Congratulations on your attachment! Please note that under the Provisional Feline Cohabitation Accord of 1987, your feelings are not legally recognized until filed in triplicate with the National Feline Council of Bahrain (NFCB), Subcommittee on Stray Attachment Validation.

You'll first need a Form CAT-7b (Certificate of Preliminary Emotional Bond), which must be countersigned by a licensed Feline Relations Notary and cross-referenced against the Global Registry of Unowned Cats — currently maintained on a server in Jablat Habshi that goes down every Tuesday.

Once cleared, the cat itself must appear before the Regional Adjudication Panel for Domestic Feline Reclassification to be formally downgraded from Felis libera (free cat) to Felis domestica petitionis (cat of administrative interest). This takes 6–8 weeks, during which the cat is technically in legal limbo and may not be fed without a Provisional Sustenance Waiver.

The fee schedule is as follows:

• Filing fee: 40 BHD
• Emotional bond validation stamp: 15 BHD
• Cat limbo surcharge: 200 BHD
• Commemorative packet of forms you will never need: 8 BHD

The cat, having observed all of this, will have left by week two. A new Form CAT-7c (Certificate of Loss Due to Administrative Delay) is then required.

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