Feral cat shows up to glass door of house and meows for hours, good human takes her in but wonders if she belongs to a home already: 'Did I steal someone's pet?'

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Briana Viser • Writer and Editor
Dec 17, 2025 4:00 PM EST

When you see a cat showing up constantly to your yard, at your doorstep, and to your home, you have to know it's a sign from a higher power. There's no justification for a feral cat to be so drawn to you, so set on bonding with you and being apart of your life. Well, that's exactly what happens in this story. The protagonist says that a cat keeps showing up to her yard and it started about a month and a half ago. She was immediately loving, friendly, and rubbing herself all over the humans legs.

For a week this went on, until the cat just went straight to her glass door of the house and started meowing, and she was really meowing for hours on end. Since there's a lot of coyotes in the area, she started to get worried about the cat, and didn't know if she belonged to someone. She decided to take her to the vet, and she found that the cat wasn't microchipped. She now has a furrever home, but the protagonist also wonders if the cat did actually belong to someone. Read the full story below.

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    Did I steal someone’s pet?

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    About a month and a half ago, a cat showed up in my yard. I feed some of the feral cats in the area so I didn't think much of it. She
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    came every day for a few days before I finally went out to say hello. To my surprise, she was incredibly social and friendly. She
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    ran over to me and rubbed against my legs and let me pick her up and hold her for quite a while.
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    This continued for about a week before she started standing directly outside of my back glass door-meowing for hours on
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    end. I figured she must be someone's outdoor cat because of how friendly she is but we have a lot of coyotes in our area and I
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    was very worried about her. I posted pics of her on all the local lost pet websites and brought her to the vet to be checked for a
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    microchip (she walked right into the cat carrier!) She had no microchip but had been spayed
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    and had no fleas so the vet suspects she was being treated with flea drops.
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    I decided to keep her in my house until I could locate the owner but no one has responded to my posts. I couldn't leave her outside
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    with the threat of coyotes (plus her constant insistence on coming inside). Is she my cat now?
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    Cat-lover21 4h ago I would ask around to neighbors to see if they know who owns as well. Try
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    social media if you haven't already. It's possible that people aren't aware of lost pet websites that you
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    posted on. If you make reasonable effort to find owner and don't get answer then I would go ahead and keep her.
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    GoodGuyGrevious • 4h ago The cat distribution system works in mysterious ways.
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    Cre... 4h ago Edited 4h ago If you did your due diligence to find her family and checked for a chip, it's
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    reasonable to say she does not have a family even if she's friendly, so it's not wrong to keep her. Have
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    you checked shelters to see if someone has left her info with them in case she was picked up or surrendered by
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    someone? Sometimes local vets also have flyers for lost pets.
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    Pets can also just get really lost and be far from home, so it's harder for their families to find them. Last
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    year we had a cat show up who we found out was about 30 miles from home once we found her family. I
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    had a cat when I was a kid who escaped the apartment and took a ride out to someone's farm, living out
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