I think people’s most telling shows of ingenuity are how they get rid of kittens, usually involving tricking other people into adopting them. What’s the most cunning, devious thing you’ve ever done to get someone to take your kitten? What’s the most diabolical thing anyone has done to get you to adopt their kitten?
I feign allergies, so it hasn’t been a problem yet, but I used to get idiot housemates who took them in.
We currently have a cat. SWMBO for years was adamantly anti-cat, wouldn’t even consider having one. While the Taekwondo school was being built out last year, I found a kitten in the trash in back of the school. SWMBO vows and declares that I guilt-tripped her into letting me bring the kitten home by telling her “Well, I guess I’ll just have to go throw her back in the trash where I found her.”
Now, of course, guess who has been totallypwned by the cat? 
Neuter/spay in the first place. Actually, nowadays in my experience you can’t even adopt a 2 month old kitten without them already being fixed. Back in the day they used to tell you to wait before fixing (6 months?) but now they don’t.
I’ve never been in a situation where kittens spontaneously appear. Seriously, it’s like when I hear about people talking about leftover beer after a party. Who are you people and how long have you been observing the hyoo-mons?
The last time we were “conned” into taking a kitten, it was from a friend who was a vet tech. She was raising a litter that had ended up at her clinic. She knew us, declared we were suitable owners, and more or less deposited upon us probably the cutest kitten evah.
Look, have you MET a kitten? Unlike human babies, who occasionally resemble squished tomatoes and make loud noises, kittens were apparently custom designed for teh cute. By the time you notice the pointy ends, it’s TOO LATE.
Between the sweet talking and the wee beastie we were goners. He was a long haired white chap, so we named him Ludwig. 
I’m not a ‘cat person’. Can’t stand them, usually. But my partner came with two. One of them he has had for 13 years. So there was no whining about it. By week two I was completely attached to the other cat, who is 2 years old. Otherwise, I’ve always only owned dogs.
If I had a kitten I’d get it fixed as soon as possible so it doesn’t reproduce. There’s a HUGE cat infestation where I live. It’s so bad that spay/neuters are free, and they will give you a free cage and food for catch/release of the feral cats in your neighborhood. The clinics here also have overnight cages, where you can deposit the cats safely in a heated cage outside the vet clinic. I’ve had to do that a few times (they were definitely feral - no kid is missing his cat because of me I promise haha).
If you can’t decide between kittens and puppies: WITNESS THE (UN)HOLY OFFSPRING!
No way to know if this actually happened or not but, when I was really little, one of ours was at the end of our driveway when it was the victim of a drive-by 'napping. Mom said so.
Oh, you mean for adoption.
nm. :o
Sausages!
…I’m going to Hell for that joke, aren’t i?
We had a pregnant female show up one day in our barn. When the kittens were ready for homes, my gf and I took pictures into work. out of a litter of six only one got grabbed up until I said (jokingly), “whelp, the kittens have a week and then I’m gonna have to drown 'em”.
Boom, the person who heard me say it found five new homes overnight. When she found out I was kidding she was pissed off, as she’d used up a bunch of favors in the process.
When I read that thread title, getting people to adopt them was not the subject I was expecting.
I tried to get a litter of kittens jobs as articling students. That failed, and was turned around on me when a firm tried to get me to be a on-going temporary adoptive home.
That didn’t work, so I went on a 2,000 mile road trip with them, trying to find homes along the way. That was partially successful, in that I found homes for a couple of them. I had a hard time explaining why I accidentally left all of them behind at one of the places I stayed.
The cat shelter I volunteered for, had a long standing arrangement with a free local -ad newspaper.
We’d deliver a fun, upbeat, short article every week, about the cats in our shelter. Often a portrait of the cat we searched a home for that week. Always some cat fun fact or helpful tip about cats, too. Pictures too.
The newspaper ran the stories and pictures every week, free of charge. The paper told us that our “cat corner” was the favourite part of many readers. Usually the “cat of the week” was snatched up witin a couple days after the paper came out. For some readers, having a now "famous"cat added a bit of glamour to it all. 
I loved writing those articles. All this happened way before the internet, so cat pictures and stories were hard to come by then. 
Possibly apocryphal story about puppies that had the owners buy a classified ad that said, “Free to good home, eight adorable puppies and one ugly puppy” They end up deluged with calls and give away nine “ugly” puppies in a matter of hours.
That is really clever.
My dad used to offer them to his students (college-level). There were always enough who were suckered by teh kittehs cuteness.
These days, we spay/neuter the cats ASAP.
True story; my vet wanted to wait to spay my two youngest cats. Upshot was, girl kitty went into heat in February. Boy kitty then decided to try to figure out how to have teh sex with girl kitty. I called the vet who said, she shouldn’t be in heat until spring! I reminded her that kittens can’t read the calendar, and let her listen to kitty yowling.
Kitty was spayed the next day; boy cat was neutered the next day.
Pythons!
No, I thought “gunny sack”. 
No, in my experience, Pythons make poor Sausages.
Although the shape of the two does make it easy to get them confused.
Exactly. And into the river!
But sausages are probably a better use of resources.
Milk fed, and tender. Not much meat, but if ya got a litter all the better!
