'Adopting the wrong cat': Devastated owner whose cat ran away 3 months ago finds her at the shelter, adopts her instantly, only for her real cat to come back 2 days later, leaving her with two purrfectly identical fluffy felines

Our cat running away is, by far, one our worst nightmares. We have been there. Our cat has run away and come back exactly 24 hours later. But those 24 hours were some of the worst we've ever had. Been there, never want to be there again. That's what it's like from our perspective. We imagine that from the cat's purrspective, it's quite different. For them, we imagine that it's like going on an adventure. Most of the times, they know where to come back to, we believe that. They're just choosing how long their adventure should be… while we suffer in the corner waiting for them to come back.

All of which makes this story way funnier than it was probably intended to be. 3 months, this cat was gone. 3 months of excruciating sadness by the owner. And then one day, in the shelter, she finds her cat! Or at least that's what she thought. Had her real cat not come back, she probably never would have known the difference. Any changes in the cat would probably have been attributed to some new trauma. But no, after 3 whole months of being gone, barely 2 days after this woman adopted the "wrong" cat, her kitty decided to waltz back home. 

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