Omg you guys I picked up my foster cat today and she’s been hiding in my closet and she just came out. She has six toes and makes a tapping sound when she walks. I roasted a chicken to lure her. She is sniffing my 2019 Pride Js cautiously. I am pretending to not be psyched.
Omg
SHE SNIFFED MY FOOT THIS IS MAJOR 
Polly keeps walking around on her six toes on each paw and sniffing things and cautiously looking at things and then she walks up to me and looks at me and the walks away. Eventually I’ll need to get all 24 of her nails clipped but that’s one for the vet!
She totally stood up on her hind legs and put her front paws on this chair and looked at me and then went away again.
She keeps walking closer and closer to me and brushing up against me. I tried to pet her and she hissed but didn’t swipe. Now she’s sniffing my shoes again. I’ve been in relationships like this before. Back to ignoring her.
Polly keeps watching me eat rice. She investigates every semi-open door but runs away when I open the door to put things outside. Also she hisses at me when I get too close, but walks closer and closer to me and sniffs my fingers. I have decided her attachment style is "cat."
Wow! I felt her little paws on my left leg as she stood up and meowed at me while I was typing at my desk! Then she went away and came back and did it on my right side. Now she’s touring the couch. Cats are so weird!
This is why I’m always confused when I date people and they’re upset and they don’t just tell me what’s going on.
Chicks are a lot.
My foster cat has six toes and just discovered my Peloton (I bought it on a payment plan before The Commercial, leave me alone.)
My foster cat has six toes and she discovered a new thing. We have known each other for eight hours.
Holy fuck. We have contact.
Now she followed me into the bathroom and just watched me pee. Wow. Things are really accelerating. And she loves chewing on plastic wrappers. No Polly.
It turns out that when I tell my foster cat to drop something she’s chewing on and she hisses at me I immediately yell “no ma’am!”
Wooooow.
It turns out I don’t know a lot about cats. I am riveted and confused.
Polly used the litter box. I think this is a good sign?
When I met Polly 9 hours ago, she was scared & shit herself while mewling from her carrier at her first foster mom who was very sad to let her go, but had lost her paycheck this week (furloughed) & can’t take care of her. Now I think this cat thinks she is in charge of my house?
Polly just hissed at me when I tried to walk into my bedroom and I said “excuse me! This is my house!“ And she looked at me like “go fuck yourself, that is not at all accurate.” Also I put on pajamas because now I have a houseguest and can’t sleep naked.
I think Polly just jumped on the bed.
Polly just walked up to me and sniffed my elbow. Glowing cat eyes look insane at night? She has now jumped off the bed and is tapping around on her 80000 toes.
I kind of feel like Polly decided this was going to be OK and now she’s deciding what the rules are going to be? I mean she’s clearly busy figuring something out, patrolling a 600 square-foot apartment.
I am realizing how many objects I have in my home and how I am going to pass on, recycle, or dispose of many of those objects tomorrow because my foster cat would like to eat them or punch them all.
Polly came back to bed and settled atop my lower legs. I am resting on my side and I guess am not allowed to move. Wow. I spend so much time alone and have worked from home forever and now an alive thing is here and it is not a dog! I haven’t had a pet in 4.5 years.
Polly has settled in next to me and hopefully we will sleep well. Thank you all for your helpful advice and suggestions. I decided to foster an animal for my own mental health. Her owner had to go into assisted living so this kitty has been in the care of a foster organization.
Thank you @luxepaws! They have about 60 cats being fostered right now and they practice trap neuter return as well as having a foster program. Please donate to them, they could use the help! So could your local rescue organization. Very busy right now.
I woke up like this.
I have a podcast called “well, this isn’t normal” and I’ve been recording it in my closet but now the closet is where Polly goes when she does not feel safe and my mom asked where I will podcast now and called her “my grandkitty” so now Polly is in charge of my life I guess.
First petting has been permitted! We are 20 hours in.
Please enjoy the boring minutiae of our 25th hour as a team.
FYI that’s not cows milk. That’s a milk jug that happens to have some litter in it. Clean litter. Very important update.
She will let me pet her basically until I get to her middle back and then she is not down to clown anymore. This feels appropriate and I support her. Also she was not eating but then I definitely gave her a little tiny bit of beef. I walked away and then she ate it.
TOES
Polly started purring!
Then she got mad at me for petting her, which had been cool exactly 60 seconds prior. She made a noise at me with her cat voice. It was not a hiss. I stopped. Also earlier she batted me away but she didn’t use her claws, which I found very polite. We stan a bitch with boundaries.
I thought she suddenly got bigger but her hair is just puffed out but not like in an attack way? She fell asleep. She just got fluffier? Am I hallucinating? This dog is different.
I’m going to recommend that regardless of political affiliation or religious belief system or cultural background… If it’s not required for your job, maybe just read what this president said in a briefing & skip watching him. Google pets to foster & charities to help.
Really it’s a pro tip from somebody who has a lot of anxiety… Makes you feel better. I mean you might not have time to do any of that at all, in which case, God bless you and keep you, I know you must be very stressed. Polly has THE WILDEST feet, also.
I’m not even a cat person, is the thing.
Do you guys think cats are weird about candles? Like witches use candles all the time and they have cats but also they are magic so like will this cat try to eat a candle?
Okay so that's a big fat NOPE on candles...at least until I get to know her better. As ever, I thank you for this info.
Okay so what are the demon devil things I have to keep her away from? Obviously lilies and garlic and, like, rat poison or, you know, poison in general. I know I can Google this but you guys are smarter and will tell me things I might miss on These Googles.
Oh also if you are a dog person who for some reason is reading this cat thread, go to Instagram.com/ExcellentCoats… and you'll see an open call for you to message me ON THE GRAM with your Instagram posts of your dogs in jackets and coats. This will make more sense when you go there.
I am in a free secret club that has moved from church basements to online meetings, because you can always drink shitty coffee and smoke cigarettes at home (don't smoke) and it saves my life every day but like I am 100% sure Polly is going to walk on my keyboard, oh well. #ODAAT
It's not my friend Gloria's show but definitely go watch her show.
I was really sure I was going to finish my first drama pilot as a sample for staffing LOLOLOLOLOL but Medusa-inspired contemporary fantasy drama set in a Greek diner in New Jersey will have to wait because I need to understand cat stuff and also go to Zoom meetings with weirdos.
I just told Polly, "I pick ALL my friends when I see them on dating apps. It's a fun bisexual prank." She didn't get it and didn't care.
P sure she sees dead people.
Treats don’t always work out.
Sometimes a girl just isn’t in the mood for a snack that will be good for her teeth.
I will tidy my room again, but this puppy is acting real odd.
My cat just saw me naked for the first time and stared but in fairness I’ve seen her naked for the past 30 hours and stared a lot.
Did you know you can sing the baby shark song to a cat and if their name ends in Y and has two syllables you can just make it about them
just tried to record the intro and outro to the next episode of my anti-anxiety podcast WELL THIS ISN’T NORMAL but Polly was meowing at me that she was bored so now this is happening. Also here’s the podcast: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wel…
Learning about sensitivity in language usage.
She’s finally eating her food for real after like 31 hours. I am very relieved. I mean with that chonk she could go a few days and be awfully uncomfortable but not actually dead but we do like to see them eat and also drink water. Her fountain arrives tomorrow ALLEGEDLY.
I learned a few more things about Polly. Her owner was actually had to go into assisted living 2 years ago. So for 2 years she was living with a kind cat rescue founder in a small space & for 2 weeks she had a lovely foster who I met. But the foster’s job JUST got furloughed.
Thank goodness we have some older Mexican-American folks on the block who have been in the neighborhood a long time and are playing the Spanish language hits of yesteryear outside. I can’t expose Polly to subpar music, she needs the good stuff. 🇲🇽
Anyway, Polly’s first foster mom was very sad to give her up. Some people don’t know that being furloughed means that your job is still “held” for you but you don’t get a paycheck. Often you do still get medical benefits. But you don’t get to claim unemployment, which sucks.
And also I’m some people. Or I used to be. I didn’t know that’s what furloughed meant. I found it to be a confusing term. I only knew the term “furlough“ from when I dated someone in the military. Anyway.
Breaking news from me and @luxepaws.
Please support @luxepaws in their #trapneuterrelease #TNR efforts here in a climate (SoCal) where it’s always kitten season. For more on Polly Saint Catherine Benincasa, Instagram.com/SaraJBenincasa will surely have a wild amount of updates. Thanks to all of you for your kind advice.
Thank you @MrJonCryer for saying when we did this podcast interview that you wanted to encourage people to foster an animal. It made me want even more to foster a pet. But I am a dog person. But I got Polly yesterday and now here we are. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wel…
I am not going to make Polly an Instagram. Unless I get her a kitten. Which I won’t. Because I’m not a cat person. I will talk about her a lot on this podcast in between guided relaxation & interviews, so pls subscribe & help us keep the lights on. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wel… ✌🏻😻❤️
P.S. guess what Polly hates the most in this picture? It is in fact her greatest enemy. It has done nothing to her ever. It’s not me. I’ll wait.
OK it’s the demon broom. I guess I will have to get a Swiffer since Polly is the duchess or whatever of this realm now. Fare thee well!
Also I feel I should inform you that she actually fights the broom and does not cower in fear when it is around. Like maybe she was traumatized by a broom or maybe she just fucking hates brooms and wants to destroy them. Who can say?
I sleep with a demon now. Not the first time.
Turns out Polly likes tortilla chips. The way that I found out is that I made tortilla chips in my oven and then I dropped one and then she ate it. Life is a real journey. I will not be feeding them to her in the future, do not worry. I just paid my $75 adoption fee @luxepaws!
Polly got really upset because her six nails on one paw are so long that I guess one of them got caught in her tail. She yowled so I went right over with a towel wrapped around my hand to gently hold her down to disentangle her - she did it herself & immediately wanted to play?
Also I built her a toy by which I mean I put together the toy that my mom sent as soon as I expressed interest in fostering a cat. Also no, I don’t feel like shooting in landscape.
I’m going to clip Polly‘s nails, at which point she will probably set me on fire with her mind. Years ago I had a boyfriend with a cat who hated doing it so I learned how to do it. Granted, not with a cat with six toes on each front paw.
Oh I have been offered very kind assistance with clipping nails!
Yes, I am in the powder room.
I just gently started to move to get up and she batted at me with no claws and hissed because I am such an asshole obviously.
You guys be honest do cats see dead people
