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wholesome cat adoption stories | thumbnail includes two pictures including a kitten and a cat cuddling 'My cat & foster kitten (spoiler we adopted her)' and an orange kitten and Golden Retriever dog snuggling 'Adopted a stray kitten and my dog claimed him'

25 Cutest Cat Adoption Stories from National Cat Adoption Month to Sprinkle Pawsitivity Onto Your Timeline

Mariel Ruvinsky

story about someone rescuing an injured black kitten and the cat growing to be 18 years old | thumbnail includes two pictures of a black kitten in rough condition 'Found half blind in the street as a scrap of black'

Person finds a tiny black lump on the street that turns out to be a half-blind kitten covered in fleas, now the feline is 18-years-old, has gray hairs and is loving life

Mariel Ruvinsky

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story about someone saving a cat that was stuck in the wall | thumbnail includes two pictures including a dirty black kitten and someone holding a black kitten 'Found kitten in wall'

Person hears meowing from inside the wall, decides to cut a small hole when he suddenly sees a tiny paw pop out, seeking freedom, and is rewarded with a purrfect black kitten companion

Mariel Ruvinsky

story about an elderly man adopting a cat who's been at the shelter for 450 days and it being his third cat at the shelter | thumbnail includes one picture of a gray cat curled up on itself 'Cocotte was adopted after almost 450 days with us!!!'

Since 1996, this kind man has been adopting the cats who needed homes the most from a shelter, and today, at 70 years old, he adopted the sweetest cat who's been there for 450 days

Mariel Ruvinsky

story about a stray cat who hates people choosing to get adopted by a family | thumbnail includes two picures including a white and orange cat outside and the same cat lying on someone on a couch 'Jeff Dislikes: people, noise, fuss, empty food bowls & badgers'

Feral cat named Jeff, who hates everything and everyone, decides it's time to retire and get adopted, picks a family where he's unconditionally loved and becomes the snuggliest cuddlebug

Mariel Ruvinsky

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story about a cat who's been in the shelter for nine years finally getting adopted | thumbnail includes two pictures of an old blind black cat and an orange cat 'these oldies are such a great companions and souls'

Beautiful blind black cat who has been waiting for 9 years in the shelter to be adopted finally gets taken in by the purrfect family, now he can't stop purring and wanting love

Mariel Ruvinsky

story about a cat's original owners coming to claim him five months after he went missing and the new owner refusing | thumbnail includes one picture of an orange cat 'I got a text from someone claiming they're his old owners'

CDS delivers an old, injured, hungry orange cat to human who's eager to help him, but 5 months later, his original owners notice that their cat went missing, demand him back, and post on social media, slandering the person who saved "their" cat's life

Mariel Ruvinsky

story about an sick ragdoll cat being returned to the shelter for being too difficult and adopted again | thumbnail includes two pictures of a cute ragdoll cat 'He's so cuddly I just end up carrying him everywhere'

Blue-eyed ragdoll cat gets abandoned because his slight limp was a "hassle to deal with" for his previous owners, his new owners love him and carrying him around unconditionally

Mariel Ruvinsky

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$Couple rescues a tiny gray kitten who was crying out for help from the inside of a storm drain, get its fractured paw in an itty bitty splint, and appropriately name him Love Bug$

Couple rescues a tiny gray kitten who was crying out for help from the inside of a storm drain, get its fractured paw in an itty bitty splint, and appropriately name him Love Bug

Mariel Ruvinsky

story about a roommate wanting to take her roommate's cat and trying to poison it when she refuses | thumbnail includes two pictures including a cat on a cat tree and a cat in a bunny costume 'Caine @kuntimora had a roommate who asked if they could keep MY CAT'

Egotistical roommate demands to keep her roommate's cat when she ends her lease, brings toxic flowers home as a revenge "move out present" when the cat owner refuses to abandon their cat

Mariel Ruvinsky

story about someone adopting a cat and helping it transform | thumbnail includes two pictures including a scraggly white cat eating from a can and a fluffy white cat lying on someone 'This is what she looked like then versus now'

Person adopts a malnourished white cat who looks like crumpled tissue paper, helps her get better, and she transforms into a fluffy meowjestic beauty

Mariel Ruvinsky

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video about an orange cat getting adopted and learning what love is in his final days | thumbnail includes two pictures of a senior orange cat 'He was such a light to every person that met him'

Senior ginger stray cat who's tired of living in pain chooses a family to adopt him for his final days, finally finds happiness and peace and crosses the rainbow bridge knowing he was truly loved

Mariel Ruvinsky

story about an orange kitten getting adopted right before a big storm | thumbnail includes two pictures including an orange kitten outside and a ginger kitten sleeping on someone's chest 'Little orange man on top of the pile screaming at me'

Tiny orange kitten decides he's done with outside life, screams his lungs out until his chosen humans rescue him just before a huge storm, now lives his best ginger life with his 3 doggo siblings

Mariel Ruvinsky

story about someone accidentally trapped a sick cat and the internet helping them pay for the bills | thumbnail includes two pictures of a gray cat in a cat carrier 'It feels like a kitty miracle. No more struggling to survive'

'I trapped the wrong cat': Person accidentally rescues a severely injured senior who desperately needed help, and the vet bills pile up, but people online band together in a touching display of human kindness and pay for all of it

Mariel Ruvinsky

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story about a woman finding four kittens abandoned in a paper bag in the heat and saving them | thumbnail includes two pictures including a pile of kittens three black and one orange and an orange kitten wrapped up in a blanket 'Somebody left 4 newborn kittens in a paper bag outside my work today'

'I hate people': 4 abandoned newborn kittens with their eyes still closed found in a paper bag in the California heat, but thankfully, a kind couple saves them just in time and nurses them back to health

Mariel Ruvinsky

story about a neighbor stealing their neighbor's cat after they left on vacation without leaving the cat food or water | thumbnail includes two pictures including a ginger cat and a siamese cat 'He went on vacation and left it without food or water'

'We stole our neighbor's cat and I don't regret it': Neighbor goes on vacation without leaving his cat any food or water, his neighbors take matters into their own hands and save the cat

Mariel Ruvinsky

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Since 1996, this kind man has been adopting the cats who needed homes the most from a shelter, and today, at 70 years old, he adopted the sweetest cat who's been there for 450 days

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