25-year-old resident notices neighbor's cat is pregnant, decides to take her in after neighbor claims the cat is a stray, resulting in resident keeping the 7 kittens: ‘I wasn't planning on it’

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Bar Mor Hazut • Senior Editor
Jul 14, 2025 4:00 AM EDT

Anyone who always keeps an eye out for stray cats in need of a home understands how challenging it can be to distinguish between a stray cat and an outdoor cat with owners. While it can be easy to do so if a cat is sporting a fashionable collar, cats are also known to be ungovernable little hooligans who are not above removing their collars the second they get the chance.

So the question remains–how do you know if the friendly cat you keep seeing around your neighborhood already has someone who looks after it?

Unfortunately, there is no straight answer to this question, so you have to live and learn, usually through trial and error. Knock on doors asking if anyone owns the fur ball currently out and about, take the feisty feline to the vet to check for a microchip, or even take the cat in and see if anyone comes to look for it.

If no one claims it, then you can move on with your plans to adopt the hissterical cat, which is exactly what the lovely resident did with her pregnant neighborhood cat and her six little kittens!

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    This is my story of how I ended up with 7 cats.
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    This is my story of how I ended up with 7 cats.
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    In November 2024 I noticed my neighbors had a cat living outside
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    I would walk by everyday and see her sleeping in the bushes In November 2024 I noticed my neighbors had a cat living outside
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    And just waiting to be
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    And just waiting to be let in Mery Brig
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    By february, I notice she looked very pregnant!
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    I tried to leave her some wet food but she would run away or ants would eat it. Valet Living
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    On February 14 I walked by Rosie like I usually do but this time she had 6 kittens latched onto her
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    nocked on the door right away, and my neighbor told me she was a stray.
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    utes I had her and her 6 newborn babies in a laundry basket, on my screened-in back porch.
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    And in minutes I had her and her 6 newborn babies in a laundry basket, on my screened-in back porch.
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    Once it got too hot outside, brought them all in
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    And Rosie didn't take long at all to make herself at home.
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    And Rosie didn't take long at all to make herself at home.
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    And very soon I realized she was my missing piece
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    And as her six babies grew up they quickly felt like family too!
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    So I decided to keep all 7 of them!
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    And I couldn't imagine it any other way.
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    ver planned on having seven cats at 25 years old... but this little family showed up, and everything chan
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