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This viral peachy cat will give you the warm and fuzzies

Lydia Coutre SOURCE: Lydia Coutre
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This viral peachy cat will give you the warm and fuzzies
Mom's homemade peach pie has a sweet, nostalgic taste for Lydia Coutré.But since moving away from her parents' Michigan home, getting photo updates of her family's 5-year-old Siamese and tabby mix cuddling up with the fuzzy fruit during peach season is the next best thing.Coutré tweeted photos of Ozzy last week, never expecting to get more than 180,000 likes and 70,000 responses."I was stoked when 50 people liked it," Coutré said. "Then I woke up Saturday to tons of notifications and it's taken off since then. As for why people have taken to it ... I think it's just adorable and slightly weird. Plus it's a cat. What's not to love?"Ozzy has taken a liking to peaches since the first time they were brought into the house. Her mom sets the fruit out on newspaper to ripen before making pies and jams."He immediately found them on the table and started rubbing against them. Ever since then, without fail, every peach season he can be found with the peaches," Coutré said.It's only peaches Ozzy seems to love. Clementines are a different story."He'll sniff them, make a face, turn up his nose and run away," she said. "When my mom's working at home and he's bugging her, which he likes to do, she'll set clementines by her desk to get some peace."

Mom's homemade peach pie has a sweet, nostalgic taste for Lydia Coutré.

But since moving away from her parents' Michigan home, getting photo updates of her family's 5-year-old Siamese and tabby mix cuddling up with the fuzzy fruit during peach season is the next best thing.

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Coutré tweeted photos of Ozzy last week, never expecting to get more than 180,000 likes and 70,000 responses.

"I was stoked when 50 people liked it," Coutré said. "Then I woke up Saturday to tons of notifications and it's taken off since then. As for why people have taken to it ... I think it's just adorable and slightly weird. Plus it's a cat. What's not to love?"

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Ozzy has taken a liking to peaches since the first time they were brought into the house. Her mom sets the fruit out on newspaper to ripen before making pies and jams.

"He immediately found them on the table and started rubbing against them. Ever since then, without fail, every peach season he can be found with the peaches," Coutré said.

It's only peaches Ozzy seems to love. Clementines are a different story.

"He'll sniff them, make a face, turn up his nose and run away," she said. "When my mom's working at home and he's bugging her, which he likes to do, she'll set clementines by her desk to get some peace."