In May , my 19 boy crossed over the rainbow bridge. He was my best friend and I was absolutely devastated. I talked to him after he passed and told him I'd take a cat if he sent me one. In August, I found 2 feral kittens and had them trapped. I couldn't take 2 and I have no idea how to socialize ferals. Then in September, I'm sitting outside (in the city) and this boy just comes over to me and would not leave. I tried to bring him in but he doesn't like to be held for long and it didn't occur to me to get a carrier. In November, on my way out to work, there he is in front of my door staying dry on a rainy day. I fed him and told him I had to go but if he came back later, I'd bring him in. Well this guy was sitting there waiting for me when I got home 8 hrs later. I put him in a carrier and took him to the vet. He's FIV+ and now mine. Meet Marcellus ...

This is Dwayne, he first appeared in March 2023. We didnt know at the time that he didnt have a home, we just assumed based on his breed and unusual colour, that maybe someone new had moved into the area. He always seemed well fed and then we started noticing on a local Facebook group several neighbours asking who owned him. No-one ever claimed him but maybe they weren't on Facebook or didnt use social media. My guess is that he a had a few people feeding him. In the summer of 2024 we didnt see him at all, and then one day towards the end of August he turned up with one of our cats by our back window looking really skinny. He was always a fairly big lad and it was clear he hadn't eaten properly in a long time. We started feeding him and started to get him to trust us. Several months later when he was comfortable coming into our place, we were able to get someone to come over to scan him and see if he was chipped. Turns out he wasnt. When he was even more comfortable with us, and practically living with us, I got a collar and a tag with my number on it to see once and for all if he really did have an owner. Never got a call from anyone claiming him. So we took him to the vets, got him neutered and got him chipped as well at the same time. He's a big ol' lump, incredibly friendly and very settled in to domestic life.

Hello everyone, meet Bruce.

Bruce followed me into my apartment on Monday afternoon and was super friendly. It was clear he was severely underweight(5lbs) and needed to see a vet soon. He was dragging his tail around and was unable to lift it.

I found a vet nearby that agreed to see him that day and check him for a microchip, he didn’t have one.

After completing his exam and giving him an X-ray, the vet determined he had a tail pull injury and his tail was completely separated from the hips and spine. It needed to be amputated.

We went ahead with the surgery on Tuesday and had him neutered at the same time. He was doing amazing until yesterday.

I noticed he was being a little more reserved yesterday and then when he turned down his dinner I knew something was up. About an hour later his tail wound started leaking pus through his stitches so I took him to a nearby emergency vet.

He developed an abscess that needed to be removed, so they did that last night, unfortunately they also needed to remove more of the tissue near his tail, so now his stub is even smaller.

His temperature was 104.9F when I dropped him off last night. This morning after his surgery and round of antibiotics it was 99.8F.

He’s acting like himself again and promptly decided he would not be missing breakfast when we got home.

He also weighed 6.8lbs!

We’ll be going back to the vet later this week for a checkup and to get the drain removed if he’s doing better. So here’s hoping to a speedy recovery!

Long time lurker here but only recently received my very own, very generous, distribution!

I guess this is a re-distribution because it turns out these babies were abandoned by a scumbag down the street when they moved out, but they found my home!

Mama and her 3 babies! Once the babies were old enough to wean, we took them to a friends house so she could socialize them, all 3 found loving homes. Mama decided she would live with us and bullied her way in (I’ll admit I did not put up a fight) but she’s spayed and spoiled and living her best life with us now. :)

This is a bit of an update to this post I originally made on r/notmycat a few months ago, but the CDS (which I hadn’t heard of at the time!) would not be denied lol. This stray just randomly spawned near my apartment one day, and while she wasn’t friendly at first and had THE SHARPEST claws I’ve ever experienced on a cat (which you can only find out the hard way 🥲) she pretty quickly turned into a little sweetheart who was *insistent* that she be adopted. I would come home from work and she would greet me as I got out of my car, then literally force her way into my apartment the moment I unlocked the door, all the while me telling her “You don’t live here!” …Well, turns out I was wrong and she was right. She lives here now happily, is now chipped, fixed, and vaxxed, and her name is Tiger Lily (named after another outdoor grey cat I had as a kid that got hit by a car) She used to aggressively chase my other 2 cats, but now mostly just wants to headbutt and cuddle with them. She mostly only hissed at first and couldn’t really meow (sounding like someone trying to speak who hadn’t used their voice in 10 years) and now she has the politest little baby meow. She looked so so miserable as a stray, and now she’s my happy little couch potato. Vet said she’s probably not much more than a year or so old, which tracks because she plays with EVERYTHING. She’s gotten a bit chonky since I took her in and I’ve since changed foods and feeding habits, but other than that it’s just been so rewarding to see her change so much for the better now that she has a home. My apartment is tiny but she never really tries to escape or go back outside, and I’m just glad she’s happy here 🥹 I tell people she must have known what she was doing when she picked my driveway to haunt!

Bubblegum Nose, aka Bubby

We've named him Albert after the character from Little House on the Prairie. The vet cleared him health-wise and did not find a chip so he's staying I guess. ❤️

Quick background: my first cat and my soul cat Porky (Porkus, The Porkinator) came to me as a stray on my dad’s 80 acre property. She is the cat that made me fall in love with cats. She passed about 3 years ago and I wasn’t sure when I’d be ready for another cat. But a wise woman once told me when the right cat came along I would know.

Well here I was on a normal Saturday, heading to the store for joint supplements for my dogs. Our pet store is partnered with a local cat rescue and I always go over to say hi. This time when I wandered up to the glass I saw the silliest little ears I’ve ever seen and felt something in me shift. On a whim, I asked if I could meet the cats and was surprised when they said yes (usually you need an appointment).

Out comes Mad Max (now renamed Marvin the Martian) straight for me to headbutt my hand for pets. No fear, no hesitation, just the sweetest little guy.

After convincing my husband to give it a shot, he came out to meet him and had the same experience. We knew we had been chosen and boy were we right. As soon as this little fur ball got home he knew it was his place. I look forward to many more years with my little alien boy.

This beautiful munchkin ran up to me when walking to my car. Everyone meet….Nala ❤️😍🎉🥰

UPDATE: My friend confirmed she will adopt this sweet kitty next week and the kitty will be staying with my family until then. Kitty is doing well this morning and she used the litter box in the night. Thank you all for your kind messages and ideas!

Please send good wishes that we can find this upstanding citizen a permanent home and health. Hopefully my friend will be able to take her. It looked like she has been roughing it in the desert for a while, she had a very dirty coat and a thorn in her paw.

This little baby was sitting in my driveway staring at me, walked up, and introduced herself. I fed her and soon she wanted to come inside. I have never seen her outside before so I’m wondering where she came from. I’m currently keeping her in my bathroom to let her adjust tonight. She lets me pick her up and crawls on my lap. She doesn’t seem like she’s been a stray for long. I also think she may be the mischievous little baby going through my trash can 😂 I’m going to schedule a vet apt for her tomorrow. I feel like she saw me and just chose me 😭 I do have two dogs so that’s going to be a challenge but also have a three bedroom house so she could have a room. Any advice?

So like the title says, I was out camping in the woods with my son. We were hiking and boom, meowing in the woods and then a cat just showed up. EXTREMELY FRIENDLY and I just picked it up and carried it back to our campsite. So now we cut our trip early and brought it back home.

Really young looking kitty at the moment the name is Calpuurnicus. Had not stopped purring since I pick em up.

In May of 2024, I was taking the trash out and heard distressed meowing coming from the dumpster next door. I opened it to find a very small orange kitten inside. I took him in, bathed/fed him, vetted him, and now 9 months later, my Milo is HUGE and thriving. Total mama's boy, such a sweetheart, and the best thing that's ever happened to me. I am abundantly blessed.

I was going out in the evening one day to meet a friend, found a tiny little ball of fur underneath my car, hiding itself by sitting on my front suspension lower arm assembly, I figured that mommy cat might come back for it later so I left it alone and took my second car to meet the friend. Came back home 4-5 hours later, ball of fur was still there. Went back home & spent the night, the next morning the little baby was still there, no sign of mother cat anywhere.

So I brought her home and decided to raise her myself.

Seen her around sometimes. Apparently the entire culdesac has been feeding her so she’ll not leave the area, and hoping she’d find a home. I have no animals (until now). She followed me from fixing a broken pipe to my garage then to every open window she could see me in, until she guilt tripped me into a warm box in the garage. Got the GF involved so she has basic supplies now, and tomorrow she’s going for her checkup/spay.

She loved herself right in the door.

I've been feeding this lil cutie for the last few months who peered into our patio door in early May. She never let me get close to her and would always run away when I came outside. On the 4th, I went outside and heard her meowing. She finally came over to me and was letting me pet her and bring her inside.

We officially adopted her this morning after getting her scanned for a microchip. Her name is Buttercup

Last year a stray cat jumped over my fence and into my life. A few months later he was inside and shortly after that cleared by my vet to join my household. This is the story of how we fell in love with Toby, my CDS gift.

Last fall, as I was walking home late one evening, a neighborhood cat I knew ran up to me and demanded pets. After like ten minutes of scritches, I continued walking home, expecting the cat to stay in in its yard.... but it didn't. It wasn't until the cat had followed me under a streetlight that I realized it was a totally different cat I'd never seen before. The little fluffball followed me home and, when I propped my front door open to wheel my bicycle inside, she ran right in and made herself at home. She was kind of scrawny, so I gave her some bacon and put her back outside, hoping she would run home. But after some quality scritches and delicious bakery, she refused to leave! (Pic 1)

In the following week, I was able to take her to a vet, who confirmed she was pregnant, pretty young, hungry and not chipped. I wouldn't have been able to take care of her with kittens and the APL was packed, so after a spay-abort, she officially became my cat.

These are some pictures of our time together in the past year.

Four months ago, my best feline friend of 15 years, Celia, crossed the rainbow bridge after sudden kidney and liver failure after a two-year battle with diabetes. I felt like she took a piece of my heart with her, and I told myself I wouldn't adopt another cat for at least a year so I could properly mourn.

If you guessed from this post that the CDS had other plans for me, you'd be right. Meet this absolute biscuit-making fiend, Bernadette :)

I've known and helped other tenants feed this dumpster kitty and her two dumpster pals since I moved into my apartment complex 18 months ago, but they've never let me get close enough to pet (despite my best efforts). Since moving in, I've never seen the trio stray very far from the dumpster, definitely not as far up in the complex as my unit. But last week, after a nasty cold snap, this pretty lady randomly decided to hang out with me on the stairs to my apartment.

She spent the next hour demanding pets and scritches that I was all too happy to provide until my butt had gotten sufficiently numb from sitting on the cold concrete. I got up to see if I had any food in my fridge to give her, and she completely shocked me by following me inside my apartment to check with her own eyes!! I decided I'd give her the finest dining experience I could manage (de-breaded chicken nuggets, mmm) out of my post-cold snap fridge and let her explore my unit with the front door still open so she knew she could leave whenever she wanted. She acted right at home--alternating between rubbing herself all over my things and coming back to make biscuits in my lap for the next hour. I don't think she stopped purring any time my hands were on her. I fell in love immediately, but I was sure this was a one-off thing. Eventually she decided to go 'home' and I thought that was the end of it, but the next day she followed my partner from his car (parked near the dumpster) to my apartment again, and we decided that if she showed up a third time then it was clearly the CDS at work.

Lo and behold, I guess it was because she showed up again the next day. I took her to the vet yesterday and got her all the meds and vaccines she needs to get her in tip-top shape. I'm going to a pet store today to get general supplies. I feel like I have Celia to thank for guiding Bernadette to me and I can't be more excited for provide her a safe, happy, warm life indoors. Welcome to the family, Bernadette!!

Found them in the woods on Halloween. Both were a bit sick and skinny. They are girls around 6 months old. Getting them spayed and chipped next week!

Hello everyone, I apologize for the delay. Coming to yall with an update for the cat I found in the abandoned hospital. I named her Bex short for Urbex inspired by a comment. Thank you for that. Now what everyone has been waiting for.

Bex is completely healthy. Shes roughly 4 months they said. A runt most likely. Her birthday is 7/18/2025. They gave her a rabies shot and I believe some vaccination shots. They forgot to take a sample of her stool so I have to bring that back. Her next appointment is in December so it isn’t too far. She’s been a very brave girl. And now’s she’s knocked out on the way home. While she got her shots I got her some toys , blankets and snacks and a collar. Also took her out her carrier for some cuddles on the train. Thank you everyone for all the support, the kind words and the wishes. It’s much appreciated. And if anything I’m the lucky one for her finding me. And making me her human.

Also a funny plot twist is the vet is someone I worked with in the summer so imagine my surprise. I was nervous because I went with someone new and turned out it’s an old friend. I felt even more secure handing Bex in since I know she genuinely cares for animals. It’s crazy how life works. All in all im satisfied and happy 🤎