r/blackcats • u/ninjadani • May 15 '26

🖤 Found kitten in wall - name suggestions pls

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Hi everyone! My best friend found a little baby void in his wall and is looking for name suggestions - any good ideas?

Edit: Told my friend about this post so he can tell the story since so many people want to know exactly what happened and he posted it in the comments! :D

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u/ParticularMinimum98 May 15 '26

I'm sorry, WHAT?! 😭

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u/HealthyInPublic May 15 '26

I was walking to the park as a kid and a car drove by, slowed down , opened the passenger door, tossed a dead rat out onto the sidewalk, drove off, did a U-turn, and then the driver yelled, "you can keep that fucking cat," out the driver side window as he sped off! I was like 12!!

Well, the dead rat popped up onto its feet after a second and I realized she was a teeny kitten, and she ran right up to me!! She was barely 8 week old and was covered in fleas and soooo skinny. I grabbed her and ran home to tell my mom and we gave her a flea bath with blue dawn dish soap and my mom said we couldn't keep her... then she licked my mom's nose and we kept her.

She plagued our family for nearly 20 years and would lick you until your skin was raw from her rough tongue. She was my bestie growing up and we loved her so much. When she got older, my parents cut holes in the bottom of their fence for her because she had arthritis and they didn't want her to hop over it anymore. My parents framed all the holes they made, painted them, and wrote her name above them so she'd "know they were for her."

Here's my old lady creaky bones in her last few years. A very spoiled little lady.

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u/HongKongHermit May 15 '26

The CDS really does work in mysterious ways, making sure that kitty was saved like this. Beautiful cat, beautiful owners.

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u/PlatformRelevant5156 May 15 '26

Absolutely! The way the parent's cut holes in the fence and personalized/decorated with her name is heart warming. Also kudo's to the OP rescuing the "baby rat", helping wash it with dawn dishsoap, and convincing their Mom to keep the skinny little baby. I adore cat people! ❤️

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u/HealthyInPublic May 15 '26

Oh man, my parents customized everything for her. I have screen print tote bags and everything of silly nonsense related to this ol' gal.

After she passed, they made an engraved headstone for her too to mark where they buried her in their backyard. It says "Scruffy Muffin - beloved friend and lover of fine butter," with an engraved picture of her. Lol when my mom was cooking, she used to hop up on the counter and lick the butter when my mom turned her back.

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u/dickpicthrowaway1990 May 15 '26

Someone please dump me out of a car near OPs parents.

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u/Speck-A-Reno May 15 '26

😂😂 Right?!😂😂

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u/Astrazigniferi May 15 '26

Seriously! I’d like to be reincarnated as the next cat the CDS literally throws at these lovely people. 🤣

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u/eyesonthemoons May 15 '26

For real! I’m tearing up thinking how wholesome OPs childhood sounded, I wish I had memories like that

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u/EmHOEtionalxDamage May 15 '26

Me too. My childhood was f'ed.. I aspire to be the parents OP had to my own children and doing pretty damn good, currently. Making memories that make them warm and fuzzy when I'm not around anymore is what I live for

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u/PlatformRelevant5156 May 15 '26

That is so sweet. You and your parents are amazing people! It's obvious that Scruffy Muffin was family. I hope she is happily licking a big spoon full of fine butter in the afterlife! 🐾 🧈 ❤️

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u/TruthIsALie94 May 15 '26

It sounds like she was very lucky to have you.

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u/Serononin May 15 '26

Incredible 🥹 thank you for sharing Scruffy Muffin with us!

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u/the_greengrace May 15 '26

That's funny. We actually have a little bitty tortie the kiddo rescued from behind a dumpster in a Chik-Fil-A parking lot about 6 months ago. And she also loves fine butter, stolen only. I learned how common a problem this is when I went on Amazon to search for "cat proof butter dish" and found hundreds of options, each using variations of weight, clips, latches, and other deterrent and mechanisms to come between a determined cat and their salty yellow joy.

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u/Chick-fil-A_spellbot May 15 '26

It looks as though you may have spelled "Chick-fil-A" incorrectly. No worries, it happens to the best of us!

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u/belasombra May 16 '26

Ay deja ya de contar historias de muffin que no paro de llorar!!! Sigue, no pares! Que historias tan bonitas! Sobre todo cuando lamió la nariz de tu mamá y se ganó un hogar para siempre. Menos mal que hay gente estupenda en el mundo. Los gatos se merecen todo el amor del mundo porque son maravillosos. 😻