'Foster fail, incoming': Couple brings a kitten to foster, two hours later, she's captured the boyfriend's heart and is holding it in her little paw, and they know that it's game over and they have a new cat

Mariel Ruvinsky • Writer and Editor

Mar 11, 2026 11:00 AM EDT

We always say: it's the cat that chooses the human, not the human that chooses the cat.

No matter how many times we say it, people still seem surprised. Despite the fact that this is a well-known fact in the cat community at this point, people still make the choice to foster cats, as if there isn't an incredibly high chance that those cats would adopt them. It doesn't matter at all whether you were intending to adopt the cat or not. You could "hate cats" and still get adopted by a cat. You would "not want to have cats ever" and still be adopted by a cat. You might even be in a position where you already "have enough cats", and still, a cat might see you as the purrfect forever home, and you will have no choice but to accept it.

So, really, the boyfriend and girlfriend in this story should have known the risk that they were taking. And still, the bond that they have created with this cat and that this cat has created with them seems to have taken them by surprise. Of course, when the bond builds in less than two hours, maybe we would have been surprised as well, but nah, we don't think so.

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"We’ve been fostering her for two hours and she’s already all over my boyfriend"

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More often than not, it really is about the cat choosing the person and not the other way around. That is why so many fosters fail in the first place, why it became such a commonplace thing in the cat community, something that everyone knows about. Because the universe has a way of bringing cats and the right people together, and once they are together, the universe - or the cat distribution system, as we like to call it - don't give up on the bonds made. You may not have made the conscious decision to adopt this cat yet, but they cat has made the choice for you, and you have no option other than to go along.
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It is the fact that you know that it is over that makes us the happiest. This is how it should be. You should just accept your fate once a cat chooses you. There is no point in resisting. Resisting won't change the outcome. So, you might as well not do it and just enjoy the ride. We wonder if the boyfriend already knows he's been adopted too, or if it is just you for now. Oftentimes, the ones who get chosen the hardest are also the blindest to it. Keep us updated, please, we are living for this.
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'Foster fail, incoming': Couple brings a kitten to foster, two hours later, she's captured the boyfriend's heart and is holding it in her little paw, and they know that it's game over and they have a new cat

We always say: it's the cat that chooses the human, not the human that chooses the cat.

"We’ve been fostering her for two hours and she’s already all over my boyfriend"

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