Kitten who really wants to be adopted chases after a mother and child in the McDonald's parking lot, but they don't want him and flee; thankfully, his rescuer was watching the whole thing: 'I ran to grab him'

Mariel Ruvinsky • Writer and Editor

Aug 10, 2026 11:00 AM EDT

Sometimes, the CDS gives the wrong delivery address to the kittens.

Listen, the CDS is real, and it works. That is a fact. We can't imagine anyone arguing with us. How else do you explain all the stories? How do you explain a kitten flying in through the window into a man's lap and his first question being "what do I need to get to raise it"? How do you explain kittens following their owners home on some of their most important days? My cat followed me home on Independence Day and never had another day of independence in her life. My husband's cat followed him directly to his house on his birthday. The CDS knows which cats need help and which homes to deliver them to. And it always works. A bad adoption is not the work of the CDS. It does not count. But sometimes, even the CDS is faced with employee error, and the kitten in today's story was accidentally given the wrong address.

When a kitten is ready to get off the streets and into a forever home, there is nothing stopping it. The kitten will literally chase its chosen humans if it has to. And that is what this kitten thought he was doing. He was given an address, spotted "his humans," and started running. Except… they started running too. In the opposite direction. And so, okay, it's easy for us to say that it's their loss for running away, because Gus is one of the cutest kittens that we have seen in a while, but Gus couldn't have felt that way when he was running toward what he thought was his forever home, and his forever home was running from him. He just didn't know that his actual rescuer was sitting in the drive-through, watching the whole thing.

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"Went to McDonalds for a coffee and left with a kitten..."

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Gus just got his directions a little confused, is all. His forever home was to his left, not his right. That's okay, mistakes happen. The CDS made sure he was okay after all.
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And he is going to be loved for the rest of his life. Really, that mother and child missed out on something ameowzing that day.
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