Loner stray cat given home with dog lover and canine sibling after found shivering in pawrent’s garden during storm and becomes part of fur family, pawrent says: ‘He's got as much physical affection to show me as any dog I've had before’

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Laurent Shinar • Writer and Editor
Mar 18, 2026 3:00 PM EDT

You might have thought that an outdoor cat and a dog lover could not become lifelong buds, but as you will come to find in this story this pair were a match made by the Cat Distribution System.

And when the Cat Distribution System makes up its mind about a match, there is little that anyone can do to stop it from carrying out its plan. Moreover there is little reason to try and stop it seeing as the CDS is an ancient system that knows far better than us when a cat is right for us.

So much like this cat and his new hooman, if you are ever put in such a situation it is for the best that you succumb to it and enjoy your new life as a pawrent to a purr machine. Much like this dog lover did after moving his new found fluffy fur baby into his basement and taking the time to get to know his new cat child's quirks and curiosities. This is the story of how a dog lover becomes a cat lover in a matter of days. 
 

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    "Dude loves me to no end."
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    I've never spent much time around a cat before Leo. I grew up in more of a dog-owning family. But I'd see this one hanging around on a sunny hill outside my window, or sheltering from storms in my garden
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    shed, and eventually I decided to break the ice with an offering of my dog's kibble and a bowl of clean water. After that, he started showing himself more and more often. I'd go sit out there with him and
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    let him get used to my presence... and in a matter of weeks, he was perfectly at ease. Even let me rub his belly. Sometimes I'd come out there and towel him off after it rained, or pick the burrs out of his fur
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    when he came out of the woods. Then came one stormy night. He didn't shelter under his usual fallen tree or in the shed, and instead sat there shivering under the eaves of my roof. I
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  • Wow, for a dog lover this is one heck of a wholesome set of interactions with a cat. Most cats do not take well to the smell of and allegiance to doggos, and at that most dog loving hoomans do not quite understand the ways of the cat, especially not the outdoor cat. But it seems that this pair are off to a sweet start to their relationship. One can only wonder how their mutual understanding will begin to blossom and grow wings as they get closer to one another. Belly rubs are a significant step but just wait until cuddles on top of your chest with purrs start happening. 

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    d was st and I got very emotional about it, so I picked him up and locked him in my basement once and for all. He was real upset about that for a while. Spent almost a week meowing at the sliding door,
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    sounding sadder every time, or hiding under furniture. He was never anything but friendly, though. Just upset. I took him to the vet to discover he was not a female, but
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    instead a neutered male of eight-ish years. With asthma that I suspect may have something to do with the fiberglass insulation the previous tenants taped around a cat carrier they left behind. If they did expose this absolute
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    sweetheart to fiberglass and then abandon him, I hate them way more than I already do for all the junk mail I still get for them. And for stealing my grandmother's curtains from this house, but that's getting off topic.
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    During those first months, I spent as much time as I could in the basement with Leo to get him acclimated. I learned a lot about him, and cats in general, during that time. He's no fan of playing with toys or
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    climbing on things. The only time he really "plays" is to rip up any paper left on the floor. He mostly just likes to lounge on chairs and beds... which is fine by me, even though I bought him that expensive cat tower
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  • Well, well this dog lover is learning the ways of the cat real fast it seems. He has cottoned on to the fact that outdoor cats have less need for toys seeing as they do not need to practise their hunting skills as they use them regularly. Additionally for the same reason they do not need climbing apparatuses. Which is rather amusing seeing as this hooman bought him a cat tower, which is another classic cat pawrent experience, buying your cat things that they will never touch. However, the paper ripping thing is an interesting trait uncommon to cats, but purrhaps the cat understood that his new pawrent did not like to pay their bills and so lent them a helping paw to eliminate the evidence. 

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    he never used. I also found that he's a total cuddlebug. He'll never pass up an opportunity to get on my lap or sleep on my chest at night. I even had to buy a little set of pet stairs so he'd stop clawing the sheets
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    on his way up onto the bed. There were a few expensive incidents early on. For one, he tore a skin tag off his shoulder and developed an ak s. Then there was his UTI, and the
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    € a the vet had to give him. Those visits were so rough for him that my vet's office now recognizes him by his distinctive "let me out" yowl. But he got through all that, and the love and care he needed along the way
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    helped us bond more than anything. He's been very happy and healthy since then. Nowadays, he can't get enough company. My scrappy old rescue dog stopped trying to ack him
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    eventually, so now he hangs out upstairs where everyone else is. The basement remains his private domain, but he spends most of the day curled up on a backpack he's taken a liking to in my home office's closet. (Dunno why
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    but he really likes nylon.) He's got as much physical affection to show me as any dog I've had before, and that's saying something. Dude loves me to no end.
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