adopted

'Tiara was surrendered with her 3 house siblings': Shy senior cat finds comfort with a furever family after weeks of hiding in animal shelter

Sarah Brown

'This teeny tiny guy was dodging traffic': Driver spots kitten running in traffic, pulls over for a rescue, and takes home cat #5

Sarah Brown

'Now he's telling people I "stole" their dog': A year after nourishing an abandoned dog, woman's ex-boyfriend claims it's his new girlfriend's, demanding the dog back but not providing evidence of ownership

Ayala Sorotsky

'She heard the tiniest of cries': Girlfriend rescues 3 kittens stuck in a PVC pipe in the middle-of-nowhere Arizona, adopts them to become the meowther of a feline family

Blake Seidel

'[I'm] struggling with the feeling of guilt': Pawrent’s precious cat passes over the rainbow bridge, but life presents them with a friend’s forgotten cat giving them both a fresh feline start

Sarah Brown

Construction worker finds a litter of injured kittens on the job site, takes them to the vet on his lunch break, and ends up saving 1 tortie with the help of a retired couple in the waiting room: ‘He was sooo gentle’

Jesse Kessenheimer

Adopted woman receives 6-figure inheritance from the birth mother she never met, her siblings demand she share the money with them: 'It isn't fair I got everything when they also "deserve" it being adopted as well'

Emmy Pratt

‘The wedding got totally messed up by a duck’: Couple’s botanical garden wedding descends into disaster by a determined duck who bites the groom’s leg, sends the ring bearer scrambling and turns the flower girl’s petals into makeshift defenses

Etai Eshet

Heartwarming employee finds parking lot kitten in distress, then realizes the fluffy clementine is the purrfect gift for his cat-loving girlfriend: 'I’m so glad to have him in the family.'

Blake Seidel

'You shouldn't gift a cat': Boyfriend's birthday surprise leaves college student stressed and ready to return unasked for kitten

Sarah Brown

Adopted child learns that their birth mother has left them a large sum of inheritance money, adopted siblings demand an equal cut despite having no relation: 'They want to split it three ways!'

Brad Dickson

'My cat adopted this little baby I took in last year': 20 Wholesome Cat Adoption Stories for a Pawsitivity Day

Mariel Ruvinsky

Beautiful bird randomly flies into man's house and sits on his shoulder, he adopts him and finds out that, adorably, the bird is visually upset by berries: 'His favourite thing to do is sitting on my shoulder'

Mariel Ruvinsky

If my daily life had a mascot, it’d be one of these 24 animals that capture the struggle and scream “same” (or all of them–1 per hour of the mayday)

Etai Eshet

‘He’s come so far from the hissy pants that I trapped’: Shelter asks a neighbor to set up a cat trap in their garden to capture a notorious injured stray, Henry the floof ends up ensnaring their heart too

Jesse Kessenheimer

'Do you think she could trust us again?' New pawrents worry after recently adopted shelter cat's bath leaves her traumatized

Sarah Brown