Cat mom’s cousin roommate discovered to be secret cat lover after months of pretend ambivalence, gets caught baby talking and giving pats while feeding, cat mom says: ‘They’ll sit there and yell at him until he goes over to give them pets while they eat.’

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Laurent Shinar • Writer and Editor
Feb 25, 2026 3:00 PM EST

Closet cat lovers are all the same, they try to hide their feline obsession, but sooner or later the cats out them and the one thing leads to another and these secret feline fans end up being an irreplaceable part of the cats' daily routine. Or at least that is what happened to the quiet cat connoisseur in this story.

Though it has happened to more than a few hoomans we can confirm as such, we have never seen it happen in quite the way and intensity in which it happened to this hooman. For most of the time the end result of a closet cat lover's journey is a scene with them on the couch and a cat on their shoulders or chest.


A heartwarming and connecting scene for sure, but also a relatively tame one in the wild world of cats. But this story's ending is far more significant as this hooman became an integral part of these felines' feeding process. Which as any pawrent will inform you is a sacred duty and one that cannot be replaced, ever. Meaning that not only did this hooman's love for cats get exposed to the world, it also became cemented in the cats' lives. 
 

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    "I see his arm reach, he says Scoop! And grabs a kitten."
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    I (24f) live with my cousin (30m). I have three cats (one adult cat and two 12 week kittens), and whenever I am home he will be "mean" to them in a very joking and lighthearted way. He'll call them names (fatss,
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    dumbss, etc.) but it's in that "bug as a love language" type way and I have never been afraid of him actually mistreating my cats, especially because they clearly adore him. He plays and rough houses with them, he pets them, but he never
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    gets all lovey dovey the way I do with them.... Or so l thought. I live in a two story townhouse with my bedroom being on the second floor and I always keep my door open so that the cats can go in
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    Today 1:12 PM He's been here for like 20 minutes + Text Message • RCS He's so sweet Delivered
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    and out. Yesterday morning I had woken up but not gotten out of bed yet and my two kittens were playing on the landing just outside my bedroom door. I hear my cousin start to walk up the
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    stairs and I stayed as quiet as possible. I knew he thought I wasn't home because when I am home he always calls up to me to ask if he can come up (I have given him permission to go in my room when I'm not home to play
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    with my cats). My door was cracked open about a foot and I see his arm reach, he says "Scoop!" And grabs a kitten. Then I hear about a minute straight of kissy sounds and baby talk.
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  • Aha! Caught red handed with his hands on the kitty cats that he doth protest his love to. But the truth always comes out, especially when it is a love of cats that you are hiding. After all, cats are crafty creatures and the likelihood that you would be able to keep your admiration of them a secret is slim to none, as sooner or later they will find a way to frame and shame you. They get some sort of kick out of it or something. But that is just the price of loving cats, or at least loving cats and trying to hide it. 

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    I'm just quietly watching from my bed, trying not to let out a giggle, when he suddenly stops, slow turns, and makes stunned eye contact with me through the crack in my door. When he realized I saw/heard the whole thing he
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    got embarrassed and said "oh... I uh.. I saw them running around up here and thought I'd come play with them." I laughed and said it was totally fine, but he retreated back downstairs to put his tough guy persona back on.
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    A while back I made a post about how I caught my roommate baby talking my cats, and I have a new adorable development. A couple months ago I went on a family vacation so my roommate took
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    care of my cats while I was gone. During that week, he accidentally started a new routine with them. Each time he'd fill their food bowls, he'd stand there and give them pets and scratches while they ate. After a couple
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  • Oh yeah we can see where this is going. These are a couple of truly clever cats right here. To go from phase one of outing this man as a cat lover to tricking him into building an unbreakable routine that would result in the cats starving rather than eat without getting pets from this guy. Well, he has sure landed himself in some hot water here, to be forever known as a lover of cats, a cuddler of meow meows, a slave to the feline species. We wish him luck in his future life, because it is not going to be easy to get out of the commitment that these cats created for him…

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    54 m
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    days, they decided that that is now a requirement. Only with him though, they don't make me do this. Now, every day when he gets home they run to the door to excitedly greet him and then run to
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    their food bowls. They'll sit there and yell at him until he goes over to give them pets while they eat. The funniest part of it is that they free feed. I just keep their bowls full so that they can eat
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    whenever they are hungry (I know some people frown upon that but my work schedule is too unpredictable to keep them on a consistent feeding schedule and none of them are overweight, so it works for us). Even
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    though they have constant access to food, they'll wait for him to get home from work to have dinner so that he can give them scritches. So sweet
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