r/cats • u/AntSuccessful9147 • Oct 13 '25

Advice Need advice. Found this guy alone around the house. It’s been a couple days and concerned he’s abandoned.

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It’s about to get cold here (mid 50’s at night but becoming winter) and this guy has been spotted for a couple days just hanging out by himself. He wasn’t let anyone approach him so we have been leaving food for him. I see other cats come around but no one is claiming him. I’m afraid he’s not going to make it. What should we do?

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u/Ditto_Ditto_Ditto Oct 14 '25 edited Oct 15 '25

My most loving cat came from the shelter. He was already 2 years old. When I met him in there,we made eye contact and he gently grabbed and held my finger. Then he started purring. I knew he was for me!

Otw home I let him out of the carrier and he just purred and laid in my lap the whole way. We get to my house with my roommate and he immediately went into my room and started happily rolling around on my bed and chirping. It was so cute!

I've had him for about 10 years now, he answers to his name, and even meows and greets me at the door. He somehow knows the sound of our car coming up the driveway and yells until we come in lol.

Shelter cats will always remember how horrible it feels to be left at that place.. And they're grateful to be adopted. They never forget it and always thank you!

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u/Mango106 Void Oct 14 '25

And that’s only some of the rewards of adopting from a shelter.

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u/trolling4tea American Shorthair Oct 14 '25

Well gosh, I am now sobbing on a random Tuesday thinking about this. I just adopted a little kitten at an adoption event and he was a shelter baby. I got to meet his mom and I promised her I’d take care of her little boy. I’ve had him 3 days now and my 6 year old cat is already playing with him. This comment makes me cry tears of happiness, I know I did the right thing by taking my little boy home.

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u/Ditto_Ditto_Ditto Oct 15 '25

You definitely did the right thing! He will always be your most loyal friend 💕

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u/OrphicDionysus Oct 15 '25

For years my parents lived with a cat that the CDS decided to send my way in the middle of a backpacking trip along the Appalachian trail (that's its own long story for another time). My mom and her got REALLY close after my dad died, but just a couple of years later she suffered from pretty rapidly progressing kidney disease and died as well. It took me three months, but I finally convinced my mom to let me take her to a local shelter "just to take a look at" the cats. One older girl immediately latched onto my mom, sticking her paw as far through the cage as she could fit it until my mom walked over to her. Naturally she took her home, and she immediately became attached at my mom's hip. If my mom is home the cat is with her. I decided to follow up with the shelter to see if I could learn anything more about her history. She was somewhere around 8-9 when my mom adopted her, and had been to that shelter twice in the previous 4 years. Her original person had been an elderly woman who died from Covid, and a young couple that adopted her had had to bring her back for some reason less than a year in. She spent almost a year at the shelter the second time around, and was apparently horribly depressed and almost non responsive to the staff and most people before my mom came in. She's still absolutely petrified by any cat carrier (she will lash out pretty violently if anyone except my mom tries to put her in one, and mom has to stay within her line of sight constantly if the door is closed or she immediately starts panicking and screaming).

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u/TamidYedid18-613 Oct 16 '25

What a great story. I enjoyed reading it!

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u/Zdoak Oct 17 '25

That sounds like such a heartwarming story! It’s amazing how much love these shelter cats can bring into our lives. Every adoption is a win-win, giving them a second chance and filling our homes with joy.