Don't purchase designer cats! Adopt cats!! Or if there's street cats, bring them inside.
this post was submitted on 17 Aug 2025
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Good advice. Adopted cats do taste the best 👍
We paid an adoption fee to the shelter for our two fur balls :3
I'm ok with that
My sister’s family kept losing their cat, Ace. they put a tracker on him. Turns out he had, like, 4 families. One had named him and everything. They called him Otis.
I got mine from the local petsmart that a rescure was operating out of. They had like a small area where they have a few cats that they displayed for adoption and my cat was the one that rolled around in the cage and exposed her belly so that's the one I adopted.
Of my current 3 cats:
- 16 year old queen of the house, the best lapdog of all time, gotten from a shelter 13 years ago along with her bother (very recently deceased)
- 13 year old from the same shelter, dumped on us when daughter moved out of the country with limited notice and didn't care where said cat ended up. Horrible bitey monster, but not letting her die on the streets or in a shelter
- 1 year old who wandered up to my back door in October, starving and quite obviously pregnant about a week or two after we started feeding her. Now sleeping on HER ottoman in the front of the house, very content
Every single cat I've had as an adult has been from a shelter, a stray or the product of a stray.
This is lovely! I’d love to adopt old cats to give them a happy life. I‘m living next to a heavy traffic road though, and most cats here are outdoor-ish.
I got Nacho as a baby. The friend of mine had an appointment for castration of his cat, but she was pregnant and he wanted her to have the babies. I took Nacho and his brother got to live with an old lady, who sadly passed away but now he lives with her daughter as "the best cat she ever had". Yoshi was found as a 2 week old kitten behind the brakes of my dad‘s car when his dog barked at the car.
I’ve had three cats so far. All of which were rescues because I don’t believe breeders should get any business. No cat should die alone in a shelter or on the streets.
As the owner of a very opportunistic cat this is dangerous advice. Don’t steal my cat just cause he wandered into your house to accept some of your food.
maybe don't let your cat out and be a responsible owner then?
It seems there is some difference in cultural norms or opinion on cats being outside. Where I live most domestic cats on ground floor anywhere are free to go outdoors as they please…
Get him chipped if you haven’t already.
Ok but keep your cat indoors and on a leash outdoors.
It seems there is some difference in cultural norms or opinion on cats being outside. Where I live most domestic cats on ground floor anywhere are free to go outdoors as they please…
I've had cats before that have conviced all the neighbors they're starving. They'd go to each house in turn to spend a night there before coming home
They know what they're doing
One morning a few months after our first cat died I opened the door and there was a dirty, tailless cat with a long hairless scar running over his hips and wearing a blue bowtie. He put one paw up on the stoop, looked up at me and very politely asked, "Mrow?" So of course I said "Come in Sir"
Turned out his name was in fact Sir, and he'd fled from the kittens he'd sired. He was our little deadbeat baby.
My manager has kittens she wants to get rid of but doesn't know how. They are weened and driving her crazy. I told her to put them in a box and take them to the nearest big box store and sell them for $5 each. She doesn't think it will work.
This is how cats became pets in the beginning of time. Since they were killing mice, we just allowed it.
So my partner and I "picked" our cat in that we went to a shelter and looked at different cats. But what really happened is our now cat saw me, meowed, and aggressively rubbed on me when we opened the cage. The attendent was shocked because she never liked anyone touching her before
So really even when you get a cat the cat still picks you
My current cat was like that. She didn’t t come out for anyone. But when I went to the foster carer, she came out and smooched all over me. I couldn’t say no
We always go to the shelter and bring home whatever they have left over.
What, like every month?
Maybe the coyotes keep eating them.
There are coyotes here?
Australia's next invasive problem, once I get the funding together to import some.
I used to have an automatic feeder that we left outside. We had all the forest cats knowing the time of day and visiting us. And we got regular long-term residents.
ikr? I have a friend who literally sold a cat in return for chickens.
All but one I fostered, then ended up adopting.