Given the small size of many Japanese homes, by the time you get all your furniture and other belongs in, it’s not uncommon to wind up wishing you had more space for yourself. Eventually, though, you learn to maximize your apartment’s storage capacity.
Bulky winter coats get folded and boxed up during the summer. Space under the couch? Fill it with storage containers. Too many DVDs? Throw out all the cases and stick the disks in a compact travel case.
And that tiny empty patch on the shelf? Prefect for a cute little cat.
As you’d guess, Twitter user 3110 Drum is passionate about music. What you wouldn’t know from his screen name, though, it that he’s also pretty fond of his pet cat.
猫の狭いとこ好きもここまできたか pic.twitter.com/MB17Tq7aeQ
— ドラムの齋藤(3110) (@3110drum) July 31, 2014
The cat, meanwhile, is fond of wedging itself into the crevices of 3110 Drum’s home.
▼ In Japan, just about everyone prefers PlayStation to Xbox, even the cats.
なんで猫ってこう狭いとこが好きなんやろ pic.twitter.com/uGhYgiBiO0
— ドラムの齋藤(3110) (@3110drum) May 29, 2014
Despite spending every day together, even 3110 Drum seems surprised at how far his pet is willing to go in infiltrating the narrow confines of its surroundings, at times reacting with good-natured exasperation and comments like, “Hey! That’s not your private room!”
そこはお前の部屋じゃないぞ pic.twitter.com/0XoO8RgxsY
— ドラムの齋藤(3110) (@3110drum) June 5, 2014
Given the several snapshots 3110 Drum has shared of his kitty, the doting owner seems happy to share his limited living space with the animal, which is good news for its adoring Internet fans.
“Soooo cuuuute!”
“In that picture where he’s on top of the books, I just want to squeeze his little paw.”
“Too cute-it’s driving me crazy!”
“This is just what I needed right now.”
またお前そんなとこはいりおって pic.twitter.com/kEriRmTlUy
— ドラムの齋藤(3110) (@3110drum) August 3, 2014
Really, with eyes like that looking at us, we think we’d be OK without a walk-in closet.
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