I got a cat.

for people who have been around for a while you might be seeing the title and thinking Jaden aren't you allergic to cats and to that I'd say yes kind of I'm actually not sure anymore and for the people who know anything about me you might see the title and think Jaden cats are literally the number one natural predator to birds and to that I also say yes that one's 100% proven fact so let me back up a bit and explain how we got here because all the cards in the world were stacked against the idea

of me getting a cat growing up I was irrefutably and absolutely allergic to cats my best friend had like three of the things and every time I would hang out or sleep over at her house I would be a Sneezy watery eyed snotty [Music] mess can I have some water given the fact my brother was also allergic to cats it was set that we were a dog family my whole life I went around not giving cats a second thought I never had anything actually against them but since I was forced to stay 20 ft away

from them or suffer the consequences I just couldn't get to know them plus as a kid dogs were always more appealing they're more likely to be bigger fans of playing and running around be more approachable with their genetically bred unconditional love and can overall be more forgiving cut to like two catless decades for me later and I'm meeting Jacob for the first time at his place as we're hanging out in his living room his cat Frasier comes over and greets me Frasier is extremely social and vain so he's always expecting nothing less than a NeverEnding

stream of attention from the people even though he's very cute and distinguished I deployed my typical foolproof plan of don't touch the cat Fraser realizes he's not getting any attention out of me and sits down nearby on the couch but a bit later Jacob's other cat ends up making an appearance this one's Taylor She's normally really shy and hides but does really like women which I am Taylor ended up crawling on to me and making herself really comfy in my womanly lap Jacob knowing I'm allergic offered to take her away but this was actually the

first time a cat has ever done something like this to me I've always been a bit of a cat magnet if you want to call it that because I act like they don't exist which they interpret as me not pushing their boundaries and creating a comfortable environment for them to come up to me on their own terms but never have I felt like a cat has chosen me like this before I told Jacob I'm happy to let her stay comfortable on me and I'll just reap the consequences of my sewing later on this was my

first extremely positive experience with the cat and I honestly felt really happy and special and wanted to enjoy it a few hours later I'm saying my goodbyes and during the drive back home I realized I was completely fine no sneezing no itchy eyes straight up nothing I was so confused and curious thus the start of my little cat experiment began every time I went over to Jacob's Place I would let the cats be as social as they wanted with me if Taylor wanted to sit by me I'd let her if Frasier wanted attention I would

pet him at one point while we were watching a movie Taylor literally decided to lay down on my neck filling every one of my breaths with cat dander and hair and you know what happened no reaction not even a little drip of mucus somehow sometime I'd grown out of my cat allergy and never noticed apparently every seven years people's Allergies have the chance to change maybe being surrounded by my friends cats all throughout my childhood could have helped my body get more familiar with them either way I've now unlocked the skill to survive cats oh

guys it was incredible now that I'd been freed from my shackles I immediately started taking time to get to know cats more instantly they felt so much more cute and cool and approachable and all I was really starting to like them more especially since every time I would hang out at Jacob's Place Taylor would walk over and be around me and purr and oh it was amazing to be loved by a cat so I really like cats now and after some time I decided I wanted one too Jacob and I decided to peruse a local

cat rescues website just to see what cats were available I don't want to get one right away there's a lot I have going on but it doesn't hurt to oh my God that one I want that one so bad it's so cute what's it name tost toana toana my beloved we have to send in an application we have to hi my name is Jaden I love this cat please let me adopt it please please what you guys know me I'm weak wheeled and impulsive my first mistake was liking cats to begin with the rescue reached

out a few days later for a cat screening interview to make sure we would be a good fit to be cat parents after being approved they told us we could pick any cat we wanted that was in their hair of course I asked about tostada but we were given the unfortunate news that she had already been adopted no we looked at the other cats available on their website but unfortunately none of them really stood out to me the rescue ended up inviting us to a little meet the cats event they were hosting where we could

see all the cats they had up for adoption in person which was awesome because that was actually the first time I'd ever actually seen and held a kitten before it was amazing but as cute and tiny as they all were there still wasn't one that called to me I pried Jacob away from the kittens headed home and we started waiting every day I would check the rescue's cat list to see if any new ones caught my eye I didn't even know what I was looking for but waited for the universe to send me my perfect

cat nonetheless one morning I refreshed the page and saw one new kitten added a Tori they found in some dumpster named Scrabble with the the biggest eyes and forehead I'd seen in my life something about this bizarre little creature called to me I messaged the rescue about Scrabble and they told me she's available putting me in touch with scrabble's foster parents every day they sent me new little pictures of kitten Scrabble and every photo I fell more and more in love with her she seemed so silly and playful and those eyes we got on a

video call and they told me all about how big of a personality she has out of the five other kittens they were fostering she was by far their favorite the whole time we were talking Scrabble was flipping around in their arms and looking at the camera with her giant orbs I left that call knowing I found my cat I needed to have little kitten Scrabble meeting her in person only cemented it she was shy at first but after flinging around her worm toy she immediately started hopping around and being the life of the party I

talked a lot to her foster parents and they just gushed about how they wish they could keeper since they all loved her so much even though the rescue called her Scrabble obviously that was more of a placeholder name the foster parents called her Camy but neither of those really fit to me however I knew one name that I liked toast yeah I stole another kitten's name and pasted on mine so what big deal tosta is a great name my tosta is way more of a tostada than the other tostada anyway look at her I would

have left with little tostada in my arms that moment if I could but unfortunately Jacob and I were going out of town for 3 million weeks and had to wait to take her home until after we came back she was all I could think about the entire time I was shoving tostada photos in everyone's face every chance I got the foster parents were sending tostada updates every day I was overflowing with yearning for this cat she was growing and learning about the world without me take me home to my child literally the moment Jacob and

I landed we drove straight from the airport to the foster home to pick her up I could not wait we arrived home with plus one tostada I couldn't believe it I have a mammal now and sorry other mammal owners but it's the best mammal in the whole wide universe Jacob and I spent the entire day playing with her letting her get used to her new surroundings she was so cute and so tiny here's a video of her eating wet food with a big old Chomp as someone who's owned birds for 7 years at that point

it felt so strange to have a pet that was significantly less fragile and also draws significantly less blood you mean this thing can't fly up and get hit by the ceiling fan insane I've had toada for a while now she's 2 years old at the time of me posting this and let me tell you this thing has become a creature first of all eyes still Giant and she never blinks look at this she was sitting on my desk looking like that long enough for me to notice get my phone out of my pocket pull up

the camera app put the camera in her face and take a photo and here's like four more she is also not that smart I'm sure you could deduce that by how she looks but this thing has a single brain cell and it's just another version of herself up there with a joystick Jacob and I are fully convinced she can only form a few thoughts a day and only in single word nouns evidently tostada is also very scared of everything always has been loud noises quiet noises no noises movement of any kind even Jacob a person

she's been around all her little life post dumpster there's been times where he'll be at his desk moves his chair just a smidge and she's darting out of the room one time we were trying to explain to some friends how skittish she genuinely can be and demonstrated it by grabbing a toy literally in front of her raising it up a bit lightly dropping it on the floor still in front of her and she bolted you know how cats are genetically built to be good at balancing well tostada can't even do that she trips and falls

and misplaces her feet all the time on multiple occasions she has tried to walk across my L-shaped desk and just missed and fell down that's like the one thing that makes a cat a cat and nope doesn't hit the mark there either she's gotten better but as a kitten tostada couldn't even jump after I built her her first cat tower I watched as she attempted to jump up to the second level not quite make it and had to slam her arms down on the thing to hoist herself up like she was mountain climbing but oh

is she the sweetest little thing when I got a cat I was expecting it to want its own space come around when it wants you know General cat things but this creature follows me from room to room with those high beams of hers she sits on my lap while I'm at my computer lays on my giant Pokémon plushes mostly just looks up at me from the floor and just stares when I'm sleeping she'll just crawl into bed and Tuck herself up right next to me look at all these photos of her straight up on me

when I'm sleeping don't look too close so I don't have makeup on bedtime is sacred to her she loves bedtime if I'm working late toada will come into my office around 9 or 10 p.m. AKA past tosta bedtime and just start crying scratching on my chair rolling around on the floor it it's pitiful and if I still don't move after that she'll go into the bedroom and drag over her string toy she always plays with it it's just so sad and pathetic I always play string with her when she brings it over though don't worry

but lately she's picked up another routine habit which is Pats not all cats like the Pats but tostada lives off them it's when you just slap a cat's butt and it looks like you're hurting them but they actually love it however tostada is really particular about pets first of all I'm the only one allowed to give her pets Jacob has tried and she runs away scared and offended every single time second she has to receive pats on a specific spot on the floor of the closet if I try to give her pets in like my

office she bolts to her floor spot staring at me to continue them over there also she begs to be Pat every single night like clockwork she'll sit like a gargoyle in front of the closet and cry pitifully until I come over there now when I finally come over for pets she'll flop on the floor and start horizontally rock climbing her way across the floor with her claws and Tangle herself up in the ethernet cables while I keep up the pad you think I'm joking but I'm very much not this is the only way she accepts

pets and I have to give them to her every night or else she's miserable to's world is so small she's really just around me Jacob Taylor and Frasier but she loves her simple family so much when kitten tostada first met Frasier she was terrified of him she'd been around other adult cats before but she'd never seen a flat cat in her life and she was mortified of course she's since warmed up to and they play together and hang out all the time they're best friends but tostada loves Taylor always has she looks up to Taylor

like a little baby sister admiring her cool awesome older sibling unfortunately Taylor hates it they literally have a SpongeBob Squidward type of sibling relationship and tostada is so oblivious to it Taylor has annoyingly swatted at tostada so many times just for existing around her that tostada now thinks it's a fun little game they play and will start chasing and swatting back at Taylor happily not understanding cat social cues of course never in a way that's too far but just enough to get on Taylor's nerves even more between the three of them they all have such

different little personalities and relationships to each other it's made our lives so much more entertaining and to anyone concerned about the birds don't worry I've got Ari and tofu very separated from the cats they're safe in their own blocked off room connected by a double door system that ensures no possible interaction between bird and Cat if anyone is thinking about getting cats and birds as pets it is possible but just make sure the two are very separate especially if you have smaller birds like coners or budgies I'm sure there's people out there that have trained

their cats to be fine around a pet bird but to me all it takes is one accident or attack for you to just not have a bird anymore plus having the two of them takes a huge huge amount of time and commitment I've said it before and I'll say it forever I love my birds to death but they do not make good pets for the very large majority of people in terms of allergies I do think I was originally still a little bit allergic to tostada ironically when I first got her I was Sneezy and

sniffling nothing allergy pills couldn't fix and it never was as bad as my original cat allergy but I think I've been growing out of that one too because nowadays I don't have any reaction to her at all bodies are a mystery I am building my immunity to everything next up is rat poison I didn't think I would make a video talking about this thing but tost has just got such a funny little personality and has become such a big part of my life she may be the description of autism but I love her more than

the world itself and I know I'm the center of her little life too I don't even see her as a cat she's just a little creature that follows me around looking weird but I love it and I'm so glad I grew out out of my cat allergy just so I can have her it really has been so different owning a cat mainly because I know toata won't just Bight me at any given chance unlike some Aven creatures thanks for watching the video heads up I'm going to be announcing new merch again soon so be on

the lookout for that the last drop went so well and I'm really glad that so many of you guys enjoyed it I'm so excited to finally be getting back into making fun merch uh and it really helps me out a lot all right so sorry thanks uh anyway I'll talk to you later bye-bye