'He's a menace, and the most perfect cat in the world': Fierce gray kitten who wants to be adopted chooses a human, ambushes them, and screams himself straight into a furever home

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Mariel Ruvinsky • Writer and Editor
Nov 12, 2025 9:00 AM EST

The ability that cats have to get adopted by anyone that they want is literally something that will never stop impressing us. Seriously. It's just a matter of making a decision. Cats simply have to decide that they don't feel like being strays anymore, that they don't want to hunt for food or constantly look for shelter, that it's time to get pampered until the end of their days, and boom, just like that, cats get adopted. 

It really is that simple, and it can happen to us humans at any time in any place. You can get adopted during a picnic, or you can get adopted during a walk with your dogs, or, as this man found out, the kitten can walk right up to your home, get up onto your driveway, and adopt you. How does that happen, you may ask? Well, it's different with every cat, of course. But this one chose the method of "screaming until I'm picked up, then purring to show that I like being picked up and would like to be picked up often throughout my life - by you." And boom. Just like that, it worked. 

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    "He ambushed me on my driveway. Straight up ran and screamed at me, and started purring like a truck as soon as I picked him up."

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    Juan Pablo Vassermiler OP • 1d ago I still don't know what to think about the whole thing. He was very hungry, but, at the same time, very well fed. Incredibly well socialized, too.
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    I assumed he was a new kitten of one of my neighbors, but no one claims him, and I've heard he'd been wandering around the neighborhood for a few days already.
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    It also turns out that a local animal rescue group had posted about him on their socials 3 days before he found his way to me, with no owners in sight.
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    Add a severe case of ear mites to the mix, and I feel justified in my decision to keep him. He's a menace, and the most perfect cat in the world.
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  • “He's a menace, and the most perfect cat in the world” pretty much sums up what every cat owner thinks about their cat, so truly, we think that you are in a good place. You are going to have the best time with this little hooligan. 

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    WhiskyStandard • 1d ago Picture 2 is straight up cat calendar material.
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    Juan Pablo Vassermiler OP 1d ago I know, right? I actually said this picture was postcard material right after taking it. Which basically is the same thing.
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    Brian2781 1d ago ⋅ He knows an easy mark when he sees one
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    Juan Pablo Vassermiler OP Guilty as charged.
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    peace-lily He's home S.
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    Juan Pablo Vassermiler OP He is.
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  • The face of pure contentment. This cat has found where he is supposed to be, and he is truly making the best out of it. And we love to see it. And we would love to see many, many updates of it. 

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    Fellow--Felon • 1d ago You have been chosen, he needs a sibling.
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    Juan Pablo Vassermiler OP 1d ago He has two older brothers already. One of them being this absolute unit of a cat.
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    micio9 1d ago I never, ever tire of seeing these stories
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