this post was submitted on 10 Apr 2026
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This little guy has been visiting me at work almost every day for the last few weeks. He lives across the street and he comes running as soon as I pull up in the morning.

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[–] blargh513@sh.itjust.works 27 points 13 hours ago

Looks like you've been adopted.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 24 points 13 hours ago

I mean.....you're being rude. The least you could do is take him home, pay all his bills, assume hismedical care, feed him, clean his poop, and generally be his slave for life!

It's the least you could do.

[–] Canadian_anarchist@lemmy.ca 14 points 12 hours ago

You have an excellent new supervisor.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 12 points 12 hours ago

Uh, that's your supervisor.

[–] Manjushri@piefed.social -4 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Take him home. His current owners are idiots since they let him run across the street to visit you. If you don't, you may very well have the misfortune of finding him dead in the road one day.

[–] IntrovertTurtle@lemmy.zip 9 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

As much as I agree, trying to keep indoor, a cat that's used to life outside, it's really hard, and may stress them out a lot.

Several years ago at my (then) house, we had a regular visitor that I called Neighbor. There was one winter in particular that was especially cold, so when he came to visit, I tried bringing him in to help him warm up, and he practically fought and cried the whole time. Of course after a few minutes of getting toasty, I let him go on about his routine.

I imagine doing that for an extended period of time would greatly stress the cat out in an unhealthy way.

[–] MintyFresh@lemmy.world 10 points 11 hours ago

Ya, I adopted an outside kitty, tried to make her an inside kitty. She would paw at the windows for 12 hrs a day, sleep, then go back to pawing at the windows. Wouldn't eat or groom herself.

I did however train her out of going after birds outside. I'd go out with her, and spray her with a water bottle whenever she got interested in a bird. It worked! She only ever brought rodent corpses home!