adoption

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 [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

‘Back down and never complain about Mindy and Wendy again’: Neighbor determined to enforce “one large animal per acre” rule on family’s two pet cows, pushes Dad to brilliantly use their 1-acre front lawn as a legal loophole

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

'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

'What an unbelievable woman': Biker chick finds litter of 6 puppies on a country mountain path, she carries them to safety in her lycra shirt and adopts four of them

Blake Seidel

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

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

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

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

'I don't know what I was thinking': Beautiful stray cat with unique fur pattern steals the heart of unsuspecting purrson, takes over their home in a matter of minutes

Blake Seidel

Woman and her 7 kids in scout uniforms jump the fence of private family’s farm, insisting farm animals make it a petting zoo and public property: ‘We saw the little ducks and chickens, and we want to pet them’

Etai Eshet

Couple saves a hurt cat from the street, discover it belongs to their neighbors, who in turn accuse them of stealing their cat and refuse to pay back the medical bill: ‘We thought it was a good deed'

Bar Mor Hazut

‘He's shivering’: Stray cat gets stuck 4 stories up on a Boston brownstone for 12 hours, helpful hooman climbs the fire escape to guide the frightened feline back to safety (video)

Bar Mor Hazut