“He carried him five miles home in his arms”: A dump-side rescue turns into a gentle love story between a lucky kitten and the family who was meant to find him

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Laurent Shinar • Writer and Editor
Jul 28, 2025 3:00 PM EDT

Cat rescues are difficult at the best of times. We have become accustomed to hearing about cats being left on the side of the road, in dumpsters, and any other kind of receptacle that might hide the shame of the shameful person who wanted to rid themselves of their fluffy poofs of joy. But in today's story things start by going from bad to worse, not for the catto, but for the rescuer, whose car broke down and had to begin a long trudge home to complete his day.

But as often happens when your story starts out so bleak, there is some hope just over the horizon, and within the blink of an eye, this roadside trudger, when from wanderer to rescuer. Stopping traffic, risking his own life, and saving the life of a sweet feline fur baby who wanted nothing more than a loving family.
 

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    Full story: my bfs car broke down while he was going to work, he had to walk home bc we didn't have any way to get him home (have no triple A, insurance doesn't cover tows, plus the car he had has the kids car seats so I couldn't pick him up,
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    anywayssss during his walk when he was about 5 miles from the house near the dump by our house someone decided to throw this little guy out of their moving car. My bf heard a screech/distress sound and looked over to see the cat sliding on the
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    road. A car was about to come by and hit him but my bf jumped into the road threw his hand up to stop traffic & got the cat out of the road. The cat was so sweet to him and he couldn't just leave him so he decided to carry it with him for the rest of his walk home. When he
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  • Wow, talk about a wild series of events. Just when you think that your life could not be going more from bad to worse, you are suddenly delivered a kitty at high speed by the Cat Distribution System. And yes this is one of those times when the Cat Distribution System is clearly a metaphorical thing, consider that even Amazon do not fling their deliverables so haphazardly from their delivery vehicles.

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    got home, the cat was skittish at first but opened up really quick and is the sweetest little guy(im in love) m I feel so sad that someone could or would even be able to do something so horrible but
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    I am so glad he's with us now I've been wanting a cat again since I lost my 2 cats but I didn't ever imagine getting one like this (he doesn't seem to be in pain (other than maybe his eye but he doesn't seem to care) he's acting
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    normal, eating playing etc. but he's going to the vet first thing in the morning )
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    Sorry on the delayed update, yesterday was very busy between the kids, cat/dog, and trying to get the car back, go to the store, etc so I wasn't able to bring him to the vet. He ended up making it today in the afternoon.
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    I 100% believe everything happens for a reason & that all the circumstances that went bad/wrong on Monday happened for a reason for my bf to find this poor lil guy. Fate put him there for a reason, and we couldn't be happier. everyone in the
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    house is obsessed with the cat: My son has actually been asking for a cat, and well now when he wakes up, the first thing he does is ask for the cat.
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  • Whaaat? It really is as though this cat was sent from the Cat Distribution System. What an incredible turn of events to be yeeted out of a moving car only to find the purrfect furever home that has been waiting for you for years. This family’s heads must have been spinning from excitement and action.

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    Name: We got some good name ideas (lucky being my personal fave, it was very close to being his name haha) but we ended up going with Kenshin bc it was an anime (Rurouni Kenshin, huge recommend to anyone who likes anime)
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    both my bf and I watched for the first time together and both really like the main character. Plus his back story seems to match haha (he had a bad past but chooses to be happy/sweet to who he meets just like our lil Kenshin
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    The very anticipated long version vet update: on the way to the vet, he was terrified of the car (expectantly so) He usually chills in my lap but he was not having it. He was meowing, panting and scared. Stayed away
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    from me and my bf the whole car ride hid under the chair. They provided a temporary box carrier (as we don't have one yet that is next on our list) As expected, there was no chip. They agreed that he is very lucky! They
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    confirmed that his eye injury is road burn and is already starting to heal. He has minor road rash, throughout parts of his skin across parts of his body. No internal injures/damage. No major wounds. I brought them a sample, which they
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    said came back negative for everything. They ran some tests (one of which was a test to see if he had any vaccines or something similar before giving him any, he didn't) They caught him up on all his shots/vaccines (including his rabies) & gave him some flea
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    medicine. Waiting for his blood test to come back still, but hopefully that'll be negative for anything as well. Everything else they ran that had results today came negative for anything! (His neuter is scheduled in 2 weeks (earliest convenient date available.) all in all, even
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    they said it could have been much worse & that he is one healthy, lucky kitty
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    Dog & Cat together update: the kitty is no longer being confined to one room and has free roam of the whole house. Him and the dog are starting to coincide. He is not a fan of the dog (scared) hisses at him when he comes near
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    most of the time. But they've both been sniffing each other throughout the day. My dog (Australian shepherd) is very excited about the cat and wants to play with/meet him so bad (cat not so much lol)
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    To the people who were questioning it, here are my counter points: We are still believing he was thrown out of the car (he also has a major car anxiety that my other cats didn't have) & that he just very lucky. The vet even
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    thought the same upon examining. He was found skimming on the road, my bf only didn't notice any cars bc he was focused on the cat and it was on a corner, or else he probably would have noticed a car driving off. If
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    he was crossing the street (unlikely anyways bc he's too skittish to cross) and got hit he was way too small to be hit by a car head on, and if he went under a tire... well he wouldn't be here. Not a single car was trying to avoid him, the car that
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    was coming before my bf jumped in the road and threw his hand up would have crushed this cat. To the people saying he jumped out: why would his "owners" not stop?? If my cat jumped out of my car I would SLAM the brakes so hard in the
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    state I live in, it's very common to find abandoned, abused or neglected animals here. You find a lot of ded cats/dogs unfortunately too. He also was found by the dump, the junkyard, there is nothing there minus maybe some
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    warehouses. It's even covered by barbed fences. It's the middle of nowhere. Someone treated this poor baby like garbage, and they deserve nothing but the same :))
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