# Meet my new kitty, Steve! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 8, 2012, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-my-new-kitty-steve/624541 "2012-06-08T19:42:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![congodwarf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@congodwarf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/congodwarf)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2012, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-my-new-kitty-steve/624541/21 "2012-06-10T06:37:38Z")
I’m jealous of all you with new kitties. Since I started working for a vet 2 weeks ago, we have had 4 kittens left in a box next to the vet’s car and just as we got them to a foster home, another cat adopted the vet. The new cat is really beautiful, a tortoiseshell with practically neon green eyes. She’s tiny and about a year old, healthy, happy, and super cuddly. And I can’t take her. My boyfriend is allergic to cats and absolutely refuses to let one in the house. ☹ I know kitty will find a new home eventually (assuming she doesn’t become a full-time clinic kitty) but I wish I could have her. Good thing I have my super cute dogs to snuggle with when I get home from a day of clinic kitty snuggles. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2012, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-my-new-kitty-steve/624541/22 "2012-06-12T14:33:09Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > Steve! Steve Steve Steve! Congrats on your new kitty. He - and you - are lucky. ---
**Author:** ![Scubaqueen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@Scubaqueen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scubaqueen)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2012, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-my-new-kitty-steve/624541/23 "2012-06-12T22:12:35Z")
Awww, he’s wonderful. Good on you, **Mint**! Much good karma shall come your way. The SuperKitties, Turk, Maggie and Widget - every one of them once were strays themselves - all say hi! ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2012, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-my-new-kitty-steve/624541/24 "2012-06-13T16:40:10Z")
Should have named him Garfield! Well no, but cute cat anyway. I like tabby cats, cause I think the word “tabby” fits a cat’s description ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2012, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-my-new-kitty-steve/624541/25 "2012-06-13T17:56:09Z")
> [@YogSosoth](#): > > Should have named him Garfield! > > Well no, but cute cat anyway. I like tabby cats, cause I think the word “tabby” fits a cat’s description You’re missing an ‘s’ there, I think. Stabby!! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![madrabbitwoman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c37758/32.png) [@madrabbitwoman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madrabbitwoman)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2012, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-my-new-kitty-steve/624541/26 "2012-06-13T22:13:13Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > My folks got a cat in a similar manner. My dad drives a lot between Topeka and Kansas City, for a car dealership, and on one trip to a dealer he heard a cat crying from a lot next door. A cat had got caught in some debris behind a vacant restaurant, so Dad reached in and freed it. > > Mom was with him. The next day, out of the blue, Dad tells Mom, “let’s go back to KC and see if that cat is still around.” It was, and acted hungry, so they brought it home and now, thirteen years later, they still have it. > > May your Steve have as long and wonderful a life as Princess has. I think I love your mom and dad. ---
**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:** [June 13, 2012, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-my-new-kitty-steve/624541/27 "2012-06-13T23:11:10Z")
> [@Proudest\_Monkey](#): > > Steve is beautiful! And what a lovely story. I’m a cat person who has never gone in search of a cat–they always seem to find me at the same time I’m needing a feline friend. Probably a self-fulfilling prophecy, but I won’t argue it. The Other Shoe comes from a family of people like that and they passed it down to him. He flat-out refuses to pay for a cat or kitten (like, adoptions fees from the shelter) because a free cat in need of a good home always seems to show up sooner or later for him and his mother. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2012, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-my-new-kitty-steve/624541/28 "2012-06-14T14:18:32Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > Ha ha! Good work! And I love people names for animals. I have never gotten over my love for a cat named Walter. His owner is a dirtbag, but Walter’s a solid cat. ---
**Author:** ![Mint\_Julep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bc79bd/32.png) [@Mint\_Julep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mint_Julep)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2012, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-my-new-kitty-steve/624541/29 "2012-06-14T15:08:09Z")
We had out of town guests last night, and they were so excited to meet Steve. I felt like a pageant Mom, brushing his fluffy soft coat and telling him, “Okay Steve. This is your time to shine. Don’t make me look stupid.” Of course, all of his normal super cool tricks went straight out the window and he hid under the dining room table. This cat, who previously never met a lap he did not love, was suddenly shy. He slowly realized these newcomers were not going to be satisfied without petting him senseless and he succumbed. He was purring and playing with everyone before the night was over. ---
**Author:** ![MyFootsZZZ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/myfootszzz/32/12580_2.png) [@MyFootsZZZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MyFootsZZZ)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2012, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-my-new-kitty-steve/624541/30 "2012-06-14T15:16:44Z")
Cute cat!! Steve’s a lucky cat!! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-my-new-kitty-steve/624541.md?page=1)