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22 Wholesome Cat Adoption Stories for a Pawsitivity Day: 'Two days in the new home and she's already running the place.'

Mariel Ruvinsky

‘We found him in your engine’: Resilient tabby cat turns up in a farmer's tractor then becomes the newest addition to the mechanic's family of 5 felines, turning a routine oil change into a CDS delivery

Jesse Kessenheimer

‘It turned out she knew nothing about horses’: Woman demands farm and rescue owner gift her a lame horse after lying about her farrier training and taking advantage of her friendship with the farm’s handyman

Etai Eshet

‘Oh boy! Triple the orange’: Cat lover bestowed 3 random kittens in the same week, raising the babies alongside her nanny-dog until the cats find furever homes

Jesse Kessenheimer

14-year-old constantly mocks her 16-year-old sister for being adopted, older sister discovers that they're actually both adopted: 'My parents said don't tell my sister or she'll be devastated'

Emmy Pratt

'I never wanted the cat': Grad student frustrated after 29-year-old roommate impulsively adopts a cat, leaving her to deal with common area catastrophes

Sarah Brown

‘I [have] been "neglecting" my older cat’: Cat pawrent adopts a kitten for their older kitty, which goes ameowzingly, but they wonder if the adult cat was sad before the kitten joined the family

Ayala Sorotsky

'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