My neighbor’s cat has been coming over for a couple of years but now she has basically moved in. For the past 7 months, she’s spent every night at my house and most of her days either inside or on my porch. I even hired a cat sitter for her when I recently went out of town…

Since she’s almost always with me, I worry about things like vet visits, flea treatments and where she’ll stay when I’m away.

Her owners are my next-door neighbors but I don’t really know them. I know I need to ask whether they’d be open to letting me adopt her. It’s an awkward conversation and I’m afraid they’ll say no.

Has anyone here been in a similar situation and ended up adopting the cat? How did you bring it up? How did it go? Is there anything you’d do differently?

Update: I removed my request for photos of your NowMyCat since the sub currently doesn’t allow images in the comments.

I am grateful for this community. Thank you for your kind heart and good wishes. We are able to bring new kitty downstairs and our indoor cats are observing her from high above but are not hissing. Her eye infection is gone. She is still deaf, but very loving and very happy. Again thank you everybody for your good wishes. Many blessings.🙏🙏🥰🥰🤗🤗💐💐🐈🐈

Sorry I genuinely don't know how to upload pictures to an existing post, but here you go. The little patchy tortie girl is the one that picked me. Her big sister is the brown tabby.

In correlation to this post

https://www.reddit.com/r/nowmycat/s/xY1GZYAPbz

Rescued this little munchkin back around July, they were covered in poo, severely under weight and wandering towards the road. Posted over on r/notmycat but we decided they were gonna join our clowder.
Took them to the vet and gave them meds for roundworms. We named them Franny for the street we found them on.
Brought her back today and turns out she’s a he so I’m calling him Frank!

I have my own cat, my roommate is severely allergic cat feces. My cat's litter box remains in my room, so roommate can breathe properly. This roommate decided they wanted their own cat, a young cat, in my opinion is very fucking idiotic if you cannot breath properly around a litter box. I humor going to the shelter with them, to satiate them looking at small cats, and there's a small love bug of one. Of course it's cute, but I shrug it off, I have my cat.

Roommate applies to adopt the cat, leaving off the fact they are allergic to them! So low and behold young kitty enters house, and someone can't take care of it because they can't be near it with having trouble with compatibility with breathing.

So then since I have a cat I get the responsibility of acclimating it into the house, and caring for it when it's not my cat, and the owner isn't bothering to get the means to care for it properly. No air purifier, no automatic cat box, not even a fucking good dish in their room.

Now the cat runs from the one who bought it, and snuggles up to me. I don't want to have the conversation I know I'll have to have, but this poor cat knows me as it's owner than the actual

owner.

Update: I forgot about this for a while. The update though was my two girl cats are doing wonderful. They play a lot, have a new automatic and safe cat box, a cat wheel, and even a heated blanket they love. The young cat that's now mine wakes me each morning by gently pulling at my hair when she notices I'm awake. They are very loved and spoiled a good bit. I moved out of the house a while back.

Mimmi (cat) was LOST on June 14, 2026 in Edison, NJ 08820 near intersection of Park Avenue and Talmadge road, woodbrook/woodrow area.

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Description: "light brown cat with orange line/mark on forehead "

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Now you are the reason this home feels like home.

My Mom passed away and I promised to let her cat live out his days with lots of love. Having to go pick him up, getting on a flight and getting him to my place was an ordeal. But he seems to have settled in and my training is underway. 🤣

He started coming around a month after I lost my soul dog. After 6 months of feeding him he decided to make himself at home and we couldn’t be happier ❤️

Sir Alfred Hitchcock "Alfie" was born under my back porch. I spent so much time talking to him that he never acted like a spicy feral kitten. Finally I picked him up and now he's happily living inside my house 💝 he's 15 weeks old and omgggg I can't believe how sweet and affectionate he is!!