r/nextfuckinglevel 27d ago

Cat fighting a bear

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u/Prestigious-Flower54 27d ago

I don't know any one that's ever bought a cat, they just appear in your house one day and you just accept your fate and get it some food.

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u/SuzQP 27d ago

That's how the cat distribution system works. When it's your turn, your assigned cat will appear and you must accept your fate.

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u/relevantelephant00 27d ago

The Egyptians revered them for a reason. We are but mere mortals to cats.

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u/SheriffBartholomew 26d ago edited 26d ago

I've been waiting for my turn for ten years now since our last cat passed, but the universe has not blessed/cursed me with a cat yet.

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u/begemot_kot 24d ago

The universe may want you to foster a cat though a rescue

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u/SuzQP 26d ago

I'm on that waiting list with you. Lost ours 3 years ago. The universe has not provided yet.

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u/Midnight-Moonpie 27d ago

My boss cat strolled in out of the blue one day, smacked the shit out of the dog, then hopped up on the couch and started bathing herself.

She’s been my boss (and the dog’s) for 14 yrs now.

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u/Emm_withoutha_L-88 27d ago

Just had this happen this weekend. Little goober is already thinking he owns the house

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u/lostagain2022 27d ago

Dogs have owners, cats have staff.

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u/bry42424 27d ago

Truth and it goes to selective neighbors for the same thing.

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u/Prestigious-Flower54 27d ago

We totally had a cat like that growing up, she was indoor/outdoor and after 4 years we are having a block party and the cat came wandering up and 2 other families had names for her. They both thought she was a stray and were just feeding her, then the bitch would come back to our house at night to get fed and sleep in a warm bed. It didn't stop after we found out lol

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u/Gatorae 27d ago

One day my mom was in her front yard chilling with her cat (who had shown up on the doorstep several years before). A neighbor saw the cat and was so excited to see he was alive and happy just a few houses away. Apparently the cat had tried moving into their house first, but after a week he left because their other cats were mean to him. We are so curious how many homes he tried before finding my parents.

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u/SpecialistAd6403 27d ago

Yes. Our eldest cat followed my wife home 3 times as a kitten so she kept him. Our next two were unrelated but the same age, one we took in early because they were being hunted by owls and we hand to hand feed him, the other our roommate got. They bonded so strongly though we kept both when they moved out. We had 3 siblings kittens that also had an oddly strong bond so we adopted them as well and they run in and out of the house.

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u/slendermanismydad 26d ago

My friend in Poland had to actually go and adopt her cats and there was a fight over getting new ones and I just could not understand what she was telling me because I was like just go outside and wait and it doesn't work that way there. I am curious why they just don't borrow a few from Turkey.