adoption

3 weeks after adopting the sweetest stray kitten, her owner finds the kitten's brother in the same spot they found her, and immediately decides they cannot be separated: 'Of course, this happened on the day I told myself to stop searching'

Mariel Ruvinsky

‘The vet said we could either take him or put him back on the street’: Aslan, the friendly orange stray, gets rejected by the cat shelter, so the heroic couple who found him decide to keep him furever

Jesse Kessenheimer

21 Cat Adoptions From This Week Proving Love at First Purr Is Real: "I always thought my first pet was going to be a dog. And look at me now."

Blake Seidel

17-year-old daughter refuses to play the role of big sister to dad's adopted 5-year-old son Mason, mom supports her decision to set boundaries against guilt-trip: "I don't want to fake enthusiasm I don't feel"

Ely Bulnes

‘He gives me a reason to be excited to get home’: Gentle man in a low point finds a random cat in his apartment, he adopts him and it's not clear who needed who the most

Ayala Sorotsky

'[We] have been talking about wanting a kitten': Family dog's curious yelps lead them to find a bobtail kitten in their driveway - now she's named 'Mew' and stealing hearts of hoomans and doggos

Blake Seidel

UPDATE #3: Stray found wandering the rooftop of a high-rise building bonds with a cat-lover's 13-year-old tuxedo cat; the duo become insePURRable: 'The drama queen missed his friend'

Jesse Kessenheimer

'The day I picked them up, I fell in love [with] them': Massive 6-foot-tall dude falls in love with two tiny rescue kittens despite being a dog-lover, now he can't imagine life without them

Blake Seidel

Kitten Siblings Reunited: After rescuing an abandoned female kitten from the street, a hearty hooman finds her brother in the same spot and decides to adopt them both into her cat-filled, loving home

Ayala Sorotsky

'I fear she might try to steal him': 19-year-old son saves stray kitten with no microchip or mother, but a year later a Karen neighbor recognizes the cat and claims it morally belongs to her

Blake Seidel

Dad fosters 5-year-old boy, demands 17-year-old daughter living in another state take on big sister duties: 'I didn’t feel comfortable being a sister to someone I’ve never seen in person'

Ally Perry

“He came right up to us and chose us as his humans”: Cat parents save orange cat hiding from the Texas heat; they take him from missing fur and oil stains to loving member of their feline family

Blake Seidel

Daughter begged for a cat, then she and mom found an abandoned kitten in a ditch, immediately fell in love with the little lady and adopted her: ‘[I guess] we have a cat now’

Ayala Sorotsky

Person finds a dirty cat lying on a pile of compost, takes him for a quick TNR but finds out he's too sick to live outside, falls in love with him and adopts him instead: 'I know when the vet said he was [fading] he must have somehow chosen us.'

Mariel Ruvinsky

20 Wholesome weekly success stories of kitties finding their furrever homes: "Threatened my family that if they adopted a cat - they could only do two. My bluff was called."

Blake Seidel

Entitled couple’s attempt to steal a neighbor’s cat backfires, leaving them with a mountain of vet bills, a court order, and a public meltdown: ‘We were astonished that they had the audacity. THEY CLAIMED IT WAS THEIR CAT THEY LOST’

Etai Eshet