A kitten has found its fur-ever home thanks to a chance encounter on the New York City Subway.
NYC resident Betsaida Mercado was riding the train when suddenly a small cat jumped into the car, just as the “Stand clear of the closing doors” announcement rang. As Mercado tells Today.com, she decided to pick up the kitty and make sure it was safe.
“I just grabbed her,” Mercado says. “My first thought was making sure she was OK. My second thought was, ‘I’m going to be a cat mom.'”
Mercado and her new animal pal got off at the next stop, and she called her boyfriend.
Mercado’s boyfriend then met her and picked up the kitten as she went off to work. After a bath and a trip to the vet, the couple decided to adopt their new fur baby, naming her Emmie, short for MTA, the agency that manages the subway.
“I think God put me on that train. He put me on that schedule so I would be the one,” Mercado says. “He put me there to find my future child. She seemed like she was really lost. She found her mommy.”
One thing’s for sure: any cat that can ride the NYC Subway certainly has street savoir-faire.