I’m a home infusion nurse. Leaving a patient’s house I saw a young woman in a parking lot with her car hood up and a carrier. I pulled in to ask if she was okay and if I could help or take her somewhere. She broke down crying telling me her recent series of unfortunate events that has left her in an unfortunate place in life. She was on her way to take this baby to the shelter because of her situation. She asked if I could take him there because she is broken down. I took him, got her a meal and I couldn’t take him to the shelter. I told her I’d keep him and got her number so I could give her updates and send her pics.

This teeny baby was hiding in the engine of my friend’s car. We got her out and brought her home, but I’m supposed to adopt a 6 month old from the humane society tomorrow. I’m madly in love with the shelter cat and wanted two cats anyway. I’m planning to keep this baby in my bathroom on one end of the house and the shelter kitten in the laundry room and walk through pantry area. I’ll also call my vet in the morning to get the car kitty seen.

What should I do? Is it crazy to bring in two random kittens at once? Should I try to find somewhere else for cat kitty to go?

I already had 7 cats at home and firmly told myself that I would not get another cat under any circumstances. Then I found her (Cici) stranded on the highway, seconds away from being run over by oncoming traffic. I couldn’t leave her there, so I carefully scooped her up and brought her home to safety.

So now I have 8 cats, and she is the youngest one to join the fam! I definitely hit the jackpot with this beautiful, sweet-natured cat who has completely stolen my heart.
Not sure what breed this is 🤔 — if you know or have any ideas, please let me know in the comments below. I’ve also noticed her eye colours have slowly changed over time, becoming even more striking as she settles in. Watching Cici grow, explore, and become part of the chaos has been pure joy every single day.

I found her hiding under a grill cover in the backyard of my boss's house. I have no idea where she came from. We guess she possibly came from an abandoned farmhouse that was torn down earlier this week across the road. No other cats were with her and none of the neighbors were missing a kitten. She was so hungry when I found her it broke my heart. I brought her to the vet and found out she's a healthy 12 week old girl with extra toes! She's slightly malnourished, the vet said, but now she's getting plenty to eat and lots of attention in my bathroom where she's safe. Family named her Bibi and that's fine with me if it means we can keep her. I've pretty much spent all of my free time here with her.

EDIT: UPDATE Thank you for the kind words. Bibi is doing great. Her routine currently is to eat, play, and sleep. As I write, she's asleep in my hoodie. Everything she does is absolutely adorable.. We're still waiting on the results of the stool sample from the vet. When cleared, we will begin going on supervised adventures in the rest of the house. We have two adult cats who are very curious about the newest member of the family. Again, thank you for the love you've shown her. Kittens for world peace ✌️

UPDATE 2 We got the stool sample results back, and it's positive for roundworms. For being a stray kitten, it could have been a lot worse, and I'm thankful they can treat that. She received a dewormer as a precaution when we first brought her to the vet. We go back for another test in a week to see if they're still there. We'll need to take some precautions to avoid spreading them in the interim. We spend a lot of time playing everyday. Bibi is doing great and I'm so happy she is. She loves getting into everything now. She's a little spaz when she gets going. I'll need to do a lot of kitten proofing for when she leaves quarantine.

This little girl was hiding near our Airbnb in the California desert. There were no other signs of cats anywhere in the area, but plenty of coyote signs. She was 6-7 weeks old and only weighed 1.2lbs, which is the weight of a 5 week old. We attracted her with ham lunchmeat, thus her name is Hamantha, Ham for short. We have moved her to the PNW with us. She is now 8ish weeks old and such a love. She has her second vet appointment today and we’re hoping for a large weight gain. She is just now starting to make contact with our 11 year old cat, Rigby. We expect their relationship to be that of the kid and old man from Up.

This morning while walking my dog, he stopped in a yard to smell what I thought was garbage but nope it was a kitten. I thought he was dead but he was breathing. He was really clean just some black around his nose and mouth so we took him to a vet. He seemed really lethargic, meowed once on our walk back home. The vet said he was fine, just a little dehydrated, about 6 weeks old and probably a boy.

He doesnt seem interested in eating or drinking but hes very active now. I already have 3 cats so hes #4.

Edit: I've ordered formula, wet kitten food, kitten churus and a bottle just to be safe and my husbands bringing home a trap the apartments he works at has. Im going to the house I found him at and seeing what they say. Hes currently curled up with my son sleeping.

Update: literally 3 minutes before instacart got here he ate some of the watered down friskies I have lol. I stress out way to easy lol. His name is Duke Marlin Danger

Update #2: Hes eating. He tried to chew the tip off the bottle so that wasn't necessary. He eats really well, even eating dry food. Im mixing it with cat milk, but he has no patience.

Chopper wont leave him alone. Its irritating, but its fine. I wont let them just be close because chopper is huge and doesnt realize it. At one point Duke attempted to nurse on him and chopper just started humping, so no more of that lol.

Im a little worried about Dukes back legs, theyre like weak maybe? He moves really slow, like he plays, but its very gentle and slow. I dont know if hes just scared or weak or younger than what the vet said. My husband thinks its fine, but we have an appointment for shots and stuff Friday.

I haven't seen the mama cat since the other morning, and the house i found him by said they dont know anything about kittens. I asked a neighbor who was outside and they also said they hadnt seen kittens so idk

Thank you all for your comments and stuff, I appreciate you

Everybody meet Chimney Smoke-Stack.

We searched and searched for mama and other kittens. None were found. Took him to the vets. He is perfectly healthy! Had some de-worm meds, got some eye drops. My boyfriend's sister happily agreed to foster this bottle baby for us until i can take him full time. She has fostered bottle babies before. I am 14 hr days between school and work and cant bottle feed a baby right now unfortunately. He's got a tiny scratch on his one foot that doesn't seem like anything. Was fighting the bottle a little bit but seems to be taking it fine now!

Love him to bits already

Edit: I'M NOT A FIREFIGHTER LMAO Bf's stepdad just owns an older firetruck and it sits stationary outside their office. I work for their company half the time and the other half the time I'm in school to be an aircraft mechanic.

Went to walk my dog and heard screaming form the firewood storage. Had to dig quite deep.
Have to do some cleaning after…
Its moving and seems fine definetly screams a lot .consulted with vet on phone What to feed it. Now it sleeps in shoebox with warm bottles.

It weights 163g and it has semiopend eyes.
Its already late in night so Tomorrow se are going to visit the vet, we still dont know if we keep the kitten, defitnetly we will try our best to help it. Help us name it.
Hope there wont be anymore tresspases into my storage.

Edit 1: some say i should return the kitty Back and Wait for her mom, idk if i should. Its cold (5celsius or 40 fahrenheit) ouside And Its raining. And temperaturu Is still falling.

I teach at an elementary school. This morning, just as kiddos were arriving, I heard screaming from in a boy's bathroom. Thinking kids were playing around, I announced myself and waited for kids to come out, but none did and the screaming was still going on.

I walked in to find her shivering in a corner. She ran some, but the tile floor didn't let her get enough traction and I scooped her up. I walked around campus to tell the principal I was going to run her home real quick since I live less than 5 minutes from campus.

Got her home, stole a thing of wet food from Smaug, my senior Siamese, put out water and a litter pan, and told my dad to keep an eye on her.

My pit bull puppy and my Chihuahuas all gave her a good sniffing, which she put up with really well. I'm excited to go home and check on her at lunch!

I am leaning towards naming her Tinúviel, since I already have a cat named from Tolkien.

I work at cvs and randomly in the middle of the day a homeless dude just leaves this kitten obviously dealing with heat exhaustion. He was trying to do the right thing knowing it was way too hot and he couldn't care for it. He asked us to take it in and try to find it a place to go like a shelter. We didn't have any luck and no one else would take him so I have a cat now lol. Honestly it's been unexpected but also great. I've had him for about two weeks now and he is such a sweet cat even tho he loves to bite me.

...your husband finds you, he's just carried all of your things to the car and he's come to hurry you along. Or so you think...

"I just heard a cat", he says, and with those words the trajectory of your evening shifts and your lives will never be the same. If only you had left the party sooner, while the chatter amongst neighborhood children was louder than the cries of any kitten hiding in the undercarriage of a Toyota Rav4 could ever be. If only your husband didn't wear earplugs at all those concerts and his hearing was waning as a consequence. If only he just didn't give a damn. But he does! And so do you!

You give so many damns that you're now lurking in a strangers driveway, crawling underneath a car in the dark with a fist full of Cuban pork, ready to risk your skin and your freshly laundered favorite white t-shirt to rescue something that will ultimately reject you. And it will ROAR its terrible roars and GNASH its terrible teeth and ROLL its terrible eyes and SHOW its terrible claws and you will love it and bathe it and worship it's white whiskers. Should the mission be successful, you know that the coming days and weeks will be hard, albeit cute. Your carefully curated vintage furniture will be ruined, large sums of money will vanish, your two adult cat's lives will be upended and they will staunchly ignore you until it's time to eat twice a day.

"Someone else will save it", you say, crawling out from under the stranger's car, trying to convince yourself to walk away. You push the button on the Ring doorbell instead, hoping they will come out and pop the hood so you can simply swoop in and save the fur-beast. A woman answers, "Oh no!", she says," We are not home. I am in the hospital, I just had a baby today". You wonder what the baby's name is, the divinity of such a moment may require that the cat be named the same. You tell yourself to let it go. You don't need any more cat hair coating every surface of your home, you don't need any more scoops of resentment in the litter box.

But it doesn't matter. The Cat Distribution System doesn't knock. It bursts through the door screaming at 1000 hertz of high-pitched helplessness from the mysterious part of the universe that apparently likes to reward kind people with random cats. Or maybe it's not kindness at all, maybe it's chaos mistaken as heroism and you were just lucky enough to marry a sucker.

My dad found this illegally smol void in the street the other day, but unfortunately he is allergic so they are trying to find a good home. We always had a cat growing up and I know deep down they want to keep it (he quickly went out and bought kitten formula and syringe to feed it lol). Plus it's just them so I know they could use a companion.

I already have 3 of my own in a 2 bedroom apartment, but damn it's always so tempting when they are this smol! On the other hand I am missing a void in my collection ughhhh curse you CDS!!!

Had to put down my beautiful girl yesterday. The day before that I was taking her on her last walk and noticed a cat following us. She came up to me and started purring and sniffing her. I’ve seen them together before so I didn’t think much of it. Today I’m drunk af grieving my baby girl when I hear a loud desperate meow while driving. I get out of the car and see the same cat trying to hide from the rain. Long story short my drunk ass imprisoned a cat in my living room. She’s falling asleep rn and I’m pretty sure she’s pregnant 👍

Feel like I have to clarify. I wa every drunk while typing this out but not drunk enough to drive a car. My gorgeous, amazing, jaw dropping boyfriend who was also sober was the one driving my sobbing slob of a hot mess around. Thank you for all of the support. Really needed that after what happened to my baby girl.

Had just finished dinner. Heard a little cry. Thought it must be something else. A minute later the cry got louder and most consistent. I opened the door and he climbed right up and inside. A quick trip to the pet store and here we are. The ladies of the house are absolutely terrified of this tiny guy! Hopefully when they finaly meet they can bond. Not sure but I think he is about 6 weeks old. Zenzero ( Italian for ginger ) is going to the Vet in two days... If I can get him off my neck for a few minutes.

Found this little 'Lover Boy' crying in my backyard last week. The second I picked him up he just melted. He has already taken over my favorite decorative couch pillows and mastered the elegant crossed-paw pose! We feel like the lucky ones. 🥰🐾

I tried taking pictures of him all day yesterday but he was too fast, so when he finally landed on the pillow I knew it was the perfect shot. He is still so tiny that I actually slide him right into my bathrobe pocket to carry him around the house so I can get chores done while he snuggles. We named him Franck and we feel so lucky the system dropped him off to us!

***UPDATE: The granddaughter was told that she is being reported for animal neglect, now she is claiming that none of them belong to her and that it was all a “misunderstanding” and she has now backed off from all of them. Thank you all so much for the advice, I feel like this is the best case scenario so that we can now get all of the babies and the mother fixed and in proper care and hopefully homes. All of your advice has meant so much to me. Thank you for the help, the encouragement and letting me vent. We did it guys ❤️****

Two weeks ago I was told that there were kittens at the end of the property line where I live. Immediately I went out and started feeding them. The neighbor across the fence came over while they were being fed and told us that they were strays and that we could “take them all” if we wanted. Taking them all was not feasible for me, but I was able to bring one in, continue to feed the others, while also looking for shelters that could take in the litter.

Not even a week ago we noticed one of the kittens in the litter had head tilt so bad it could barely stand up. A local shelter was contacted and we were able to take that kitten there to get it treated and they released it back. We are still waiting for all the super full shelters to open up during this time to take the litter.

Today, the granddaughter of the lady who told us the kittens were strays came peeping through my windows, and pounding on our door demanding “her” kitten back or she’s calling the police. I’ve had this kitten for two weeks. She didn’t even realize it was gone until now. I’ve treated it for fleas and worms and it’s so much healthier now than it was when I took it in. He’s scheduled for all of his shots and to get fixed soon, as well as a general check up tomorrow. I told her no. She was also referring to the kitten as female, this one is definitely male. So I then told her that it’s not her kitten. She called the police. I went back inside. She came back later knocking on my door and I ignored her. To my knowledge the police never arrived.

What can I do in this situation? This poor mother cat is small and has been forced to have multiple litters, she knows so little about the kittens that she had no idea one had head tilt and had been treated and is on medication.

When I brought my guy in he was starving and flea infested. Do I have to give him to her? I couldn’t live with myself if I turned him over to them when they take absolutely no care of them. I live in TN if that’s helpful information at all.

This little guy showed up inside my house some how and now we’re looking to keep him. We’ve named him socks and he’s so smol his claws don’t even hurt. For reference I’m around 5’6” with about average sized hands. I’ve got a couple toys from my last cat and he’s absolutely loved them so far! My room in its current state only has a curtain and we’re planning to put in a door. We have a dog that’ll need to get acclimated to the little guy but hopefully things will work out. I’ve been letting him roam but I’ve been keeping him out of certain area like my closets. I pray we get to keep him.

I went to work on Thursday not knowing I’d be bringing home the sweetest little boy.

He was panting underneath a running car in the parking lot, so I quickly ran over to tell the woman in the driver’s seat not to pull out of the space. When I walked around to the wheel he was sitting behind, he ran right up into my hands. Couldn’t believe it.

I brought him home, and afterward my brother told me about the Cat Distribution System. I guess this is what he meant.

He weighs a little over 600g, so we’re guessing he’s about 5 weeks old. He’s already settled in and seems to be very comfortable in his new home. 🧡

Meet Pip. She’s not quite a pound yet and is about the size of a can of soda. I heard her crying for three days before figuring out she was trapped inside the garage wall. Getting her out involved an 11:30 p.m. rescue operation with headlamps, a circular saw, and three adults.
I was just going to take care of her until she was old enough to find a home, but I think she’s staying.

Don’t mind her appearance, she’s been day drinking.
Bottle fed every four hours, I’m thinking she’s about three weeks old.

I was walking back to my car after dinner and heard possibly the loudest meows I’ve ever heard. I managed to coax this girl where I could grab her (didn’t see or hear sounds of mom or siblings) and only had a box of protein shakes to get her home. I have her set up in my bathroom with wet food mixed with warm water (as advised by the emergency vet I called), water, and a litter box. I’m going to put in some blankets for her for overnight until I can get to my regular vet tomorrow. Any other advice for now? I think between 6-8 weeks, but she’s only about a pound and a half according to my scale (and the struggle it was to get her to stay still). I haven’t had a kitten in so long, and my adult cat is very weirded out.

i’m still shaking a bit, i was almost home and i see this guy just in the middle of the road. i turned around and he came right up, purring, meowing, shaking. i didn’t hear any other kittens or a cat, i did look but this is the only one i found. i’ll be taking him to the vet in the morning bc his eyes look awful. he’s eaten (not sure if it’s a girl or boy tbh) but not drank any water. he’s up walking, limbs seem to be fine, he’s making muffins, seems to be happy. im so glad i decided to turn around and grab him, i would’ve hated to have to run over or have an animal get to him.

UPDATE: i apologize everyone! after the vet i had to run and get him some treats, food, toys, and some other stuff! i’m happy to report he’s mostly okay! no broken bones, but as i suspected as well as other his eyes are infected, he has a upper respiratory infection and round worm. i was given antibiotics, flea and tick medicine, all the good stuff! the vet believes it’s a boy but it’s a little hard to tell so once he gets bigger we can confirm, she also believes he’s around 4-5 weeks old! he is less than a pound 0.8lbs, his temp was a little low but it could’ve been from the poop on the thermometer, she gave him a cornea exam and thankfully no scratches and his eyes should heal up just fine!
i will be spaying/ neutering as soon asap and all vaccines once he gets a little bigger! he’s still being super sweet and affectionate, still eating, and peed 4 times but no poop yet so im hoping he will soon! i haven’t settled on a name yet, but ive been calling his toasty lol. ill put pics i took earlier in the comments, and i genuinely want to thank you all for your support and appreciation! the cat distribution hit me a few years ago with my first baby and now this little guy! it feels like the universe sent me a sign, i was on the way back from getting my husband and i food and was crying bc i miss my grandpa very very much. he died when i was a child but i have a bunch of fond memories with him and then i see this kitty, it feels like a sign from my grandpa that he’s here with me. im gonna head inside now and get toasty man all set up! again thank you guys so so much!!

I can’t believe it’s been almost a year since I found my furry little son as a newborn kitten, his eyes were still closed tight; he must have only been a few days old. He definitely wasn’t the first kitten I’ve bottle fed but he was the first one I had that was that young and tiny. From all the late nights of being up every few hours for bottle feeding to teaching him how to use the bathroom on his own, it was all so worth it. Even though he’s so much bigger now, he still has to sleep right on my chest or right beside my head like he used to as a baby. I’m so thankful I found him and love him so much ♥️

A few weeks ago, my sec.cams caught this little girl and her siblings looking for food, no mamma in sight. Out of all of them (3), she was the most adventurous, but I wasn’t able to ever get very close. Over the weekend, I noticed she was kind of wobbly and very lethargic. I managed to grab her and took her to the vet to get checked. She’s healthy, but very underweight. She’s been able to eat every few hours and loves to be in her daddy pouch! (Old hoodie turned backwards). Shes just so sweet!
As for the other two kittens, I bought some traps and hoping to catch them soon! Thankfully, the other two look healthier than she did a few days ago. I love you CDS ♥️

She is a fluffy 8 week old kitten and is too precious. I saw her on a post and quickly reached out. We met and I fell in love. She has only been here a few days but already has the run of the house. She is loving and playful and is currently purring in my lap.

As soon as we got home she checked the place out and then found her a spot and lay down. She is already loving her new home and is such a good fit. She has her favorite toys (a mouse and a little taco) and loves to snuggle. She also is hard at work making biscuits trying to contribute but I would still let her live here for free lol
EDITED TO ADD: And when I say someone else’s post I meant a certain FB (don’t know if I can say that lol) She had posted a pic to another person and I messaged her asking if she was available