‘Anyway, five years later they still live with me and my wife. The Persian Blue still rolls around my bed and sleeps in laundry.’: Siblings save multiple abandoned kittens from the LA heat, adding to their huge fur family of four cats and two dogs

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Laurent Shinar • Writer and Editor
Nov 18, 2025 4:00 PM EST

The Cat Distribution System is a seemingly ever increasingly complex and complicated being. Other than the fact that it seems to almost exclusively use trash cans and roadsides as places for cat children and their new pawrents to meet. As today, we delve into the story of two siblings who were unwittingly doing some training in the park and happened upon a classic kitten in a trash can situation. Following the tiny meows they heard, they soon found a   sweetheart and scooped it up to bring it home for good.

However, unlike most other CDS stories, this was simply not enough for the CDS as while they were driving home to explain to their hooman parents how and why they have brought a fifth kitten into their home, they happen upon a sixth by the side of a busy road. Leaving these siblings to have to explain how and why their fur family should now consist of six felines. A tough sell indeed.

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    I want to say it was about 2010, might have been 11. Prevailing economic winds and a number of uniquely bad decisions had me living back at my parent's house. This was unfortunate but turned out to be for
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    the best, my sister was going through some stuff and was 16, which is terrible unto itself. The previous summer I had forced her to enroll in the self defense class | assisted with, and
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    she took to it pretty fast. Jump forwards eight months and we're in the park while I run her though a practice test for her upcoming belt exam.
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    It's May in Los Angeles, so it's unreasonably hot (then not now. I don't know what the hell is going on with the weather now.), we're finishing up for the day when we hear the most pitiful little mewling. We
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    both like cats so we stop to see what's up. Took a little looking, but we locate this wee ball of fluff, attempting to climb the side of a trashcan for whatever she thought was inside.
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  • It is always the trash cans, honestly at this point we are starting to get the impression that the Cat Distribution System has a thing for trash cans considering how many cats and kittens it seems to drop off for collection around them. Either that or they know the trash to be a safe place with food for their feline clients to hang out in until they are rescued.

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    It was one of those green metal numbers so she wasn't getting very far, but that didn't stop her trying. For the record, when I say wee, I mean very wee. She easily fit in my palm.
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    My sister, being my sister, immediately scoops the thing up. We've gotta take it home! Why? We gotta! I don't have a compelling counter argument, it's got no collar or tags, her fur was already matted
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    despite being so young, her inability to figure out the garbage can and no apparent desire to run from my sister (who was going full Lenny) suggested a lack of survival skills,
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    and it wasn't like this was even the first random stray we've brought home. So fine. I had a towel in the back of the truck, we wrapped the fur ball (Persian blue apparently) and started home. We're
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    discussing what we're going to tell the folks when we get in, as we had four cats already, when we see something in the street. I'm reasonably sure it's a black and white
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  • Jheez, how lucky do you have to be to already have four cat children in your home and then to happen upon two more in the same day within the same hour. Sometimes the Cat Distribution System really shines down hard upon those that it favors. 

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    beanie baby, till it's head starts moving. Yep nother kitten. D-.d smack in the middle of the road, cars driving over it and everything. So I pull I highly dangerous turn and block traffic to go
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    grab this f 9 cat out of the middle of the street. It's about. as terrified as you'd expect, crouched, head down, afraid to move. I tried to grab it without thinking about things like "Corned animal" or "Fight or flight"
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    reflex. She hissed, insofar so small a thing could, and then went into blender mode. Tiny teeth and claws drawing little paper cuts all over my hand and arm.
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    I drop her and she darts out of the street into a nearby bush. Fine whatever, no good deed. I get back in the car and unblock traffic. My sister asks what happened and I show her my hand. It's fine, let's get the other one home.
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    Sister: But what if the cat was sick or something, you might need a rabies shot. You better go get it so we can have it checked out.
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    While she had a point, I suspect she just wanted a second kitten. But still, I was uninsured, so if I could not require medical attention, that would be best. I parked by the bush and got a flashlight from the car. The cat was still
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    in there, but she was in there deep, and clearly still pretty terrified. No easy way to do this. I shove my arm into the bush, trying not to think about all the things that aren't a kitten that are going to bite me. Trying to
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    ignore the kitten biting me. Trying to ignore the kitten apparently attempting to dig her way into my bones. The extraction was ultimately sucessful. This one was actually
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    smaller then the one my sister was already holding so while she was feisty and v ..t, she was easy to hold on to. Most of my nerves were d d by this point anyway. We got them home, parents were
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    predictably displeased. They had to stay in my room since if they did have some cat sickness they could infect the others. We did the whole "Found Cat" poster thing for each and put them up, but
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    nothing came of it. The vet gave them a clean bill of health but they were too young to be on their own, both being about three weeks old, so they had to stay separated from the other cats for a while. There were
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    also a couple dogs that wouldn't have done them any favors. So they ended up living with me in my room for six weeks. When I initally moved out, my parents wasted no time turning my
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    room into an office, with a couch and everything. When I had to move back in, it was never really converted back into a bedroom, and the couch wasn't a pullout or anything, so I slept on the floor. Which is fine,
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    that's actually my preference, but that means the cats got the couch. On more than one occasion | was woken up because one of the kittens had fall off. the couch while playing, and landed like a facehugger with claws out.
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    Anyway, five years later they still live with me and my wife. The Persian Blue still rolls around my bed and sleeps in laundry. The one that we pulled out of the road has taken to climbing me whenever I put on jeans because she
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    thinks I'm going out and wants to stop me. It was cute at first, but now it just hurts.
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