College student sets out to rescue a single stray kitten, but one surprise grey cat and five newborns later, they’re living with a family of seven: 'The cat distribution system had big plans'

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kalila courban
Apr 19, 2025 5:00 PM EDT

Hey friends, get comfy for this chaotic and heartwarming tale of how the Cat Distribution System didn't just deliver, it truly outdid itself. The original poster had their heart set on adopting a single stray. They started feeding a sweet little kitten named Biscuit, who had been hiding under their car. One night, they decided it was time to bring her inside. But when they came back with a carrier, they found another cat—Maple—sitting beside Biscuit like she had already decided this was her home too.

Maple immediately walked up, meowed for attention, and happily ate the food offered. Soon after, it became very clear that Maple was expecting kittens. Two weeks later, she gave birth to five tiny babies. Now the poster's quiet apartment is filled with seven adorable cats and a whole lot of love. This is exactly how the Cat Distribution System works. You may think you are helping one cat, but the universe sends the cats who need you most. Sometimes all at once. Today, Biscuit, Maple, and their kittens are happy, safe, and thriving. And their human, who started with the goal of saving just one, has become a loving guardian to a full, fluffy family full of silliness. 

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    "CDS gave me 7 cats when I was looking for 1"

    I had been wanting a cat for a little while and seeing a ton of videos on Facebook about people having strays come up and adopt them. There are a ton of stray kittens and cats in my area, most of which are older and completely feral, but I thought maybe that would happen to me. Well, the kitty in the first picture (biscuit) is under a year old and I saw her roaming about and hiding under my car everyday so I started to give her some food. One night, she
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    started letting me pet her, so I decided to try to get her inside. I went upstairs to grab the cat carrier my mom left with me and some wet food to try to lure her into he carrier and take her upstairs. When I came back out, I saw another grey cat (maple) beside her. There are almost a dozen strays over here and never once have I saw this one before. She came up to me meowing like crazy and letting me pet her and eating the wet food. So naturally I put her in the
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    cat carrier first and brought her upstairs. and went back down for biscuit. At this point, biscuit saw me catnap the grey cat and was scared of the cat carrier so I sat outside for 3 hours letting her and feeding her until she started purring and laying down with me. After that she let me pick her up and get her into the carrier to take inside. I successfully got both.
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    I went to get food and litter for both and came back to set them up. It was at this point maple came up to have me pet her again and plopped on the floor and seemed to REALLY like having her belly rubbed, which I thought was odd for a cat, especially a stray, to be that trusting. This is when I noticed something odd, she looked a bit thick to
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    her kitties. Luckily, she decided to trust me a ton so she let me see her kittens and transfer them into the new and clean nest. This was a few days ago and the kittens are growing so fast and both biscuit and maple are doing very well, but maple is very tired.
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    coming soon but I am a college student and had a class to get to so I ran off. After class I decided to go to Walmart to get a bigger box and comfy blankets to carve out a much nicer next than the one I made on my first attempt. I came home, used a box cutter and tape to carve out the greatest nest of all time and when I go to give it to her, she already gave birth and was chilling with
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    They've both been hanging out with me for a few weeks and one morning, a few days ago, exactly 2 weeks after I picked up maple and brought her inside, I noticed she didn't race over to eat her food when I brought her it first thing in the morning. All she wanted was to constantly meow at me and have me run her belly. I knew the babies were
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    be a stray, then I noticed her nipples were very pink and large and she didn't have hair around them. It then dawned on me she was definitely pregnant. How did I miss that outside when I picked her up? It was dark. But, I don't think it would've made a difference. Ultimately, her being pregnant is probably why she came up to me in the first place.
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  • MORE INFO FROM OP: 

    “I thought this was a neat story as I started out just wanted to get biscuit off the street and I ended up meeting maple for 5 minutes and taking her upstairs and behold, now I have 7 kitties in my apartment I take care of. It has been a blessing and I am glad biscuit and maple adopted me and I feel very honored maple trusted me enough to care for her and her babies.”

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    Ill-Wear-8662 · 1d ago To be fair she looks pretty surprised in the fourth picture! You're a grandmeow now!
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    NoNeedForNorms 1d ago Has Biscuit been helping co- parent at all? Feral queens will raise kittens communally, so I hope you're getting the help!
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    LaureGilou 1d ago . CDS isn't so good with math. And: you're an angel, OP, and i love you!
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