adoption

Orphaned squirrels rescued after a storm get tentatively paired up with a momma cat, who instantly adopts them and raises them alongside her own newborn kittens: '[She] drew them close as if they were her own'

Mariel Ruvinsky

'I’ve been chosen!' Person hears tiny kitten screaming for help, finds her shivering and alone outside, the kitten sees them and immediately chooses them as her home

Mariel Ruvinsky

Stray cat jumps into woman's car, eats her Dairy Queen, demands to be taken home and gets adopted: 'This is my car. This is not my cat.'

Mariel Ruvinsky

Neighbors let their cat roam unsupervised in below freezing temepratures, woman across the street deliberates if she should offer to buy her off: 'I just want what's best for her'

Ayala Sorotsky

Woman adopts shelter cat, discovers she's ill, then pays $15,000 to save her life: 'The shelter not knowing how sick she was probably saved her life'

Blake Seidel

24 hours after adopting a cat from a coworker, the previous owners demand she be returned to them or that the new owner pay for all previous pet expenses: 'I already sent them money the day of the adoption'

Mariel Ruvinsky

Construction worker rescues a kitten that was stuck behind drywall, he takes her home to wife, who slowly nurses the sweet baby back to health: ‘Honestly, a miracle’

Bar Mor Hazut

Aunt changes her 2-year-old niece's name after becoming her legal guardian, refusing to call the baby 'Synnamin' despite family pressure: 'My parents fought me on it... Don't care'

Jesse Kessenheimer

'My life is [messed] up, and I don't want hers to be': Homeless woman hands person a tiny void kitten, trying to give her a better chance at life, and changes the feline's fate forever

Mariel Ruvinsky

'She sensed that I was a safe person': Sweet calico cat ghosted by previous owners, but finds her furrever home through a heartwarming connection to her new hooman’s childhood

Blake Seidel

'Her cage had a red "don't touch" sign': Shelter deemed the cat mean and not eligible for adoption, but one sweet person saw through the warnings and into her heart

Ayala Sorotsky

'[They] repeatedly tried to break into my apartment': Bonded black cat duo decides on their human, stages multiple break-in attempts, and eventually wins, getting adopted into their purrfect furrever home

Mariel Ruvinsky

'[This] cat showed up on my worst week': Affectionate cat runs up to person who's crying outside, sits in their lap, chooses them as her human and and makes their sadness a little lighter every day

Mariel Ruvinsky

'The little fluffball followed me home': Pregnant stray cat barges into man's house, climbs into his lap like she owns the place, and makes it clear she’s chosen him

Mariel Ruvinsky

Lonely Grandpa seeks a companion and asks for the cat that has been in the shelter the longest, then takes home a sweet orange cat 20 minutes later: ‘To many happy years with her’

Bar Mor Hazut

'She had been waiting [her] whole life': After a missed adoption and weeks of patience, a seven-year-old finally brings home a kitten named Frankie and gains a new best friend

Sarah Brown