‘I have never been a cat person... ‘: Calm stray cat convinces dog lover to rescue him from the street after a cuddly chance encounter, changing the pawrent’s life and growing their fur family by four paws

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Laurent Shinar • Writer and Editor
Jan 16, 2026 4:00 PM EST

Dog lovers, listen up. Now, it is not that we do not believe you, we certainly do. What is not to like about a dog, it's cute, it comes when it is called and if you are lucky it does not lick your face after it has finished licking its privates. But when it comes to cats, there is simply no better. And that can be attested to by the tens if not hundreds of hoomans who have been blessed by the Cat Distribution System.


For the moment they realize they have been chosen by a feline fur baby, all preconceived notions of loving dogs over cats quickly disappear and all you are left with is an adoration for cats and a bemusing admiration for dogs. Which is exactly what happened to the unwitting woman in this story. She thought she knew all she needed to know about cats. She thought she was comfortable keeping her distance from them. Oh how naive she was…

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    "At night he sleeps in the crease in my leg, or right up on my head, or lets me snuggle him against my chest with my arm over him."
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    I have never been a cat person. I've never owned a cat. Only cats I've ever been around were mean and hated me so I had didnt like cats. There are a lot of stray/feral
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    cats where I live. I had been watching these 2 juveniles for a while and I knew it was going to snow soon. So I set up a sheltered, warm, cat box and set food out
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    by it for them so they wouldn't freeze to death because I love animals and they were cute and fun to watch. They don't look very old. Well, this one saw me doing this from
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  • And that ladies and gentlemen is enough to tell you that this is a fully fledged cat person that still does not know it. Who in their right mind goes out of their way to make a snowproof shelter to help a couple of stray cats? It is certainly not something that any doggo devoted person would do. That is purely the act of a feline inclined hooman. The kind of person who melts when they see a fluffy ball of fur that meows at them. She just did not know it at this point…

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    across the street and as I sat down to smoke a ..e, he ran RIGHT UP onto the porch in front of me to eat. I was sort of excited he was right there. So I
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    reached out to pet him from my chair and he came over to me and jumped into my lap. I wanted to scream. I was very excited. So I put out my c... te and
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    immediately took him inside and told my husband we had a cat now. He was COVERED in flea bites and fleas. We gave him 3 flea baths in a row to finally k I them
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    all and then put a medicated spray on him for his bites afterwards. My husband went out and got a litter box and food and a collar. We got a harness! We
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    found a huge cat tree on Facebook for $20! I did post him on Ring, Facebook, and called the humane society to see if he was missing just in case. He was just veryyy friendly. I
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    didn't want to abduct someone's cat. This is the weird part. This cat is the MOST FRIENDLY, chill, tolerant, AMAZING
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    creature I've ever met. I have 4 kids, ages 5, 4, 2 and 4 months. I also have an Australian shelher. We live in a too small house. You can imagine how the cat
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  • And there you have it. The intense excitement, the madly falling in love, the scouring of facebook marketplace to get the cat a tree. We are half surprised she did not go out and get the cat a castle while she was at it. They all fall in the end to the ways of the cat, but it is fun to watch these so-called dog lovers fight for their supposed beliefs for a moment or two before they realize just how wrong they were and how right it is to be devoted to cats. 

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    is tormented at times. (Never abused or hurt! Our kids are respectful of animals. It's just loud and chaotic at times!) He follows me from room to room. He sleeps on
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    top of his cat tree through everyday tantrums and toddler fights. At night he sleeps in the crease in my leg, or right up on my head, or lets me snuggle him against
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    my chest with my arm over him. He was magically litter box trained. He is so cool with the kids and fun and playful with the dog. He just chills on my lap at night or in
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    the morning. He just LETS me put his harness on and his collar. Doesn't care. Doesn't fight it. If you've read this far, that's awesome!
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