Not even sure how I found this story because I am convinced now it has no category tags...so hoping someone can help!

The story opens with a guy getting hit by a car. We learn that he's bought a necklace for his girlfriend for Christmas (I think it's Christmas, might be her birthday) beforehand, but obviously he is killed before be can get it to her. He wakes up as a cat, and through some means, his girlfriend takes him in and they live together pretty peacefully. A cute little detail is that the guy hates cat food at first but gets used to the taste. I think a year goes by and Christmas rolls around and she's talking to the cat about her boyfriend and she's sad so the cat-boyfriend rushes to his old apartment or parent's house to get her the gift. She thinks he ran away and is frantic looking for him. They both get home around the same time and she discovers the necklace and realizes it's her boyfriend.

It's a josei, shoujo, or a seinen title. I think it's one volume, not sure if it's outright just a one shot though (might be split into several chapters).

Does this sound familiar? I have tried all sorts of category searched like "Cat/s" and "Animal Transformation" and even "Accident/s." Nothing.

http://i.imgur.com/LxhWm.jpg (will reformat this some day…)

"I Was Reincarnated as a Cat", the 7th chapter of Kimi ga Tonari ni Iru Dake de: Aisubeki Doubutsu-tachi.

You are AMAZING. I was just going through Lovely Strange Dark's scans because it seemed like something they would do, but I was looking at the Oneshots and never would have found it.

I need to start using my lists more consistently! Thank you, thank you, thank you!! 😃

http://i.imgur.com/LxhWm.jpg (will reformat this some day…)

It is in the oneshots' section of LSD's website—we treat anthologies of different authors as standalone oneshots. (Which is why such anthologies don't fall under the "complete every series unless it gets licensed" policy, unlike single-author collections of stories.)