Daughter and dad adopt 9-week-old orange kitten Charlie without permission, but he makes mom’s heart melt when she notices he likes to FaceTime his birth brother every night

You can’t control everything in life, so if an orange kitten is going to randomly appear in your life, you might as well make the best of it. It helps if he’s outrageously cute, likes to FaceTime his littermates, and you name him Charlie. 

Purrsonally, I’ve never been targeted by the Cat Distribution System (not yet, anyway). Maybe it’s because I’m too ready. I nearly go to bed every night wishing to find a kitten or cat in need that I can take home and add to our happy feline family. But if you know the CDS, then you know that it often finds you when you least expect it, kind of like love. The CDS brings a cat into your life for a reason: maybe it’s to help you grow, to find more compassion, or simply because you had the space and the little kitty had nowhere else to go. 

Over-preparing in life can be just as harmful as under-preparing. With too much preparation, you start to question all your hard work up to that point. It’s like looking at the spelling of a word for too long, under enough scrutiny and anxiety, you can even question a 100% factual answer. Without preparing at all, you leave yourself vulnerable to the forces of fate and allow a lot of room for human error. So, purrhaps, I need to let go of the expectation of getting a CDS delivery and learn to live in the meowment. Maybe then I’ll be able to see more clearly what is right in front of me. So, CDS, if any stray cats or kittens want to walk in front of my path, the time is now.

The mom in our story below was underprepared and understaffed. Perimenopausal, raising 3 kids and with a house already full of pets, she certainly didn’t expect her daughter and husband to sneak an orange kitten into her house without asking purrmission first. But, like any loving mother, she couldn’t tell her daughter no, who had already fallen completely in love with the ginger baby, whom she named Charlie. But there was one additional detail that really sold mom on the new pet.

They found out that Charlie likes to FaceTime his littermate brother, and now it has become a nightly tradition. I don’t know anyone who could say no to something as cute as that.