‘It turned out to be that cat hanging out on the front steps and he was not looking too happy. ‘: Kind hearted hoomans save stray cat’s life and give it a furever home despite the wife’s severe cat allergy, and now she has ‘had the flu for five years’

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Laurent Shinar • Writer and Editor
Dec 13, 2025 3:00 PM EST

As all of you cat lovers and owners know, when a cat chooses you there is little you can do about. You have been chosen and so you will keep quiet and let the cat do whatever it wants to and needs to do. Whether that means demanding higher quality food, or demanding to come and live with you even though your wife has a severe allergy to cats. You have no power in the situation and it is upon you to appease the cat, not the other way around. Which is pretty much what happened to one man late one evening when he happened upon a cat who looked to be in not the best shape.

The cat had chosen him and his patio to seek refuge in, and within moments of meeting each other, the feline had coerced the man into bringing him a makeshift home for the night which would, of course, be upgraded the following morning. It is a true story of feline devotion and one that is to be admired and taken as an example of exemplary hooman behavior towards a cat.

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    This is Otis, formerly known as Threat Level Midnight, and this story took place five years ago. First noticed him hanging out on our front steps when I'd
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    come home from work. Would just scamper off the moment he saw me. Didn't think anything of it. A couple of weeks pass and, one
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    evening after dinner, I went outside to have a sr ke on the patio. Sat down, took a drag, leaned back, and noticed something black shifting its weight
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    out of the corner of my eye. Immediately panicked and froze in place. We have raccoons, possum, and... skunks that like to hang out in the thick bushes on our front yard.
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    Of course, it wasn't a skunk. Instead, as I took a closer look (after turning on the patio light), it turned out to be that cat hanging out on the front steps and he
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    was not looking too happy. It was a chilly evening not long after some moderate rain, so I thought maybe he was just cold, wet, and hungry, so I grabbed a cardboard box,
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  • Now that is the right attitude to have when you happen to find a cat who is not looking all too happy with its current situation. For after all, cats do tend to deserve the royal treatment when it comes to being cared for by absolute strangers…

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    stuffed a giant puffer jacket inside, and slid him into it. Left him some dog food (all I had), some leftover chicken (I was really worried cats don't
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    eat dog food), and a bowl of water. My wife is aletgic to cats so bringing him in wasn't an option. The following morning, I went outside and he was
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    still in the box, wrapped up in my jacket. Pulled him and the jacket out and that's when started noticing the bld. He was covered, head to
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    toe, in a mix of dried bld, rain, and mud. Don't worry, he makes it through all this in the end. I didn't know that in the moment so, panick number two.
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  • Goodness, that must have been such a shock to start your day with. No less because it must have seemed as though everything was fine the night before and that there was little chance that something, or even anything, could go wrong. But that is the reality of cats, in an instant everything can be flipped upon its head. 

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    It was too early for our regular vet so had to rush him to one of the emergency vets nearby (big city. Lots of vets.) - they were surprisingly
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    amazing. Was expecting to be charged an arm and a leg but when they heard the story and saw his state, they couldn't come up with more ways to be accommodating.
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    Vet patched him up, gave him fluids, and had to keep him for THREE nights because he was not waking up from sedation as well as
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    they had hoped. They only charged me around $200 for ALL of it. New problem: We don't have a cat because my wife is
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    alergic. On the final day, I say this to the Vet to which she cheerily responded, "I guess you have a cattio now."
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    This photo was from five years ago when he was our cattio for a couple of days. Made him a little
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    house out of our dog crate and random clothes, towels, and blankets I could find around the house. I say a
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    couple of days because that's how long it took him to sneak into the house
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    and befriend our dogs. My wife's had the flu for five years now.
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