When Tara Kawczynski, a vet tech and the president of The Odd Cat Sanctuary, an animal rescue in Salem, Massachusetts, was contacted in April 2015 about a kitten who was desperately in need of medical attention, she was…
In August 2017, Bre, a San Diego vet tech, found a tiny kitten who had been abandoned in a bush in the parking lot of the animal hospital where she works. After a thorough medical examination, Bre discovered the kitten was…
When Katie Walker saw a fluffy tabby kitten in a Facebook post for lost and missing pets in Perth, Australia, she was immediately taken with the adorably different cat who appeared to have a cleft palate. In September 2017,…
In the spring of 2012, Carrie Hawks, a fantasy cat artist from Pensacola, Florida, discovered that a two-legged kitten and his mother and siblings were living in the woods near her father's work, and she decided she had to…
Shortly after Sharon Edwards moved from Sydney to her new home in Melbourne, Australia, in February 2015, she discovered a handsome grey cat who lived on her block. The feline, who her neighbors called Smokey, was a…
On January 29, 2017, Anna and her sister were leaving a relative's house in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, following a family dinner celebrating the Lunar New Year, when she heard an unusual sound. "We were walking to our car,"…
In the summer of 2017, Florida resident Shannon Jackson and her wife Sarah saw a Facebook post about a tiny ginger and white kitten with a cleft lip and a chromosomal abnormality who had been found outside and all by…
In November 2016, Holly learned about Giselle, a blind dwarf munchkin cat, when some of her friends sent her the link to the Instagram profile MSPCA Boston created for the tiny special needs kitty who had been surrendered to…
In November 2016, Pia Agrawal lost the first cat she'd ever adopted, a handsome tabby named Little Pajamas who passed away after just 10 years with his mom. While Pia was deeply saddened by Little Pajamas' passing, she knew…
In November 2016, Michelle Avallone and her boyfriend Sam Wood went to the New England Society for Abandoned Animals (NESAA) in Centerville, Massachusetts, after learning about the organization through their local PetSmart.…
In May 2012, Maygen was struggling with severe depression when she learned her friend's cat had recently given birth to a litter kittens, one of which was a tiny tortoiseshell cat who was a little different from the others.…
In April 2012, Kristie and her husband went to a shelter near their home in Goodyear, Arizona, in search of a cat to adopt. "We had just gotten married," remembers Kristie, "and our home needed a cat because I’ve always had…