adoption

Beautiful black cat walks into a family home and decides he lives here now, promoting himself from a stray to a full feline family meowmber: 'We're keeping him!'

Ayala Sorotsky

Kitten sneaks into car's undercarriage, travels as a stowaway for miles while the owner drives home, until they finally hear her meows: ‘We're calling her Piper, short for Exhaust Pipe’

Bar Mor Hazut

Former feral stray slowly adapts to the comfort of being a family cat, one paw at a time; human parents are delighted that: 'He doesn’t hiss or scratch at all anymore.'

Ayala Sorotsky

Shy stray cat crashes a kid's birthday party to ask for food, but ends up with a much better gift than a goody bag: ‘You helped him find his forever home.’

Ayala Sorotsky

Friendly stray cat stops couple during their evening walk to demand cuddles, they take him in hopes to find his family, only to end up becoming one: ‘We figured he must’ve been a lost pet’

Bar Mor Hazut

'From feral to fabulous, Broccoli found the purrfect home': Skinny stray goes from angry bathroom menace to loving snuggle muffin after his hooman reads him poetry every night

Blake Seidel

Shop cat befriends a customer who recently lost her old feline friend, offering a deal to heal her broken heart: 'We were back the very next evening and took her home.'

Ayala Sorotsky

Door Dasher gets adopted by friendly black cat while dashing, then discovers she's pregnant the next day: 'She immediately just made herself at home'

Blake Seidel

Self-described dog person shares the accidental adoptions of her four cats she never asked for, but became a purrfect part of her family: 'You ARE a cat person. The cats have decided.'

Ayala Sorotsky

Shy barn kitten successfully scouts a local trivia night to find her perfect person, proving the real grand prize wasn't on the scorecard: ‘Once I looked into her eyes, it was a one-and-done.’

Ayala Sorotsky

Stray Turkish Van kitten unable to meow walks into couple’s home resulting in instant adoption thanks to kitten’s sibling who meowed for attention but then ran away, cat dad says: ‘We would happily trade our human years to live with him for a lifetime.’

Laurent Shinar

‘She turned out to be a Trojan cat’: Couple takes a stray cat into their garage, only to discover that she's been hiding 3 kittens in her belly all along

Bar Mor Hazut

Cat gets abandoned by evicted owners, concerned neighbor feeds him under the door until she finds a way to get him out of the empty apartment, she says: ‘I am so happy I noticed’

Bar Mor Hazut

'I didn’t want her in a shelter': A work call that meant more than expected led one employee to a tortoiseshell cat left behind, and straight into the arms of a new love

Blake Seidel

'She chose her human and never looked back': Backpacker traveling across India by foot finds a home for stray puppy, but ends up adopting her after she escapes "home" twice to find him

Blake Seidel

Grandparents disparage adopted 4-year-old, get upset when daughter bans them from seeing her: 'My dad joked real relatives matter more'

Ally Perry