animal rescue

After years of helping shelter animals find homes, a dedicated volunteer explains why the shelter isn't a place of heartbreak, but of hope: 'Sadness is the last thing you feel.'

Ayala Sorotsky

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'We moved into a new house and it came with a cat': Couple with multiple cats finds stray cat outside their place, they adopt her despite being a full house

Briana Viser

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Beautiful angelic cat dropped off on side of the road in Georgia, caring family finds her and brings her to their home to adopt her: 'We definitely don’t take having her for granted'

Briana Viser

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Three 1-year-old cats were found left in an Uber Eats bag outside of an NYC park, all were courageously rescued, given proper care, and warm homes: ‘You’re safe now, babies.'

Elna McHilderson

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Stray cat hangs around home, teenager lets her in to drink milk despite parents not allowing pets out of superstition, he hopes the CDS chooses him anyway

Briana Viser

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'She reminds me of my soul cat I had in high school': Uni student spots poor cat as he's leaving for class, she plops and he takes her in immediately

Briana Viser

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'Instead of grocery bags, she’s holding this tiny black kitten': Son worries when mom takes hours grocery shopping, she comes home instead with gorgeous blue-eyed void cat for the family

Briana Viser

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'No one wanted a semi-feral cat': A once matriarch of a stray cat colony finds a friend in her rescuer's doggo, who begged his hooman to keep her after all her kittens went to furrever families

Blake Seidel

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One-woman rescue operation in Ohio spots a cat limping alone in the freezing cold snow, is filled with happiness when she's finally able to save him: ‘He is now safe, secure, and warm’

Elna McHilderson

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Gentle couple finds tuxedo kitty living in cardboard box in parking lot, they break down when they learn her story of abandonment but immediately take her home

Briana Viser

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Below freezing weather has cold kitty begging to be let inside warm home, good human scoops him up immediately and brings him in: 'He’s happy, fed, and sleeping in a brand new fuzzy fleece bed'

Briana Viser

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Wife makes a deal with husband to adopt the cat that appeared on the family's farm just before they moved, if she's still available after a month: 'I went back to the rescue and adopted her.'

Ayala Sorotsky

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Two friends make a heartwarming journey out of taking 45 foster cats who were abandoned by the shelter system to another state to find them furrever homes: 'First time it was 26 cats, this time we had 45'

Blake Seidel

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'She sensed that I was a safe person': Sweet calico cat ghosted by previous owners, but finds her furrever home through a heartwarming connection to her new hooman’s childhood

Blake Seidel

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Woman rescues overly fluffy white stray, then the next day, she ends up with a stash of secret silky kittens she never saw coming: 'You fell victim to one of the classic blunders'

Blake Seidel

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'Can we keep him?': Friendly feline follows dog lover and pupper home, the caring canine won't take no for an answer when it comes to adopting this stray into their fuzzy family

Blake Seidel

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