Woman ends up with a free(loading) cat after buying a house
When Giselle Bodin Lyons bought her new house she didn’t realize she should have moved her belongings in more quickly so no one else could claim it.
Lyons decided to move in slowly since her new home is just 20 minutes away from her old place. She took multiple trips and decided to unpack little by little.
However, that gave an enterprising local cat just the time it needed to play “you snooze, you lose.”
The little dilute tortie stood in the garage, watching her closely on one of her trips, and wondering what the heck this human was doing in its brand new house. We call that “tortitude.”
Luckily, Lyons works with an animal rescue organization, so she didn’t mind having a bit of fluffy company. And there was a good chance the cat simply belonged to a neighbor.
But the tortie kept showing up, watching Lyons unpack and no doubt wondering why the heck some human thought they had the right to bring all of their stuff with them when they weren’t the winner of its personal game of “Finders Keepers.”
Cats have no concept of mortgages.
Lyons posted some photos of her new roommate to the Facebook group “My house, not my cat.” It appears plenty of other people have this “problem” as well if there’s a whole Facebook group devoted to it!
“I just bought a house. It apparently came with a cat. No one told me. I don’t even have a sofa yet, but I have a pet? My house, not my cat,” she captioned the photos.
Of course, group members were entirely unsurprised at the news.
“You didn’t buy a house, you’re renting with a live-in landlord,” said one commenter.
Many congratulated her on joining the club of unwitting cat owners and some insisted that she should have just paid extra had she wanted a cat-free house. It’s certainly a group of people with a good sense of humor.
“Maybe you bought a cat and you got a free house with it?”
Being an animal lover, the new (co)homeowner decided to leave food and water out for the furry interloper and they’ve had many encounters over the course of the move-in.
In fact, the cat is happy to claim Lyons’ belongings as its own since they’re in the space it so rightfully claimed first.
We’re not sure if the cat plans to drive the car, but it can certainly get cat hair all over it, for example.
As soon as Lyons finishes moving in, she’ll make a decision about a new roommate, making sure the cat doesn’t belong to anyone else first and then taking it for a check-up before potentially adopting it.
“If I move in and she is still around, I will take her in for a health check and decide from there,” she told The Dodo. “I work with a local rescue organization so I’d put her through our normal vetting procedures before adopting her if I did.”
Meanwhile, we’re betting the cat is wondering what kind of vetting process to put Lyons through.
It appears that either way, they’re both lucky to have found one another. We just hope this kitty either gets back to its home or becomes the best random housewarming gift in history very soon.
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