This story was originally shared on The Animal Rescue Site. Submit your own rescue story here. Your story just might be the next to be featured on our blog!

Loki was found in a hoarder's house as a kitten. He had a severe upper respiratory infection, conjunctivitis and feline pneumonia. He was five weeks old and slated to be put down.

I worked at the Nebraska Humane Society, and the minute I walked into the room where he and his fellow hoarded cats were, he screamed at me. The rest were quiet.

I threw a stink about his condition and refused to let him be put down. I fostered him from the age of 4 weeks, and he ended up being healthy as a horse. He is now a year old and has some deformities. (He is missing his bottom canine teeth and has a lazy eye.)

He is the most wild and crazy, loving and playful Maine Coon kitten out there. At a healthy 10 pounds, he has never been sick again.

The thing is, I have an autistic son, and Loki is in love with him. I couldn't have been picked by a sweeter cat. Never give up, that is his motto, and I will never give up on him. 

Story submitted by Jessica McLain from Bellevue, Nebraska.

This story was originally shared on The Animal Rescue Site. Share your very own rescue story here!