3 week old kitten found wriggling on the street saved by passing driver gets nursed back to health and given a loving furever home with 2 feline siblings, rescuer says: ’I named him Meep because he’s a road runner’

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Laurent Shinar • Writer and Editor
Jan 23, 2026 4:00 PM EST

Cats have a strange way to find themselves multiplying while living in the homes of hoomans. And not through giving birth but by being found in all sorts of curious places. Much like the kitten from this story who was scooped up from the side of the road to be given a furever home with 2 feline siblings.


Cats just seem to have all the luck when you tink about it. They have nine lives to play with, balance that would make a trapeze artist jealous, fur that shimmers in the sun, and a body that needs not a season to look good for, it looks good all the time. And this luck seems to rather wonderfully extend to kittens who have found themselves haphazardly hanging out on the side of busy roads.

As is the case for our kitten protagonist who was precariously perched by a busy road when a passing motorist saw him and stopped to scoop him up. A lucky encounter indeed for who knows what could have happened to this cat cutie had this person not spotted him. But lady luck was still not done with this cat as she decided that this hooman would whisk the kitten away to be cared for medically and then have that very same savior hooman adopt the kitten. Giving it a happily ever after and a whole heap of love. You've got to love that cat luck.

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    "I had to stop in the middle of the road because a single kitten was wiggling around in the street."
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    Hi everyone! This afternoon on my way to brunch I had to stop in the middle of the road because a single
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    kitten was wiggling around in the street. I immediately jumped out of the car to go grab him. I surveyed the area for signs of other cats or kittens but
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    couldn't find anything. He has an ab¯¯¯¯s on his leg so I just immediately took him to the emergency vet. His
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    vitals are good and they lanced the als and sent me home with antibiotics and pain meds. I named him Meep because he's a road runner :)
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  • What a brilliant way to start a story like this. First of all for it to happen around brunch, that just shows that this person is living life right. But then for them to cancel their plans, drop everything and dedicate the rest of their day and soon enough life to this cute creature that they just met on the side of the road is pretty darn spectacular. There are not all too many hoomans out there with the heart to do such a thing. However this one and many other cat loving people do have such a heart and apparently this person has some humor to them judging by the cheeky name they bestowed upon the cat. 

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    Anyways, all this to say I would love any advice anyone has on caring for a cat this young. I am familiar with cats and I've had them
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    ER BE
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    my whole life (I have two adult cats currently) but never one this young, let alone a kitten (I've always adopted adult cats). I got a
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    care sheet from the vet and have been doing research but I still feel so lost. He is small, about 6 ounces. Google says I can feed him every
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    4 hours or so but he is significantly smaller than the average 3 week old cat. Does this mean I should feed him more often? I'd also
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    love advice about him and my two other cats. My other male cat seems unbothered but my female cat has hissed at him. I would keep them
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    separate as I know introductions need to go slow but unfortunately I live in a studio apartment and have little option.
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  • See this is what we mean when we say that feline adoptions need to be simpler and more straight forward than what usually happens with a shelter adoption. Because while you can argue all day that these cats might have deserved a larger house with access to the outdoors. You simply cannot deny that with the amount of cats cooped up in tiny cages, even a studio apartment with windows and even feline company is a much better situation to be living in.

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    Thank you ahead of time for any advice. I really appreciate it.
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    Hi again everyone! Just a small little update about our boy Meep.
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    Some suggested he is younger than 3 weeks and I think I agree. Maybe 2-2 1/2. Emergency vet said 3 but his ears
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    and the way he hobbles around makes me think he's a little younger. He is doing really well! He has finally taken to the bottle and
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    gets absolutely lost in the sauce at feeding time. He is tiny but he is gaining weight. I've got his first vet
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    appointment scheduled for general check up and his first shots (at about 6wks) and he's been taking his medicine like a champ.
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    Thank you everyone for your great advice and your help with making me feel more prepared/a little less in over my
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    head. I will try to update at big milestones so you can see how Meep is doing!
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