We’ve always known that our feline companions are cunning, but let’s add grief counselor to that list.

Reddit user goldenstate30 recently posted this letter that came home with his girlfriend’s cat:

Here’s the text:

I don’t know who this cat belongs to, but she comes visits us every few weeks. She’ll meow outside our backdoor until we let her in; she wounds herself around our legs, walks around the house like it’s hers, waits @ the fridge until my husband or I feed her baloney. She doesn’t like soft cat food very much! We look forward to her visits. We lost our 21 year old cat this year.

And here’s the kitty, Nala, in question:

It’s actually a fairly common tale: Last year, two families in Wellington, New Zealand were engaged in a custody battle over a Siamese cat named Ming/Cleo who split his time between two homes for a decade. Inga Moore’s 1993 children’s book Six-Dinner Sid is about a black cat who hangs out with six different families to, yes, eat six different dinners.

Reddit users also shared their own stories of their own conniving cats:

But everybody was in agreement about at least one thing: Nala’s definitely doing her job as both a house kitty and a “grief whisperer” here: