We had a cat come over every day. He liked us. He didn't like his owners.
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When my wife and I first married, at the first house we rented were two cats that hung around the back yard. One was a kind of greasy looking but cute ragdoll cat we called "BP" (because she looked like she had been through an oil spill) and this other one that had a green collar on (which we called "Al Gore" because of the green-collar jobs thing; but the collar disappeared shortly after). One day BP just walks into our house and hops in a random basket on the ground. Later, I'm napping on the couch and am awoken to Al asleep on my chest. For close to a year these cats came in and out of our house. We figured that BP might've been a stray, but since Al had a collar we figured he was someone's. But we never saw them in any other neighbor yard and so we kept putting out food for them.
Then one day I'm in the back yard and I see Al on the other side of my neighbor's fence. And I hear him, a kind of rough looking working man type, go "LESTER?! IS THAT YOU?! WHERE'VE YOU BEEN?!" The neighbor legit thought the cats had run off. He had no idea that they'd basically adopted us. We became buddies after that. I loved those dumb cats.
Our cat, Comrade.
We’ve got one of those. No idea where he comes from.
Its yours now
My upstairs neighbor's cat is always trying to come into my apartment, and if I try to walk past him without picking him up, he bites my ankles.
Let this be a lesson to be more diligent with your duties in the future, up-picker!
Mine would scoot through the apartment at speeds faster than any of us half-hungover college kids could catch whenever the outside door would open, and somehow end up under my bed. It would take a bit to coax the cat out, and then I'd eventually have to fess up to the neighbor's little kids when they'd start calling for it. I miss having the little black ball of warmth cuddled up on my shirt.
I used to work at a vitamin store and there was one cat in the neighborhood that would come flying into the place whenever the door opened, shoot across the floor, leap six feet onto the top shelf and start ripping into the bags of valerian root. He/she loved that shit -- apparently valerian root is a cat thing, just like catnip. We had a sign up on the front door with a picture of the cat and the caption "DO NOT LET THIS CAT IN", which sort of worked but not always.
"Zoopla" I have no idea what that app is and I already hate it.
I also received a visitor at my last place
This is not my cat
But you are one of its humans
Not your cat. But your duty to service.
Cause of death: Neighbour's cute cat
Have you seen my cat?
This is my cat!
An outside cat is everybody's cat, including any local sedan which may be feeling hungry!
There a few things that are certain, death, taxes and people on the internet being weird about cats that go outside.
even the real estate companies are getting nucorpo names
you can literally find a house on grongus
Tbf “Zillow” was already pretty cronkle.
…you can do anything on zombo.com!
I listed my house on Booblo
they have great property on hombomblor
Immoooble has it for you
Did you make that sound like "Home Bomber" on purpose?
you know i did think about that as i was writing it out and had to change it to sound less like that
My uncle's neighbour's cat used to do that to him. Now they have a cat. The neighbour gave up trying to get the cat to come back.
This is my cat by now but the adoption process was opening my door and letting him in.
My cat has the same habit.
It's called a notmycat
Visiting which one, exactly?
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It doesn't work