• FrChazzz@lemmus.org
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    13 hours ago

    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.

    • imadethis@fedinsfw.app
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      19 hours ago

      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.

      • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world
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        10 hours ago

        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.

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    1 day ago

    An outside cat is everybody’s cat, including any local sedan which may be feeling hungry!

  • Ricky Rigatoni@piefed.zip
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    even the real estate companies are getting nucorpo names

    you can literally find a house on grongus

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    21 hours ago

    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.