Targets

Why is it that animals always seem to target our house? Is there a map somewhere out there in the animal world with our house circled in red, or maybe glowing in neon? Maybe it's not even the house but us, we're tagged as "Animal Lovers" and we have no way of hiding our true nature from all the furry, scaly, feathery creatures out there.
On Saturday, my mom and I went out walking around the neighborhood, as we sometimes do. This time we went later than usual, it was already getting pretty dark but the weather was beautiful and we said, why not? We walked to a park a few blocks away and then we walked back home. As we were crossing the street parallel to ours, we hear a meow. A high pitch, pathetic little cry. We looked around and saw a beautiful female cat, she must have been about 5 months old walking towards us. We stop and wait for her to catch up. She comes close, still crying, and starts rubbing herself against our legs, as cats invariably do. We petted her and said cute things to her and then we turned around to leave. She had been sitting on some one's yard, so we assumed that was her house. But no...she started following us home, meowing as she walked. At one point she actually got ahead of us and kept looking back to see if we were coming. She crossed the street with us and seemed to know very well which house we belonged to. I think she had scouted the premises and had been waiting to ambush us with her feline cuteness. Of course, we gave her a can of cat food, which she greedily ate, and the she munched on some more dried food that was out there to feed the mother duck laying on her eggs. Yes, she's still there, and no they haven't hatched yet.
It's getting a little insane at our house. Inside and outside.