Proud cat sitter sends owners a photo of the girls, only to realize after the meowlarious expression on one of the cat's faces: 'Then I zoomed in on Mona’s face'

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  via u/flolibri

• “First I thought this photo proved our catsitter had bonded even with the extremely shy tortie… Then I zoomed in on Mona’s face”

  Our new catsitter proudly sent me this during her VERY FIRST solo visit saying she had finally meet Mona as well.

  For context: Mona is our extremely shy tortie who normally disappears before unfamiliar humans even fully enter the building. During the introduction meetup, the sitter didn’t see a single hair of her. We basically told she would just have to trust us that a second cat actually existed.

  So receiving a picture with BOTH cats in it genuinely shocked me.

  At first glance, it honestly looked like proof that our catsitter had somehow achieved the impossible.

  Then I zoomed in on Mona’s face.

  And suddenly everything made sense:
  This was not a breakthrough.
  This was not bonding.
  This was a tortie who clearly expected her humans to come home, failed to activate hiding protocol in time, and completely froze after realizing she had already been perceived by a stranger.

  Afterwards she skipped a meal entirely, vanished again for the remaining sitter visits, and only respawned hours after the only two trusted meatbags came home.

  Lilith, meanwhile, fully enjoyed all the sunlight and all the uninterrupted attention all to herself.

  -flolibri

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• No_Builder_6490

  I’m laughing a lot, this is so cute

  My tortie is so similar! when i have company she usually comes around day 2/3, but when i have had a sitter, she hides under my couch or under my fitted sheet the entire visit. She's like omg no not mommy.

  Gloomy_Shallot7521

  
  Aw, poor kitty looks like she is in crisis mode.

  gertymarie

  Oh poor Mona!! She thought her people were coming home and found out just how wrong she was. We just went on vacation for the first time since getting our own extremely shy tortie a year ago (on top of the first, also a bit shy tortie) and I was so impressed when the cat sitter sent a video of her petting both of them on the third day! Woke my husband up just to watch it lol.

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