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27 pictures of cats and text | thumbnail includes two pictures of a cat and one picture of text including '‘No matter how hard the fight was yesterday, I’d do it all over again’'

'She was about to be thrown away': A tiny kitten’s life changed for the better when this rescuer noticed her, stepped in, and refused to walk away

26 text pictures, 2 cat and text pictures, 5 cat pictures | thumbnail includes two pictures of a cat, and 'Before we even left the shelter I said to her "Don't worry, you're a princess now. I got you."'

'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

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23 pictures of cats and text | Thumbnail includes one picture of a cat and one picture of text including '‘I would not look at her and assume that she was a stray’'

'Do not steal it': Friendly feline follows human home every day asking to be adopted, but they are met with regret when cat expurrts reveal that it's likely someone else's pet

story about two black cats attempting to break into someone's home and getting adopted | thumbnail includes two pictures of black cats cuddling 'Their love was the only thing that helped them survive until they found my home'

'[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

story about a cat adopting a crying person from outside | thumbnail includes one picture of a cute cat 'I sat under a streetlight and cried... and she came running up like she'd been looking for me'

'[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

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24 pictures of cats and text | thumbnail includes two pictures of a cat and one picture of text including '‘We were devastated and furious that someone would abandon him’'

'He didn't trust us at first, but my wife's persistence paid off': After years on his own, a once-abandoned yard cat named Walter slowly learned to trust again and found safety, food, and a place to belong

18 text pictures, 3 kitten pictures | thumbnail includes two pictures of a kitten, and ‘There's something really special about growing up with [cats]’

Dad shares the delightful cat-kid connection of his 7-year-old child with her newly adopted kitten: 'According to my sobbing daughter she had "been waiting my whole life".'

story about a pregnant stray cat running into a man's home and getting adopted | thumbnail includes one picture of a screaming cat behind a glass window and a cute cat 'A year ago, this stray cat ran through my front door and refused to leave'

'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

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6 cat pictures, 16 text pictures | thumbnail includes two pictures of cats, and ‘When we picked her up, she look fairly malnourished’

'Went to the vet to look for a chip, found a different surprise': Kind cat pawrent saves a malnourished meowing cat, discovering she's a mama hiding a pawdorable Trojan load

story about a frozen tuxedo cat being surrendered to a vet and getting adopted | thumbnail includes two pictures including a cute tuxedo kitten and a kitten wrapped up in a blanket 'Poor guy was frozen from the rain and hypothermic'

'Poor guy was surrendered to the emergency vet clinic': Frozen tuxedo kitten desperate for help gets surrendered and falls right into the hands of a loving human who's tuxedo cat crossed the rainbow bridge in 2025

Mariel Ruvinsky

story about a woman leaving a bad review to a shelter who denied her request to adopt a cat and them revealing that they did so because she was planning to declaw | thumbnail includes one picture of a cat scratching a couch 'Starfish Animal Rescue (Owner) Hi Amanda, We declined your application because you said you would declaw the cat that you wanted to adopt'

Cat shelter fires back at bad review, defending their decision to deny adoption to a woman who openly admitted that she was planning to declaw the cat : 'We feel that was an appropriate response to your application'

Mariel Ruvinsky

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story about a mom and daughter finding cats inside their wall and adopting them | thumbnail includes two pictures of a black and a white kitten and a kitten drinking from a bottle 'my mom hears kitten meows in the wall'

Mom, who didn't allow her daughter to adopt a cat, hears meows coming from inside the wall, calls the firefighters to rescue a newborn bonded pair of kittens, and ends up fulfilling her daughter's dreams anyway

Mariel Ruvinsky

21 pictures of cats and text | thumbnail includes two pictures of a cat and one picture of text including '‘I refuse to leave her outside in freezing temps’'

'The cat distribution system recently hit me with this gorgeous girl': A freezing night and unanswered doors led to a sweet, cuddly stray cat finding warmth, care, and a safe place to land with these new pawrents

27 pictures of cats, kittens, and text about cat rescue | Thumbnail includes one picture of a kitten, one picture of a cat in a princess costume, and one picture of text including '‘I saved her that day in the rain, but in a lot of ways, she saved me too’'

‘Cat distribution system saved my life’: Student hears distressed meows and finds a completely soaked baby kitten in need, she adopts her and learns to love herself through her rescue's eyes

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story about someone adopting a cat that doesn't grow bigger | thumbnail includes one picture of a tiny cat with a banana on top of it 'It is normal for my cat to be so small?'

Person adopts a teeny weeny kitten that never grows, wonders if there's something wrong with her, but the vet says she's simply going to be tiny furrever: 'There is nothing wrong with her'

Mariel Ruvinsky

story about ten cats getting rescued from a neglectful breeder and one of them being adopted | thumbnail includes two pictures of a one-eyed Maine Coon cat 'no food, or clean water, or even a window in the shed'

2-year-old sick Maine Coon is rescued along with 10 other cats from a breeder who didn't care, finds a home and makes an inspiring recovery: 'We're working hard to get her to her maximum floof potential.'

Mariel Ruvinsky