# Found a new feline Overlord... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 22, 2015, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/found-a-new-feline-overlord/715697 "2015-03-22T17:25:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2015, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/found-a-new-feline-overlord/715697/1 "2015-03-22T17:25:48Z")
…and she rode home on the handcycle. 🆒 I was out for a ride on Thurs. morning and was about a half mile from home, passing a strawberry field (seemed to go on forever 😉 ), when i spotted large cat sitting on the dirt verge, looking rather forlorn. As I approached, she jumped and ran to me, crying. I stopped to pet her and she climbed in my lap! I was halfway between two residential areas and had no idea where she might have come from. No collar or ID. She stayed on the bike for the short trip home and I packed her in a carrier for a trip to the vet. She’s flea-free, no leukemia or any sign of disease. Not chipped, either. About a year old and now up to date on shots. i took some photos and put up flyers but I’ve heard nothing since so I feel like we have a new boss. She’s a Maine Coon mix and has the temporary name of Derry. If you have name ideas, shout 'em out. Warning:Gorgeous kitty pictures ahead. [Derry](http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w197/runnerpat/Cats/P1050043_zpsyvbvxl5p.jpg), [Maine](http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w197/runnerpat/Cats/P1050036_zpsbafjkduv.jpg) She’s still a bit wary of the others as are they of her but it’s only been very mild hissing and growl/moan, no fighting. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2015, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/found-a-new-feline-overlord/715697/2 "2015-03-22T17:34:23Z")
Reported… for cuteness overload! ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2015, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/found-a-new-feline-overlord/715697/3 "2015-03-22T17:57:16Z")
Sheer awesome! She’s beautiful, and you did good. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2015, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/found-a-new-feline-overlord/715697/4 "2015-03-22T18:02:05Z")
What a beauty! I hope you get to keep her. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2015, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/found-a-new-feline-overlord/715697/5 "2015-03-22T18:04:20Z")
Oh, she’s a beauty, she is. A real feather duster of a tail, too. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/22080_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2015, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/found-a-new-feline-overlord/715697/6 "2015-03-22T18:04:51Z")
Sounds to me like she chose you. Congrats! She’s gorgeous!! ---
**Author:** ![Maastricht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@Maastricht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maastricht)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2015, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/found-a-new-feline-overlord/715697/7 "2015-03-22T18:30:49Z")
That is a truly beautiful cat. Maybe she got lost? Have you tried some animal lost and found site? Two years ago we saw a cat walking on the street side in our street, which is unusual. Most local cats move at the back of the houses, where the yards are, so I suspected she was lost. Very emaciated and directionless she looked, too. Most cats seem to know where they are going, scurrying from one hangout, through familiar paths and ways, to the next. She just seemed to trudge along. And her long fur looked matted. My husband lured her in our yard with some food while I looked up the lost pet register online to see if a cat of her description was missing. And there she was, reported missing since two weeks ! I locked her in the shed untill the animal rescue people came for her two hours later to reunite her with her owner. Turns out he lived on the other side of town, at least three miles away. Cat was truly lost. ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2015, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/found-a-new-feline-overlord/715697/8 "2015-03-22T18:47:34Z")
Lovely creature. Thanks for sharing her pics, and enjoy your new companion! ---
**Author:** ![Helena330](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/helena330/32/531_2.png) [@Helena330](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helena330)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2015, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/found-a-new-feline-overlord/715697/9 "2015-03-22T19:01:53Z")
She is stunning!! Thank you for helping her and taking her in. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Octarine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/22d042/32.png) [@Octarine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Octarine)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2015, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/found-a-new-feline-overlord/715697/10 "2015-03-22T19:43:02Z")
Seeing as you found her in a strawberry field, how about Lucy? ---
**Author:** ![Honey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honey/32/5074_2.png) [@Honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honey)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2015, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/found-a-new-feline-overlord/715697/11 "2015-03-22T20:18:55Z")
> [@Maastricht](#): > > That is a truly beautiful cat. Maybe she got lost? Have you tried some animal lost and found site? > > Two years ago we saw a cat walking on the street side in our street, which is unusual. Most local cats move at the back of the houses, where the yards are, so I suspected she was lost. Very emaciated and directionless she looked, too. Most cats seem to know where they are going, scurrying from one hangout, through familiar paths and ways, to the next. She just seemed to trudge along. And her long fur looked matted. My husband lured her in our yard with some food while I looked up the lost pet register online to see if a cat of her description was missing. And there she was, reported missing since two weeks ! I locked her in the shed untill the animal rescue people came for her two hours later to reunite her with her owner. Turns out he lived on the other side of town, at least three miles away. Cat was truly lost. See, that’s what I don’t get. It was _only_ 3 miles. Yet you hear stories of cats trudging across the county, to go back to their homes. Is it simply a lack of motivation? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Lorene89095](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a8b319/32.png) [@Lorene89095](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lorene89095)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2015, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/found-a-new-feline-overlord/715697/12 "2015-03-22T20:36:13Z")
Lovely girl… Thank you for picking her up. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2015, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/found-a-new-feline-overlord/715697/13 "2015-03-22T21:21:31Z")
Thanks, all. Besides the flyers I put up, our vet also emailed her photo/info to the other vets in the area in case she’s a patient there. ---
**Author:** ![Fluffy\_PickleSniffer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/77aa72/32.png) [@Fluffy\_PickleSniffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fluffy_PickleSniffer)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2015, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/found-a-new-feline-overlord/715697/14 "2015-03-22T21:27:52Z")
Oooh, what a beautiful new kitty… not to mention SMART to ride home on a handcycle! Talented kitty! I like the name Derry, seems to fit her 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Maastricht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@Maastricht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maastricht)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2015, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/found-a-new-feline-overlord/715697/15 "2015-03-22T22:23:31Z")
Honey, the more i know of animals, the more i see they have as much individual variety as humans do. Some have exceptional talents or perform extraordinary feats; most not. Some stories get bigger in the - human- retelling, or get told wrong entirely. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2015, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/found-a-new-feline-overlord/715697/16 "2015-03-22T23:36:56Z")
What a lovely girl! As a Stephen King fan, I can’t help thinking that “Derry” might be an unfortunate name, though. 😃 I hope she isn’t haunted by creepy clowns every few years… ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2015, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/found-a-new-feline-overlord/715697/17 "2015-03-23T00:15:43Z")
> [@Infovore](#): > > What a lovely girl! > > As a Stephen King fan, I can’t help thinking that “Derry” might be an unfortunate name, though. 😃 I hope she isn’t haunted by creepy clowns every few years… Yeah, that was just a placeholder name for the vet. We can change it any time if no one claims her. ---
**Author:** ![chadtrench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@chadtrench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chadtrench)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2015, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/found-a-new-feline-overlord/715697/18 "2015-03-23T05:55:18Z")
She’s so cute! Such a darling angel. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2015, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/found-a-new-feline-overlord/715697/19 "2015-03-23T20:38:02Z")
She has been named. From this moment forward, she shall be known as (and will ignore):MOLLY. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2015, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/found-a-new-feline-overlord/715697/20 "2015-03-23T20:46:26Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > She has been named. > > From this moment forward, she shall be known as (and will ignore):MOLLY. Our new kitten is named Molly! Excellent choice! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/found-a-new-feline-overlord/715697.md?page=2)