20+ Heartwarming And Hilarious Cat Rescue Stories To Keep You Company Over Your Lunch Break

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Laurent Shinar • Writer and Editor
Apr 30, 2024 2:00 PM EDT

Good midday to you dear feline fanciful hoomans, the middle of the day hath come and that means it is the pawfect time to indulge in a little cat nap. However, if you find yourself in the unfortunate situation that means you have nowhere to suitably rest your weary head, then you have at least landed on the purrfect page to reinvigorate your wholesome feline reserves. This list contains over twenty of some of the  most heartwarming and hilarious cat rescue stories that Reddit has to offer to keep you company over your lunch break. Because, let's face it, there is hardly anything that can fill you with hope that everything is right with the world than a cat finding their forever home in the most dramatic of ways.

So find yourself a quiet spot where the other hoomans cannot bother you, while you whisk your mind away to the fantastically funny and philanthropic destination of cat rescue land.

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  • 01
    danielle weisberg @danielleweisber I love the difference between dog and cat rescue stories. dog owners will be like oh I prepped for months and applied and had a home check then did a foster to adopt trial period and then the rescue chose me! and cat owners are like.. I found him in the trash 1:26 PM - 11/7/22 Twitter for iPhone
    via @danielleweisber

    Truth, sister, truth! The cat distribution system is a thing of glory and has created several of the most bizarre situations that hoomans have come across. After spending hundreds of years on the domestication of wolves, cats simply decided one day that they will live by our sides too. Makes you wonder which of the two actually want to be around us, and which one was brainwashed into it…

  • 02
    Queen-of-meme • 1y ago Cat stories are more like: He broke in to my house and I had no choice but to adopt him. 2.3K Share TheCrimsonChariot • 1y ago I was gonna say. "I opened the back door and he ran inside. He wouldn't leave so now he lives with us." 1.1K ↑ Share • Prestigious Scars 1y ago Edited 1y ago So true, happened to me... Heard meowing in the middle of the night and a ~6 month old unneutered kitten ran in the back door as soon as we opened it. Immediately proceeded to act like he owne
    via u/Prestigious_Scars, u/TheCrimsonChariot, u/Queen-of-meme
  • 03
    Thelazyzoologist • 1y ago Grew up on a farm in the country. People have a nasty habit of dumping animals in the country, particularly cats. As a result we would have the odd group of ferals running about from them breeding. Most of my pet cats have been trapped and caught by us as feral kittens. I genuinely believe they end up making the most affectionate cats. Ө 168 ↑ Share Hector john 1y ago Those people should get life in prison
    via u/Hector_john, u/Thelazyzoologist
  • 04
    owiesss • 1y ago American Shorthair Every single one of my cats (except 1) were all foster fails of mine. The thing is, I didn't live in an area at the time that had a rescue/foster organization, so I did all of it on my own. I was 16 when I started fostering so juggling that and college prep was though, but oh so worth it. 1 of my cats was found at 2 weeks old behind my ex's house, all snuggled up and warm, not knowing that their mom had just been poisoned (accidentally at least) and we've been
    via u/owiesss
  • 05
    trowzerss 1y ago My mum's story was, "I walked out the back of the store, and a kitten jumped off a three story building onto a pile of bricks next to me, and so then I had a cat." 73 Share haremgirl6 ⚫1y ago Hehe...one of mine literally escaped from the cage during an adoption event at Petsmart and they were chasing him around the store. He ran up my leg and I went home with a cat. He was like 10 weeks and causing all types of havoc. 55 ↑ Share . FourFurryCats 1y ago It's like a Superhero origi
    via u/FourFurryCats, u/haremgirl6 , u/trowzerss
  • 06
    DisinterestedCat95 • 1y ago Got mine that way. One night, she came in the doggy door and jumped up on the dresser in the bedroom and walked in front of the TV to announce herself. When the stray learns to use your doggy door, she's yours. Our other cat showed up as a stray in our backyard about three months before that. We suspect they might be related. Our dog came the usual way, from a shelter. 47 ↑ Share Queen-of-meme • 1y ago and walked in front of the TV to announce herself "Human, look at
    via u/Queen-of-meme, u/DisinterestedCat95
  • 07
    Cwningen Fach 1y ago Whenever I opened the back door, he ran into my house. Whenever I opened the front door, he ran into my house. He never wanted to leave of his own accord. He tore me to ribbons - hissing, scratching, biting - whenever I picked him up to make him leave. These were no warning bites, he drew blood. His owner came to collect him countless times. I took him back to his own house countless times. Eventually we (his owner and I) gave up. On the plus side, he's stopped hissing, scra
    via u/Queen-of-meme, u/CwningenFach
  • 08
    velveteenelahrairah • 1y ago European Shorthair Mine used to belong to the neighbours two doors over until he decided he liked me better. 13 ↑ Share Queen-of-meme • 1y ago Gotta switch up. 4233 2 Share Wimbleston • 1y ago Cat rescue stories = the cat adopted me dude, he just decided this was home now 12 ↑ Share gargravarr2112 ⚫ 1y ago Cats choose their humans. We don't get a say in the matter. That's how I got my furry dictator.
    via u/gargravarr2112, u/Wimbleston, u/Queen-of-meme, u/velveteenelahrairah
  • 09
    _M-E-O-W⚫1y ago Yeah two of my cats just walked up to the house one day and said hey, I'm staying here now. We had a third one who did the same thing but we gave him to another family. 10 ↑ Share 1 more reply drew1010101 1y ago Norwegian Forest Cat Isn't that how everyone gets their cats? 10 ↑ Share Queen-of-meme • 1y ago The majority who don't buy a kitten from a kennel, or an adult cat from a shelter, yes I believe so. The cat choose you. Plus it's extra sweet to pick a cat who strays around h
    via u/Queen-of-meme, u/drew1010101 , u/__M-E-O-W__
  • 10
    ImaginationSad2803 • 1y ago Bombay My neighbor brought a black cat to my door thinking my cat got out. When I woke up the next day I had two black cats. 1.1K ↑ Share conversating ⚫1y ago My roommate almost did this. He was walking back from school and thought my cat got out so he chased him until he ran up a tree. He was halfway up the tree getting scratched to slot by this cat desperately trying to get away from him before he realized the black and white markings weren't similar at all. ↑ Share
    via u/247Brett, u/kniGhgArdlyb-G89, u/conversating, u/ImaginationSad2803
  • 11
    imaginaryblues • 1y ago I got the most wonderful cat from a random dude on Craigslist. He didn't speak a lot of a English but seemed desperate to get rid of her, I think he said his family was moving. He even offered to bring her to me. I paid him $50 for a "rehoming fee" which honestly seemed more than fair, since he delivered her to me and all. She hadn't had any veterinary care, but I took care of all that and she's been perfectly healthy and just the sweetest, most loving cat you could ever
    via u/schrodingers_cat42, u/conversating, u/imaginaryblues
  • 12
    Crescenthia1984 • 1y ago mine was more like "the rescue group brought him to petco and he clung to my arm and demanded to come home with me" (dear rescue groups: this is very effective. I also have a blind dog this way.) 255 ↑ Share efvalentine ⚫1y ago This is why I avoid Petco when it has those adoption thingies like the plague. If I bring home yet another cat my family will probably murder me. They already don't trust me the last time I went out for one and came home with two... So I give anyw
    via u/Crescenthia1984, u/efvalentine
  • 13
    labe225 • 1y ago We went for cat food one evening and then my wife went to the cats "just to look" There was this little gray kitten in there and she had to go hold him. He immediately latched onto her arm so he could climb and rest on her shoulder. He apparently looked and acted just like her childhood cat that went missing long ago. And that's how we got Biscuit.
    via u/labe225
  • 14
    Kear_Bear_3747 • 1y ago I went to the Humane Society and was like, "Aight I guess I have to take this cat home." 6 months later I'm back at the Humane Society like, "Aight I guess I have to take this cat home." It was at that moment I realized I should not visit the Humane Society. 470 ↑ Share JediDusty 1y ago I was at one once, and a void meowed at me so I gave him some pets. A volunteer came over and asked if I would like to hold him. He went to the back of the cage/kennel. He laughed and said
    via u/JediDusty, u/Kear_Bear_3747
  • 15
    • Forever203 1y ago Cat: I found this human in the trash. I better follow him home to make sure it doesn't happen again. 211 ↑ Share MacAlkaline Triad ⚫1y ago Found my last one stowed away beneath a Budweiser deliver truck. No idea how long he'd been riding along. 129 ↑ Share quietlumber • 1y ago That's how we got our most recent one! Delivery driver at work came inside to get me to help her look under the van for the source of the meowing. 2 month old stowaway kitten somehow made a 7 mile trip
    via u/quietlumber, u/MacAlkalineTriad, u/Forever203
  • 16
    The Spyre 1y ago Hmmm. Let's see. My current cat rescue story is as follows (and these are just the ones I currently have, not past cats. Also, all of these cats have been fixed and chipped): Gypsy - Her mom abandoned her in my backyard as a kitten and I moved the food and water I gave her closer to my sliding glass door everyday for weeks until she came in. Egypt - She gave birth in my backyard to a litter of five. We set them up in our dining room with a wall of boxes to prevent them from gett
    via u/The_Spyre
  • 17
    Individual Turn2175 • 1y ago Dogs need a hole house but a cat will just chill in a bathroom and like it 97 ↑ Share Markymarcouscous • 1y ago You miss spelled cardboard box 74 ↑ Share ThatCatPerson9564 • 1y ago Preferably a shoe box 29 ↑ Share WhereTheLambZoz • 1y ago Any box, really
    via u/WhereTheLambZoz , u/ThatCatPerson9564, u/Markymarcouscous, u/Individual_Turn2175
  • 18
    Fenig ⚫ 1y ago • Edited 1y ago Remmy (no longer with us) was a member of an ex's older brother who was unwanted in the divorce. So I took her in. Had to tape the front drapes down as my apartment was no pets and I was next to the mailboxes. When I kicked ex to the curb, his mother told me to keep the cat and the TV. That was 2006ish 2012 I moved cross country with Remmy and working at a dry cleaner as a tailor. A coworker asks one day if I want a kitten she found. YES! Sight unseen I agree to ta
    via u/Fenig
  • 19
    kmsc84 • 1y ago So many stories. One of our newer cats came from a friend whose grandmother went into hospice. My friend is going to find a home for her, but nobody was willing to step up. The day after she dropped this little girl off, she delivered two kittens, one of which was still born and the other only lived a few hours. We also later found out that she has FIV. Willow is the most affectionate cat I have ever seen, and she will sit on my lap for as much as four hours without moving. Two o
    via u/kmsc84
  • 20
    itslike_reallygood • 1y ago I am one of the rare "I applied for my cat" people. I drove 4 hours to pick him up once I was approved. He was dumped in the woods and a park ranger found him. :( He is a super sweet and docile guy that just wants pets and belly rubs. 26 ↑ Share MiaouMiaou27.1y ago Me too! My Penelope was born to a feral mother in a supermarket parking lot, but all I had to do was drive 4 hours to pick her up from her foster home. (Unfortunately for her, the foster home was a 6,000 sq
    via u/MiaouMiaou27, u/itslike_reallygood
  • 21
    phdpeabody ⚫1y ago I had just moved into my first apartment without a roommate, and I drove across the street to the laundry to wash some clothes. As I was backing into the parking space I saw some gold eyes shining from across the parking lot. I pop my trunk, grab my laundry and go inside to wash it. When I finished, I got back in my car and started it, and as the headlights turned on, the gold eyes started glowing back at me again and I got curious, so I drove across the parking lot. As I got
    via u/phdpeabody

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