‘We are officially cat people’: Mom wakes up to find stray momma cat and her newborn kittens hiding in her closet, she and her kids decide to adopt them all

Some people wake up to the smell of coffee, some to breakfast, others to that same iPhone alarm you've been hearing since 2008, but not this Mom. No, she woke up to soft little mews, and when she went to her closet to investigate, she found a purrfect little family of a momma cat and her newborn kittens! The pregnant cat must have decided her home felt like a safe space to give birth in, snuck into the closet, and brought her kittens into the world all while the hoomans of the house snored away. 

But what's so wholesome about this pawsitively hilarious and heartwarming 'not my cat' story is that this beautiful occurrence turned this mom and her kids into cat lovers. They helped the momma cat raise her babies, and the kids worked together to name them all, and eventually, decided to adopt them. Now, they're all one big fluffy family, and it seems like the momma cat's intuition was right - this was a safe space. The hoomans may think they chose her, but she actually chose them first. 

The CDS strikes again, and this time, it came with some purrfectly tiny presents. Good things do come in small packages.

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