Stray kitten ‘Cy-Mon’, mistaken for rat, stages high-speed home invasion, winning the hearts of his new pawrents and with time his feline sibling aswell: ‘Eventually, we reached the state of two kitties curled up together in the same chair’

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Laurent Shinar • Writer and Editor
Jan 12, 2026 3:00 PM EST

Cat children come to us in many different ways. Most are unexpected, using the element of surprise to engrain themselves into our lives and souls, but some are much more surprising than others. And that is most certainly the case with the kitten in this story who used its cuteness, charms and tiny body to fully embed itself into the home of a cat loving couple and their middle aged feline fur baby. When they initially crossed paths the pawrents perceived the skinny kitten to actually be a rat, but upon hearing its unfamiliar meows realized they had a cat on their hands.

Taking pity on the small creature they opened their door and their hearts offering the stray some food in the hopes that it would accept their gracious offer and move on. Raising one cat child is tough enough, you do not need to add another mouth to shout at you when you forget to feed it. But this kitten had other plans, and while it chomped down on the bowl of kibble it was given it laid eyes upon the house it was about to invade. And when its new pawrent was not looking it made a run for it…

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    "Hey that's not a rat, it's a kitten!"
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    So my husband is letting out our mostly-outdoors cat, Boone, after his wetfood breakfast. (PLEASE no judging ― the boy insists on leading that life, and thankfully our fenced condo complex is safe
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    enough to humor him.) Suddenly husband yells NO, NO and slams the door. "We got a rat out there! A skinny rat right out in front!" Aggrieved meowing starts up on the other side of the
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    door. But wait some of those - meows don't sound quite like our cat - My husband opens the door. "Hey that's not a rat, it's a kitten!" I look out, and see a little grey kitten engaged in a staring contest with
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    Boone. My husband goes out, in case the situation turns into overt hostilities. "Maybe we should give him some food?" he asks. I grab the nearest, the bowl of kibble we always keep by for
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    when Boone feels the urge to round out his meal, and hand it over. "But I don't know if it's old enough for dry food, though..." Nevertheless he puts the bowl down. The kitten pounces on it and starts
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  • Well, other than the hilarious misrecognition of the kitten as a rat, you can understand why this stray kitten would choose such a well equipped and caring house to call its own. Boone sounds like he lives the extra good feline life, who has ever heard of a kibble bowl being kept around just in case their cat wanted to round out a meal? That is some serious feline devotion in our books.

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    chomping. "Well, I guess he is..." We watch him chow down a little while. Suddenly though, he BOLTS past me into the condo, and starts investigating the rooms at top speed. [we're in for it now,
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    aren't we] My husband suggests, "Why don't you take Boone for a walk, so he knows we're not abandoning him." Since Boone is mostly-outdoors, walks together around the complex
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    are our quality time. No harness involved, either. I follow him, he follows me, it all works out somehow. When we come back, the kitten has vanished from sight. But "he's still here" my husband swears. Small as our condo
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    is, it's so full of things providing nooks and crannies that the kitten could be ANYwhere. Let the waiting game begin... 3 hours later at work, I get a phone call. "Honey, I think this kitten has
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    shortened his name and dropped old family customs like a live grenade. He's found a pillow at the end of the sofa that he really, REALLY likes, and shows absolutely no sign of wanting to leave. He's letting me hold
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  • Well, yeah, why would this kitten choose to leave a home that it to begin with had a pretty good idea was a safe and comfy space to post up in. And now having had a good few hours to assess the area and see that this house is purrfectly set up for a kitten to crash in, he will likely never leave. And you really cannot blame him, he has likely been through the thick of it in his short life and dang, he deserves a little peace, quite and love. 

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    him and pet him and he's purring up a storm." Yes, we are searching the forums and planning to put up flyers (once the photos manage to get from camera to inbox- reception is seriously
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    weird here. That's why I haven't posted a picture yet). Yes, we plan on taking him to the vet tomorrow. Yes, I'm going to the store to get kitten food as soon as I stop typing. Whether we keep the kitten if he
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    goes unclaimed depends, I suppose, on Boone and if he can reconcile with the interloper. But we've named him. He's Simon (or Cymon) because he came to us on Cyber MONday.
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    It's been a month since the Gotcha Day of Cyber Monday, and Cy- Mon has grown by leaps and bounds, as well as amazing us with his leaps and bounds. Our cat Boone, however, was less appreciative- for starters they had
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    gotten off on the wrong paw when Cy-Mon burst past my husband and leapt into the middle of Boone's breakfast on Gotcha Day+1. For a few weeks we tried to keep them separate, quickly
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    whisking away Cy- Mon into the bedroom whenever Boone, a mostly- outdoor cat, decided to come in. (And he was coming in more than usual half - intrigued, half worried about the new guy?)
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    Sometimes we weren't quick enough, or Cy-Mon proved too elusive, and there were sparring matches. The kitten wasn't fazed a bit, he loved having a big furry rasslin' buddy. But Boone, though I
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    knew he liked a bit of the ol' rough and tumble himself, would get overwhelmed by the crazy chaos kitten energy and start hissing. Worried, we'd corral the kitten somehow and remove the irritation.
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    It took a visiting friend who saw one of these episodes to point out that for all his vocalization, Boone never laid his ears back in anger. It reassured us enough that the next time (a rainy day that meant Boone would be in
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    for a considerable while) we let it play out...albeit with a lot of wand-toy waving to distract and tucker out Cy-Mon when the going got heavy. And eventually, finally, we reached the state of the third
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    picture: two kitties curled up together in the same chair, just chillin'. A good omen for the new year.
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