Man insists he won't be keeping the stray kitten he found at work, but his 3 cats at home say otherwise: 'My female tortie kicked into mom mode the first night'

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Jesse Kessenheimer • Writer and Editor
Jul 20, 2025 2:00 AM EDT

Multicat households are familiar with the acclimatization of a new cat. This man, who already had a household full of spicy strays, knew that he couldn't bring home another kitten again. However, we all know that the Cat Distribution System works in mysterious ways, and sometimes our cats at home know better than we do. Because when this man saved a kitten at work, his cats knew just what to do.

Purrhaps it's unlikely that cats are clairvoyant, but sometimes it seems like our cats know what's going to happen before we do. Fortune tellers with floofy tails know that when their cat dad goes off to work in the morning, he may just return with a new kitty addition to the feline tribe back at home.

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  • However, cat lovers know that their kitties won't just accept any ol' kitten into the group. The kitten needs to be chosen by the others, accepted despite all of their whiskers and wiles. So when this man told himself he wouldn't be keeping the kitten her found in his workplace parking lot, he was sorely mistaken, because his felines already purredicted that the kitten in his palm would be an excellent addition to their cat counsel.

  • "We aren't going to keep it"

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  • We ended up keeping her. Who knew after so many nights of bottle feeding I'd grow too attached?
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  • My boss and I were closing up shop one afternoon in April and we heard what I thought was a bird screaming. A moment later, this filthy potato came crawling out from under the back building, all
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  • alone. We have a group of strays that hang around, so we looked around and under the building for more, but she was apparently abandoned.
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  • Popped her into a spare carrier I had in the car, took her home, and the rest was fate. It took about a week for the boys to get used to her, but my female tortie kicked into mom mode the first night.
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  • The distribution system has been pretty kind to me over the past few years, it picked an especially cute one this time.
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  • Cleverwabbit5. Your Tortie is like "try and take her, make my day" "my baby now" LOL. CONGRATS SOOOO CUTE!!
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  • AlternativePrior9559 Ha! You ain't keeping it but I am Tortie probably
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  • Tricky_Culture_264. "We aren't going to keep her." Narrator: They kept her.
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  • Ok-Opportunity-2043. CDS definitely knew what it was doing, considering you keep a spare carrier in your car! Lol. Congrats, and thank you for saving this sweet lil girl.
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  • PilotHappy The picture on top of the cat tree...chef's kiss. She looks VERY content.
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