Neighbors hear a crying kitten in someone's garden, they rescue him before it gets too cold and starts raining, and take him home to foster him until finding him a furever home: ‘We get to spoil this little guy’

Giuliana Tiscioni • Writer

Oct 17, 2026 7:00 AM EDT

Every creature's life is important, and we love people who go out of their way to help and protect defenseless animals!

Sometimes, people find little kittens in danger at random moments in their lives. They help the furbaby as best as they can, but they can't always keep them in their home for good. The reasons vary from one person to the other: some already have many animals; others don't have enough space to keep them long-term, or they work too much and are many hours away from home, so they can't give the little animals the attention they need. So instead, they chose to foster them until they can find a permanent home.

That's what my friends did, and that's how I got my cat! They were the ones who found her on the side of the road, but they couldn't keep her. For them, it was a mix of two factors: they already had animals; hence, little space for her to walk and play. They managed to keep her for a few days in a separate room so the other pets didn¿t bother her, and then they brought her to my house.

The important thing is that they helped her out even though they couldn't keep her, and that's what we appreciate the most about people rescuing cats: even when they can't offer to be their permanent home, they help anyway. They went out of their way for a few days to offer the poor girl some food, a bath, and a warm and safe place for her to be, which is almost exactly the same as what these people did!

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One of the things I loved most about this story is that these people didn't hear the kitten in their own backyard; they heard him in their neighbor's yard. The poor thing was trapped under all those plants, but they listened to him calling for help. Some people might have thought that, since he wasn't in their yard, it was actually the neighbor's problem, but they didn't. They made sure to go to the vet and get him checked out, and even if they didn't charge them for vaccinating him and putting the chip in, driving there and taking the time to help still counts.
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Well, we learned something new today! It surprised me when they said never to give them cow's milk, especially because everyone's first instinct when they get a baby cat is to give them milk. But apparently, it is not good for them. The only milk they should be drinking is their mom's, mostly because they become lactose intolerant as they get older, just like it happens to people. It's both interesting and shocking to find out that hoomans and cats have more in common than we thought. One might think only we get a tummy ache after drinking a glass of chocolate milk (and we usually blame the chocolate), but it's no good for kittens either. Now that we know, we'll make sure to only offer foods their tummy can tolerate and that are good for them. We are thankful to this couple for their wholesome cat rescue moment and for educating us on what is better for our own kittens!
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