“She looked at me. Then my fiancée. Meowed and pranced up to her purring like a motorboat.”: The heartfelt tale of a traumatized couple and an unlikely feline family rescue that led to a full house, all because of one lazy cook

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Laurent Shinar • Writer and Editor
Aug 14, 2025 11:00 AM EDT

The Cat Distribution System works in many wonderful and mysterious ways. We already know that its basic modus operandi is based around delivering cute cats and kittens in need of a home and care, to people who themselves need the support and love of a feline fur baby. However, the details beyond that change a lot on a case by case basis. And in this story we have the curious case of a cat stuck in a can. Now, to back track a moment, the couple who this cat was delivered to suffered a traumatizing event in their recent history, and in order to heal moved states.

Meaning, the CDS actually managed to track them across state lines and still deliver them a cat. And not only that, but a cat that needed them, as much as they needed it. It is truly amazing to see to what lengths the CDS will go when it needs to complete a mission.
 

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    My fiancée and I decided to move to a new place once she got s t in the neck as a bystander in a related g. She was suffering from severe PTSD and I couldn't bear seeing her suffer in that apartment any longer. So we moved
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    out of the city. Luckily the ht went in the side of her neck just below her ear and exited the back of her neck, missing her jugular and spine, each by less than an inch.
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    Still, it wasn't easy. And it was hard leaving her alone to go to work. We have a rescue void cat, but he was extremely traumatized by his previous owner, and wasn't the best company at the time (especially having just moved to a
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  • Oh man, traumatized cats do not make for good company that is for sure, and even more so if the person seeking company is traumatized themselves. That would have been a whole load of jumping at every tiny noise they heard in their new and unfamiliar surroundings. 

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    new place). Then about a week into living at the new place, we were watching tv after I got home from the restaurant when we heard something tapping on the sliding glass door. I pulled out my flashlight and went to see what it was. I
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    found the culprit between a bush and the side of the house. A g n cat. And you read the title. It had a soup can stuck over its head.
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    I picked it up, walked inside to better see how to get it off. After a few minutes of trying to pull it off without hurting the poor thing, I pulled out my diagonal cutters and slipped them between her
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    O TER -PUTTER A ROOM OF HER OWN CADO TRILL STATER THU PIPE DREAMS Undeniable SILL NYE ANCIENT EGYPT WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING DELIA OWENS THE PROMETHEUS DECEPTION ABERT LOL JUST SAY NU MICH
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    head and the can, cut it loose and backed the hell up, expecting this thing to freak out.
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    The can came off, I backed up and this cat just stood there for a second. She looked around for a second. (I faced her away from us so she wouldn't be completely startled to see two humans towering over her) She turned around towards us. "She's
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    about to f gn us" I thought to myself. Nope. She looked at me. Then my fiancée. Meowed and pranced up to her purring like a motorboat.
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    "Hi, Cooper," my fiancée said squatting down to pet her. "Cooper?" I asked? "You named it already?" "She's so PRETTY!!"
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  • OMG, we are literally crying our eyes out, this is one of the sweetest rescue moments that we have come across ever! What a clever, sensitive and calculated approach these wonderful hoomans took and what a reward for all their hard work. Sometimes love is genuinely all that anyone, feline or otherwise need.

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    Took her to the vet a week later. Confirmed that this tortoise cat was a girl, about a year old and..... yeah. You already saw the pictures.... She was pregnant. A month later she had 4 kittens. 8
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    weeks after that, I cried for the first time in years as my fiancée packed 3 of the kittens into her car to take to a nice family. I kept the orange one because he snuck up and peed on my arm while I was napping on the couch one time. That's
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    one way they mark their territory, right? He chose me? I named him Charlie and he is my best friend (last picture is the most recent photo of him. About 16 weeks old)
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    Fiancée has healed up. PTSD is still there, but she's in therapy. Cooper and Craft (the void) are best friends. Charlie is a demon spawn who gets tired and falls asleep on my chest. My fiancée is jealous that he chose me.
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    One big, traumatized, but happy family. All because I bought a few cans of chicken noodle soup instead of cooking one night. The universe is a funny place. Cheers.
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