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Cake day: June 11th, 2024

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  • I dated a girl in my 20s who rescued what turned out to basically be a feral kitten, and boy was he a handful. But she never treated him differently. As someone who grew up in a dog house, he’s the one who made me love cats.

    She found him crying under a shed in a neighbor’s yard. It was theorized that he may have been the son of a notoriously feral neighborhood cat that the kids and teens in the area affectionately named “House Tornado” due to the inevitable results any time someone tried taking her in lol.

    Son of House Tornado.

    He would scratch and bite the shit out of you sometimes, but you could tell he didn’t mean it. Sometimes he would pause mid bite, look you in the eyes, then run away as if to apologize.

    If he was acting particularly feral, I would sometimes quickly pick him up and spin him around 360 and then set him back down a couple of times and it kind of reset his brain and he’d run off in confusion lol.

    But it just made all of the times where he’d unexpectedly turn into a little cuddle monster even more special.

    He definitely chilled out over the years. I was able to stay friendly with the ex, and visit him like a decade later (he’s since passed), and he was (almost) a normal house cat.

    Feral kitties deserve love too. RIP Puck