Sister gifts a feral kitten for a grieving pet owner who didn't want a new cat, but the kitten falls in love with the older housecat and leaves the woman no choice but to adopt: 'I can't wait for the day she looks at me the way she looks at him'

We say this as people who love cats and love adopting cats and think that cats are the best: do not gift cats to people. Generally speaking, we think that is something that you should not spring on people as a surprise. Adopting a cat, at the end of the day, should be the decision of the person who is going to have the cat live with them. Of course, sometimes, it works, and you get wholesome stories of people receiving kittens as gifts and completely falling in love. We get that too. If someone gave us a kitten as a gift right now, we would probably be happy, but that's because we are at the right time for it in our lives.

We completely understand why the woman in this story was reluctant in accepting the kitten that was gifted to her by her sister. She wasn't ready, not after the loss she experienced. And that's okay. And yet… although she might not have been ready, her cat clearly was, and so the cat called dibs, and the kitten stayed, and now, slowly but surely, the kitten is winning over everyone.

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"My sister gave me a cat I didn’t want"

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We don't say this often, but we will say it now: we understand why you did not want a new cat. We understand why you sat there, crying, when this cat didn't love you immediately. We get it, and we can only say this… we're glad you kept the kitty. We're glad you gave the kitty a chance. And we are sure that, when the time comes, you two will make each other very, very happy.
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Oh, we would have been heartbroken as well. And as much as we are generally against friends/siblings giving cats out as presents, we have to say that in this case… it turned out pretty good. And it will only ever get better from here on out.
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