CDS dumpster cat claims cat lover’s apartment as her home after multiple visits, pets and food convinced the stray, cat mom says: ‘She acted right at home--alternating between rubbing herself all over my things and coming back to make biscuits in my lap’

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    "It was clearly the CDS at work."
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    Four months ago, my best feline friend of 15 years, Celia, crossed the rainbow bridge after sudden kidney and liver failure after a two-
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    year battle with diabetes. I felt like she took a piece of my heart with her, and I told myself I wouldn't adopt another cat for at least a year so I could properly mourn.
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    If you guessed from this post that the CDS had other plans for me, you'd be right. Meet this absolute biscuit- making fiend, Bernadette :)
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    I've known and helped other tenants feed this dumpster kitty and her two dumpster pals since I moved into my apartment complex
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    18 months ago, but they've never let me get close enough to pet (despite my best efforts). Since moving in, I've never seen the trio stray very far from the
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    dumpster, definitely not as far up in the complex as my unit. But last week, after a nasty cold snap, this pretty lady randomly decided to hang out
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    with me on the stairs to my apartment. She spent the next hour demanding pets and scritches that I was all too happy to provide
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    until my b. tt had gotten sufficiently numb from sitting on the cold concrete. I got up to see if I had any food in my fridge to give
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    her, and she completely shocked me by following me inside my apartment to check with her own eyes!! I decided I'd give her the
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    finest dining experience I could manage (de- breaded chicken nuggets, mmm) out of my post-cold snap fridge and let
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    her explore my unit with the front door still open so she knew she could leave whenever she wanted. She acted right at home-- alternating between rubbing herself all
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    over my things and coming back to make biscuits in my lap for the next hour. I don't think she stopped purring any time my hands were on her. I fell in
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    love immediately, but I was sure this was a one-off thing. Eventually she decided to go 'home' and I thought that was the end of it, but the
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    next day she followed my partner from his car (parked near the dumpster) to my apartment again, and we decided that if she showed up a third
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    time then it was clearly the CDS at work. Lo and behold, I guess it was because she showed up
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    again the next day. I took her to the vet yesterday and got her all the meds and vaccines she needs to get her in tip-top shape. I'm going to
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    a pet store today to get general supplies. I feel like I have Celia to thank for guiding Bernadette to me and I can't be more excited for provide her a safe, happy, warm life indoors. Welcome to the family, Bernadette!!

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