Household physics confirms it: cats act like liquids with audacious surface tension. One minute they're a dignified loaf, the next they've poured through a whisker-width gap into a cabinet, tote bag, or cereal box labeled "Do Not Enter." If it says "If I fits, I sits," they treat it like statute law and file in purrson.

Liquid logic creates situations. Blinds become lasagna noodles. Laundry hampers turn into submarines. Sofa springs host unauthorized spelunking. Someone discovers the "impossible" space behind the fridge and announces it with a muffled mrrrrp. The home Meowntain Rescue Team mobilizes: treats as grappling hooks, a chair shifted two inches, gentle reverse-beeping for morale. After extraction, the cat blinks like, "I meant to do that," then promptly oozes into a shoebox the size of a sandwich.

Prevention helps, but curiosity has excellent flow rates. Close the washer, cap the trash, block the voids, and stock patience, snacks, and a towel for dignity wraps. Cats may be liquid, but they're buoyant in love. Every rescue ends with a relieved laugh, a slow blink, and a promise to patch the next portal.

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In this day and age, there is no reason not to get your cat spayed or neutered. There are too many cats and kittens in the world that need homes as it is, we don't need your indoor cat escaping to get pregnant and bring eight more into the world. For all of your friends who would take a kitten, they are pawsitively invited to go to a shelter and adopt one of their own. When it's your mistake, it's one thing, but when someone else lets your cat get pregnant, it's a whole other thing entirely. Let alone a "professional" who you paid to watch your cat while you were on vacation.

It's hard enough to find someone you trust enough to leave your cat with while you're away. It's your baby. You know all of their little quirks and desires purrfectly. So if you don't have a feline-loving friend, your next best bet is to go with a purrfessional cat sitter…. or so you would think. After leaving her cat with a well-reviewed local pet sitter for two months, the cat mom in this post came back to find her 8-month-old cat very pregnant. Livid would not even begin to describe how angry we would be. We wouldn't pay, and we would 100% leave a terrible review. That's not simply an accident… that's negligence.

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This is a case of misstaken identity. A WFH hooman in a duplex lives with Pickles, a grey tabby famous for side-eye and a purr rate of zero. During a DoorDash delivery, Pickles slips outside. Hours later, scratch-scratch at the door announces a grey tabby return. This cat is unusually sweet, curls on the couch, and fires up a tiny motor. That isn't Pickles' brand, but the hooman blames a life-changing squirrel seminar and welcomes Pickles 2.0.

The next day, the neighbor arrives in a panic asking about Smokey, a friendly grey tabby who purrs at air and dreams of tuna. Eyes drift to the windowsill. The "reformed" Pickles is clearly Smokey, copycat in every sense. Apologies happen, paperwork gets mewved, and Smokey is escorted home after a very thorough surprise sleepover. 

An hour later, the real Pickles clomps in leaf-dusted and unimpressed, reclaiming his post as Chief Judge of Everything. Scoreboard: one accidental catnapping, two near-twins, maximum embarrassment, and a renewed respect for microchips, tags, and knowing a cat's signature scowl. Order restored. Pickles resumes glaring. The hooman resumes laughing.

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Look, we get it, being a feline pawrent and having to put up with people telling you to your face that your cat is not your biological child is tough. In fact, it is far worse than tough, it inspires blind fury, especially when there is no retort you can throw back into these peoples' faces. But now, with this list, you have a URL to throw in their face that will send their argument flying all over the place.

For you see, this collection of cute cat children wearing their beautiful baby onesies is great for two things. First, it shows that cats can be just like kids, even down to wearing the exact same clothing. And second, it gives buckets of legitimacy to dressing up your catto in whatever colorful ways you may see fit without worrying about the judgey eyes of society. So pour yourself another coffee and get ready shove those snotty remarks that Noreen keeps jabbing you with down her doggo obsessed throat.
 

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All cat people know - every cat deserves love, care, and a place to call home. Cats are such affectionate creatures, full of love just waiting to be given. And another thing every cat person knows, is that we're all here ready to recive that love from cats. It's a meowgical phenomenon, and if you're a cat person, you definitely know it. The magic of cats is their love, and they just want a home to give it in.

And cats know this themselves. How do we know it? Because cats make it very clear. Some feral strays are begging to be adopted, both because they know a loving home is the place to be, and because they know this is where they can give their cat meowgic to the hearty hoomans who adopted them.

One such new cat pawrent shared their story of their cat adoption - a strictly stray orange who was extremely hungry, ate whatever the kind person could give him, and decided: "This is a suitable place. I live here now." Such as he is. The entire online feline family shared their own stories of how street cats basically adopted them. Or, more accurately, adopted themselves into their homes. We're rooting for these brave cats adopting themselves.

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