Kitten given as a gift to someone who didn't want her is left outside to fend for herself, so she takes matters into her own paws and moves in with the neighbor next door.

I never understood people who treat cats like they're something to toy with however you like, and I'm not going to start now.

Before we jump right into the ameowzing tenacity of this little kitten below, I want to share a story on my own. I didn't describe myself as a cat person before I had a cat of my own. But the decision to adopt a cat wasn't an overnight switch - I was already living with a cat before, which led me to this decision. When I was a student, I lived in a flat share with three other people for a few years. One of them brought an abandoned kitten home. So far so good, but signs of my flatmate not seeing the cat as an individual creature, with wants, needs, and feelings, started to occur. And I was worried. Things like closing the bedroom door while he slept, not giving the cat an option to leave, or putting a bracelet on his neck instead of a fitted collar. I was not having it. I felt as if I needed to fight for the cat - and so I did.

In the end, the cat went to live with another flatmate, when we all separated after we finished our studies. The cat still lives a good life with this other person. Caring for this cat and standing for his rights was what made me adopt a kitten of my own down the line. But the important takeaway from this is that my flatmate's cat needed a change of human - someone who will actually care for him, and give him the happy ending he deserved. And that's exactly what the now-cat of u/Status-Ad-83 needed. A person who will not leave her outside to fend for herself when they leave for a weekend… literally.