Woman rescues 13 year old cat found in driveway, finds out cat belongs to family friend who’s mom dumped cat 2 weeks earlier, rescuer says: ‘My boyfriends house is a 45 minute drive and is in a completely different state from the town Froggy started in..’

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Laurent Shinar • Writer and Editor
Mar 27, 2026 7:00 PM EDT

If you thought the Cat Distribution System was only about bringing cats and kittens to their new pawrents then this story will show you a whole new face of the system.

Often when we have a story based on the Cat Distribution System to share with you it is a relatively straightforward story of a cat or kitten who is found, cared for and eventually given a furever home with their rescuer. Which is a great story in itself, but the story we have today is far grander than that.

For while it does begin with a cat who is found and cared for after being found in a sorry state, it gets a whole lot more complicated than that along the way. With familial twists and turns that will give you whiplash they are so dramatic. But that is just the way of the CDS, it does the magical and the unexpected. So settle in for a tale of cat connection, resilience and wonder. 
 

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    "I'm speechless, he's speechless, we tell our parents and other brothers and they're speechless."
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    This is really silly and random but kind of cool. So I'm (24F)a photographer. My boyfriend (29M) has a very good friend who recently just got signed to a music label. My BF (who Lets just call Kyle for the sake of
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    not having to say my bf over and over) came to me and said his friend (who we'll call Timmy) was wondering if we could plan a sht to get some promo pictures for his social media and some
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    blog posts that are going up soon. I agreed and was really looking forward to it. Kyle, Timmy, and I left Kyles house around three, had a great shot and got back to his place around 730. As we pull up,
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    Portly tabby cat lying on a book 

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    there's teeny tiny cat laying in the middle of the driveway. She didn't move even though the car was only a few feet away. I got out and slowly made my way over, still no movement. By the time I sat
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    down I could see she was covered in ticks and fleas, I could see her spine and hips, and her front left ankle looked seriously f dup. She let me pet her and I could hear really faint purring.
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  • Holy moly we cannot imagine anything much scarier than rolling up to your house and coming upon a poor kitten limp and lifeless like that. The thoughts that would race through your mind, the stress flooding your veins it is all too much to handle. And then to hear that faint purring, as though to say I am trusting you hooman, I am trusting you to take care of me and help me. This kitten was so lucky that she was found by such caring and proactive people. 

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    While I was with the kitty, Kyle and Timmy ran inside and grabbed one of our cat Shielas wet food pouches, water, and Shielas cat carrier. As I planned on taking her to an animal hospital
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    because she was in rough shape. Kyle lives in a small town right in the corner of CT where it, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island all meet. After making at least five phone calls to local animal
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    hospitals to no avail, I called an emergency hospital in a town in Massachusetts that my family often took our pets to when they needed immediate medical attention. (I'm from
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    central MA) Sure enough, they came through for us, asked me some questions, and told me to come and drop off the kitty, who at this point, me and Kyle had been affectionately
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  • Wow, what a mission. It honestly blows our mind that it would be so tough to find appropriate care for a kitten who so desperately needs attention. We were sure that anyone who had the means to help would drop whatever they were doing to support a sweet soul in need. Thank goodness our rescuers had a strong resolve and were not willing to give up at the first or fifth hurdle to help this sweet creature. But the Cat Distribution System chooses its subjects carefully so there is little to be surprised by really. 

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    calling Trashcan. Trashcan let me scoop her up and put her right in the carrier. Kyle wanted to come with me but was leaving that night for a boys trip with his best friend to do some hiking
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    up in the White Mountains. So that meant me giving play by play updates of what was going on. The more we talked we both decided that if this kitty didn't belong to anyone, we were
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    going to take her in and give her a home. Now I don't know if this is a Massachusetts thing, but once I dropped Trashcan off the vet tech thanked me and asked if they couldn't find an owner, would we be
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    Tabby cat lying on bed licking its paw

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    interested in adopting her. I said absolutely, from there she explained that we had to wait seven days to give the potential owners, if there were any, the chance to find and claim her. Totally reasonable. I
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    gave her my cell and she said that I would be hearing from them. This is where it gets cool. So with Kyle being gone for the next few days I decided I would stay with my parents, I hadn't seen very much of them and thought it would be
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    fun. I also have 4 brothers (20M) who live there. One of them is a brother by actual birth, we'll call him James. The other three are his best friends, who unfortunately, didn't have great situations
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    growing up and from about middle school my mom made space for them and they have lived with us for years. They call my parents mom and dad, my parents help them through
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    college, making sure they have food and clothes, you get it. Once I get home, I tell them all about Trashcan and one of my extra brothers Cody makes a joke saying how his birth mom lost his cat
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    from childhood about two weeks ago and that I'm a bad sister for finding someone else's cat and not his. Two days later I'm in my room editing pictures and Cody burst in. The animal
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    hospital posted a picture of Trashcan on their Facebook page. He held the phone in front of my face and asked "Is this the f g cat you found?!" I say hyeah that's my baby Trashcan. He goes "That's Froggy.
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    White and gray cat sitting on a wooden floor

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    That's my cat. You actually found my cat." I'm speechless, he's speechless, we tell our parents and other brothers and they're speechless. Cody immediately drove to the animal shelter and sure enough, he came
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    back a few hours later with Froggy. She looked a little less skinny and her front ankle was all casted up but she looked so much better in just a few days than when I had found her. At the animal hospital
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    they gave him her paper work and right at the top it says Found by: followed by my name and where she was found at my boyfriends address. This cat is 13 and has been gone for two weeks. My boyfriends house is
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    a 45 minute drive and is in a completely different state from the town Froggy started in. So Cody is buying a picture frame for Froggys paperwork with my name on it and is gunna hang it in his room. And
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    Froggy is staying here with us at my parents from now on :)
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