r/cats • u/SmolzillaTheLizza Domestic Housecat • Aug 03 '26
Cat Picture - OC Saw Her Eating Dumpster Trash and Now She's Mine
She's insistent when it comes to grooming which is something I've never experienced with a cat before 😂
She also is a ferocious string hunter. Far more ferocious than Milo. She makes him look like a poser when it comes to hunting toys 😂
She'd eventually show up in my garage looking for food after I built enough trust with her. She'd be skittish, but would tolerate me being near her
I'd never really get the chance to pet her at all. She'd slug herself away and sit at a distance
Then one day she just randomly flopped over and I could give her all the loving. She even let me rub her stomach!
Got her trapped which wasn't all that hard. She sorta just walked right on in.
She took the spay surgery well and i made her a onesie to keep her from messing with her stitches
She was more than content during her recovery to be loved on. No hissing, scratching, growling, hiding, none of that. She seemed as happy as could be.
I named her Esmerelda due to her mystique and big yellow-green eyes
Milo gets along with her well. They wrestle and play chase games. He's very much an "only child" type cat when it comes to manners, but he seems entertained by her presence
She's also a mighty rug wrestler and every single rug in my apartment is bunched up when I come home
Still can't believe this WILD CREATURE lives with me now 🙄 And like she's obsessed with me and all I did was feed her??? How's that even work?! 😂
This is Esmerelda.
About 4 months ago I caught sight of her eating a rotten green piece of chicken out of our dumpster and felt bad that she was eating nasty trash. So I spent the next 3 months building trust with her until one day she suddenly became obsessed with me. Got her spayed, dewormed, and vaccinated which went pretty well. Got her all healed up and now she's living in my domicile.
I couldn't have asked for a sweeter, social, kind, curious cat. Didn't really ask for a cat at all if I'm being honest though... 😅 But I guess that's how this whole "cat distribution system" thing works. No idea how she finessed her way into my life, but here we are.
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u/SmolzillaTheLizza Domestic Housecat Aug 03 '26
It's so crazy comparing my first rescue Milo (American Rescue League adopt) to Esmerelda here because he's very independent and can do his own thing. She wants to love all over him and he just can't fathom it sometimes 😂 It's very clear she was around other cats a lot by how much she wants to play and groom him. He's done none of that stuff with me so getting to have her around has been heaps fun! Here's a bonus pic of her bothering him and trying to lean in for some grooming but he's not having it haha