adoption

14-year-old dog at the end of her journey sprites back to health after family saves an abandoned puppy: 'Our vet was astonished'

Ayala Sorotsky

Person goes to dinner, comes back with a kitten, after getting claimed by an adorable tiny kitty outside of Chick-fil-A: 'He is constantly purring and making biscuits'

Mariel Ruvinsky

Dumpster kitten who was accidentally left behind after all her siblings were rescued spots her chosen human, runs right up to them and gets herself adopted: 'She was skinny, shivering, and SCREAMING'

Mariel Ruvinsky

'Acorn saved these babies, but it seems like they saved her a little bit too': Litter of day-old kittens left at animal shelter struggling to survive, but post-partum rescue cat 'Acorn' adopts them without a paws of hesitation

Blake Seidel

'I heard a faint meow in the distance': Kind Goodwill shopper spends hours rescuing a terrified unique bobtail kitten that was all along hiding in a drain pipe, eventually catching her and giving her the life she deserves

Mariel Ruvinsky

'I’m so glad this baby is getting justice': Woman discovers kitten double-bagged in the trash, police find perpetrator's name in the garbage, and the criminal is arrested with justice served

Mariel Ruvinsky

'We started feeding him and started to get him to trust us': After disappearing for months, a starving community cat returns for help and chooses the family who feeds him as his forever home

Sarah Brown

'A dorm-wide conspiracy to hide the kittens': Students save strays despite no-pet policy on college campus, nurturing them for adoption while avoiding monthly inspections

Ayala Sorotsky

'He had been yelling for 3 days': Concerned cat lover rallies community to save starving kitten stuck in a storm drain, healing his appetite and heart by saying yes to a lifetime together

Blake Seidel

Couple's cat brings over a charming chocolate-colored cat, they rescue him and find out he was abandoned by a shady breeder who didn't want him because he wasn't fertile enough: 'I'd never seen that color on a cat before'

Mariel Ruvinsky

Sweet stray cat forces his way into a full feline house, wins the warm hearts of the humans inside: 'I eventually gave up trying to keep him out'

Ayala Sorotsky

'Today she jumped in my wife's car': Couple take their newly rescued cat to the vet, get told that she is pregnant, only to find out that 'she' is actually a 'he' who has an extra large belly

Mariel Ruvinsky

'He looked so sad and so defeated': Senior feral tomcat had given up on life until he got rescued by a kind human who finally gave him hope for a different future

Mariel Ruvinsky

'We found him because he screamed at us': A lost orange cat with no chip, no food, and no care calls out from the bushes and ends up with pawrents ready to protect, feed, and finally love him

Sarah Brown

‘His hands look like mittens’: Orange polydactyl stray cat, Cheese, heals a grieving cat owner's heart 2 weeks after her cat passes, filling the cat-sized hole in their family from the hospital parking lot

Jesse Kessenheimer

'My wife saved [her] off the road last year': Update of a man on his CDS kitten leaves the online feline family fawning over this beautiful cat she's become

Ayala Sorotsky