The Walking Dead Season 7: 17 Easter Eggs & References You Might've Missed

2. Michonne's Cat

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New Best Friends was a strange episode of The Walking Dead, given that it introduced us to perhaps its weirdest community yet in Jadis and the Trash People.

However, one odd moment had little to do with their actions and speech, but came at the end - when Rick takes a statue of a cat, and says to Michonne that it's "to replace the one you lost."

Ok, so I guess Michonne maybe had a cat before the apocalypse, and she told Rick that off-screen? Not quite.

Instead it's a callback to Season 3, when Michonne and Carl went into a cafe that the Grimes family used to frequent, hoping to find a picture of them. Michonne went in to retreive the picture after they were attacked by walkers, and came out with it and a rainbow coloured papier-mâché cat, saying: "I just couldn’t leave this behind. It’s too damn gorgeous.”

Since the cat hasn't been seen in a few years, it looks like it got left behind or destroyed, and now she finally has a replacement.

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