Cheezburger iconCheezburgerSep 12, 2026 ~1 min source read

6-year-old decides to gift a kitten his family is fostering to his martial arts teacher, but when the teacher comes to meet her, the kitten’s mom marches over too and makes it clea...

have a bad habit of wanting to adopt every single cat that we see, and so fostering and getting attached to a cat that we are not supposed to keep is a bit problematic. Giving a cat a home until they are able to get one furrever instead of having them stay at a shelter or, god forbid, have them thrown back outside, is everything.

6-year-old decides to gift a kitten his family is fostering to his martial arts teacher, but when the teacher comes to meet her, the kitten’s mom marches over too and makes it clea...

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have a bad habit of wanting to adopt every single cat that we see, and so fostering and getting attached to a cat that we are not supposed to keep is a bit problematic.

Giving a cat a home until they are able to get one furrever instead of having them stay at a shelter or, god forbid, have them thrown back outside, is everything.

Once they learn that humans are not that bad, they can finally go home with one and live the spoiled and happy life that they actually deserve.

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have a bad habit of wanting to adopt every single cat that we see, and so fostering and getting attached to a cat that we are not supposed to keep is a bit problematic. Giving a cat a home until they are able to get one furrever instead of having them stay at a shelter or, god forbid, have them thrown back outside, is everything. Once they learn that humans are not that bad, they can finally go home with one and live the spoiled and happy life that they actually deserve.

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  • Now, as you can imagine, if we, at our age, still get attached to basically every cat we interact with, for a child to live with one for a while would be life-changing.

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Teaching these cats that humans can be kind, can be gentle, can be loving. The family in today's story was doing that for two cats. This family had no doubts that they wanted to keep the momma cat.

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