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Cat Returns Home With A Note Revealing She Has A Secret Family
A California man was surprised when his girlfriend's cat came home one day with a note. The note, attached to Nala's collar, said:
“I don't know who this cat belongs to, but she comes visits [sic] us every few weeks. She'll meow outside our back door until we let her in, she wounds [sic] herself around our legs, walks about the house like it's hers, waits @ the fridge until my husband or I fed [sic] her baloney. She doesn't like our cat food very much! We look forward to her visits. We lost our 21 yr old cat this yr.”
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Nala the cat went out to play in the neighborhood just like every other day, however this time...
“[She] came home with this note”
“I don't know who this cat belongs to, but she comes visits [sic] us every few weeks. She'll meow outside our back door until we let her in, she wounds [sic] herself around our legs, walks about the house like it's hers, waits @ the fridge until my husband or I fed [sic] her baloney. She doesn't like our cat food very much! We look forward to her visits. We lost our 21 yr old cat this yr.”
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My sisters cat used to visit the neighbours and was loved by the whole family until she got a little too comfortable and started sharing with them her bad habit of pooping in the bathroom sink
My family had an orange stripped cat who moved up the street. The people there called to tell us when they were taking him to the vet. That was nice. He never moved back.
My neighbours all know my queen,she is longhair ginger cat,and everybody wants to touch her and of course when we came here ,they feed her ,call her until car almost kill her ,so i went around and tell every body to not feed her and call her ,only one neighbour can ,do that when im out of town, i buy a food and he feed her of course he adore her ,she is beautiful, special cat,but she lives with me inside the house :)
We used to live on a rural farm with lots of stray cats in our barn. We spayed and neutered all the cats that we could including a large orange male. This large kitty we named marmalade & used to come over all the time. But after neutering him, we never saw him again. Except when we were driving down the road & saw marmalade sitting proudly on a table inside the neighbours house looking out at us.... We had neutered the neighbours cat.... Ha! At least that cut down the cat populations... Ha!
pretty sure that my cat does the same. Which is more odd he would take a warm nap at my place every once in a while , but sometimes he just wants to go out in the cold,vanishes for a few days then goes back fed up and clean ...what a bastard grin emoticon (he steals my dog's pillow every time)
You should write a note on his collar too so that you'll find out how many "secret" family your cat has! LOL
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A cat from 2 doors up decided to move to our house after his owners bought a new cat home. We tried over and over putting over the fence and shooing him back to his house, but he had decided that our house was his new home, so he stayed. Unfortunately he has passed away now but Fraidy was a gorgeous cat and he became part of our family.
My cat insist upon going out every late afternoon/evening and doesn't come back until about 10 pm. I wonder if she has another family? Especially when she isn't as cold or wet as she should be :-)
One of my cats growing up liked to wander into my neighbor across the streets garden. She ended up letting her in and she would wander back and forth between houses. We got another cat and she decided to stay across the street. 10+ years later and she still lives across the street and comes to say hi when I'm home for the holidays. My family is obviously not good enough for her. Hahaha
9 months? I would have cried my eyes out when he disappeared but what a nice surprise when he comes back!
same at my house ...she is chase me home ,behind my car , if she is out ,always wait for me at Toni's house :)
I know this sounds strange, but many cats need jobs to feel good. Making visits around to the neighbor' homes fulfills that urge. Some even find that cleaning off counters, tables, etc. of drinks, eye drops, remotes, phones...to be a fun rewarding job. Often it is celebrated by loud cheering from their owners! Lol
My aunt used to live 6 houses away from us. She got a kitten from the same litter as our cat, so they would run back and forth between the houses and play together and share food all the time. We found out later that our cat was going to an old lady's house between our houses and getting cream from her, and he would also just randomly walk into other neighbours' houses and make himself at home!
In my old townhouse we had 2 visiting kitties. One would come to eat and then lounge on his favourite spot on the living room sofa as if he's lived and slept there his entire life. The other first just came up to the door for snacks, but as he got more and more comfortable he would venture further into the house to enjoy snacks in the kitchen and play with our girl cat. He would stand on his hind legs to scratch at the door until we let him in or put out food.
We once rescued and took care of an abandoned kitten. After a few months he went on to live with an old lady next door and never bothered us. After a couple of years when the old lady moved out to a new place, he refused to go with her and when taken forcibly he came back to our place leaving the old lady heartbroken. He's been with us for a few years now but when i starting taking care of a couple of other cats, he's moved away and not seen for over a month now. Hoping to see him soon!
I had something similar happen. I moved into a new place and off the back patio the last tenant had made what we called a cat walk to my sons bedroom window. Well this beautiful cat was sneaking in my sons bedroom and sleeping with him, when i found out i found her in my lap before i realized it wasnt my cat, he had her for over a month. After that she moved in and never left and became my best friend. Followed me and loved me unconditionally. My thought is if u have a need they are their. Even if they are someone else's Pam
My mom and dad used to take turns with their next door neighbor feeding each other's cats. Dad would feed early in the morning and the neighbor would feed them in the evening. The neighbor got married and moved about 30 miles away. Mom came home and one of the neighbor's cats was sitting on the front porch. Mom called the neighborhood or and said, "Did you drop Bailey off at the house?" The neighbor said, "Is he there with you? We've been looking everywhere for him. He's been gone for about a month!" Mom told her she would bring him back to her house but she said no. Bailey has obviously chosen who he wants to live with.
I have a cat that lives outside primarily and everyday we crack the garage door so she can go in and out as she pleases, our neighborhood has many cats, feral or not and my cat seems to host a sort of kitty bed and breakfast in our garage because I will often go in their to get a soda and I see a new car almost every month wth the exception of one black cat who seems to visit pretty often
I lived in one of 10 cottages, and had moved in with my own 4 cats. One of them started visiting a neighbor couple, and would leave them mice on their front porch. He spent almost all day at their house, and would run over to greet them when they got home from work. They had lost their beloved cat the year before.They loved my Norton so much, that when they moved, I told them to take him, even though i loved him dearly. I had visitation rights of course. Within a couple of years, he became quite ill, and they did everything humanly possible to treat him and improve the quality of his life. They had him euthanized at home, and i went over, was able to say my last good bye, and we all spent the afternoon sobbing together
One day we found that cute fluffy kitten in our garden. After some time we took pity on it and allowed it inside. We raised it and cared for it. Apart from that we had to get accustomed to her habit of regarding all humans she meets as her family. She especially likes children, so one day we saw her in town walking alongside a little girl and her father. Later the father, after assuring us ‘me no know this cat’, told us that our silly cat had accompanied them on their shopping day – including the grocery store, the drug store and the pharmacy (this is where we picked her up). Around noon the church bells ring in our town, which is the sign for our cat to get ready and go up to the primary school. She waits for the kids to come out, pet her, give her some food and, sometimes, take her home to their houses, where she gets more food. Her daily routine includes visits to a nearby restaurant (where she gets a saucer full of milk), the bank (some ham or cheese) and the police station (hotdog
station (hotdogs, judging by the smell when she comes home). She also spent quite a few days in an old people’s home and a home for the disabled. We guessed she liked these places, because a) they have a big kitchen and b) they have automatic doors, which allow her to come and go as she pleases. As I already said we have become accustomed to her wandering about, but we still found it slightly embarrassing when we got a call from the local hospital’s nurse telling us (quite angrily) to come and get our fricking cat from the hospitals internal medicine department, which she accessed via the fire escape.
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I used to read this book, "Six Dinner Sid", to my kids. It's about a cat who has 6 homes where he gets dinner every day. http://amzn.to/1Rcjb6q
There was a cat who used to come around all the time. I fed him and nursed him back to health after a bloody fight. I took him to get neutered and got him a collar with our phone number on it. A few days later I got a phone call from his owner up the road. She wondered where he had been going. She kept a better eye on him from then on. I never told her I neutered him (although it was obvious!) and she never mentioned anything about it afterwards.
Someone thought my loving cat was theirs, he has a collar with our number, he had a microchip linked to us, but in the end they took him when they moved. I'll never forget that cat or the d***s that took him
The cat I had growing up, Bonkers, was an outdoor/indoor kitty. He was all black with just some white on his neck below his chin. He was never gone overnight, so we had no idea that he was "cheating" on us. Until one day, the newspaper boy, who lived three doors down, came to collect. He took one look at Bonkers and yelled, "Padre!" Bonkers/Padre, our crazy priest, had a family on the side: meals, petting, etc. At least he always came home to us.
Damn! Thank God my cat is an indoor cat! I'd be so freaking jealous to know she sleeps with other people! :'(
Guh...... All I can think with the neighborhood cats are flees! My wife and I made the mistake of letting a friendly neighborhood cat into our apartment, and the cat gave our other pet flees. definitely Not letting that happen again!
Wow! Did anybody knows " The unadulterated cat" Terry's Pratchett? It seems that theory from that book works! :)
some totally diffrent experience: a friend of mine tried to get rid of his cat, took the cat 50km (30miles) away and left it on the streets, and after a few weeks, guess who was back home? yep..
That's so messed up...at least take the cat to a shelter!
Load More Replies... I lived in one of 10 cottages, and had moved in with my own 4 cats. One of them started visiting a neighbor couple, and would leave them mice on their front porch. He spent almost all day at their house, and would run over to greet them when they got home from work. They had lost their beloved cat the year before.They loved my Norton so much, that when they moved, I told them to take him, even though i loved him dearly. I had visitation rights of course. Within a couple of years, he became quite ill, and they did everything humanly possible to treat him and improve the quality of his life. They had him euthanized at home, and i went over, was able to say my last good bye, and we all spent the afternoon sobbing together
One day we found that cute fluffy kitten in our garden. After some time we took pity on it and allowed it inside. We raised it and cared for it. Apart from that we had to get accustomed to her habit of regarding all humans she meets as her family. She especially likes children, so one day we saw her in town walking alongside a little girl and her father. Later the father, after assuring us ‘me no know this cat’, told us that our silly cat had accompanied them on their shopping day – including the grocery store, the drug store and the pharmacy (this is where we picked her up). Around noon the church bells ring in our town, which is the sign for our cat to get ready and go up to the primary school. She waits for the kids to come out, pet her, give her some food and, sometimes, take her home to their houses, where she gets more food. Her daily routine includes visits to a nearby restaurant (where she gets a saucer full of milk), the bank (some ham or cheese) and the police station (hotdog
station (hotdogs, judging by the smell when she comes home). She also spent quite a few days in an old people’s home and a home for the disabled. We guessed she liked these places, because a) they have a big kitchen and b) they have automatic doors, which allow her to come and go as she pleases. As I already said we have become accustomed to her wandering about, but we still found it slightly embarrassing when we got a call from the local hospital’s nurse telling us (quite angrily) to come and get our fricking cat from the hospitals internal medicine department, which she accessed via the fire escape.
Load More Replies... I used to read this book, "Six Dinner Sid", to my kids. It's about a cat who has 6 homes where he gets dinner every day. http://amzn.to/1Rcjb6q
There was a cat who used to come around all the time. I fed him and nursed him back to health after a bloody fight. I took him to get neutered and got him a collar with our phone number on it. A few days later I got a phone call from his owner up the road. She wondered where he had been going. She kept a better eye on him from then on. I never told her I neutered him (although it was obvious!) and she never mentioned anything about it afterwards.
Someone thought my loving cat was theirs, he has a collar with our number, he had a microchip linked to us, but in the end they took him when they moved. I'll never forget that cat or the d***s that took him
The cat I had growing up, Bonkers, was an outdoor/indoor kitty. He was all black with just some white on his neck below his chin. He was never gone overnight, so we had no idea that he was "cheating" on us. Until one day, the newspaper boy, who lived three doors down, came to collect. He took one look at Bonkers and yelled, "Padre!" Bonkers/Padre, our crazy priest, had a family on the side: meals, petting, etc. At least he always came home to us.
Damn! Thank God my cat is an indoor cat! I'd be so freaking jealous to know she sleeps with other people! :'(
Guh...... All I can think with the neighborhood cats are flees! My wife and I made the mistake of letting a friendly neighborhood cat into our apartment, and the cat gave our other pet flees. definitely Not letting that happen again!
Wow! Did anybody knows " The unadulterated cat" Terry's Pratchett? It seems that theory from that book works! :)
some totally diffrent experience: a friend of mine tried to get rid of his cat, took the cat 50km (30miles) away and left it on the streets, and after a few weeks, guess who was back home? yep..
That's so messed up...at least take the cat to a shelter!
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