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).
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