My Experience as a New Kitten Owner (Hopefully this is as positive and uplifting for you as he is for me!)

So I recently (9.18.2020) adopted a 2.5-month-old, black, neutered, domestic shorthair mix boy (name is Longitude) from my local humane society and he's absolutely been a treasure for me. I feel like I seriously lucked out or something because he's been extremely well-behaved, never pees or poops anywhere except the litter box, has only ever clawed or bitten me when he can't avoid it (i.e. he's jumping into my lap and messes up the jump so he's gotta grab my leg), and absolutely loves me!

He's really been the inspiration behind me getting my shit together, as well. When I give him water, I drink water, when I feed him his wet food in the morning, I then have time to go make breakfast for myself (something I'd always skip in the past), and he's just been giving me the unconditional love and emotional connection I've absolutely been lacking from people in my life. Even when my depression makes it super hard to get out of bed I have him in the morning sitting on my chest, sometimes gently papping my face with his paw (that's the first thing he did to me at the shelter when I was first holding/meeting him), so I get up and play with him then feed him his wet food.

He's also just been a general mood lifter when I need to take a break and lay down due to lack of energy: he comes and lays with me, needs to be touching me or he won't close his eyes and sleep while I nap. Yes he shares the bed with me, because I tried all night the first two nights to get him to sleep in his own bed and he wouldn't do it, I kept waking up to him laying next to or on top of me.

One of my favorite things he does is when he's playing with his little wool mouse toys, he brings them to where I'm at, whether it's at my desk chair or while I'm standing in the middle of the room, or even if I'm in bed; then he keeps playing with them, but if he strays too far from where I'm at in the room, he has to pick it up and bring it back to me. It's so soon but he's already feeling this much trust toward me as his human and it honestly gives me a reason to stick around, like, if not for me then for him.

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