Hysterics as Cat Decides to Pick Neighbor’s Home Over His Own: ‘Moved In’
Reddit users are cracking up over a recent post about a cat who decided to reside in the neighbor’s house over his own.
Elle Mackesey lives in an old farmhouse in the Illinois countryside where feral and stray cats commonly roam. About 10 years ago, her neighbors, whom she rents from, stepped in to help a few stray cats that came to their house, she told Newsweek.
The first kitten who came, Henry, happily went inside their house, but the others, Clyde and Mama, hesitated. Her neighbors set up a heat lamp, food and water in the garage and looked out for them every day since.
“I got to know Henry really well just from my visits over to their house,” she said. “He was extremely talkative and affectionate. I hardly ever saw Mama or Clyde as they were usually out in the fields hunting or sleeping on the shelves in the garage.”
Mackesey’s relationship with Clyde started after Henry and Mama passed last winter and spring. She heard a cat meowing from a shed across from her house, went to investigate and spotted Clyde. She sat and petted him, making him comfortable.
Their friendship solidified when she brought him a bowl of wet food, quickly becoming the two’s morning routine. Then, Clyde seemed to come to her house over his owner’s place.
“Clyde would sit outside the shed, meow for wet food and attention, then run back through the fields to his other house,” Mackesey said. “He would also come back in the evenings when he would see me get home.”
Photos of an orange cat named Clyde who went from being an outdoor cat to living like a king indoors. He found comfort in a neighbor’s home over his owners’ place.
Practical-Call-3727/Reddit
Clyde eventually started sleeping in her car after she left the windows down one day. Her cats also accepted him after seeing how calm and unbothered he was about their “dramatic and hissy” nature.
“Throughout all of this, I was updating his other family because I didn’t want them to worry, and I also thought it was hilarious,” Mackesey said. “They found the fact that he was sleeping in my car the funniest thing ever.”
The friendship progressed further, and the orange cat moved to the cat bed she had gotten for him and left in her entryway. He eventually ventured inside while she was there and became “pretty comfortable right away.” Before long, he would cry at the door to be let in; the rest was history.
Luckily, his family, who had been looking after him for the last decade, didn’t mind he finally found a home to be comfortable in. Mackesey shared how her “neighbor’s outside cat moved in” to her home on December 4 in a Reddit post on r/CatDistributionSystem, which quickly gathered over 11,000 upvotes.
The family was thankful to know Clyde was safe. They’ve tried multiple times to get him inside, but he would never take more than a step into their home without...
