adopted

‘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

‘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

Girlfriend goes on a walk when suddenly, she hears tiny cries coming from a PVC pipe, inside, she finds 3 freezing kittens and adopts them all: 'She waited 3 days... brought them home and bottle fed them'

Mariel Ruvinsky

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

Mariel Ruvinsky

'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

'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

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

'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

‘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

‘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

'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

'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

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

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

'[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

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