Sometimes people choose a cat, but more often than not, cats choose people. That’s how the Cat Distribution System works. You’re going about your life, minding your own business, when BOOM. Suddenly, there’s a cat, and just as suddenly, it’s yours. Don’t question it.

Here’s a fresh “for instance” that illustrates exactly how the distribution system works.

The smallest thing can trigger the Cat Distribution System

My daughter, Avery, and her husband Eric moved from the West Coast to Minnesota a few weeks ago. They were excited to find a pet-friendly apartment so they could finally get a cat, which they’ve wanted to do since they got married last year. However, with the expense of the move, they’d decided to wait a few months. They figured they’d get settled, get their first paychecks, and then look for a cat to adopt.

Apparently, just thinking about getting a cat was enough to trigger The System, though. Yesterday, they’d just pulled into a parking spot at the Owatonna Hy-Vee grocery store when something small and orange caught Eric’s eye.

“Eric saw over my seat that there was a kitten behind the front left wheel of the car next to us, just like peeking his little head out,” Avery tells me. “And we were like, ‘Oh my god, there’s a kitten! There’s a kitten right there.’ And so we got out and went up to it. And it kind of got scared right away, and it climbed up into the underneath of the car, right before we could get it.”

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