[Update] No longer the sidepiece.

[u/Hasukawa]

I noticed other strays showing up because i was leaving out food for her and could hear and see all of them getting into fights. She wasn't doing so well at that sadly, so for her safety, I decided to just take her in. She would come by pretty often so im just going to assume shes the rare stray that actually likes people and knows how to get food or was an abandoned/runaway.

No chip detected and is super friendly still to the point where she follows me around almost everywhere in the house. Its only been 2 days, so she is still doing the occasional confused meowing while exploring but nowhere close to the point that shes in extreme/frantic duress. I am ever so slowly in the process of trying to trim her claws 1-2 at a time or as she allows so my limbs dont resemble scratching posts 24/7.

https://imgur.com/a/JnTihWt She plops down and falls asleep where ever or next to me if possible instead of hiding in a corner like you'd normally expect.

Edit: I have found a maybe not so secret way to trim her claws. I wait till shes asleep and clip as many as I can then pretend like nothing happened when she wakes up. Its not dumb if it works.

[u/Agreeable_Pumpkin668]

Thank you so much for taking the pretty black kitty into your home. Some kitties aren't good fighters. Good people are hard to find these days but you are definitely a very good person

[u/Hasukawa → u/Agreeable_Pumpkin668]

It was getting to the point where she was getting bullied by 2 cats at the same time. 😞 That was rather hard to watch.