‘So, despite my best efforts to avoid the CDS... it still triumphed in the end’: A rescue kitten’s love for his savior overcomes a territorial cat’s resistance in five days, turning a reluctant foster into a forever home

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Laurent Shinar • Writer and Editor
Aug 29, 2025 5:00 PM EDT

Oh, that pesky Cat Distribution System, when will it stop delivering kittens? Probably never, and we would be lying if we said that we did not like it that way. But for the receiver of the kitten in question, it is a slightly different story. For you see, this rescuer already had a cat at home, an older, slightly grumpy territorial catto who was not willing to share their home with another cat really.

And after trying to find the rescued black kitten a home to no avail, it was clear that the CDS had intended for our rescuer to be this kitten's new pawrent. Proving that sometimes you put yourself in a kitten's life, and other times the kitten puts itself into your life. Thankfully, everything worked out in the end and now they live as one big happy family.
 

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    The CDS attempted to grant me a little black kitten while I was filling up my car in 2014. I heard
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    meowing under a dumpster and spotted two green eyes. I decided to go home (about a mile away) and get my cat's vet carrier and a can of wet food. I
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    returned and this little guy absolutely ZIPPED into my carrier, no questions asked (except, "Where's the wet food???" after he finished off the first small can).
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  • Oh, wow, that is most definitely one way to be sure that you have fallen into a Cat Distribution System trap. First just the fact that the kitten waited for our rescuer to come back, then that the kitten willingly jumped into this stranger’s carrier, and finally that it did all this with such a good mood it dared to ask for even more food. Genius stuff.

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    I lived in a tiny apartment with a very territorial cat and could not have kept them isolated. For my own cat's safety, I called a kitten rescue and they agreed to take in this little guy. I
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    donated $50 to help defray the costs of fixing him, etc. They took good care of him and sent me updates sometimes. They informed me that he was in good
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    health, aside from an oddly-broken tail. The vet did not think it was a congenital defect, but that someone (or something) had deliberately broken his tail.
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    A few months later, it was October and he was an older kitten (5 months old at that point), which is when they start to get harder to adopt out. He is also a
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    black cat, which has lower adoption rates, and it was October, so they weren't doing black cat adoptions that month. They were
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    concerned that he might not get adopted and age out into a regular rescue. They asked if I might come meet him again and see if we got along.
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  • “See if we got along.”, could they be any more ridiculous? Of course, they get along, this is the work of the CDS after all, and the CDS does not make mistakes. It cannot afford to, considering how picky cats are. So obviously these two are going to get along like a house on fire.

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    I got to the foster home and his foster human went and got him to bring to me. She plopped him in my lap. He sniffed
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    my hand, looked up at me with big eyes, and then IMMEDIATELY started purring. She knew he'd picked me, at that point, and was GRINNING. "He remembers you!"
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    I had been considering finding a suitable companion for my territorial cat -- I had adopted and fixed her after she had had a litter, so I hoped that a kitten
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    might set off her momma cat instincts... and that a larger kitten might have a chance of defending itself against her, if needed.
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    I explained my concerns and thoughts to the rescue and they offered to have me foster him for a week to see how it went. Lily (my other
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    cat) hissed at him the first day, ignored him the second, and then did domination grooming the third day. By the fifth day they were sleeping together.
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    Binx has been with me through four moves, including one international move. We said goodbye to Lily, then hello to Gandalf the Grey Tabby. He adores my
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    wife, although he is less fond of his step- siblings (my wife's two cats). Doesn't hate them, just pretends they don't exist. So now we have four cats in our small Paris apartment. Binx is
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    nine years old now and has been a paragon of health. He is my sweet, special boy; our little spoon; and our surly, goth teenager.
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    So, despite my best efforts to avoid the CDS (before knowing about it, of course), it still triumphed in the end.
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