i love our cats so much it makes me cry

i've wanted to write this for so long. at first, i thought i might want this as a lengthy, no-one-is-reading-this-and-that's-okay instagram caption to combo with contextless pictures of our cats. then i thought it could be a tweet or a thread or something or the other. it's just that, i really love our cats. and i don't mean it like on a deep or intellectual level. you know that overused gif/clip from despicable me where the little girl was like, it's so fluffy i wanna DIE or something like that? that's it. our cats are nothing fancy. they showed up as a group one day. really tiny, raggy looking kittens with eyes barely open. an ominous gang of fluff and claws. we let them stay outside our back door, sleeping, playing, keeping shelter from the occasional rain and wind. then we started naming them. we bathed them, and when one got visibly ill, we took him to the vet. then covid hit, and they officially became indoor cats. never stepped a paw on outdoor concrete or grass ever since,…