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At Locopops this evening we saw the most adorable cat. Really friendly too. SHe was hanging around the parking lot, and as soon as I spoke to her she came right up to me. Not only did she let me pet her, she rolled over and let me scratch her stomach. I've never seen a cat before who would do that for a stranger.

A cat that friendly has to be used to people, plus she wasn't skinny the way a wild cat would be. I think she either belongs to somebody who lives near the store, or she was recently abandoned/lost. But she wasn't wearing a collar, so who knows.

I felt awful about leaving such a sweet cat hanging around a parking lot, especially as it was getting dark. I went inside and asked the girl behind the counter if she knew who the cat belonged to, but she didn't know anything about it. (I bought two dog pops while I was there. Chicken!) But the story has a happy ending: just as we were leaving two young women came up and noticed the cat. They called a friend who knows all the strays in the neighborhood, and started debating whether to take it home. I helped nudge them along by scratching the cat's stomach so they could see how friendly it is. As I left one of them picked up the kitty and held it in her arms. Once I saw that, I knew they were going to take her. Yay!

I guess I should feel badly about the cat's owner, if it has one. But you know, anyone who lives that close to a busy road and lets their cat go outside with no collar shouldn't be surprised if the cat goes home with someone else. And don't go telling me that maybe it's an indoor cat who escaped. If it never went outside it wouldn't have been so calm and friendly.

(The dog pops were not as much of a success. Jane and Thirteen both seemed to like it at first, but then they were mostly confused. We put them in the freezer to try again tomorrow.)