'I fear she might try to steal him': 19-year-old son saves stray kitten with no microchip or mother, but a year later a Karen neighbor recognizes the cat and claims it morally belongs to her

If someone tried to take away a cat that we had raised for over a year, we would be purrfectly peeved, to say the least.

Imagine that the CDS blesses you with a 2-week-old kitten that you raise by hand. You wake up to feed it bottles of milk, you wrap it in blankets like the purrfect little purrito to keep it warm. You take it to the vet, give them their vaccines, and get them microchipped. And then, a year later, over some random small talk, your neighbor comes up and tries to claim the cat as hers. Um, ex-squeeze you?

The cat turns out to be from her cat's litter, who unfortunately passed over the rainbow bridge, but she has proof. Your kitten has the same white triangle patch as her cat and the other kittens in the litter. But you raised this sweet little fluffball, and this Karen demands you give it back to her. No thank you, mam. The full story is just below!

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[Am I wrong] for not wanting to “return” a cat to his “rightful owner”?

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We've never had a kitten that young before, and we're sure it's a lot of work, but we love the idea of feeding kittens with a bottle. We already treat them like our babies, and that would just seal the deal. Sure, we don't want to wake up every two hours to feed them, but man, it would be really, really cute.
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We're really sorry about what happened to her momma cat, but we think she left the babies to fend for themselves. This purrson helped one of them, and it's thanks to them that the kitty is still alive and thriving.
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