I Heard A Rumour People Sometimes 'Purchase' Cats!!

As the owner of a very opportunistic cat this is dangerous advice. Don’t steal my cat just cause he wandered into your house to accept some of your food.

Get him chipped if you haven’t already.
Ok but keep your cat indoors and on a leash outdoors.
- It seems there is some difference in cultural norms or opinion on cats being outside. Where I live most domestic cats on ground floor anywhere are free to go outdoors as they please…
I've had cats before that have conviced all the neighbors they're starving. They'd go to each house in turn to spend a night there before coming home
They know what they're doing
maybe don't let your cat out and be a responsible owner then?
- It seems there is some difference in cultural norms or opinion on cats being outside. Where I live most domestic cats on ground floor anywhere are free to go outdoors as they please…

One morning a few months after our first cat died I opened the door and there was a dirty, tailless cat with a long hairless scar running over his hips and wearing a blue bowtie. He put one paw up on the stoop, looked up at me and very politely asked, "Mrow?" So of course I said "Come in Sir"

Turned out his name was in fact Sir, and he'd fled from the kittens he'd sired. He was our little deadbeat baby.

Okay guess I'll be the one to post the Sarah Andersen version

My sister’s family kept losing their cat, Ace. they put a tracker on him. Turns out he had, like, 4 families. One had named him and everything. They called him Otis.

Of my current 3 cats:

16 year old queen of the house, the best lapdog of all time, gotten from a shelter 13 years ago along with her bother (very recently deceased)
13 year old from the same shelter, dumped on us when daughter moved out of the country with limited notice and didn't care where said cat ended up. Horrible bitey monster, but not letting her die on the streets or in a shelter
1 year old who wandered up to my back door in October, starving and quite obviously pregnant about a week or two after we started feeding her. Now sleeping on HER ottoman in the front of the house, very content

Every single cat I've had as an adult has been from a shelter, a stray or the product of a stray.

I’ve had three cats so far. All of which were rescues because I don’t believe breeders should get any business. No cat should die alone in a shelter or on the streets.

So my partner and I "picked" our cat in that we went to a shelter and looked at different cats. But what really happened is our now cat saw me, meowed, and aggressively rubbed on me when we opened the cage. The attendent was shocked because she never liked anyone touching her before

So really even when you get a cat the cat still picks you

My current cat was like that. She didn’t t come out for anyone. But when I went to the foster carer, she came out and smooched all over me. I couldn’t say no

We paid an adoption fee to the shelter for our two fur balls :3

same. it was cheaper than getting all the snips and chips ourselves
I'm ok with that

My manager has kittens she wants to get rid of but doesn't know how. They are weened and driving her crazy. I told her to put them in a box and take them to the nearest big box store and sell them for $5 each. She doesn't think it will work.

Don't purchase designer cats! Adopt cats!! Or if there's street cats, bring them inside.

Good advice. Adopted cats do taste the best 👍
I don't know anyone that has paid for a cat. I've had two that needed a home. My wife brought three to our marriage, one from a shelter and two from litters of people she knew.
- I've paid the local cat shelter adoption fees, but I don't think that counts. It helps them stay in operation, and covers things like spaying/neutering.
- I've had a few cats in my life and I've never once paid for one, Hell I've never even gone to a shelter to adopt one, they just show up. Naturally every time I take to the vet to get checked out and see if they're chipped. nope. just random kitties that decide "you seem nice and seem like you'll feed me"
- people here pay for kittens, but it's like.. 100€ or something, it's kind of a token sum to make up for them having fed and taken care of the kitten.
I did, but it turns out it was a Trojan cat. We have 10 now (finding homes for them, 10 is not sustainable lol).
https://lemmy.world/post/33625684

I got mine from the local petsmart that a rescure was operating out of. They had like a small area where they have a few cats that they displayed for adoption and my cat was the one that rolled around in the cage and exposed her belly so that's the one I adopted.

All but one I fostered, then ended up adopting.

We have 3 cats. 14 year old male snuggle buddy who acts like he's lord of the manor but the two girl cats push him around and do what they want. Got him when we bought a mobile home for my mom and he was part of the package. 3 year old female, fluffy gorgeous diva with a purr like a puma. A coworker's cats made unexpected kittens and she had one extra, and we had lost a cat to cancer a few months earlier, leaving his lordship in a deep depression. She rejuvenated him and they're BFFs now. 2 year old female, orange, another cuddler, devoted to me because I snuggled and comforted her when she was a 3 week old abandoned kitten with a respiratory infection that our daughter-in-law who works at an animal shelter was caring for at home for the weekend while we were visiting. When the kitten got to 12 weeks we adopted her. The little squirt was so happy to see me again she literally jumped into my arms and snuggled up on my shoulder. Amazingly all three get along great, too, which is a real blessing.

We always go to the shelter and bring home whatever they have left over.

What, like every month?
- Maybe the coyotes keep eating them.

That's how I got all of my childhood cats. My family just couldn't say no to a free cat for many years 😂

I used to have an automatic feeder that we left outside. We had all the forest cats knowing the time of day and visiting us. And we got regular long-term residents.

ikr? I have a friend who literally sold a cat in return for chickens.