Animal lovers are in tears as the owner of an adored cat suddenly realized why her pet loves sleeping in one particular spot.
Addie Entrekin, 26, who posts to TikTok under the username @ragdoll_winnie, is from Boston and is the proud owner of two felines: Winnie the ragdoll, and tabby cat Mayaa.
Her account is full of the two cats playing together, begging for treats, and cuddled up asleep—but the owner recently noticed something special about how Mayaa likes to lie curled up in her puffer jacket.
“We found Mayaa during COVID from Facebook,” Entrekin told Newsweek. “Her previous owners adopted her, but after a few days, wanted to rehome her because they were allergic. We drove to meet them in a parking lot in Connecticut in the middle of winter.”
In a video posted on March 21, Entrekin first shared a snap of the large tabby curled up asleep atop the jacket, not seeming to mind the zippers.
“My cat has always loved sleeping on this jacket,” she wrote, sharing multiple photos of Mayaa asleep on the clothing. “It’s always been her favorite thing to sleep on.”
“But then, one day, I was looking at old pictures and noticed…I was wearing it when we brought her home. She was cold so I put her inside my jacket.”
The photos then changed to show Mayaa on the day her new owners picked her up, cuddled safely into the woman’s jacket, and already looking as cozy as can be as they drove to her new home.
A final photo shows Mayaa in her new home, lying on the jacket—which, at this point, is triple her size, but which she has certainly since grown into.
“We brought a carrier to bring her home in, but when they handed her to us outside, she was so cold and small,” Entrekin said. “During the car ride home, she looked cold in the carrier—so I took her out and zipped her up in my jacket to warm her up. She slept in it the whole ride home.”
TikTok users were in tears, with one commenter writing alongside a crying emoji: “That’s her baby blanket!”
“She loves it because it’s from the best day of her life,” another said, as a third described it as “the first thing that told her she was safe.”
Others joked that the video got “really blurry” as it went on, indicating they had become tearful.
In a comment, the woman explained that Mayaa had originally been adopted by a different family, but they “decided to rehome her after three days”—at which point she joined her now-owner’s family.
Sudden or unfamiliar smells can be stressful for cats, while maintaining familiar scent cues helps reduce anxiety, especially during transitions such as moving house or bringing a cat home from a shelter.
Because of this, experts recommend minimizing strong new fragrances and preserving familiar bedding, blankets, or resting areas if adopting a cat or when moving homes with pets, according to Humane World for Animals.
Entrekin said that Mayaa instantly became a vital part of the family, acting adorably “clingy,” and even trying to stop them from leaving when they were going out.
And “whenever we got home, she would be asleep on my jacket,” Entrekin said.
Eventually, the couple decided Mayaa needed a friend to keep her company, and that’s how she got her “kitty sister,” Winnie, and the pair got along famously.
But, even with a new best friend to share the home with, Entrekin said, “she still always loves to sleep on my jacket that I brought her home in.”
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