There’s at least one thing that Terrell Green looks forward to every weekday: the cat.

He sees the cat every morning at the Branch Ave Metro station, where he catches the train to work in D.C.

“The cat is usually either when you come from the parking lot into the train station or across the turnstile, when you’re about to walk downstairs to catch the train,” he says.

It also likes to hang out near the station manager’s kiosk, watching people go by.

Green, 37, of Waldorf, Md., started noticing the cat around October, when he returned to in-person work full time.

“And I’m like, ‘That’s weird. There’s a black cat, just magically there,” he says, laughing.

(Magic is right: Green says the cat is medium-sized and black, and reminds him of the cat on the 1990s sitcom Sabrina the Teenage Witch.)

Now, he sees the cat regularly. It’s not clear to Green where Branch Ave’s feline resident actually lives — maybe the apartments across the street from the station, he speculates. Green doesn’t think the animal looks hungry, though he jokingly tweeted at Metro that the cat should be made a member of the transit agency’s staff.

The Branch Ave station cat is prowling the Maryland station as D.C. researchers are finishing up an ambitious project to count the District’s cats. And President-elect Joe Biden is searching for a feline friend for his new federal digs.

Green says the station cat’s presence is pretty unobtrusive: it doesn’t hiss or meow or otherwise interact with riders much, preferring instead to wander around the station, observing. And it hasn’t really provoked much conversation among commuters — in the pandemic, Green says he and his fellow riders are “not really talking to anybody” — but he’s not the first to take to social media with thoughts about the cat.

For Green, an animal lover who grew up with three cats, the Branch Ave station cat is a welcome relief in the, um, litter box, that 2020 has been.

“It brings joy to this these times,” he says. “You know, having to wear a mask, and I wear glasses and your mask is fogging [them] up.”

“It’s the holiday season. You can’t see family or friends but hey, you see a nice little cat every morning to greet you on your way to work. It’s kind of nice.”

Some animals — like this ominous trio of ravens spotted near Blair Community Gardens — may look like harbingers of doom. But the cat doesn’t give Green grim vibes.

“[It’s] all just joy and new beginnings, even though it’s a black cat, which is kind of ironic because, you know, [you] don’t walk across black cats because of the superstition,” he says. “But the cat is friendly and nice and brings joy, and just a smile to your face.”