So I have neglected neighborhood cat number seven sitting on...

[mike_c]

...my lap right now. She's been living on my back porch for the last two years, occasionally coming in the house, but she's not very well behaved indoors. I feed her. Lately I've been letting her in more often when it's rainy-- she sits on my back deck and gets wet rather than going some place dry and it breaks my heart-- and she has just jumped into my lap and begun purring. Damn, I love cats and cannot stand to see them neglected, but I'm allergic to them. Nonetheless I have five of my own, mostly rescues, a sixth who has become a more-or-less permanent resident-- he joins the cat congregation in bed with me at night now-- and now a seventh who has worn down my resistance. I swear there must be some kind of cat underground railroad that leads to my house.

[DELUSIONAL]

1. "cat underground railroad"

yes it sort of sounds that way.

Animals just have a 6th sense about people.

My dogs picked my husband -- they ALL tried to climb into his lap. Dogs still do that to him.

I expect that like hobos of the depression era the cats have somehow marked your house -- human cat slave lives in this house.

[mike_c]

3. yep-- there are three others that I still haven't let in....

One is sitting on my deck right now, looking in my door. The one in my lap is stretching her claws in my chest. I am such a push over.

[Not_Giving_Up]

2. My house was marked

Home for homeless pregnant cats.

I had five litters cycle through. The first one had her babies in the insulation under the trailer. We still have 2 of the surviving three. One of those had her babies elsewhere, and brought the babies to me, guess the word got out.

We moved, and I don't feed any cat that doesn't sleep in my bed.

[mike_c]

4. if I were down to my last crust of bread...

...I'd probably share it with a hungry cat. This is a semi-feral cat sitting in my lap and purring. She's obviously socialized at some point, probably someone's abandoned pet, but she's been absolutely irrascible among the cats that frequent my yard for the last couple of years. She's in good shape now because I've kept her fed, and she was clearly spayed, but I've never seen her do these utter paroxyms of affection before.

[KT2000]

8. You are a good person

Maybe this cat finally made the decision to trust you enough to sit on your lap.
I have an abandoned cat I took in that has lived with me for the last year. Just last week she sat on my lap for the first time. She was sitting across the room, just staring at me as she does and then she bolted in my direction - straight to my lap. Couldn't believe it. It was great though.

[hickman1937]

5. Sweet Jesus, I hope you're getting allergy shots.

You are a rescuer, and God love you for it. No offence intended, if you're not inclined that way. I have an elderly rescued female who stinks, and considers my whole house a litter box. The boys can't stand her,(she intimidates them away from their food, then eats it) but she's safe.

[mike_c]

6. zyrtec and albuterol....

And I'm still having allergy issues. LOL-- I have a pair of siamese brothers that I call "the boys"-- Mango and Murphy.

[hickman1937]

7. My boys are Oreo and Crazy.

Oreo was the first cat that ever owned me. Crazy is a long story, I won't bore you. They both live upstairs now. They can't stand(scared to death of) Twitch, the rescued little girl.