A Little cat showed up on our back porch.

[drray23]

Sweet at can be. Definitely not a feral but no colar ir markings. We think she was abandoned. She went up to me straight away to get rubs. We have another cat so until we can get her to the vet checked up we have been feeding her on the back porch and I bought one of these stray cat shelters.

She took to it immediately. We are getting her used to the house, letting her walk into the kitchen and take nap on the armchair there. I got a cat box and litter.

We decided that it's getting cold so we we let her sleep inside at night until we can get her checked at the vet this Friday.

Our cat strangely, is not upset. They are softly meowing at each other accross the french doors. I think it will be easy to get them used to each other.

At first my wife was reluctant to adopt another cat but I had a plan. She sat in the kitchen and I got the kitten in. That cat went straight up to her, curled up on her lap and started purring. That did it.

Beautiful tortoiseshell cat.

UPDATE : got her to vet today 11/12 and she is a healthy 1 yr old. Tested negative to feline leukemia. We got her shots and she is back home sleeping.

[FSogol]

1. We have a tortie too. They are some of the smartest cats. n/t

[10 Turtle Day]

2. I have a theory about cats looking for a home

They somehow know the houses where kind-hearted people live. Like during the Great Depression, hobos would mark the gates of those who would give a free meal or meals in exchange for a day’s labor. And a different mark on those houses whose residents would slam the door in their face or worse, greet them with a shotgun so they knew to avoid those houses. So, obviously, you are a kind-hearted person to be adopted by stray/abandoned cat!!!

One of my cats was abandoned by their previous owners as well. He’s a very sweet boy. I can’t believe how cruel people can be to just move away and leave their pets behind! Well, after the past election, I do now believe cruelty resides in more people than I’d ever imagined before.

[3catwoman3]

8. I think some of us have "easy mark" or...

…”soft touch” or some other signal tattooed on our foreheads in a light wavelength that only cats can see, because they sure do know how to find us.

[Trueblue1968]

3. She is beautiful. Keep her !!!!!

[TexasTowelie]

4. I have a tortie also.

Her name is Ruby and she is 7 years old. She isn't much of a lap kitty, but she does enjoy her belly rubs so she hangs out with me while I'm on the computer.

[Solly Mack]

5. :)

[niyad]

6. Awwwww, so happy that beautful little girl decided to adopt you.

[brer cat]

7. Enjoy your beautiful furbaby.

[3catwoman3]

9. Does she have just the one ginger foot?

That’s so cute!

[BobTheSubgenius]

10. My wife and I are on the receiving end of a rehomed cat, right about the same size and age of yours.

After a day or two of getting acclimatized, he became CLEARLY "her" cat. Once in a while, he would let me scratch his head a little and once, I had him purring, but it was her that he went to. She is down in Oregon, ATM, looking after cuz's house and dog, and he and I took all of a day to finally bond. He can still be skittish, but he has definitely warmed to me.

He's a Russian Blue*Tuxedo cross, and smart as a whip. After 2 days, he'd figured out how to open latched doors, as long as he can push them - he's not yet determined how to open "pull" doors. All our doors have lever handles, so it wasn't THAT difficult for him, though. My son once had a cat that had figured out how to open doors with round handles.

Now, The New One (Max) is working on mastering the Venetian blinds.

She got him a perch that attaches to a sliding glass door with big suction cups, and he knew it was his before it was assembled. Spends lots of time in that, as well as on the floor beneath it, watching the next door cat launch itself at him, and crashing into the glass. He doesn't even flinch, which I'm sure drives her nuts.