'Stray' cat visits this little girl every day — then tells all his friends! ❤️ We talked to her mom about how they realized Waffles had a family, and what it was like to come home to his cat friends.
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00:00We had a little orange kitty show up in our neighborhood and everyone was kind of trying to decide if he is stray, does he have a home.
00:07Good morning, sir.
00:10My daughter asked if we could start feeding him and we did.
00:16Pretty much every day he would stroll up our driveway and my daughter Coco would bring him out food.
00:22She'd wake up in the morning and look out the window and go...
00:25Waffles is here. Waffles is here.
00:32She fell in love with him.
00:38And we all did. Our whole family did and it became one of the most exciting parts of our day.
00:43But Waffles is here.
00:48After about a month or so we had him show up one day and he had a collar on.
00:53So that's when we realized Waffles is actually not a stray and that he has a home.
01:02We kind of started to form a relationship with the owner and now we kind of share a cat.
01:08His name by day is Waffles and then he goes home and settles down as Max.
01:14All of the neighbors around us know him and everyone's kind of keeping tabs on where he's at for the day.
01:20I fully believe that Waffles spread the word that this is the house to come to
01:25because I've looked out on my front walkway and there's cats laying out there, just laying out there.
01:34And Coco's named them all.
01:36What's this kitty's name?
01:37Tawny.
01:38Tawny?
01:41Is Tawny one of Waffles' friends?
01:43Yeah.
01:44I think so.
01:47So we're the second family for a couple cats, but Waffles is our main guy.
01:55He is magic. Waffles is pure magic.
01:57And what's inspired me to write my first children's book and publish it, it's been a dream come true.
02:05Beyond just having an outdoor cat that visits us,
02:08it opened up Coco's ability to understand what it means to care for an animal and to learn that responsibility.
02:15And it's given us such a cool keepsake that when she's older and she moved on and she has her own pet,
02:22she'll always remember this little orange cat named Waffles.
02:28And she has the book to remember it by.
02:33He means everything. We love him so much.
02:44We love you.