'[She was] looking very small, very skinny and very ready to be taken in and loved': Couple unknowingly rescues little kitten who's actually pregnant, they help take care of the litter and eventually get her kittens adopted

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Briana Viser • Writer and Editor
Mar 15, 2026 3:00 PM EDT

It's always a surprise when you adopt a kitten and actually find that they're pregnant! 

A woman sees a cat sitting on a fence outside her apartment complex. She says she looks very small, skinny, and ready to be taken in and loved. She immediately acts on this impulse, and adopts the little one. She figures the kitten must be around 4 months old, and when she takes her to the vet she realizes that the kitten is pregnant! She still wants to keep her, and she helps assist the kittens birth to her litter of five. She gets them all vet appointments to be cleaned up, microchipped, and ready for a family. She keeps one, and decides with her man to give the other four away to a good home. She always looks back on that day with wonder and serendipity, knowing that she could have decided to skip work and would never have found this wonderful cat. Read the full description of the story below, and enjoy the wholesome family. 

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    I was just about to leave for work when I looked outside the foyer of our building and there she
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    was! Sitting on the fence on the hottest day so far last year, looking very small, very skinny
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    and very ready to be taken in and loved. We estimate she would have only been about four
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    months old when we found her. My partner came down to collect her so I could head to work and
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    also grab supplies, and from that day, she became our indoor only baby.
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    I took her to the vet to check for a microchip and to do a little. check up, and all seemed fine
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    (and she had no chip), but unbeknownst to all of us, she was actually pregnant! This little.
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    Trojan ended up giving birth to five babies. We helped her take care of them, weighed them.
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    everyday and did supplemental feeding if needed. One had swimmers, so we taped her legs and did little exercises until she
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    was able to stand (and run) on all fours unassisted. Eventually when the babies were weaned, vaxxed
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  • It's interesting to think that if she just decided not to go to work that day then she wouldn't have met this very special cat in her life. She clearly has a connection with the kitten, and probably did since day 1. The serendipity of life has us thinking about fate, or at least it has me thinking about fate. Sometimes I think the same about things in my life. Like if I decided not to go to a certain cafe on a certain day next to my ephemeral work at the time, then I would never have met my boyfriend. It was a few years ago, he was working at the cafe, and it was at a time in my life where I was feeling low. But he saw me anyway, he saw me and knew he had to get my number. I'll never forget that serendipitous day, and always cherish it. I also think about when I got my cat. I was home and just randomly decided to take a walk outside, which I usually never do. But that's when I saw him, my little stripped furball of joy. 

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    and microchipped themselves, we gave four of them away to friends and family, and we kept one (Bean, the one who'd had leg
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    problems) alongside our girl Fence. They've all since been spayed, so definitely no more babies now.
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    Fence is only slight bigger in stature now than to when we found her. The vet reckons that due to early malnutrition, she's
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    unlikely to ever grow, but she's definitely been able to put on some weight so she's now - 'compact' short and stout like a teapot!
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    It's been a whirlwind year, but I am so grateful that Fence and I crossed paths on that punishingly
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    hot day. To think I was considering calling off sick, I would have never stumbled
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    across her and we never would have had our crazy girl Bean I'm so glad they're part of our life!
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