'He never says no to his little friend': Every morning, a cat visits an elderly shoe-shiner in Turkey and patiently waits for him to brush her fur

Mariel Ruvinsky • Writer and Editor

Apr 15, 2026 12:45 PM EDT

Cats recognize kindness in humans, and they do not hesitate to make friends with that kindness.

It's enough for you to feed a stray cat once for that cat to recognize you as a good human. They know, somehow, in their hearts, who will be kind to them and help them and who is someone to avoid. Of course, some cats take longer to trust humans. You need to feed some cats for months on end for them to so much as allow you to come near them, but that doesn't mean that they don't recognize your kindness. They do. That is why they keep returning.

You grow attached to those stray cats - the ones who see you as a good person and bond with you. You can't help it. You see the special bond you have the same way that they do. And in relationships like the ones we have in today's story, we, as the viewers, see the bond too. We don't know exactly how this started, but now, this kitty comes to her favorite human - a shoe shiner - every single day at the same time to get brushed.

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"Every morning at the same time, a cat visits an elderly shoe‑shiner in Turkey and waits patiently for him to brush her fur. He never says no to his little friend"

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The relationships that cats create with humans will always amaze us. You can just tell, from the way that this cat is behaving with this man, that he trusts this man, that he knows him, that he's happy with the contact and love that he's getting. And it is not the first time that we see something like this. Heck, we have even experienced this ourselves in the past. We make bonds with street cats all the time, with the cats living in our buildings, the cats we feed outside. They know us, we know them, and the bond that we have with them is real and beautiful, even if they forever remain outdoor cats.
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That is most likely exactly how this happened. The kitty was probably sitting on that stool one day, and out of nowhere, he decided to brush her for the first time. And there was no going back after that. And we should not be surprised by something like that, really. We are one of those people who cannot stop themselves from meowing and pspspsing at cats when we see them outside, and we are sure that you are too. If we were this man, holding this brush, with this beautiful kitty sitting on our stool, we would have started brushing her as well.
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