Meet Rex Manning (or just Rex for short), an adorable, sweet and fluffy cat who was rescued by his owner, Emily Crane. She saved him when he was a kitten, and now he is about eight years old.
Rex loves going for walks around his house and neighborhood in Missoula, Montana. He loves attention, especially when it comes with nice, behind the ear scratches. That is the reason why he’ll often approach people and ask for cuddling.
Image Credits: Emily Crane
He spends his days roaming around the neighborhood, but at night, he always comes back home to his mother. “At a rather young age, he started begging to go outside,” Crane told The Dodo. “I would let him out the back door and watch from my upstairs kitchen window.”
Image Credits: Emily Crane
For years, Crane always wondered what Rex did during the day. But then, she finally knew more about Rex’s life when she saw he had returned home from one of his adventures with a stranger’s note on his collar. When she unfolded the note and read it, she could not stop laughing.
Image Credits: Emily Crane
“Hello!” the note begins. “This is your neighbor in the red house! We just wanted to let you know that Rex has developed a weird love for our bathtub + will sneak into our home to sit in it! All of us in the house are 100% okay with this because we all love Rex very much. We just want to let you know in case you were wondering where he was one of these days … he’s probably in our bathtub. <3 The Red House.”
Image Credits: Emily Crane
Crane didn’t know the neighbors who sent the note, but she hoped that she’d meet them soon. So, on Rex’s next adventure, she attached a return letter to his collar, thanking her neighbors in the red house for their hospitality.
Image Credits: Emily Crane
Crane and Rex live in a close-knit community, where she can let her cat roam free. She is happy because she knows that Rex brings a little joy to her neighbors every day.
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h/t: The Dodo