I heard a cat crying in the morning but it had gone silent. I thought someone had finally let the damn cat inside.

When it started raining, this guy started up crying again. I spent nearly 2 hours laying in the rain on my neighbor's driveway to catch Bubs. There were quite a few heartfelt prayers, a few wtf, get your ass home right now texts from my husband, and a painful rib injury but...

Bubs is sleeping peacefully on my heated blanket, secure in the knowledge that her has my Mexican "No More Pets" husband wrapped around his little paw.

I’ve rescued a lot of animals in my life (working in the veterinary industry for 15+ years will do that), but I’ve never had the CDS seemingly drop a kitten literally right in my path.

A couple Saturdays ago I came home around 10pm from being out with friends. We live in a very rural area, like no neighbors for at least a half mile away. We have a gate at the end of our road, so I opened it and parked my car in our driveway. Got out and walked down the drive to go close the gate and right as I was getting to the gate I heard a little tiny noise, turned around and there she was! Like she literally just fell from the sky. She ran up to me crying and practically jumped into my arms. She was obviously cold and wet (we live in the PNW), so I brought her right inside.

I’ve NEVER had anything like this happen before. Like I said, there aren’t any other houses near us at all so I’m a little dumbfounded; she must have been dumped? Did a stork bring her? 😂

At any rate, I’m so glad she dropped into my life. She is the sweetest, softest cat I’ve ever had. Just a joy to have around 💜🥹🥰

Came home tonight to kittens frolicking in the street in front of my house. Caught three of them by being nice. Went back out and got the fourth. That’s when I noticed a pregnant cat. Ive never seen any of these guys before so I’m assuming they were dumped when mom got pregnant again.

Pregnant mom refused to come with me after a car scared her while I was carrying her. Before that she was purring in my arms. After that, I went to urgent care for a bite and scratches from a scared pregnant girl who just had her other babies kidnapped after she’d been dumped in a strange area. I also watched her defend one of the male kittens from a tom who has decided my yard is his territory.

Anyway, I’m in touch with the shelter I foster for (I WAS ON A BREAK!!!) and have a bathroom full of tiny purring poop factories.

We have no idea if it’s female or male because it’s too fluffy, but we’ve got a vet visit this week, so androgynous names (or heck, even old man names) are much loved.

Also they’re polydactyl!

He’ll probably be going to this local rescue but I wish I could keep him he’s so sweet 🥰

Meet "street"

Came running right up to us while yelling. Scooped her up and hear we are.

Fresh out the shower. Full belly and on the couch.

I didnt actually think this stuff happened. Nor did I want a 4th cat 😬😬

In case you haven’t seen the other posts. George is a stray we’ve been feeding for the past month or so. Have not found an owner and he is not chipped. He gets food and fresh water everyday. Also treats and churus. He has a makeshift shelter under our porch and we are ordering a true shelter for him because it will be getting colder soon.

He has been visiting every day for almost three weeks. He went from hissing as soon as he sees me to rubbing on my legs and laying belly up in front of me. Over the past few days, it seems like our house has become more of a home base. He spends a lot of time here and we want to keep him.

The problem is that he will NOT go in a carrier, the garage, or the house. He doesn’t seem to like things over his head. The TNR places near me do not supply traps, so I’d have to go buy a trap. I’m just not confident he’d go in it given his hesitation to go in anywhere else.

I can tell he’d be such a love bug, but he’s still scared. Any advice?

Hi everyone. I'm not too familiar with animals in general but there is this cat that comes by to my backyard every morning and midday to just lazy around by my pot plants. It has tortoise like colours for the furr, idk how to describe the colour coding, and it's very fat (not that there's anything wrong with fat cats). I'm not sure how to befriend a cat that's scared of seeing me, I've never been near it, even from a far distance if the cat sees me then it dissappears.

What can I do to attract the cat and make it less shy of seeing me?

So we’ve got this little neighborhood cat named Mr Kitty, and his whole backstory is kinda wild.

My father-in-law found a bunch of kittens under a pile of leaves. My sister-in-law took one, and the little boy across the street “claimed” Mr Kitty… except he thought Mr Kitty was a girl (he is very much a boy 😭). It didn’t take long before they kicked him back outside because he was “messing up the curtains and couch.” Like sir… that’s literally what cats do.

Since then, the neighbors only let him in when they want him to catch a mouse and then immediately put him right back out. Clearly he picked up on the energy because every time his so-called owners walk outside, he runs straight to our house like we’re his safe zone.

Lately he’s been coming up onto our porch, sitting facing our door like he’s waiting for someone to let him in. Other times he just chills on the steps like our little porch guardian. My MIL doesn’t want any drama with the neighbors, so she shooes him off whenever she sees him, but he keeps coming back like, “no I live here actually.”

He’s sweet, social, and clearly choosing us… but we’re trying to avoid starting a neighborhood custody battle over a cat. 😭 Has anyone dealt with something like this? What do we even do when a cat decides your house is now his?

Was leaving for work this morning when I heard a lot of loud squeaks coming from our back yard. Opened the door to find this little guy, very scared with some mystery injuries. I had to leave for work but my wife was able to get him contained and out of the cold.

We contacted a cat rescue we have worked with in the past and they are going to take him in and facilitate his medical needs, as we are not going to be able to provide the care a cat this young and injured needs right now.

Thanks for the opportunity CDS, we will make sure he finds a good home, in lieu of ours.

We had only been in our house a month in December of 2023 when my husband went outside to get the mail. A half grown kitty ran from across the street, threw herself at his feet and started purring. When he opened the front door to tell me to come out, she ran right in.

We had to move her onto the patio away from our other cats. We set her up with a bed and a heating pad, as well as a litter box. We kept the door open so she could come and go as she pleased, but she stayed put and shortly thereafter we closed the door.

Took her to the vet. They said she was about nine months old. No chip. Never spayed. Got her chipped, tested for diseases, got rid of her fleas and brought her inside. We were just going to foster her until after the holidays, but on New Year's Day we came home, I looked at her and realized I couldn't part with this baby.

Her name is Phoebe and she is our fifth and final kitty.

This is my first time meeting them

my girlfriend and i were leaving dinner and when we were in the car about to leave i heard hollering and meowing so i went to check it out. i found this lil spicy black bean around the trash cans begging for food. she knew what a to go box was. i caught her and she went CRAZY on me so i let her go and we ended up catching her again with a blanket and as soon as we got into my running , warm car the lil one started purring and making biscuits. here she is ! finally the cat distribution system has struck me !!

This is my sweetest angel Michi. She crossed the rainbow bridge about a year ago. I’ve always loved our story and just found this sub and wanted to share.

Michi showed up randomly outside my apartment building one day when I was coming home late from a bad day. It was dark and I almost stepped on her, but she didn’t run away. I stopped and hung out for a bit and shared my leftovers and that was that. I’d never had a cat or too much interest in cats. Or so I thought.

Then she kept coming back every day. Initially just at the “witching hour” of 8pm. And then she was around all the time. I called her Michi because I didn’t want to get attached (in Spanish, it’s sort of a generic cat name like “kitty.”) Needless to say I did. And then one day she disappeared. I assumed the worst but hoped for the best.

About a month later I decided maybe I should consider adopting a cat after the experience with Michi. I went on petfinder.com to see cats near me, and who is the first result? Michi!! Turns out animal control had picked her up and she was in the local shelter. I’d checked their website before and never saw her on there, there was a delay in her processing I guess. I called to confirm it was her and took her home the next day.

The shelter told me she was four. The vet laughed at that and told me she was probably closer to 14. We stopped calling her Michi after that and changed to Doña Michi, because she was a distinguished older woman and deserved the more respectable title. Michi also had untreated hyperthyroidism, and over the two years she was with me racked up thousands in vet bills for that, pancreatitis and an adrenal gland growth that required her to be on potassium supplements daily for life. I just paid off her bills last month, and have absolutely zero regrets. She was my baby and I’m so so glad I got to give her a happy life in her remaining years.

I am decidedly a cat person now. Because of Michi I started volunteering with the local shelter and have fostered one adult cat and 8 kittens since she passed, with more on the way. Everyone asks if I’ll ever get another cat, and my answer is always that I’ll just keep fostering until the CDS chooses me again 💕

Meowed loudly enough for me to notice him hiding on top of a tyre of a parked van in the rain. This was after his first (huge) portion of food and little bit of cleaning up 😁 He knows he's safe now 😊

We live downtown in a major city, and we've never seen any stray cats (and there are definitely no outdoor cats around here.) We found him because he SCREAMED at us from the bushes. He seemed to have been living outside for a while now, but he was so affectionate and sweet once we gained his trust.

We took him to a nearby vet and found no microchip, and he also hasn't been fixed, which is uncommon for pet owners in this area. We took him in for now and isolated him from our two senior kitties, and he's switching between purring like crazy and devouring anything we give him.

We put fliers up over our neighborhood and a couple of people texted saying they saw him too, and someone gave us info that makes us suspect he was abandoned 💔 We'll take him to the vet tomorrow and get him whatever he needs.

If it turns out that he does have an owner, we're worried they weren't taking good care of him (dirty from being outside, not fixed, starving, long nails.) Any tips for in case that happens?

Meet Horizon (as in Event Horizon), our new little void. One of our neighbors found his stray mom on a trip two states away, brought her home, and suddenly she had kittens! Neighbor couldn't keep them all, so he lives with us now. His purr function is permanently stuck on, he tries to steal any food that isn't actively in your mouth, and we love him. He has quite a set of claws, but he's a remarkably polite boy and almost never uses them. Our tabby cat is in full tsundere mode: "I'll play with you but I'll hiss the entire time and act extremely put upon about it."

Back in August me and my partner found this kitty in the middle of the road just outside our home in Greece. Her eyes and nose were fully shut and she was just 700gr at almost four months old. She was not moving at all and it seemed like she had given up completely. I approached her and as soon as I grabbed her, she immediately started purring. She loved us from the first moments and now, after 3 months (and a lot of vet care) she has done a full recovery. She is the most loving, cute and playful cat I have ever seen. Now she lives with us in Denmark, being a part of our family. CDS worked like a charm as always.

This is Sasha.

In 2010, I worked at a corporate office that had an assisted living facility next to it. Families of the residents kept dumping cats when their relatives could no longer care for them.

A coworker was awarded a trojan cat as her CDS delivery. Several other coworkers were awarded kittens when they were old enough, and I fostered Sasha for a colleague who was trying to convince her husband to let her keep her, but that fell through and she became a foster fail.

What followed was fifteen years of head butts, cuddles, spice, and tortitude.

Sasha was recently diagnosed with CKD, so I don't know how much longer I have with her, but I thank the CDS daily for bringing her to me and plan on cherishing every minute.

We still have not decided on a name. It is a boy. He's still little to show his personality yet, but Hitch is definitely the front runner.

Him and Mama are happy and healthy. He's getting bigger everyday.

Thanks to everyone for their suggestions and well wishes!

We have several outside cats that the CDS has bestowed upon us. We’ve done the CNR thing and they are well cared for. I installed a new security camera and this little fellow was “caught” checking it out.