'That's my baby': Adorable momma cat adopts a tiny puppy, treating him like he's one of her own, and a twitter user explains exactly why that happened

Whenever we see cats adopting or befriending other animals, we always think that it's the cutest thing, but we've never known quite why that happens. Well, now we do.

Despite the fact that people always call cats aloof and unfriendly, we, as people who actually follow cat content online, know that the opposite it true. Cats bond very hard with all kinds of animals. We have seen a cat adopt a bunny that was abandoned by its mother. We have seen a cat instantly befriend a dog who desperately wanted love, cuddling with him every night. We have seen a cat adopt a baby otter and raise it in an adorable but strange little relationship.

It happens way more often than you would think it does. And every single time, we are so busy awwing at it and thinking that it's the cutest thing in the world, that we end up forgetting to wonder why it happens, what causes the cat to look at these itty bitty things as family rather than anything else.

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Every time that we see things like this, our hearts completely melt. All the things that people say about cats being unfriendly and uncaring, about cats and dogs being unable to stand one another… when we come across videos like these, all of that goes straight out of the window. And we hope that these posts going as viral as they do means that other people learn these things about cats as well and maybe change some of their misconceptions.
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Yes. To all of this. There are actual explanations, actual studies, endless examples of cats doing this, and each and every single one of those examples is more adorable than the other. Cats love other creatures, especially itty bitty ones. To this list, we would like to add the story of Masha te cat, who curled up around a freezing baby in the middle of winter and saved the baby's life by doing so. We don't know if Masha had kittens somewhere at the time, but she certainly had the maternal instinct.
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And here is one more story that we simply have to look up. We knew about this happening in cats, but we cannot say that we have heard of this happening very often with big cats. But we should not be surprised, we supposed. A cat is a cat is a cat. And that is purrcisely why we find it so unfair that we will never be able to pet one of these wild kitties.
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