this cat followed me into mums house

[suzie1]

and just would not leave me alone, i stroked it and it just snuggled up to me, but then it ran upstairs right into my mums house and i had to get it down again, mum was furious at me for encouraging it, mum is heartbroken, as her cat had died 2 years ago, and when she sees any cat she gets upset, and says this cat used to play with my cat, which it did and mums cat is buried under the tree in her garden and this cat sits right on top of the grave every day, what's happening and is this spooky??? or normal catty behaviour. its not a stray cat, it looks clean, well groomed and got a collar on

[bensmum]

Hello suzie
I would say this is totally normal. Cats are often solitary creatures but can form attachments to other cats and even grieve if a "friend" dies. My mum has a cat which spends most of his time in her house (the owner knows and mum doesn't feed him) - he used to play with mum's cat before it died and really missed him. If your mum is upset at the cat getting too close it's probably best not to encourage it though (I know that's difficult). xx

[rowanwitch]

Cats will persist if there is a vacancy, when we buried on of ours in the garden a local puss came and sat with us for the funeral then walked back with us into the house... we shooed him out and we had to be really persistent as our surviving pair were very old and didn't want an uppity youngster in the house, when the last of the three died and we had a cat shaped vacancy Tinkerbella Pixie paws arrived and she decided we were her people... She's not like any of the others but she is growing on us...