Every cat is unique. This is something that we know ourselves, as people who write about cats every single day and simply as cat owners. Cats have silly habits, likes and dislikes, thoughts and feelings that they express in all kinds of adorable ways. Some cats scream at closed doors for no apparent reason. Some cats decide that your laptop is the comfiest spot to lie on. Some cats snack on your plants. Some cats will have one ear that is folded and maybe one toe bean different in color than the rest of them.
Cats are all special in their own ways, but at the end of the day, all cats are… cats. And gartlandish's story on Reddit is not the first time that we have seen someone mistake a rare cat for a normal kitten. Because while rare cats do look different when they are older, when they are kittens, they look pretty much like all kittens. And in this case, we would have made the same mistake.
Luckily, unlike some other people who have made this mistake in the past, the cat in today's story is actually a domestic cat. And they can keep the cat. The owners simply have to follow the cat's rules, and they know it.
We once read about someone mistaking a puma kitten for a normal cat, don't think that can't happen. Kitten blindness in humans is real, and when we really want to pet one of them, we will ignore every sign of danger. That's how a new cat species was discovered for the first time in 100 years - by someone attempting to rescue what they thought was simply a kitten.