‘The vet said we could either take him or put him back on the street’: Aslan, the friendly orange stray, gets rejected by the cat shelter, so the heroic couple who found him decide to keep him furever

Jesse Kessenheimer • Writer and Editor

Jul 11, 2025 2:00 PM EDT

Must a cat lover bring every cat they see on the street home with them? Probably not. Do they want to? Absolutely.

Finding a stray cat is an emotional endeavor. With your heart strings getting tugged between responsibility and moral obligation, cats have a way of burrowing themselves into our souls in an instant. We may know that we can't take another cat in the house, but we certainly can't leave this little fella out here to fend for himself! Ahh, alas, the query persists.

However, in some instances, the choice is made clear for our moral dilemma. Apparently, in Arizona, vets can't transfer stray cats to a shelter unless they're very sick. So a random, healthy stray waltzing into a vet clinic is either going home with his finder or he's going back to the streets. The would-be cat lovers in this next story found themselves in a pickle when they found Aslan, the giant, friendly orange cat under their car.

Should they return him to the wild? Or take him in themselves… You can paw-robably imagine what they decided next.

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