Little Guy

So I've pretty much concluded that the little black and white cat does belong to Brittany. I've seen him in the window a couple more times, and I've encountered him several times outside. How in these kind of apartments she can have an outdoor cat is beyond me, but I see him outside fairly often. At first he was a little stand-offish, as cats tend to be, but before long he was coming right up to me, and now he always comes right up to me. He is a friendly little cat. Having no other name to call him (I'm just assuming it's a he, too, btw), I usually just refer to him as "Little Guy".

He's definitely an attention-starved cat. He'll stand there all day long and let me pet him, which of course I always oblige. I mean, not all day, but for a few minutes when I encounter him. When I didn't know for sure it was Brit's cat I was somewhat concerned that he might be a stray. He always comes over meowing at me, like it's hungry or just lonely. I don't know. He often follows me in the hallway door, too, and he'll start up the stairs and then turn around and look at me. That he starts up the stairs everytime was kind of a tell, too. That's his home up there.

I have considered buying some catfood and feeding him, but haven't yet. I was worried he might be a hungry stray that Brit only lets in now and then, but I'm pretty sure he does really live up there. A few times I've let him into my apartment and he goes all around exploring everything. But he has a tendency to want to jump up in my living room window, and that's usually when I end up shooing him back outside. I don't want to get busted with a cat in my window ... yet, but I especially don't want to get busted with somebody else's cat, and especially by that cat's owner.

That's all well and good. Today when I was doing laundry I saw another cat. It was in the apartment next to the laundry room and it was just sitting there in the window. Wait a minute here. Somebody else has a cat, too? I don't really know that neighbor, except that I know an older lady lives there. I don't know if she's alone there or there's a husband or what, but there's definitely a cat living there. I was working under the idea that if Brittany has a cat then I can have a cat, even if she was just sneaking it in. But if Brittany has a cat and that other lady has a cat, then I can definitely have a cat. I suppose it's possible that this older lady has lived there forever and that her cat priviledges were grandfathered in before the landlord decided against pets, but come on. Fair is fair after all.

So I might look into getting a cat.