Purring cat at my front door

[ThePerkyCoralPoet]

I’m not an animal person. But today I came out of my car and a beautiful cat was purring at me as I walked out of my car. She walked over and sat by my legs. She kept purring so I called for my mum and asked her to bring something for her to drink. Stupidly she brought skimmed milk and we realised the poor baby can’t have it so I swapped it for water.

Anyway I left it there and waited in my porch and she was rubbing her face against my door and stayed at the door for a long time sitting. I really wanted to let her in but I haven’t had her checked or figured out if I’m stealing someone’s cat.

Can you ask on your local Facebook page if you are on it? To see if anyone is missing her ?

I know it’s almost instinct to give cat water / food when they turn up and they’re all cute and mushy but you’re right in saying this may be someone’s cat and they would be devastated if one day that creature chose to just stay with you.

Agree with PP, post on a local page asking if it’s anyone’s cat but honestly, I would just let it be - if it looks well groomed it’s probably looked after already. We have plenty friendly attention seeking cats in our area but they all belong to people already.

She's adopted you.
By all means try to find her owner, but be prepared to accept your fate. 😂

Cats do this a lot

One of mum's neighbours cats basically wants to live with mum

We do let her in the house, but her owners know about it. We never give food or drink. She has sat outside Mum's yowling until 10 pm wanting to be let in when she should go home. At that point, we have to ring the owner. 😂

I often used to get home from work and pet cat who hung around at the entrance to the flats. She figured out it was a good place to get lots of cuddles. She would literally turn up at the most likely time for people to be returning from work, etc. just a friendly outgoing cat.

She’s gorgeous. I couldn’t help myself she wouldn’t stop purring at me 😭

That's how they do it! 😊

Had to laugh at this!

I'm absolutely not a cat person because I'm very allergic to them. It doesn't stop a certain pusskins hopping through any open window or through the dog flap, helps herself to the dog's water, rolls around on the beds upstairs, generally just makes herself at home.

Dog is useless. I squeal when I see puss out of the corner of my eye, leap up swooshing it out. Dog then goes, oh, a cat, better chase it and by then it's long gone!

Sounds like your new cat friend is trying it on. They're not silly!

Oh and I remember, where I lived before, a cat hopped into my car as I got out. I had to open all of the doors, and the boot, and it took about half an hour to chase it out!

It's the universal cat distribution system. You've just been handed yours!

In all seriousness I agree with pp, give it time to go home, maybe you can have shared custody?

I want full custody. I’ve already named her mittens as far as I’m concerned I’m the cat mum now😂

You can’t just steal someone else’s cat OP.

We have TWO visiting cats 😻😻 but we always let them go back home. They come for cuddles.

Please don't feed or give water to someone else's cat. You are just encouraging them and they will happily stray from home. But they are owned by someone else so just leave them alone, stroke them if you must but don't encourage them in your house. Obvs if you find a starving cat who looks unwell or neglected then act but otherwise please don't just assume they want to stay with you.

@DinoLil Oh and I remember, where I lived before, a cat hopped into my car as I got out. I had to open all of the doors, and the boot, and it took about half an hour to chase it out!

We stayed at a B&B in Cornwall a few years ago and of course I made friends with the resident cat. When were loading the car to leave, the cat jumped into the boot. No amount of persuasion would shift it, and finally we picked it up and brought it inside.

If the cat doesn't LOOK like a stray and doesn't look unkempt the huge likelihood is that it's got a good home and the cat is just very friendly and loves people

By all means cuddle and stroke the cat but from what you've posted the cat doesn't need another home

In 2013 the BBC showed a program on cat behaviour called "The Secret Life of the Cat." They followed 50 cats in a Surrey village, using GPS collars and cameras to track them 24/7.
Very funny and interesting. Turns out some of them were sneaking into neighbours' houses and helping themselves to their cat's food!

In my area the next door cat used to come in when our neighbour was at work .Sadly it was killed as it was runover plenty of my neighbours told me they always kept cat food as the cat used to go into their house as well. The cat must have had a great life as plenty of us apparently looked after her.

For goodness sake I’m not holding the cat hostage. I offered her something and she’s gone and returned again this afternoon. If it makes her happy there’s nothing wrong with it. I’ve not “stolen” the cat and brought it into my house.

It went back home. Look the cat was purring and me and rubbing herself on my legs and then sat on my doorstep. I did what I felt I had to. I looked after her.