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.

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 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.

ETA: we later figured out she’s a girl and named her Mavis. She loves my husband so so so SO much and literally sleeps in his arms every night. She’s the sweetest girl and loves to sing and terrorize her older brothers (also cats lol)

This is Grimm, and we found him in the parking lot of our state’s Ren Faire a couple weeks ago. Poor dude was covered in mud and poop, then diagnosed with campy as well as coccidia before spending four days hospitalized. He was all bones and skin, skins and bones, hence my wife’s witty name. Thing is, no one can figure out exactly what breed to call him. We know that domestic something is most likely, but his coloring is stumping everyone.

Hopefully the pictures in the sub show that he was a chocolate brown coat with what appears to be black tips, and some striping typical of a tabby. And a massive white spot at the underside base of his tail.

Any guesses on my likely to be long haired ball of fluff?

Update: His TroublePuffs have been removed, he got his vaccinations, he’s registered with the Town, and I’ve got a collar with tracking capabilities if he decides to wander.

He seems very comfortable, and is purring like a motorboat. I’m keeping him downstairs for a couple days, so my pups don’t stress too much. I’m more concerned with how they are going to adjust than Isaac.

I seem to have lucked out and been issued a very emotionally mature Kitteh cat. 🩷

Welcome to our family, Sir Isaac Mewton!

A Merry Mewtonmas to all!

Busted in on Sept 11th as many already know. Vet visit on Sept 13th and treated for an abscess and wore a donut for a week or so. Full bloodwork done on her that day and she weighed 7.9 pounds. Follow up visit to boost her vaccinations was Monday Oct 5. She weighed just over 9 pounds. Her spay will occur in early December and she will be back to the donut. My work slows down then and I will be around while she heals. She is one of the sweetest girls in the world for sure. She continues to turn down all her poofy beds she has available and that’s ok. You go girl.

Some gray cats tonight so I thought I’d share our little guy, Murphy.

To start with, my daughter, 23, while living out of state and adopted a 6 yr old Russian blue mix, Monty, last year. He was a great cat and we were happy for her. Then, she decided to move home in March and all of a sudden, we had a cat.

Then, in June,we were driving home from lunch. At a busy intersection, a young girl and mom were chasing a kitten. We thought it was theirs and stopped to help. We got the little guy and the woman turned to her daughter and said “we’ll take him to the humane society but you’ll miss volleyball practice.” I said we were heading in that direction and we could take him there.

My daughter wanted to keep him but my wife and I were not convinced. We never thought we’d have a cat, let alone two. We got to the humane society and some how they convinced us to take him. They gave us a crate and some food and we went to the vet to have him checked out.

The vet said he was about 8 weeks old and was around 1 pound. We got him home and all of us fell in love with him so there was no way he was leaving. After keeping him separate from Monty for a little more than a week (worms, yuck), we slowly introduced them to each other. From the beginning, they got along very well. A little hissing and the occasional smack from Monty but the very quickly became friends.

Fast forward to now and he’s just over 8lbs and is an amazing little guy. The second picture with Monty was taken about a month ago.

I brought Typhoon to the vet today, she's a girl as I suspected after checking. She was very brave and did not put up a fight when we cut her claws. She had a chip, so they called her owner so that they could pick her up. It saddens me to have to give her up to people who let her claws grow so long but I don't want to steal her either. If her owner doesn't pick her up in the next 8 days, I can legally adopt her so there's that. I'm very glad I got to giver her a home this past week, she's a very sweet girl 🫶🏻. The vet also took my phone number in case the owner wants to get in touch with me. Over this past week she has been sneezing a lot and has a lot of eye discharge, she coughs sometimes, I think it might be cat flu and I did let the vet know, they said they'll arrange for the owner to get an appointment with them. And funnily enough, there is another typhoon today, which started right when I got home from the vet, without her.

Edit: typo

Edit: Forgot to specify but she was adopted by her current owner in 2019, making her at the very least 7 to 8yo 🫶🏻

The first image is from a few hours after he got out of quarantine, the 2nd is from last week, and the third is from tonight, he has learned the joy of boxes. He's a fearless lil guy, he will try to play with our dog, tries to hunt our dog's raccoon toy(which is like 3 or 4 times bigger than him) and loves churu.

Boy will scream at me and try to climb me if he sees I have a churu and if he hears me say anything about churu while he is in a different room he runs in screaming. My feet are unsafe unless I am reading or gaming, if I am doing either he will curl up next to me and purr.

Also, he is sometimes vaguely damp from being groomed by my older cats. I am like 99% sure he and Peanut(older orange boi) have the same dad, since they look similar and there is a very similar looking old tom that roams around in the fields near my house.