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A half-pound tortie kitten picks the family car as her shelter right before a hailstorm, and manages to win over the one parent who wasn't ready for another cat: 'I didn't want a cat... but here we are.'

Ayala Sorotsky

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Couple retires from cat rescue after adopting 3, but a mysterious kitten at the husband’s work has other plans

Sarah Brown

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Person cutting down a tree on their farm finds box full of 7 abandoned kittens underneath it; in the heat with no chance of surviving on their own, this farmer saves them and finds them all homes

Mariel Ruvinsky

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Dad spots a kitten dodging traffic at his daughter's kindergarten drop-off, scoops him up before anything happens, and already knows how the story ends: 'I'm gonna let [my daughter] name him when she gets home today!'

Ayala Sorotsky

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Shelter employee refuses to let healthy cat be euthanized for needing more than a day to acclimate to a new home, fights relentlessly to save him, and a stranger who is moved by the cat's story online steps up and adopts him

Mariel Ruvinsky

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Cat lover waits 2 years for a Cat Distribution System assignment before a tiny stray kitten takes matters into her own paws

Sarah Brown

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Woman stops for what she thinks is a squirrel and ends up adopting the tiny kitten who completely derails her grocery run

Sarah Brown

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Woman is handed 2 soaking wet kittens found in the rain by a neighbor, and despite it being the hardest month of her life, she knows that it was faith that brought them together and takes the kittens home

Mariel Ruvinsky

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Feral kitten rejected by his cat colony gets rescued and travels 700 miles to his new forever home

Sarah Brown

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'[I'm] gonna get rid of it one way or another': Woman overhears rural man trying to pawn kitten off, steps in, follows him home for 30 minutes, scared but wanting to save the cat, only for his wife to hand her the most adorable kitten

Mariel Ruvinsky

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A few months after losing their beloved of 22 years, grieving couple finds 4 kittens in need of a home, and since they can't bear to separate the bonded siblings, they simply adopt them all: 'Now our house is no longer empty'

Mariel Ruvinsky

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Person feeds skinny skittish stray cat, showing her that humans can be trusted, and she rewards them by bringing them her itty bitty kittens: 'She brought them right to the place where she had learned she was safe and cared for'

Mariel Ruvinsky

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Vet clinic worker begs owner who wants to euthanize her cat for no reason to let her adopt her instead, only to discover her bonded sister is still with the same owner; months of convincing finally reunite the heartbroken sisters

Mariel Ruvinsky

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After losing his beloved cat a year ago, man finds a stray orange kitty who feels like one final gift from his old boy

Sarah Brown

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A week after suddenly losing her 9-year-old cat, heartbroken person gets a CDS delivery of a skinny stray cat and is convinced it was sent to her by her previous cat: 'He knew I needed someone to love after he was gone'

Mariel Ruvinsky

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After his elderly owner passed away, this 13-year-old cat spent years surviving on his own as a stray, until one kind human showed the “grumpiest cat ever” that he didn’t have to do it alone anymore

Mariel Ruvinsky

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