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Spirit Animal Sunday: 21 Fluffy Candidates to Choose from as Your Purrsonality for the Week Ahead (August 2, 2026)

Etai Eshet

‘from stray cat to famed employee’: Diesel the stray cat makes auto repair shop his home and becomes everyone’s favorite car mechanic

Etai Eshet

32 Wholesome Woofers Warming Hearts One Wag at a Time

Briana Viser

Man makes a 40-mile trip for a phone he barely wanted, but the seller's litter of kittens has other plans for what he comes back home with: 'I didn't say yes immediately, but she did.'

Ayala Sorotsky

After finding an orange kitten beside a firetruck, rescuers search everywhere for his family before finding him the perfect foster

Sarah Brown

After a couple finally decided they finally had room to foster, a tiny kitten showed up on their porch at the perfect time

Sarah Brown

Worried family takes their cat who suddenly stopped playing and eating to the vet, only to discover he's sad and worried he's being replaced by the new kitten, they reassure him he's loved, and now he and the kitten are best friends

Mariel Ruvinsky

Woman's life is turned upside down by single motherhood and the heartbreaking loss of her other dog, but her tiny dachshund quietly steps up and becomes the emotional lifeline she didn't know she needed

Briana Viser

26 Heartwarming Hounds of Happiness to Wag Your Inner Tail

Ayala Sorotsky

After losing his owner in a tragedy, a 12-year-old cat faced being put down at the shelter until a vet tech who'd just lost her own senior cat took a chance on him: 'Decided it was fate and took him home.'

Ayala Sorotsky

A small stray kept returning to the same apartment door until she finally found the family she'd been looking for

Sarah Brown

Woman's birthday surprise for her man - one cat - turns into two bonded sisters overnight, and by morning, five more: 'I accidentally acquired 7 cats that my husband doesn't know about.'

Ayala Sorotsky

Woman rescues an injured calico kitten hiding beneath a car, then unexpectedly becomes a cat mom to two rescue cats

Sarah Brown

Woman returns home from a flight to find a tiny kitten outside her apartment, is hilariously forced to negotiate with her housecat before bringing home a new sibling, and luckily, they reach an agreement

Mariel Ruvinsky

Student rescues an injured stray cat, cares for him as they remove his leg, then finds him a home, but the cat hates that place because he's already chosen a home, so the student takes him back, and he blossoms

Mariel Ruvinsky

After being bred for kittens and thrown out like trash, an exhausted feline chooses to adopt a couple 2 days before their wedding, becomes best friends with their twice-abandoned and rescued senior cat, and finally learns what a real family is

Mariel Ruvinsky