adoption

'I'll be buying various treats for both the cat and the wife': Person rescues a tiny black kitten from a busy road, his allergic wife begrudgingly accepts it, and he thanks her in the most hilarious way pawssible

Mariel Ruvinsky

'It breaks my heart that he spent years on the street': Skittish stray follows caring couple through a house move and finally gives in to love and care as they officially adopt him

Ayala Sorotsky

Person rescued a stray, unneutered starving cat from the street, gets a shady response from someone online claiming the cat is theirs, but now they don't want to give the cat back: 'I’m just really nervous about his safety'

Mariel Ruvinsky

'I was never intending to give her back': 10 years after giving up her cat for adoption, woman's sister finds the fluffy feline on the streets, leading to a heartwarming reunion and questions about previous owners

Blake Seidel

'I didn’t rescue him, he rescued me': Person who came to the shelter "just to look" ends up adopting an 8-year-old cat who has been at the shelter the longest, now she realizes that she's actually the one who was saved

Mariel Ruvinsky

20 Pet Posts with Big “Back Off” Energy for Next Time the Group Chat Conversation Gets Complicated

Etai Eshet

'She went from homeless to homeowner': Purrson finds two tiny kittens in distress, successfully saves one from near peril, and shows off her glorious glow up fur all to enjoy

Blake Seidel

Family has to give up cat after seven years due to stress, luckily the feline's previous foster family welcomes her back with a surprise kittenhood reunion

Blake Seidel

'It's like she can't control it': Couple adopts adorable 10-month old kitten, but wife won't stop interrupting her husband to show him how cute the kitten is and honestly, we've never felt more seen

Blake Seidel

'I was shocked': Kind person who rescued an unneutered adult tuxedo stray cat refuses to give it back after his previous owner makes a 'lost cat' post on Facebook 9 months later, because the cat has bonded with her and her other cat

Mariel Ruvinsky

Person adopts a blind and paraplegic kitten who was run over and left to fend for himself, nurses him back to health and finds the purrfect home for a special-needs cat like him: 'With a lot of love and care, [his] dignity was restored'

Mariel Ruvinsky

‘She just left suddenly, with no goodbye, and took the cat’: Grandma asks 23-year-old grandson to co-parent the kitten he saved, only to run away with the cat when her health declines

Ayala Sorotsky

'He thinks he's one of [the cats]': Rescued bobcat kitten who's unable to be released into the wild gets adopted by a veterinarian and his rehabilitator wife, grows up alongside domestic cats, now thinks that he is a cat himself

Mariel Ruvinsky

29-year-old adoptee receives contact from bio family, faces pushback when he doesn't want to meet them: 'For me there's nothing missing'

Ally Perry

'I'm just gonna scooch in': Timid cat sneaks into a camper's tent to warm his whiskers; finds a purrmanent home in a temporary shelter

Jesse Kessenheimer

‘[He] decided they needed an actual shelter’: A dad who “hates cats” falls in love with two voids dumped in the family's property, building them the sturdiest and warmest shelter for winter

Ayala Sorotsky