When I get back in bed with my first cup of the day, the kitty typically gets on my lap and takes a big SNIFF of it. I’ve never seen another animal be consistently interested like that- I like to imagine she’s a reincarnation who really enjoyed coffee in a past life, and this is a simple reminder of that comfy

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PostScript: saw a bunch of notifications and immediately assumed I said something ridiculous elsewhere lmao.

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    Hahaha i see the tipped ear - another convert from the feral to cozy pipeline? Ours too. I think there’s something in them about the need/freedom to monch. Our gals a bit older and she only has 1 canine (feline?) tooth remaining, so we call it the hole-punch when she bites the christmas cactus

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      One of his siblings did that to him! He was a feral rescue, but we found him and the rest of his litter when they were only a few weeks old. Their mother had them in the crawlspace under the house that we were renting, and then either abandoned them or got eaten by a coyote/mountain lion/etc. I was out with the dog one night and thought I heard meowing. I told my wife and she didn’t believe me. The next morning, she heard it too, and once we figured out where it was coming from, I started removing skirt panels until we could see them to lure them out.

      We found four kittens, and wound up keeping three (a friend took the fourth). Here they are before their first trip to the vet:

      They had barely opened their eyes when we found them and since they only ever knew humans, the three that we kept never really learned how to “cat.” They’re all very clingy and affectionate, and the two tabbies (well, torby and tabby) are the chattiest cats I’ve ever seen.

      The gray one getting into coffee and trashing houseplants was honestly kind of surprising at the time, because he’s usually the laziest out of them all.

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        Haha they’re so ridiculous, I love them. I had a friend with a cat named Wally from being born in the same scenario. The rescue named ours Attica since they found her and her kitten up in an abandoned house attic (Skidmore St lol)

        And these lil cuties are my friends (all adopted out) who took in a mama cat (was an unofficial foster- adopted now) but she didn’t know was pregnant at first lol.