>>3825645Seems to help. Our cat helps us focus on other things besides our crazy, frenetic lives. I recommend you go to a rescue shelter where you can meet the cats and see if one and you get along really well. Ours, we kinda just got lucky with a stray kitten our neighbor found, but the cat I had initially was one I adopted from a shelter. I remember I was looking for a white long haired cat, and I saw him as soon as I walked in the shelter. I walked into his room, he was on the tallest spot a cat could lay on and when I went up to pet him, he leaned right into me. I knew it, you know? I had him for a few years. He hated being picked up, loved catnip, very lazy boy, let me put my face in his fluff.
As for our current cat, like I said, we got lucky with a stray kitty. I mean it's easier to have a stray kit than a stray cat, the taming was minimal. Nowadays she likes to knock shit off our tables, zoom around the house, haha. The other day I bought a circle chair from the salvation army and after bringing it home I sat in it. When I got up, less than ten seconds passed and she laid in it. She's basically adopted the chair. It's adorable. I love how the cat and us find nonverbal ways to communicate with each other.
If you've found yourself considering it for any length of time, have the finances to support a cat (it's more the initial investment for materials, after that food and litter are roughly $40/month), and have a home that would be accommodating for a cat (no high energy chase dogs), I highly recommend it. Even if you aren't the best of friends who play all the time and cuddle 24/7, they'll appreciate you providing for them, and you'll appreciate their mere existence, displaying their personalities as they please, in all their glorious contrast to our fucky human lifestyle. Fun tip: presenting your finger for a nose boop is a good way to say hello to a cat who is relatively comfortable with you.
