Woman returns home from a flight to find a tiny kitten outside her apartment, is hilariously forced to negotiate with her housecat before bringing home a new sibling, and luckily,...

The useful part

Before adopting a new kitten, there is only one creature you need to ask for permission. If you are a cat person already, then it feels like the biggest gift a universe can give you. We would not hesitate to adopt that kitten, but our cats … well, they might have something to say about it.

How it works

• Without their permission, that apartment wouldn't work.
• You may be paying the rent for the apartment, but it's not the apartment's legal owner that's letting you live there.
• They ask you for food, for the occasional petting session, for their litterboxes to be cleaned, and, of course, for you to not bring home random kittens.

Details worth keeping

Being chosen by a kitten feels like one of life's most blessed moments. Oh, our phones would be full to the brim with pictures almost instantly. No, it's your cat giving you purrmission to live in their space.