adoption

Shy barn kitten successfully scouts a local trivia night to find her perfect person, proving the real grand prize wasn't on the scorecard: ‘Once I looked into her eyes, it was a one-and-done.’

Ayala Sorotsky

Stray Turkish Van kitten unable to meow walks into couple’s home resulting in instant adoption thanks to kitten’s sibling who meowed for attention but then ran away, cat dad says: ‘We would happily trade our human years to live with him for a lifetime.’

Laurent Shinar

‘She turned out to be a Trojan cat’: Couple takes a stray cat into their garage, only to discover that she's been hiding 3 kittens in her belly all along

Bar Mor Hazut

Cat gets abandoned by evicted owners, concerned neighbor feeds him under the door until she finds a way to get him out of the empty apartment, she says: ‘I am so happy I noticed’

Bar Mor Hazut

'I didn’t want her in a shelter': A work call that meant more than expected led one employee to a tortoiseshell cat left behind, and straight into the arms of a new love

Blake Seidel

'She chose her human and never looked back': Backpacker traveling across India by foot finds a home for stray puppy, but ends up adopting her after she escapes "home" twice to find him

Blake Seidel

Grandparents disparage adopted 4-year-old, get upset when daughter bans them from seeing her: 'My dad joked real relatives matter more'

Ally Perry

'We stole our neighbor's cat and I don't regret it': Neighbor goes on vacation without leaving his cat any food or water, his neighbors take matters into their own hands and save the cat

Mariel Ruvinsky

Person adopts the cat who was "too far gone to save", rescuing him from under a dumpster, and 6 months later, his transformation from crumpled tissue to fluffy house king is ameowzing

Mariel Ruvinsky

Abandoned itty bitty kitty turns husband and wife from dog people to cat people with her cuteness, changing their entire purrspective on pets: '[She] is now a happy and healthy 1-year-old cat'

Mariel Ruvinsky

'While I have made a little progress, I am still very timid around people': Person finds out formerly feral cat has been stuck in a shelter for over 2 years because she's scared of people, decides to give her a chance, and finds out she's purrfect

Mariel Ruvinsky

'Tiny survivor': Golden Labrador finds a tiny sick void kitten whose mom and siblings crossed the rainbow bridge, she makes it through treatment and comes out the other side spicy, snuggly and with a new doggo best friend

Mariel Ruvinsky

'We found a dog that looked identical to ours in the shelter': DNA test leads couple to discover the sweet dog they rescued 2 years later is actually the long-lost sister of their adopted pup

Mariel Ruvinsky

Boy finds a cute "raccoon" outside and bonds with it, only for it to turn out that the raccoon is actually a tiny kitten in need of a home: 'He’s since been corrected and pressured me into adopting it'

Mariel Ruvinsky

'He was just on his own': Husband and wife both abandon their cat after divorce, leaving him alone, confused and "just wanting a hug", until a kind human steps in, adopts him and gives him the love he never got

Mariel Ruvinsky

Florida feline pspspsses a British passport after following a UK person visiting from overseas, convincing them he should grow up in the English countryside: 'I've decided to do what it takes to bring him home with me.'

Ayala Sorotsky