rescue

‘Welcome to the freeway feline rescue club’: Dear driver stops to save a cat from a raging road side and gives her a furever home

Ayala Sorotsky

“He carried him five miles home in his arms”: A dump-side rescue turns into a gentle love story between a lucky kitten and the family who was meant to find him

Laurent Shinar

'There is no realistic way I can continue to socialize a 100% outdoor semi-feral cat and take care of a newborn at the same time': Pregnant cat lover torn as affectionate stray wants in, but struggles to add pawrent to new parent responsibilities

Sarah Brown

Nanny finds a baby possum on her morning walk, wraps it in a diaper, and becomes its mom for the day; possum ends up growing up in a wildlife preserve: 'I swaddled him and put him in the cupholder'

Jesse Kessenheimer

Kitten rescued from a devastated place to a warm home by heroic human who never thought he'd become a cat person: 'He had to walk up to us and collapse at our feet'

Ayala Sorotsky

Wholesome foster family takes a chance and adopts the "worst" dog in the shelter, 'Moe', only to discover that he's secretly a snuggly mamma's boy: '[He's] the happiest little thing ever'

Blake Seidel

Young boy falls in love with "stray" cat who visits him daily; vet finds his microchip and reveals he's been abandoned for almost a year, so his new family fights landlord to keep him: 'He is the greatest cat I've ever had'

Blake Seidel

‘[The kitten was] screaming at the street as people passed by’: Hearty hooman shares how she saved an abandoned kitten in a two-day rescue mission

Ayala Sorotsky

'He pretty much would not let my husband ignore him': After "temporarily" fostering cat that was too stressed to be in the shelter, this dog-person guy begs his wife to adopt the affectionate kitty who won his heart

Mariel Ruvinsky

Kind mom and kids rescue drowning mink from a pond, then Mama mink swoops in to bring her baby to safety: ‘Mums always have your back’

Lana DeGaetano

"[They] gave my cat to someone else": Hopeful cat lover wished for a tuxedo kitten, rescued one days later, and took it to the shelter to check for an owner—then the shelter gave it away by mistake

Blake Seidel

Sick stray kitten sits alone on a concrete step until someone notices her, until a wholesome couple comes along and gives her a second chance

Blake Seidel

'I got tricked into adopting a sick cat': Person adopts 11-year-old cat which the rescue claimed to be healthy, gets attached to her, only to find out that the cat is sick and is going to be expensive to take care of, and now, they feel helpless

Mariel Ruvinsky

'I didn’t want a cat but now I can’t let her go': Man finds a tiny black kitten so heavily covered in mud she couldn't even see, takes her to the vet, and immediately knows that he has to adopt her

Mariel Ruvinsky

'I feel like a grandmother': Brand new cat mom repeatedly brings her newborn kittens to her human, rolling over and purring, no matter how comfortable her own bed is, and the internet reassures her that it's a actually compliment

Mariel Ruvinsky

24 hours after giving this cat for adoption, she falls out the window, is returned broken, gets purrsonally cared for by her rescuer, makes an amazing recovery and gets adopted by the only person that she trusts: 'I'm keeping Wonton'

Mariel Ruvinsky