'She kept making happy chirps and air biscuits so… I'm keeping her': Gas station employee finds an affectionate tortie kitten near the I-20, and despite recently adopting 2 other cats, takes her home

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Jesse Kessenheimer • Writer and Editor
Nov 7, 2025 7:00 PM EST

Some kittens imprint on us before we get a chance to fight back with logic, but this affectionate tortie kitten proved to be a bona fide kitty hypnotist. After getting abandoned by the highway, the resilient feline made her way towards the closest human settlement: A gas station. From there, she spotted someone who she knew would save her, spellbinding the human instantly and becoming the cutest, most undeniable kitten in the world. 

From there, the cat lover had no choice but to take her newfound, adorable, biscuit-making kitten home with her, regardless of how little sense it made. 

After the CDS granted this cat lover with 2 stray kittens in only 2 months, you'd think that that would be the end of it, right? The tortie, now named Tiny Tina, was destined to go home from that gas station in this human's loving arms, and she knew it better than anybody. Purrhaps following feline instinct is the best way to know if you're being a crazy cat lady or not, because we've all asked ourselves the most important question of all: How many cats is too many cats? 

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  • Husband calls about a kitten left at the gas station he works at - Tortie #3, Girl #15 - meet Tiny Tina.
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  • Last weekend my husband called about a cat dropped at his work and I could hear her yowling in the background, just SCREAMING her head off. When I got there I found
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  • her huddling next to the batteries for the EV chargers on the first cold night of the year, in between dense woods and I-20.
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  • I was going to call someone else but then I picked her up and she went completely silent and rag-dolled into my arms. The entire way home she lay on her back making happy chirps and air biscuits SO.....
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  • I'm keeping her, not just fostering. That's been the plan with the strays (and the neighbors cats I guess I feed now) but girl #14 was also mama #5 and this little one will never have to worry about that.
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  • Part of me hopes that whoever left her there didn't really mean to and just couldn't get back, but since my Husband works there we'd know if someone came looking for it. I so hope anywhere, it's not like he's there all the time.
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  • A full year of no new kittens and within 2 months I get 3 boys (2 solid black and 1 orange) and then this girl. Bonus pictures of Boy #7 "Orangey" near the end who showed up the month before, and the last one who I woke up to take a picture is boy #6 "Bobby"
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  • Jealous_Art_39... . She looks like such a sweetheart! Just the way she's looking at the one holding her. That's love and appreciation.
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  • Ok_Mulberry_8... You all are wonderful people. Thank you for all the kindness, and huge hearts.
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  • Happy Vash13. Just hope she's less infatuated with explosives than the Borderlands Tiny Tina! Very adorable kitten, very glad she has a forever home with you!
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