adopted

'I want to do right by him, but I also don’t want to overwhelm him': After months of porch visits, hoomans plan an indoor move for outdoor affectionate stray, hoping to purrvide a furever home

Sarah Brown

Woman finds the tiniest black kitten next to a 7-11 dumpster, brings him home, and now has to deal with his crimes of attempted escape via shoe and purring in her cheek

Mariel Ruvinsky

'She purred herself to sleep': Kind hooman rescues a terrified Siamese kitten that was all alone living in a bush, and the little fluffball was so happy that she could not stop purring

Mariel Ruvinsky

'I had one cat last Thursday. By Friday morning, I had six more': Feline pawrent rushes outside to help stray momma cat giving birth on their porch, saving her and her kittens from raccoons

Blake Seidel

'They weren’t sure he would live': Man finds injured kitten on his 27th birthday, gets told his chances of survival are low, but 2 years later, the cat and his hooman are still purrfectly happy

Blake Seidel

‘The kitten that I thought was meant to be mine... is going to a stranger, and there's nothing I can do about it’: Rescuer’s soul kitten is adopted out to another family due to a shelter mix up, but kind commenters come to help handle the heartbreak

Laurent Shinar

'Possession is 9/10 of the law': Couple rescues abandoned friendly feline outside their apartment, only to be confronted by neighbor demanding "her pet" back, couple refuses to protect their new cat child

Blake Seidel

27-year-old bonds amazingly with adopted cat, but 24-year-old girlfriend is jealous and sets an impossible ultimatum: 'I don't think I should be asked to choose, [but] I'd pick my cat 10x over'

Ayala Sorotsky

'We're gonna need a bigger box': Guy pulls over to rescue lonely kitten, gets ambushed by a litter of 12 baby fluffballs asking him to take them home fur good

Blake Seidel

'I lamented my inability to find a single street kitten': After years of waiting, a lifelong cat lover finally receives a Cat Distribution System delivery in the form of a tiny purrfect kitten

Sarah Brown

Nursing student cares for an abandoned kitten in her carport, but bad weather changed her boyfriend's heart about adoption: '[He] then said "It's going to storm, we should bring him in”.'

Ayala Sorotsky

Shelter treats an adopted former-stray incorrectly, and dumps the responsibility on the new cat mom: '[They said] "Oh, you adopted, ok, the problem is yours to handle now"'

Ayala Sorotsky

Entitled sisters adopt a Russian Blue cat and name him exactly like their friend’s name she saved for her black cat: 'Kuro means black in Japanese, their cat is literally dark grey'

Ayala Sorotsky

'He was homeless for about 5 minutes': Neighbor abandons his declawed loyal cat on the street with a single bowl of food, the cat gets adopted instantly with nothing but love to give

Mariel Ruvinsky

‘I catnapped someone’s cat by accident’: Guy adopts a “stray” then learns he belongs to his elderly neighbor, and they end up co-parenting in a friendly arrangement

Etai Eshet

Cat rescuer devotes her life to saving 1,000 stray cats, gives them her entire house, and then turns her property into a cat sanctuary: 'That’s not a house, that’s a full-on cat kingdom'

Blake Seidel