‘If he is alive in the morning, we will do further diagnostics and fight for his life’: 20+ Heartwarming Hooman Pawrents Share How They Met Their Cat Child

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Laurent Shinar • Writer and Editor
May 21, 2024 4:00 PM EDT

As we all know, cat adoption stories come in all shapes and sizes. From the more tame tales of feline fur babies being adopted through proper channels and finding their forever homes that way, to the scary stories of kittens being found at their last minute in dumpsters, clinging on to life with their little paws. And today we have the honor of sharing with you, our dear feline fanatics, 20+ heartwarming stories of how hooman pawrents met their cat children.

From the malnourished kitten whose determination and implacability kept bringing her back to her to-be pawrent who soon saved her from a premature departure from this earth, to the momma cat whose litter almost drank her into an early grave, rescued from a bush along with her lovely litter to live a wholesome and happy life in their new home. These sublime stories are the purrfect afternoon entertainment.

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  • 01
    My kitten was adopted, he came in to the veterinary clinic i work at for euthanasia, a kid kicked him on the streets, a woman saw the scene and decided to help him by bringing him to us, unfortunately the kitten had fractures, brain injury, has eaten bones and his stomach and intestines were horrible, he had herpesvirus that damaged his eye and a skin condition-he needed a lot of time and money to recover with low chance of surviving he was around 1 month old, euthanasia was chosen but the vet d
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    That is some heart melting stuff right there. What a beautiful story of belief and hope. To not choose the easy way out and to battle through the terribly tumultuous journey of nursing such a hurt creature back to full health is just the reminder we need that there are some seriously good people left on this planet. 

  • 02
    I wanted to take in a rescue and found someone "rehoming a kitten due to allergies". This was far from the truth.. I show up to pick up this kitten in need of a home, and a man approaches my car with his hand inside his coat. I had been corresponding with someone saying they were female, so I thought I was about to get robbed (this was a notoriously bad area). He then pulls this kitten out by the front of it's neck in a strangle hold and tries to shove it through the little opening of my car win
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  • 03
    Stories like this always make me emotional. I can't fathom what place you must be in mentally to want to hurt another harmless, innocent, sentient being. Thank you, from the bottom of my heart, for your kindness towards this poor little cutie. You're a good person My cat was dumped on the street as a tiny kitten, in a cardboard box, together with her sibling (who was already dead). My neighbours found her and, as they already had a cat who wasn't reacting well to another specimen on its territor
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  • 04
    I was ready for a cat a year after my boy Dexy passed away at 17. Got turned down by a shelter as I wanted to have them as in indoor cat. Asked a few friends to keep their ears open for people looking for homes for kittens on Wednesday and Saturday morning I was picking up a 12 week old void I called Hecate. The last of a litter of ten and free to a good home. Fate. Was told there was another litter in the same house that would be old enough in another two weeks but I was happy with my little gi
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    A sublime story indeed, and a good warning to those who are in the process of considering adopting a feline fur baby of their own. Just like potato chips, it is really, really difficult to only have one and leave it at that. Before you know it you have adopted a Pringles can worth of kittens and your home has turned into one big cat café.

  • 05
    My story is nowhere near as heartwrenching, but my cat looks a lot like yours (tabby with the white markings) so I'll tell it. I emmigrated to another country in my early 20s and lived paycheque to paycheque most of my 20s and wanted a cat (grew up with them) but felt I wasn't stable enough. Well I got a good permanent job, and two years into it my boyfriend and I broke up and I went f, I'm a single woman in my early 30s with a stable income, I'm getting a cat. So I found an apartment that allow
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  • 06
    My first cat, Scooter. Kept showing up on my balcony looking for food. She was tiny and skinny and one night when it was 10 degrees, she let me catch her and bring her inside. I thought she was maybe two months old because she was so little, but my vet said she was 6 months and didn't know how she had survived. All of her front teeth had fallen out. She never weighed any more than 5 pounds, super small but became very healthy. She was the funniest little girl. She lived a long happy life and liv
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  • 07
    The big fluffy one on the right was my first cat. He came to me through my husband. He was abused and neglected by a guy my husband trusted to take care of him while he was getting settled. Next came Peppermint with the black tail. We adopted her to be a friend to Smudge. She was living with an older man when he passed. She escaped the house where she was found by a rescue Next came Butterscotch. The orange one on top of tree. She's the most boring story. Her mom found a human and gave birth in
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  • 08
    I was fostering a kitten family of three rescues who'd been bottle fed. They were plump, healthy, and amazingly affectionate. From the first minute out of the carrier they found the toys and were playing on me like a jungle gym. The shyest one looked like a Tribble: all fur, little legs, a tiny tail. She'd had trouble on the ride from the shelter because she'd get car sick, and I cut out tight mats under her chin as she held so still. Such a good, patient girl. She grew up so pretty, I couldn't
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  • 09
    I heard about a void who a breeder took to be euthanized because she was "too ugly". So I was going to adopt her and a cow cat. I showed up and was handed the void and a lynx point Siamese instead. Apparently someone had immediately claimed the lynxie bc she was so pretty. But she bonded very closely with my void who she just happened to be put in a cage with prior to adoption. So they didn't want to separate the two of them. I don't really know anything about her history other than the fact she
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  • 10
    Here is the aggressive stray cat who terrorised my neighbourhood. He is as sweet as a button to people but would attack everything else on sight, to the point dog walkers avoided his territory. He is an absolute unit of a cat, 12 lbs of muscles, bigger than my main coon and he feels like warm mossy statue. He decided our house was his main place so he made a cat bed out of his victims beside our trees. I swear he attacked a coyote on day so he was a scary animal. We decided to TNR him so he woul
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  • 11
    We call him Theo after fat chipmunk and has some unique traits. He has an unpinchable neck due to all his muscles, so he does not have the off switch. He has a weezy meow, like he hurt his lung or something. And is incredibly awkward with how to cat. He is also rough the the touch, instead of being soft he feels something like a bear or deer. On a totally unrelated note a neighbour lost their friendly black cat. On a night walk i found a cat that fit the description of the runaway so we caught h
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  • 12
    Meeko was adopted in Louisiana when my husband was down there for Hurricane Laura. Meeko rode in the ambulance all the way to North Dakota, where we live. Marfa was adopted from PetSmart. Apparently she came from a cat hoarder situation. Pretzel (AKA Lil'S) was adopted from a friend who has barn cats. He is the younger brother to my daughters 2 cats and my older sons cat. Apollo was adopted from a friend for my foster son. Apollo was rather feral and very skittish so we adopted his brother to ma
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  • 13
    I was headed out my door to work in Brooklyn about 12 years when I spotted the teeniest little cat sitting near my stoop by one of those electrical junction boxes. I always say hi to the cats in the street but they're usually pretty skittish. But not this one, she mewled at me and gave me the big, irresistible eyes they use when they want something. But I was on my way to work so there wasn't anything I could do right then. I got home later that night and guess who I see sitting by a fire hydran
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  • 14
    The shelter found Charlie on the streets as a feral. Being disabled, he needed to find a safe indoor place to live instead of being TNR. They rehabilitated him for six months, and was fresh on the adoption floor when he met me. Didn't even have a sign yet. But we saw each other and just immediately connected. He is still an anxious boy, doesn't like strangers and hisses when startled, but he also is extremely loving and likes to be held like a baby! He has come such a long way!
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  • 15
    My soul cat Thor, didn't start out as my cat. A friend of a friend had adopted him as a kitten. I met him once when he was a kitten. The friends were all living in one house with a few different animals, I was living alone going through a divorce at a pretty young age. Flash forward a few months, and the friends are complaining that Thor pees everywhere and they want to get rid of him. I take him to get neutered, something they somehow hadn't done, and boom, outside of the litter box peeing stop
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  • 16
    My oldest son called me the day after Easter Sunday. My mom died early in the morning hours and I was feeling really sad. He said he found a small abandoned kitten no more than a few days old. It was meowing pitifully in a garbage can filled with sawdust. He couldn't just leave her there to die it was so cold and she was all alone and so tiny. So he took her and put her in a warm throw blanket and called me asking if I would take her in and care for her. I got her the next day and learned everyt
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  • 17
    Stopped at the grocery store after work to get a birthday cake for my mom. As I'm walking in to the store from parking in the back 40, I hear meows coming from under a light colored sedan. This particular location is known to have a resident feral cat colony, so I figured it was one of the ferals that was out looking for scraps but took refuge from traffic and people under a warm car. I talked to the cat, expecting it to run, but instead he came out of hiding and did that lovey figure 8 thing th
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  • 18
    Sassy appeared in my yard. I was looking for lost pet flyers but there were none. I kept her outside until I could take her to the vet and gave her food and water. She's spayed and a microchip was found with her owner's phone number. They didn't answer. Her original name on her chip was Anya. Months prior while walking in the neighborhood, I found her sitting on a driveway and she let me pet her. 10 Reply ATFLA10 ⚫3mo ago I adopted Ginger when he was two months old. He came from a litter of kitt
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  • 19
    My grandmother noticed a stray cat hanging around her house, so she started feeding it and bringing it inside. She named her Cleo, and she was such a a sweetheart, and really kept my grandmother company in the weeks after my grandfather's death. The next time I visited, she introduced me to Cleo, and I pet her, saying, "yeah Grandma, Cleo is really nice! She's really friendly, and, uh... she's kinda LUMPY!" Turned out little Cleo was pregnant and shortly thereafter gave birth to two kittens in a
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  • 20
    My favorite story to tell! My 2 twin babies were dumped on my rural street at less than a month old. They were both tiny and so dirty with respiratory infections crusting over their eyes and nose. I took them in and nursed them back to health while they did the same for me mentally. I had just quit my job due to what I consider (one of) my mental breakdown. I spent every day taking care of them as I couldn't leave my house for a couple weeks & they were the only things to get me out of bed. A mo
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  • 21
    Wrex here started his career as a house cat in the employ of another human family. Unfortunately, they were awful people. They abandoned him for reasons I will never know nor understand. He weaseled his way into the home of a man who fed ferals and when identified as non-feral, was taken to a shelter. He was placed in a foster home with one of the shelter staff but unfortunately the other cats in the house had a tendency to bully him. He ended up spending virtually all his time in a cage. Two ca
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  • 22
    We were living in a rental house in a neighborhood with a large feral cat population. One afternoon my husband came into the house saying he found a pair of kittens cowering and hiding in his car ramps with no adult cats around and he wanted my help catching them because they looked sick and hungry. So, I went outside with him and helped him catch the two kittens. He took them to a vet same day and it was determined that one of them had a very bad infection in both eyes, they were severely malno
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