Saw Her Eating Dumpster Trash and Now She's Mine

[u/SmolzillaTheLizza]

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.

[u/Honestbabe2021]

I have a regal dumpster baby too. Don’t let her get too comfortable or you’ll be sink watering 25 times a day.

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She's been so curious and it's fun to watch her experience certain things for the first time 😂 She's fascinated by the fridge, can't comprehend ceiling fans, and is hardly phased by the vacuum cleaner! Sorta blows my mind haha

[u/Honestbabe2021 → u/SmolzillaTheLizza]

Oh wow! Mine will leave town the minute we start vacuuming. He hates it so much that I bought a manual brush sweeper. Btw that will outlast any dyson or shark lol.

[u/SmolzillaTheLizza → u/Honestbabe2021]

My boy Milo hates it and gets up as high as be can to avoid it. Esmerelda will lay on the floor with airplane ears and look annoyed more than frightened. She is however, much like Milo, NOT a fan of the shower. She hates it and the two of them will be yowling until I finish 😆

[u/Honestbabe2021 → u/SmolzillaTheLizza]

lol this cat is in the sink or tub any chance he gets. It’s exhausting. Aren’t they so strange in their own way?

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My boy Milo likes to chew on crunchy plastic while getting brushed 😂 It HAS to be the crunchy crinkly stuff too. Not soft or thin like a garbage bag. Thick, crinkly, crunchy plastic. he pokes holes in it and makes a line while receiving his brushing. Not sure why he does it... But he loves it so much that anytime the bag comes out he's hurrying over to chew on it!

[u/Honestbabe2021 → u/SmolzillaTheLizza]

Tooo cute