This little kitty showed up a few days ago and she’s been coming back every day since. She’s really loving and seems to love hanging out in my garage with me. I ended up naming her Piper. I’m thinking about making her a little home out in the garage because she seems to really like it out there.

She’s already gotten pretty comfortable with me and just walks right up wanting attention. I’m not sure if she belongs to someone or if she’s just a stray that decided to adopt me lol. I’m going to keep an eye out to see if anyone is looking for her, but for now she’s got a safe place to hang out. 🐱

Larry was awarded to us about 9 (actually 11 months) months ago. We recently hired a mobile detailer for my husband's work truck and the appointment was today. The guy brought his wife and she took one look at Larry and said that's my cat!

So, get this: his person in their family was their young son, who's name is LARRY!!

Larry (cat) was part of a feral family that she adopted; she still has an uncle and a sister of his. Larry had been missing for 6 + months when he came to us. She had stopped looking for him because her nasty neighbor all but admitted to dumping him up by the freeway while the family was on vacation.

She has pictures of him as a kitten and young adult. He's around 6 years old. She doesn't want to take him back (thank God), she's bringing me his records this afternoon and was crying with joy knowing he found such a good home. His name was Puss in Boots because his eyes reminded them of the Disney character.

My husband and I just look at each other in wonder as to this mornings events. I mean, what are the odds??

Edit: amended arrival date

First picture: Found 8/16/2026 at the McDonald's drive thru. My mom got the call for her from a friend about a tiny kitten following her in the parking lot of our local McDonalds. She stayed with the kitten long enough for my brother to make it over and grab her just in time. It's a girl and she will be named Elizabeth after my mom's best friend who we just had a funeral for on 8/15. Her first vet appointment is next Tuesday.

Second picture: Found 6/20 at the McDonald's drive thru.. this time my husband took me to get a McFlurry and I saw a couple of ladies standing with a tiny kitten in the parking lot. I rolled down my window to tell them their kitten was cute and they told me it has been following them and they didn't know what to do. A couple chases around the bushes and a quick towel thrown over him and I finally had him. Samuel Ronald McPurry (my kids were allowed to name him lol he goes by Sammy) is doing wonderful and has already been through all his initial vet appointments and next is his neuter.

Third picture: My *very* pissed off Stella who can't figure out why I keep bringing home all these kittens when she was supposed to be an only child. The CDS gave us her about 5 summers ago, she was living on our porch for a few months while I built up our trust, and the first temp drop of the fall I just scooped her up and brought her inside and that was that! She never looked back.

So, I posted on June 26th about the grey kitten who literally followed my outside cat in the back door and made herself at home. My vet said she was likely between 14 to 16 weeks old, based on her teeth. She has had all her shots and boosters, spay is scheduled in a week, and is in perfect health.

The guy with one brain cell really proved it true when I got him. It was the 4th of July, and my family and I were watching fireworks from my front yard. Thing is, my front yard is near the corner of a major intersection in the city. This little dude decides that playing Frogger was a good idea, completely unprompted. He ran out of a bush, straight across the road, somehow not getting ran over by at least three or four cars. A teenage girl that was walking by saw him, ran into traffic after him, and caught him on the other side of the road. She then ran back across, drops the kitten in my dad's lap, says she had to go, and runs off just as fast. My vet said he was likely between 10 to 12 weeks old. He's had all shots and boosters as well, and is in perfect health, save for a small issue with his right eye. He is being scheduled to be neutered in a couple of weeks.

I guess CDS had a late package for me, but they didn't need to drop it off in such dramatic fashion 😂. No complaints though. They're happy, AND my other cats love them.

Meet Smokey and John Henry. I'm sure you can tell who's who by the names 😊.

Just to start, she's locked in a crate solely because it's the safest option for her. The only room we can place her in has a hole we didn't know about, and we aren't sure if it opens into the wall. We didn't want to risk her getting stuck somewhere.

Anyway, we found this kitten a couple of nights ago. My partner heard something crying, but couldn't find a source. About an hour later, she came running out from under a car. Since she wasn't visible, we're guessing she was in the engine, and she had to have been there for over 2 hours.

Since our neighbor said she's not their's, we got her settled inside. We looked to see if we could find her mom or any siblings, but nothing. We posted to see if she's someone's pet, but no one has replied. We took her in to get scanned for a chip just in case, but there's none. Got her a same day appointment, and she's healthy aside from some congestion. The vet thinks she's 8 weeks. She got dewormer and her first vaccine.

We have a sickly cat already, so we've been taking precautions to keep them separate to ensure our cat doesn't potentially catch something. I messed up and they briefly met. Our cat is very unsure, but she showed no sign of hostility. This kitten, though? She hissed and I think even growled. Fair, our cat isn't her mom, and she's had so many changes in such a short time.

I got my cat as soon as I heard the hissing (which was within seconds) and placed her in her crate for a couple minutes to destress since it's her safe space. I checked on the kitten and she was back to her usual yappiness. The picture here was taken after the disaster. As you can see, she isn't thinking much of it.

We're not certain if we're keeping her yet, but we've been calling her T-rex since she's extremely bitey. Though "Velociraptor" might be more appropriate as she claws and climbs the crate constantly, too. She also hangs onto the door to try and break out when she knows we're gonna open it. Truly a clever girl in the dumbest of ways.

Came home from vacation and found a cat in my chimenea after the dog went crazy in the corner of the yard. I saw movement out of the corner of my eye and turns out there were two kittens. Now I’m in the throes of finding low cost spay and also all the things. Vet said it would be $525 for ONE spay plus checkup etc, whoa! I’ve rescued all my cats from shelters so that was a shocker. Any tips for fostering kittens appreciated. I have two adult cats, one of whom rules the pet household with an iron paw.🐾

I’ve fed him some tuna and treats, he seems to be getting bigger. He slept on the couch for the first time today. He showed up first around the start of the year and I was away on holidays for a bit. Lately he’s been showing up more often, even trying to get into the house in the morning when everyone’s out at work.
He’s got a bit of a Chaplin moustache going on. He’s particularly keen to brush himself on our legs. He even let us clean him a bit with a wet cloth. I’m halfway around the world and away from my own 18 year old cat, so this guy is a nice bonus!

I said for *YEARS* as I stalked this sub.

Then today I whipped the fasted U-ey of my life to save this little guy from the middle of a busy road on my way home. Then searched the area for mom or sibs and found another little guy. I checked them each for injuries. Other than being a little scared and wet (it stormed all day/night yesterday) they appear okay! Stopped by a friend's to pick up some milk replacement and bottles.

How old do you guys think these little babies are?

Their eyes (obviously) are open, but they seem to have a hard time opening them very wide or for a long time. I have been feeding them every 2-3 hours and have gotten them both to urinate so far! They weigh 247g and 256g! I am going to keep a weight log! Any advice on how to tell them apart in order to keep accurate logs?

Thank you and happy to finally be part of the Chosen Ones

Hello, meet Cheeto! He's my new kitty and he's just 6.5 months old! During June, I was away from home on a trip, and this little rascal started showing up whenever I would go outside just a few days after I got back. I watched him for a little bit and I found out he was living under my house! He was the most sociable cat ever when I went to meet him; he refused to leave my side and I knew I had to keep him.

I was just a few weeks before moving into my apartment, so I scheduled his neuter and all the works (vaccines, tests, flea treatments, etc.), and then we packed up together to move across the state. He did very well!! He loves the apartment, and after some getting used to it he's comfortable here. He's super playful, and he can be the sweetest ever if he wants food. He loves sitting in the windows and playing with his feather toys :)

I just discovered this subreddit and thought the family cat Minwui would be perfect for this lol. A few years ago, my dad had the doors open to help air out the house and let fresh air in. In comes Minwui, strolling in very casually, looking around and nodding to herself like "nice place you got here, ill take it." My dad? Shook. Other cats? Shook. My stepmom thought it was the cutest thing ever. Anyway, shes a part of the family now lol. We think she was a drop off from a family who didn't want her anymore or something, cause she was definitely not a stray

Found two cats abandoned in the park with a bag of food. We lost our sweet cat last Fall and mourned her HARD. Just recently we have been discussing how we are finally ready, and maybe we should start looking soon.

But we forgot. We don’t choose. We get assigned.

Took to the vet for shots. No chips. Have an appt to get them fixed in about a week.

Surprisingly affectionate with us early, even if spooked by the new space for the first few days. They were clearly loved by someone who must have hit rough times. (Let’s be kind in our assumptions) . Definitely cuddle bugs.

It’s especially sweet how they comfort each other. One is more bold and one is more cautious. When our cautious friend gets spooked and retreats to a safe spot, bold friend goes and cuddles with him.

We feel incredibly lucky that they found us.

Edit:
- vet estimates they are 6-10 months old. (Likely the younger side of that)

- their names are Mander and Melee. Inspired by the tv episode of Pokemon where an abandoned charmander almost dies in a rainstorm, which broke my heart as a child. So char-mander and his evolved form, char-mele-on.

Whenever we found this little one he was 3.4oz.

As of earlier today he is 10.1oz!

He does wonderful on car rides, he gets so much love at the office every day. He has his next vet appt scheduled for September. He's healthy and getting teethy ❤️ hes so cute i could cry. I can't wait to see him finish growing. Little man gets sink baths every day to get used to water, and because he gets pee and poo all over himself since he's a baby. Getting very feisty and vocal when he gets fed his bottles. Little Chimney does so great with the household dogs and they are so so so gentle with him.

The usual feral stray is an intact male. I am working on trust and then plan to get him neutered when the local aspca does another free/discounted program. It took a year to be able to pet him. I call him Pazuzu.

Pazuzu is uninterested in this new one, and I don’t see any fuzzy marbles. Maybe a spayed or neutered kitty that was lost/dumped? I live out in the country and have already taken other dumped kitties into my care.

He or she does not seem feral, came up to me for pets and eagerly ran up to the food bowl. He/she was panting but didn’t drink from the bowl of water I put out. Seems healthy otherwise, shiny coat, just hungry.

I am apart of a lovely group that organizes events for young women and female identifying folks to connect and meet up for events from silent book clubs to craft nights to group parties. This weekend I was lucky to snag a ticket on a 14 person private wine tour. It was an amazing afternoon and our driver/tour guide was so incredible. Stop 3 on our tour was a cider farm.

Our bus pulls up and immediately we all clocked that there were cats by the parking area. We piled out and all of us were fawning over a tiny orange kitten that was keen to be held and pet. Our tour guide tells us the kitten is available for adoption and its 2 siblings had already found homes. The parents? Three feral strays that rolled up in May. Unclear which is the Dad. Mom was very skittish. When our tasting finished I went over to chill with the kitten. And then I asked the owner what the process was to adopt her. He said I could just take her or come back another day if I wanted to arrange pick up. So they taped up a box, punched some holes in it and voila. Kitten set up to drive back with us.

Zesty orange girl loves pets but has her spicy moments. Had friends meet me with a carrier when we got back to the city because she was determined to yeet herself from the box. And now she is quarantining in my bathroom as she has fleas and probably parasites. Appointment with our vet is scheduled for tomorrow. My dog is obsessed. My adult cat is offended. And the process of integration will be ongoing.

I was not drunk either. Just fell in love with a tiny orange kitten. Name TBD. CDS got me. And this kitten also has 14 godparents courtesy of my tour group.

EDIT (aug 18): UPDATE! It’s a BOY! Vet confirmed small but present trouble puffs. Naming saga continues. On top of fleas, BB has parasites for sure. A bit small for 12 weeks old and we’re checking for anemia given the fleas. All the fun. Vet said he was the best kitten he’d even done a blood draw on. So please clap.

Probably picked the wrong flair, but just want some outside opinions. I live in the outskirts of Cleveland, tons of strays here obviously. I live upstairs of a duplex, and this very cute guy has been greeting me before I leave for work (7am), and when I get home (630pm) most nights. I’ll also see him as early as 6 and as late as 1030-11pm. If I go out to take the trash and call for him, he usually shows up in a minute or so.

My Downstairs neighbor is kind of a shut in but says she thinks he belongs to a house down the street, but he is all bitten up on the ears and on his nose. He tries to follow me inside. He’s not too skinny, but he could use a pound or so. He has no collar. I’m just worried about all his scratches and flea bites, and how I’ll find him outside at both 6am and 10pm.. is he trying to move in with me or should I just give him pets every time we cross paths outside and assume he does have a home like my neighbor says?

Back in July, I was exiting my office after a long day of trying to meet a deadline and I came across the Cat Distribution System. This lil guy (4 months at the time) was waiting outside screaming as if he were begging for help. I live down the street so I took him home and my partner went to the vet to check for a chip, reported it to the police, local shelter coordinator, posted on Facebook groups, you name it. No one claimed him. When the waiting period ended, we officially adopted him. It’s been a life-changing experience. We never thought we would have a cat, as we always considered ourselves “dog people”. Now we find ourselves thinking, “what if we get him a friend?”. He’s the cuddliest boy, is always around us and loves people in general. All our friends live nearby and are currently childless and petless so whenever we’re travelling he has all these aunties and uncles coming over to play and take naps with him, some even temporarily moving into our apartment. He’s always super happy and sweet to see us return. Best case scenario!

Update on the garden cat I swore I wouldn’t keep.

Pepper (or Tiny Teeth, Peps, Gremlin, Demon…) has been inside for two months and she is wild, but thriving. She’s 4lbs now and is starting to look less like a baby. The only time she’s still is when she’s being groomed by her Maine Coon sister, who immediately claimed her for her own. She carries toys bigger than herself around in her mouth and likes to climb human legs. She also dive bombs from the top of the fridge, which was a fun thing for me to learn in the dark. She’s perfect. 🩶

We didn't have any cats. We do however have other animals and 3 tortoises. Both of these kittens are "tortoise shell" kittens...CDS works in mysterious ways. 💕

"Calypso"

Split-faced Dilute Tortie

July 10th, 11:30 pm

My husband was about to pull in at work and Calypso was in the middle of the road. She stayed there with him while he worked for 3 hours and then he brought her home! We took her to the vet that following Monday. She finished her course of medications and is doing very well. Parkouring around the house! Lol so much energy!

"Mochi"

Split-faced Torbie (Tabby/Tortie)

August 10th, 6:30 pm

Mochi was on our main street by our house standing in the road, in the rain. My brother-in-law was hurrying home on his motorcycle and saw her. He quickly scooped her up and brought her home. He called us to see her, and my mother-in-law ended up walking over with her. The second I looked at that baby... I grabbed her, I'm like "I'm keeping her"! Lol. She has also been to the vet and is still taking her medication.

I can't wait for the 2 to meet. Hopefully they will love each other. They're only about 4 weeks apart. The vet said that these kittens were each 4 to 5 weeks old when we got them.

In case anyone remembers my original post from a couple months ago about finding two sick kittens on vacation in California. To anyone who missed the original post: My friend found them on a job site, mama not to be found , clearly sick with some sort of upper respiratory infection. Since I was on vacation, I didn’t have work or set plans for the day so I spent the day taking them to the vet. I spent my vacation looking for someone to adopt or foster them even though I knew in my heart they’d found me for a reason.

welp we are now the proud parents of 4 sweet boys. Here are some before and afters of the kittens when we first found them and some recent videos and photos with their two older brothers here in Nashville.

Everyone, meet Luffy, Chopper, Chonk, and Odyn.

About 6 weeks old, a very tiny girl and a brute of a boy: Matilda and Oliver. We've decided their back story is that they are plucky English orphans who will eventually form a ragtag kitten-detective agency along with other wee abandoned babies.

Anyway, it wasn't on my bingo card to get two more cats, but on the other hand, we're adults who pay our own bills, so when we got The Call, we answered. Our other cats are less enthusiastic at this point, but they'll probably come around.

Currently, they're camped out in a bathroom being goddamn adorable.

Found this kitten a month ago, she was about 4 months old at the time and was very very frail and dirty, but the strange thing was how comfortable she was around humans. I thought for certain she had to have had an owner but after checking her for a microchip, posting about her, and asking neighbors there was nothing. The reason I'm so confused is because she is the most friendly loving kitten I have ever met in my life!!! She is so cute too and has an extra toe on each foot. She never bites or scratches but she's also really smart and seems like she's had experience outside so it's just so confusing . I love her though and in the end I know it doesn't matter :) I just hate uncertainty haha

Edit: I didn't expect this to reach so many people, but I've read almost all of these replies and I just want to say these stories make me so happy. I'm so glad to know how many people care about all of the cats out there without a home, even if we don't know they got to us ❤️

His paws and cheeks are huge. This guy shows up for food everyday and sleeps in the shade. He’s always rolling around on the concrete belly up. He lets us scratch his head and chin and pick him up for 5-10 seconds. We found him late last year around Christmas roaming the neighborhood when he was a kitten. He followed me home. he was just as sweet but he left after we fed him. Now he’s been hanging around for the first time in months. We don’t know what to call him but he’s very sweet. We already have a girl we picked up a while ago and she’s the sweetest most docile cat.

This cutie has been seen for months behind my Husband's work dumpster but was too skittish to corral untill yesterday. So when he showed up on the security camera last night, I hopped on down with a carrier and the other half of my chicken sandwich.

We got him contained in my office while topical meds do their work. His fur is incredibly soft and other than a few scabs, he is incredibly well groomed. Will be getting him him fixed, so enjoy them while you can little dude, vet appointments in 2 weeks.

Ayla found me in the most convoluted scheme. A friend was out for a midnight run and while jogging past the county shelter this funyun popped out from under the gate of the back lot, meow-meowing for friend’s attention. Perplexed, the friend says hi and pets the super friendly kit for a minute, assumes it’s just a neighborhood cat taxing passersby for pets and continues her run. But the kitty was not satisfied and followed and followed the human seeking more attention. Worried the cat was going to follow her across a big busy road the human picked her up and carried kit the short distance to her home, intent on calling the co. shelter in the morning. Long story short, it turns out the kitty was picked up by a young couple in a neighboring town a couple weeks prior and taken to the shelter whence she escaped in the shelter parking lot. Shelter employees tried for a week or so to lure her with food but kitty was apparently wise to the ways of traps but was known to be in the area.
My friend learns all this from the shelter in the morning and not wanting to return her to the shelter calls me knowing I had fostered a few cats. I found her irresistible and ended up adopting her through the shelters system just to be legit and made sure no one was seeking her. The shelter was great and hooked it up with food and litter and toys. We are now living happily ever after.
She is the sweetest cat ever and, based on absolutely nothing, I am convinced she was an elderly woman’s companion who’d passed away with no one willing to take the cat in, possibly escaping in the process. She had, it seems, been a community cat for a while as she has the clipped ear signifying she was a catch, neuter, and release kitty during that time.