Void kitten updates:

• He drank from the water we brought for the first time! He was so thirsty tonight!
• I have a feeling he’s more skittish whenever he’s hungry. Once he’s full, he actively asks for pets.
• He purrs so much whenever my spouse and I pet him at the same time. He even let us pet his belly!
• He licked me and bit me very gently to tell me he wanted to play. It was the first time we played together!

I think we’re nearing the time he won’t resist if we bring a pet carrier.

We talked to an employee of the place where void kitten usually spends the night—no one has claimed him, and he’s indeed very new to the neighborhood. He was playing with a chicken bone when we arrived, though, lol.

He isn’t the first cat to appear there. She told us both employees and owners took care of another cat for 7+ years; that cat was named Comendador. That only ended because one of the employees moved to another city and asked to take the cat with them. ❤️

My classes started this week, so we weren’t able to feed void kitten until much later in the night. The first day of classes he patiently waited for us to come back from uni; the second day (yesterday) we left my university campus much later than usual we couldn’t find him.

I cried.

I cried so much. I was afraid something had happened to him and we had failed him.

Today I started my day super sad. Spouse and I went for a walk and saw this majestic and friendly grey kitty.

When we arrived home, we saw every single person we’ve become friends with in our neighborhood in this past month — everyone who’s outside whenever we feed void kitten because they’re walking their dog or enjoying the fresh air.

Then a few hours later, we went to see if we could find void kitten again. We walked to the clinic where we usually see him and he wasn’t there; he wasn’t in the parking lot either.

We decided to walk around the block because sometimes, when we turn around to go back to our apartment building, he just ✨ appears ✨. And as we were turning around…

We see him running towards us, meowing to get our attention. 😭

We go to his favorite spot and I’m almost crying again at this point because I was so worried. He eats and purrs and asks for pets from the both of us.

A neighbor from the apartment building in front of the parking lot comes to us to introduce herself and tell us she’s been watching void kitten for a while. She gives him food whenever we can’t go. She sees him waiting for us every night. And she’s really fascinated by the whole thing because she’s never seen a cat love two people so much.

So spouse and I decided we can’t leave him behind anymore. Void kitten needs to come home.

Our apartment isn’t ready yet, but we talked to everyone in our current apartment about bringing him earlier than planned and they agreed. So we’ll bring him here.