A man was napping when he was startled awake, only to find a stray cat who he didn’t recognize napping with him on the couch.

Ken Bragg fell asleep on his couch in the San Francisco Bay Area and found a stray cat snuggled up with him.

“I had fallen asleep with the TV on, and when I woke up the cat was on my lap,” Bragg told Newsweek. “My wife and I had seen her around the neighborhood, we are pretty sure she’s a stray. She appears to be pregnant too.”

Bragg shared the hilarious story on Reddit’s r/aww forum, where it has already racked up over 84,000 upvotes. Bragg told Newsweek that he and his wife have three cats of their own, so it’s not unusual to wake up with some kitty company but this was a huge shock.

“She must have come in through our cat door,” Bragg said. “Perhaps she saw one of my own cats come in through it and followed suit.”

The stray cat was calm in the home, which surprised Bragg.

“She was surprisingly calm when I woke up. I looked at her and said, ‘Oh, hello,’ and she answered back, ‘Mow.’ But she continued to just hang out on my lap,” he said.

“I shared the picture on Reddit because I thought it was such an unusual thing to have happened, and I thought people might get a laugh out of it. I was really surprised at how many upvotes it got.”

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