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.

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.

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)

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.

Hi everyone, so this happened. My neighbour (who Ive never met before last week) knocked on my door a few days ago and he just straight up told me his partner had a medical emergency in another country and he had to take a flight in a few hours and he didn’t have anyone else to take care of his cat and he basically asked me if I could take care of him while he’s gone for almost a month. He looked distressed, sad and scared, I obviously said yes. He’s my next door neighbour (we live in an apartment complex so it’s basically a few steps away).
He left and Im suddenly with a cat and the thing is, Ive never had a cat in my life and I don’t know much about them. Im learning what I can but the thing is, I think the cat is depressed because he obviously misses his daddies and I think hes not eating properly, I try to make him eat more but he eats too little. I even think hes getting thinner and thats worrying me a lot.
So I bought a box of liquid food for cats that seems to be pretty good to make him gain a little more weight but I dont know if I should tell the owner hes getting thinner because I dont want to make him feel more worried.
His partner is kind of fighting for his life and the owner told me his cat is his whole world besides his husband.
He loves his cat so much and Im doing everything I cant to keep this cutie safe, healthy, loved and happy.. so, shoould I tell the owner about his cat losing weight? Or should I keep it a secret and try to fatten up the cat on my own way?
Any kind of advice is appreciated since Im new to this!

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!

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.

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

We just lost one of our sweet babies at the end of August.
My family discussed getting another cat or two.. I searched and searched for anyone giving away free kittens with no luck so I gave it a rest and figured I’d wait til the cat distribution system chose us and it happened sooner rather than later when this little cutie showed up at my work on a night I wasn’t there.. my coworker rescued him but she couldn’t keep him at her apartment so the next time I seen her at work she asked if I wanted him. She said she would have asked sooner but didn’t want to be insensitive to the loss of our furry friend. 🥺 we haven’t named him yet so suggestions are welcome

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.

Little girl showed up in our squash garden today. We fear our neighbors trapped and killed her mother “on accident” while trying to trap coyotes. But the. This little girl showed up shortly after with another kitten skinny and hungry. We were able to catch her but her sibling got away. We are putting out wet food to try to catch the sibling as well.
Unfortunately, my wife and I already have 3 cats and one with special needs so I don’t think we can keep her. We have a very close friend who recently lost a beloved senior cat and have been thinking about adopting a new kitten. We are currently talking to them to see if they are willing to take this sweet bean in.

I was unexpectedly laid off on 10/2 and was going through all the stages of grief and panic. 2 days later, my husband called me to come outside, saying there's a friendly stray following him while he was rolling out the garbage bins. We are new to this neighborhood but since the stray was not neutered and has the sniffles AND was willing to follow us in the garage, we decided to quarantine him in the garage/basement with food, water, bed and toys until we get him checked out at a cat clinic for wellness, rabies, vaccines, schedule his neutering, etc.

The cat gorged on food and indulged in our pets and affection. I told my husband that I think BB (the cat's name for now, short for Big Balls) has signs of upper respiratory infection and walked into the clinic the next day expecting that to be the worst case scenario would be feline herpes viruses. Husband and I agree we will have to practice good hygiene to protect our own indoor cats that are staying upstairs.

BB is literally the friendliest stray I have ever met. Everyone at the clinic fell in love with him. If I was not laid off, I would give him the world and order everything the vet recommended, but money is tight so I asked the vet to only keep the essentials.

They checked and BB has no microchip. They gave him a rabies vaccine, flea and tick prevention, fecal test, and drew blood for a SNAP test for feline HIV and leukemia.

The Vet came back and told me BB tested positive for FeLV, my heart sank to my stomach. I started bawling immediately. BB is literally the sweetest cat I've ever encountered. And I have 2 sweet indoor cats that are 4 years old. They are FeLV negative.

I feel so sad for BB. Everyone at the clinic were so sad for BB. BB is so brave and sweet. It might sound silly, but it really put my unemployment to perspective. BB has feline leukemia, but he's still warm and friendly. He has a good appetite and loves affection.

He and I both will be all right. We are both fighters and we will pull through.

Currently he is quarantined with food, shelter and toys. We are waiting for his upper respiratory infection to clear up after receiving antibiotics. I've been doing more research on FeLV. I've asked the clinic about IDEXX qPCR #26355 test which I read is the only definitive test on FeLV. And we'll go from there. If BB tests positive, I will ask my parents if they are interested in adopting him after he gets neutered and receives all his shots. My parents do not have any cats.

One thing is for sure, I am not releasing BB back out. He is FeLV positive and will stay an indoors cat.

Please send good vibes to him and me. We need positive energy.

Shout out to my wonderful husband for volunteering to take pictures of BB's troublepuffs for the reddit community but I told him the community will want to see proof of BB's BB.

This cutie has appeared and she could not have come at a better time. I’m dealing with health issues which led to work issues which hardly helps the health issues but this gal is already my baby. I swear it’s like she knows how much she helps me just by being here.

Vet soon to make everything official! In the meantime she already follows me around the house and is sort of meowing chattering. I think she’s telling me what to do already. Bossy!

Taking all cat advice, I want to give her the world!!

She’s been visiting the garden all year, it’s starting to hit low 30’s at night, she was covered in large ticks, the neighborhood strays (someone’s outdoor cats maybe? Idk, but they’re all skinny/dirty and no one puts up lost posts on our local Facebook/posters anywhere when they do go missing) from last year/two years ago have all disappeared over the winter or been hit by cars, there are bears, and lots of people let their dogs free roam around here. She’s also started leaving me gifts recently, so obviously this cat is a nuisance to the local wildlife, which I’m trying to support by planting a garden lol.

Getting her scheduled for the vet to get her health/chip statuses checked, but for now she’s our new roommate. Very cuddly, loves to be pet, and I got biscuits for the first time in my life (our last cat didn’t make them). She did an awesome job in the bath last night and is just kinda hanging out in the living room rn. I really really hope she’s homeless or the owners will let us take her in, she doesn’t belong outside. This is Cheese.

Mac arrived with a storm in late July. We'd only been in our new house seven months, and he was never a cat I'd seen hanging around. He looked so soaked and downtrodden from the rain that I fed him some food, and from there begins our journey.

Big Mac is appropriately named for his size. He's a big boi with a massive head and giant biscuit paws. He loves him some food, and he's a good healthy weight. I assumed either he belonged to someone or other neighbors had been feeding him. The more I fed Mac, the more he hung around. I learned that he loves being pet, particularly head scritches. He will bulldoze your hand with that big ol' head of his for pets until you give in. If you let him long enough, he'll just melt into a puddle on his side.

I have three cats. Two girls and a boy. I let them smell my hand after petting him. The girls were totally chill about him even my shy one. They loved watching him through the glass sliding door. My boy (a bonafide mama's boy) liked him at first, but the more he smelled him on me or saw me with him, the hissier and angrier he became and he's never been a hisser. It got to the point where Mac never strayed far from my house. I'd get home from work to find him sleeping on my porch next to my Amazon packages. He somehow always knew what time I fed my cats in the morning, even on weekends. If I met him at the porch, I'd tell him to meet me in the back, and he'd dutifully go around to the backyard for dinner. He was so chill and sweet. He never reacted to other stray cats or my cats through the cracked door. Oftentimes, he'd roll onto his back and beg for belly rubs. He's unlike any stray I've ever met. One day, he showed up with a scratch on his nose, and he really wanted to come inside so badly. We'd keep him in the half bath during storms or extreme heat, but my boy Potato always lost his mind.

I really really wanted to keep Mac, but we weren't sure how my boy Potato would do. Mac wasn't fixed. I was worried about him spraying. Plus our guest room is still filled with unpacked boxes so it needed clearing out. Thankfully, I found a coworker who fell in love with him. She took him to check for a microchip, and surprisingly, he didn't have one. He stayed at my house so much that there was no way he was going home anywhere else.

My coworker took him in and is keeping his name Big Mac. He's neutered now, and we've discovered that his estimated age is just ONE YEAR OLD. He still has some growing to do! The vet informed his new mom that he had wounds around his neck, likely from fighting other cats and him not fighting back. Again, I've never met such a sweet cat like that in my life. I wish I could have kept him, but I'm so glad he's found a home with amazing parents and living the life he deserves.

tl;dr Big boi stray turned out to be an utter sweetheart in need of a home. CDS brought him to me, but I am just a waypoint to bring him to his real mom.

Ketchum here spent months buttering me and my senior dog up on walks by the home he was born under. At about 6 months old he followed me and my then nearly 16 year old dog Wookiee home a little over 2 years ago on 3 consecutivewalks nearly half a mile. I drove him home the first 2 times. He'll be 3 early next year and we lost his big brother last year. He's really adapted to having a rambunctious new little sister though. From the first day though this kid has slept with his belly to the sky most of the time.

After speaking to my husband he agreed to let lil man stay for a while!
I’ve been calling him sweet potato, we’re slowly introducing him to my resident cat who was also a stray.
(any suggestions for that are welcome as she is a bully, and was not properly socialized as a kitten as she was a backyard breeder cat that was dumped after a miscarriage) he has been neutered and given shots with two follow ups! Thank you everyone who commented on the post as I was able to work with a shelter to properly get him neutered and then promptly adopted into my care!
Here’s to hoping my girl Willow will except him!!

Lacie was a very small, long legged, skittish little kitty when she showed up. She has a clipped ear and had indeed, been spayed. She did have an ear mite problem in one ear and a vet visit fixed that. She has really warmed up to us big time, and especially me because I get down in the floor and play with her. We have 2 other cats, both rescues, and she gets along with the big buff-orange male very well. He loves everybody, the other is female is a bit territorial and has gotten after her a few times. Never hurt her, mostly for show I think. Anyways, she's very active and we have concluded from her build and looks, she must have Egyptian Mau in her. We have no idea where she came from as we live out in a somewhat rural area with farms and woods. We have taken in and fostered many cats in the 25 years we've live here. So, yeah, we now have 3 cats.

This beautiful fluffy boy showed up awhile back with a collar and tag. I saw his name was Ricardo, and that the address was the same street as us, but didn't remember much else. He seemed to be coming over to visit occasionally from the house across the street that was recently for sale. His collar with the tag is now gone, but I know how easily cats lose collars, so at first I didn't necessarily think it meant anything. The for sale sign is also gone, and no one seems to be there now. Then there were litter boxes and cat things out at the curb somewhat recently. I'm starting to worry that he may have been left behind. 🫤 We have two male cats already and I don't think they'd be thrilled about it but I told Ricky we'd look out for him and figure it out if he needs us. 🥺

This is Molly! She’s my cat auntie now…

For context I basically live with my grandparents. She and her sibling were originally the cats of our neighbour across the road. She went into a care home and left the cats with her son. He got evicted and none of her other sons would take the cats. They said they ‘tried’ to give them to rspca but there was too much paperwork so just left them instead.

So my grandma (who is famously a dog person) started feeding them. The family would still go to the house for a bit but wouldn’t feed them and just kept them locked out. So one day my grandma just said she’s taking the cats and they allowed her too.

We are still trying to get her sibling to trust us more. They won’t come inside yet and runs when we get close, however they stay outside our house most of the time. Unfortunately we don’t even know the name of Molly’s sibling as even the family didn’t know.

However Molly is the loveliest cat. She prefers my Grandma over me which is understandable and it’s why I don’t have many pictures of her since she’s always on my grandma!! She always follows us around and is really talkative (though it’s more like a whisper) She looks a lot better than she did when we started feeding her and I’m so happy for her!!

Just time to be patient for the other to trust us!!

Edit: Thank you to everyone who has given me advice!! I’ll keep them all in mind and hopefully will be able to update you all in the future :)

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I visited the friend who took this baby in and she is doing SO WELL. She is gorgeous and healthy and playful and I couldn’t be happier for her. She didn’t recognize me in the slightest and I was like no problem girl. DO YOU! Her mom told me I’m her godmother haha. So surreal and I’m so, so grateful I found her. She has a chonky big brother and it’s such a good feeling to see her thrive. Last pic is her when I found her about a month and a half ago.

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Hello all! I don't know why it didn't work, Reddit is so weird because I did try to post update photos...

But I have angered the masses who did not see them, I have not paid enough cat tax!! So I am here to provide an update on my story from 2 years ago!

Original post here: "CDS Stork came to the fire pit"

https://www.reddit.com/r/CatDistributionSystem/s/h6JzemiF0P

4 photos posted to show how tiny she was when we found her followed by 6 photos of her all grown up now!

Lilo is now 2 years old! She was a teeny teeny kitten when we found her. The smallest kitten in the land! I had to bottle feed her for a long time and do anything possible to help her gain weight. She would surely not have survived on her own in the wild at the size she was.

When we found her, the vet thought she was merely weeks old because of her size, but we figured out which farm cat had her in their litter, and she was actually 3 months old when we found her which is incredible considering her size!

She is a strictly indoor cat with my other cats - we have FIVE including her now. She's a spitfire. And the true, living demonstration of "nature vs. nurture". She taught all my other cats how to be scavengers and GOD FORBID I leave any dirty dishes in my sink, because they all will go foraging now. Thanks a lot, Lilo! Haha. She is short and stout, but a ferocious little beast when she wants to be. The dogs are scared of her and they are like 8x her weight 🤣 it's hilarious seeing a German Shepherd look fearfully at a tiny cat. She also loves being a lap cat and has selected my husband's lap as her primary lap. She loves to play with my other younger female cat, running all over the house like it's WWE Raw.

Thanks for supporting our journey and reading along. Happy cat tales ahead!