply JustHereForCookies 17 ⚫ This is the "Crazy Cat Lady" energy I aspire to have. It transcends ages, genders, etc. 37 > Reply
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    ClaudeB4llz⚫ I really love this guy. Please tell him he has a doppelgänger out there also covered in cats 105 Reply kristycocopop ⚫ Best profile picture! ☑ 50 rx_decay. Reply I LOVE this for him and we all know he (not so) secretly loves it too. 41 Reply
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    colonialbeasts ⚫ Ha! Peter showed up at my backdoor crying and wouldn't leave. We're bros now
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    Hey YouGuyyyyyyys⚫ Oh, I love this photo. r/DisneyEyes, but really it's that perfect armless loaf. 38 Reply JustHereForCookies17. There's only r/OneOrangeBraincell behind those eyes. 13 Reply
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    Ok Photograph_3941 · the 11 nights of screaming before he decided to try it out inside. Interview process was truly rigorous but thrilled to have taker in a manager! 185 185 > Reply
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    Cheezburger Image 10518905600
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    roguemage01 • That's how we got our third. She was carrying on outside at 1am. I gave her some food and a bed and was going to take her to a shelter in the morning. She would not be quiet. So I let her inside to shut her up, but
    via u/roguemage01
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    had to keep her away from our other two for fear of diseases. I had to go to work in the morning, told hubby (who works nights) to make sure she had food and litter. Made some phone calls at work to see who had space to
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    take her. By the time I get home she was snuggled up with hubby on the couch.
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    ijustneedtolurk • Hypnosis Eye was super effective!
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    roguemage01 • She's a tortie (I think?). She always had the little creamsicle back foot (can't see in the pic above), but her little milk chin and a few orange patches grew in as she got bigger. classica ONAL DUTCH ON CASTRON 000
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    JustCrazyNotStupid ⚫ Pork Chop let himself in and just didn't leave. CDS got us 2 weeks before our last doggo passed. I think he knew we needed a friend.
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    QBee_TNToms_Mom ⚫ Nobody ever said cats were stupid. She knew which house to go crying to! Congratulations! ها 77 ◇ Reply
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    Aer0uAntG3alach • The only people who say cats are stupid do not know cats.
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    thesweetestpups Or they know my cat.
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    onmygoat ⚫ I spent two weeks trying to avoid this one, to no avail. Even Santa couldn't resist and brought her some fuzzy mice to play with, even though she deserved only coal in her stocking!
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    Bluecat72 ⚫
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    This little chaos muppet is Bowie, wrestling with my pup Cookie who is just one month younger than him. Bowie started it, this time. When he was a tiny kitten he jumped into a friend's car window, and when put back inside and
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    the window rolled up, hoppec onto the mirror and batted at the window until my friend relented. She couldn't keep him, but facilitated him coming to live with me.
    via u/Bluecat72

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