Wholesome dad goes to pet store for dog food and comes home with a tiny gingy kitten: 'She follows me more than any dog I've ever had'

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Briana Viser • Writer and Editor
Jan 30, 2026 6:00 PM EST

Do you believe in love at first sight? 

If you believe in fate, then it means you believe there are no coincidences. It might not mean that you believe everything happens for a reason, but that you find a reason for everything that happens. And if you're out shopping and have a sudden and uncontrollable urge to go pet shopping for some nonurgent dog food, then you should go follow your dreams! 

It's not everyday that you walk into a pet stores to pick up some dog food and come home with…another pet. This wholesome father was merely trying to do his daily errands for the family. Unbeknownst to him, when he got inside the pet store they were having a pet sale – kitties and puppies galore, to his children's joy but not his…initially. He was looking around at the kittens and one little orange one caught his eye. This kitten in particular was orange and uninterested in everyone and everything. Then suddenly, he strikes! He grabs onto the dad's sleeve and won't let go! It's an instant connection, and right then and there the dad decides he must take home this kitten, so he does. Once at home, the kitten immediately is settled and ritualistic with the dog, kids, and wife. He says that at night the kitten sleeps right on top of his dog, who sleeps right between his legs. How adorable! 

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    3 weeks ago, I went to PetSmart for some dog food. They were having an adoption event, unbeknownst to me, so what I
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    thought was going to be a quick in and out trip with all my mental preparations made, turned into a
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  • I remember first picking up my kitty, it was something similar to this. I was a teenager and out shopping with my parents. Everyone was exhausted, enervated, and just wanted to go home. I kept demanding that we stop for coffee somewhere because I was so tired. With some bratty whining, I finally convinced my dad to stop on the way home and let me get a little iced latte. What happened to be going on right outside the cafe? It was a pet sale – I know, so weird. But there was this little cardboard box of about 5 kittens inside, and yes of course I chose the orange one as well. 

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    yeah that was like 30 minutes after I got home with her. They're pretty much already inseparable My wife was still asleep from working her overnight shift when I brought her home So I put the dog in another room and kept the kids in the car, and I went and sat on the bed And I'm like, I'm real sorry I didn't go grocery shopping, I got caught up at the pet store for 4 hours And she was half asleep and was like, oh yeah that makes sense.... Snore Then one eye snapped open What did you do at the pe
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    had a really really weird sense of 'incoming reward' that wouldn't shut up.
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    We get in and my kids go nucking futs over the puppies and kittens. Obviously I keep them contained.
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    We don't run up to cages or anything. But, my wife and I had previously discussed getting a
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    kitten as it's been a few years since we rehomed our last cat to our neighbor. (Mutually beneficial
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    situation. She had a really elder cat that passed away and ours really really loves her a lot, so we just kind of let her have an
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    extended sleepover that's lasted 3 years. She still comes over sometimes, but has made it clear
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    she is very much not our cat anymore) So this wasn't a true impulse decision.
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    So I'm looking at this orange idiot because I told my kids over and over and over again that we
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    aren't going to adopt anyone, but we can look and enjoy them while we're here and pet a few. He's eating plastic and has no interest in the treats or pats.
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    Out of nowhere this little kitten latches on to my sleeve from inside her adjacent cage lets out
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    the most pitiful meeeeeeeeww And my heart shatters because she won't let me go, and I can't afford the adoption fee.
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    I swear to whatever God you want, my bank texted me while she was holding onto my sleeve that the bonus I had been waiting
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    on for months cleared, and it was a lot bigger than I was expecting. I saw the notification when it came in because I was taking a picture of her.
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    It's not very exciting, but this is the story of how the universe pulled every single string it had in that situation to send Princess Minnie home with me.
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    She follows me more than any dog I've ever had and will literally sit/lie down on my shoulder for
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    hours while I'm working. Will sit there for hours. Hours. On my shoulder, just purring and sleeping.
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    If I walk into any other room in the house she goes with me. Sitting on the couch, she's in my lap. Sitting on the toilet. Lap.
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    Sitting at the table. Lap because I won't let her on my shoulder, and she cries if I don't let her sit on my lap.
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    She sleeps on top of my dog who sleeps between my legs, and then when I can't take that anymore and readjust, she moves up to my neck. It's almost a ritual now.
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    I think she likes my wife and kids. She'll sit with them occasionally and she lets them pet her and will play with them, but extended
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    periods of rest, she latches on to me and isn't interested in much else. My dog doesn't even love me this much. Edit: I took off the bell :)
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