Rescue Stories

Very small orange kitten with wet fur sitting on a car seat beside a towel, open food package, and plastic bottle, looking weak but alert.

Sick Kitten Nearly Dies By A Parked Car While Everyone Walks Past

A tiny kitten sat alone beside the wheel of a parked car near a busy roundabout, too sick and weak to save himself. Cars rushed past, people ignored him, and...

Sick Kitten Nearly Dies By A Parked Car While Everyone Walks Past

A tiny kitten sat alone beside the wheel of a parked car near a busy roundabout, too sick and weak to save himself. Cars rushed past, people ignored him, and...

Thin black-and-white tuxedo cat curls up on a beige cushion on a couch, looking toward the camera. Black-and-white tuxedo cat sits on a floor vent by a glass door, looking up, with green ivy visible outside.

Grieving Cat Stops Eating After Losing The Only Mother She Ever Knew

After Lily died, Olivia stopped eating, hid from the world, and pulled out her own fur as grief overtook her. For more than two weeks, nothing seemed to reach the...

Grieving Cat Stops Eating After Losing The Only Mother She Ever Knew

After Lily died, Olivia stopped eating, hid from the world, and pulled out her own fur as grief overtook her. For more than two weeks, nothing seemed to reach the...

Black cat with bright amber eyes lying on a patterned blanket and looking off to the side.

Grieving Cat Parent Walked Into A Shelter And Found The One Cat Who Could Heal

Odysseus immediately settled in with her head nestled on my shoulder and started purring louder than any cat I had ever heard. I was hooked.

Grieving Cat Parent Walked Into A Shelter And Found The One Cat Who Could Heal

Odysseus immediately settled in with her head nestled on my shoulder and started purring louder than any cat I had ever heard. I was hooked.

Split image showing the tiny gray tabby kitten standing on concrete beside a second image of several cats and kittens sharing food from a large dish.

Rescuer Takes In Eight Abandoned Kittens While Caring For 70 Animals Alone

One rescuer was already stretched beyond her limits, caring for dozens of stray cats and dogs with no space, no money, and mounting bills. Then the kittens started arriving. First...

Rescuer Takes In Eight Abandoned Kittens While Caring For 70 Animals Alone

One rescuer was already stretched beyond her limits, caring for dozens of stray cats and dogs with no space, no money, and mounting bills. Then the kittens started arriving. First...

Tiny Kitten Saved From Traffic Fights Her Way Into A New Family

Tiny Kitten Saved From Traffic Fights Her Way Into A New Family

One Saturday night, as my boyfriend opened the door, I saw a kitten’s face peeking out of his backpack. She was about 8 weeks old, underfed, dirty, and sick with...

Tiny Kitten Saved From Traffic Fights Her Way Into A New Family

One Saturday night, as my boyfriend opened the door, I saw a kitten’s face peeking out of his backpack. She was about 8 weeks old, underfed, dirty, and sick with...

A Shelter Volunteer Put The Wrong Cat In Her Arms And Everything Changed

A Shelter Volunteer Put The Wrong Cat In Her Arms And Everything Changed

A woman goes to an adoption event looking for an orange male kitten. Instead, a volunteer placed an adult gray striped female in her arms and vanished before she could...

A Shelter Volunteer Put The Wrong Cat In Her Arms And Everything Changed

A woman goes to an adoption event looking for an orange male kitten. Instead, a volunteer placed an adult gray striped female in her arms and vanished before she could...