Couple rescues Maine Coon found shivering in neighborhood known for pet dumping, giving the big cat a loving furever home with a small canine sibling, cat dad says: ‘She’s obsessed with my gf and is even getting along well with her little dog.’

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Laurent Shinar • Writer and Editor
Apr 4, 2026 11:00 AM EDT

If you thought a feline abandonment could not be a way for the Cat Distribution System to complete a fur family, then you have another thing coming with this story.

As we have come to find, the Cat Distribution System has some pretty out of the box ways of bringing the cats and hoomans it works with together. Sometimes it uses meet-cutes, other times it has cats literally walk into the homes of the hoomans it has chosen for them, and other times it apparently uses tactics like abandonment. Which while being rather traumatic, is quite the direct method, and in the case of this fur family the purrfect way for them to meet their new cat child.

It just goes to show that you can never quite tell how the CDS is going to bestow its great gifts upon you, and that you have to be aware and open to it coming from all sorts of different directions. So we invite you to step into this sweet and heartwarming cat family story so that you too might learn to recognize the signs that the CDS is reaching out to you.
 

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    "She's really so sweet."
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    My girlfriend found this big beautiful boy shivering under a bush yesterday. She said she's been seeing him around the area for a few
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    weeks now. Unfortunately the neighborhood she's in is known for people dumping their unwanted pets there :(
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  • We literally cannot get over these unofficially designated pet disposal areas that seem to exist around the world. As though it is ok to designate a spot and that is where all pets go to be abandoned. Aside from it being so morally wrong, can you imagine the smell of fear and pain that exists there for other animals to smell? It must be so saddening to be dropped off in such a place. A place that smells like the end, that smells like lost hope. What a poor girl, thank goodness this kind couple is about to step in and save her from having to be in such a rotten place.

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    9. FOLDING STEP STOOL ES mega cher grattoir pour chat ara gatos
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    He's so sweet and affectionate and loves wet cat food. But he's also super skinny and has mats all over his belly. We already checked and
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    he's not microchipped. He's a big boy, I'd guess around 13-15lbs even being so thin. Definitely bigger than my roommate's 11lb ragdoll. We
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    think he might be a Maine coon or at least part but we'll take him to the vet soon to get a full exam. He still
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    doesn't have a name but we're leaning towards Muppet (if anyone knows Gaffer, he reminded us of her)!
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    Update on the big beautiful boy my girlfriend found in a bush. It's actually a big beautiful girl! So we're calling her
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    800 midmark e AIL YOU NEED IS LOVE
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    Gaffer (swipe to the right end to see her namesake). She's gotten a clean bill of health and a SECOND scan for a microchip (which
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    she def does not have). She's obsessed with my gf and is even getting along well with her
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    little dog. She's really so sweet. Thanks for all the love!
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  • What more could you ask for from a scard stray you just picked up off the street? It literally could not get any better than that if you ask us. A family, who did not know they were missing a piece, serendipitously completed thanks to the rescue of their unfortunately abandoned missing piece. Though that is just how the Cat Distribution System works sometimes. It use unusual techniques to bring the cats and families it works with together to make them whole again. And it is more than fair enough to say that this canine-feline fur family is complete. 

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