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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/theFumblingBumblebee on 2026-01-11 16:19:49+00:00.
Obligated to say it happened last night.
My husband and I got home from being out of town all day. It's 10 at night after pouring snow all day, and we're tired and full. We live in a trailer park, so as we drive down the main stretch we notice a small, all-black cat crouched in the road, sandwiched between our car and an incoming car. She looks at me. I look at her. I'm convinced it's our cat, Chives, out for the very first time somehow. She's acting stupid enough. I tell my husband so, and he parks and jumps out, calling to the cat, "Chives?" And the cat meows back and goes up to him. Right before he gets her in the car she launches herself off his wrist, digging her nails into him and making him bleed (Very Chives behavior, if you're curious) and takes off running. So he takes off on foot to the house, following cat trails that lead all around our house, as I drive home and bring our daughter inside.
Well, who is there to greet us but both of our cats, Chives warm and safe and completely unaware. My husband comes home and cleaned his battle wounds, and we had a pretty good laugh. I felt bad that I caused him to get hurt, but he even checked and said she had the same white patch as our cat. The only notable difference was that our cat meows and the doppleganger yowls, but we both assumed it was her "wtf is happening" voice, and were just more worried about getting her home safe than the logistics of how she'd get out in the first place.
TL;DR: saw black cat outside and got my husband scratched up because I thought it was ours. It wasn't.