Post by @dsilverz@catodon.rocks

2026-10-23 12:21 UTC

So yesterday I fell victim of the so-called "Cat distribution system", despite living in a slightly rural area where urban cats aren't supposed to appear out of nowhere (only, at best, wild cats such as ocelots, and certainly jaguars as well). Back in the late afternoons, I heard a meowing outside, and it wasn't any of the house cats, so I headed outside to take a look. Then I spotted this (uncoincidentally) female green-eyed ginger, and I tried to approach to serve her food; at first she was very scared but also very hungry so she eventually ate. As soon as she allowed me to do some petting, she became... quite a shadow, following me as I walked away, climbed onto my lap, tried to gently bite my ankle and forearms out of uncanny demonstration of affinity. Since then, she's sleeping on one of the cats' mattress, resembling a little fox. I left the door opened and she goes and comes, especially when she sees me. I neither want (for multiple reasons, including but not limited to, I shouldn't became even more emotionally attached, although... maybe I'm starting to become emotionally attached due to how I felt slightly worried when she briefly left, or when my cats veer too close to her) nor can afford to adopt currently... yet I can't simply abandon her especially due to the neighborhood pack of seven patrolling dogs who can and will end up harming her if she wanders too far (she's a kitten yet)... Yet I can't simply adopt her especially due to the house cats, two of whom was hissing at her out of jealousy. I got caught by the cat distribution system when I shouldn't be. She's likely going to be named the Portuguese equivalent for "foxie" because she looks like a miniature fox. If the female black cat, one of the house cats hissing at her, only became friends to her, it would be a very... symbolic duo (red and black, untamed feminine energy). #cats

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@dsilverz@catodon.rocks 2026-10-25 07:00

Yesterday, she suddenly rushed outside, then the neighbor's dogs chased her, way beyond my reach. I thought she died and I felt even more dead inside, more than I've been normally. I felt this deep hatred for the neighbor's dogs, thinking they killed her. Today's night, I heard her meowing very distantly outside; went to see where, but she didn't meow again. Hours later, she suddenly meowed right next to my bedroom's window. Went outside and she momentarily wasn't there, then she was at the other neighbor's land, then she suddenly was behind me, as if she teleported. I fed her, then invited her inside (just like the day she first appeared, I didn't brought her indoors because I didn't grab/hold her; I'm respecting her autonomy and I'm trying to give her full liberty to decide where she wants to go). She entered and she ate more and she explored more of the indoors, she's even more playful as she was trying to play with my fingers. Now she's sleeping on the pet mattress, next to the house dog (differently from the neighbor's, ours never harmed her; in fact, the house dog is quite accustomed to cats, and the house cats are quite accustomed to him; he's often annoying with his loud barking and I don't like him for this, but at least he's a-okay and he even seemed to have missed Foxie, too; so I don't hate him, I'm just not a dog person). I don't know for how long, I'm still not sure how I'm going to proceed (after what happened yesterday, I'm more inclined to adopt despite my wish not to become any more emotionally attached to this world (welp, too late when it comes to Foxie, I guess... I did miss her, then I'm slightly less dead inside with her comeback), although, like I said earlier, I'm trying to give her full liberty to decide things) but fwiw she's back... seemingly unharmed (despite having been chased by several dogs); she was just hungry, now she's well fed and sleeping 🖤

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