rescue

'My heart dropped': Stunned person saves helpless kitten from a 12-year-old boy who was throwing her into the trash, takes her and brings her home, where her kindness is instantly rewarded

Mariel Ruvinsky

'We never had a desire to have a cat, but we both felt like we couldn't leave it’: Rescuing a Bengal in Spain blossomed into an unexpected bond that turned two devoted dog pawrents into cat people

Sarah Brown

Hospital worker finds quivering stray orange cat in the rain, but her apartment has a policy against cats, she convinces her in-laws to adopt him

Briana Viser

Person snaps photo of cat with unusual and gorgeous coloring at their local shelter, the internet meme-s the feline and makes him go viral, leading to him finding the forever home he's been waiting for

Mariel Ruvinsky

Unneutered cat with collar is rescued by new family, no one comes to claim him, so his new family gives him the love and kindness he's always deserved: 'Cannot believe someone isn't missing him'

Mariel Ruvinsky

'We’re kinda hoping he’s ours now': A cold midnight visitor in Canada kept coming back to find warmth, safety, and a possible furever home

Sarah Brown

Unique white and orange patterned cat breaks into playground of daycare, childcare worker finds him and takes him home to become a foster pawrent: 'I'm already attached'

Briana Viser

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

'She’s playful, loving, and thriving': This kitten's life was transformed after a roadside rescue took her from the freezing cold to a life of warmth, cuddles, and love

Sarah Brown

'Well, I guess we have five cats now': Wholesome couple finds beautiful white cat with collar outside, they work frivolously to find his owners but no one claimed him, so they gave him a furrever home instead

Briana Viser

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

Newly adopted dumpster kitty screams relentlessly by front door, human opens it, feral cat runs inside, dumpster kitty adopts feral cat and the three live in purrfect harmony

Briana Viser

Beef jerky responsible for rescuing a highway runaway pupper who’d escaped her home and took her rescuers on a neighborhood chase, dog’s pawrents said: 'Rosie! How did you get out of the yard!??!’

Laurent Shinar