A cat runs on the side of the highway

Woman took a wrong turn on the highway and saved a kitten from dangerous traffic

A woman’s wrong turn on a highway ended up saving a kitten’s life. Laila D’Souza was driving down the highway when she accidentally took a wrong turn. It was a good thing that she did because she spotted a teeny cat zipping across the busy highway. The kitten stopped in the emergency lane, and D’Souza … Read more

Tiny black newborn kitten

Sick premature kitten transforms into healthy and playful “energizer bunny”

Raisin was a tiny black kitten who looked like…well, a raisin. She was so small because she had been born a couple of weeks premature. In April, Raisin was taken to her foster home with Rory to the Rescue, a nonprofit organization that specializes in the rescue and fostering of neonatal, or newborn, kittens. Raisin … Read more

A frail kitten with a slight eye infection

Frail kitten makes incredible leaps and bounds for the ultimate glow-up

Maurizio was in pretty poor condition when he came to Newborn Kitten Rescue. But thanks to their love and care, Maurizio has made an incredible transformation. Maurizio was found in need of immediate medical attention as an abandoned stray at just 10-weeks-old. Poor Maurizio had an eye infection and was very underweight. The kitten was … Read more

Light colored kitten lying on its back

Tabitha became the emotional support kitten in her special needs foster home

For Mel, a foster animal mom at Pumpkin Patch Rescue, some foster animals require less work than others. Tabitha the kitten was one of these that was a natural at the foster home, a breath of fresh air for her foster mom. Tabitha was first brought to the foster home in late 2021. She was … Read more

Orange tabby kitten bottle feeding

Bottle baby kitten makes the cutest slurping sounds

Bop Bop was a foster kitten at Teeny Fosters along with his other siblings. He may have been the tiny runt of the litter, but he had an enormous personality. Bop Bop the bottle baby Bop Bop’s foster mom started posting about Bop Bop and his siblings on her Instagram at the beginning of August. … Read more

Orange tabby kitten relaxing on a person's lap

Clingy orange kitten is his foster mom’s favorite

Dannielle, an animal foster, had several litters of kittens to take care of. But Lennar was her favorite, and he knew it. Every time Dannielle would walk into the room where the foster kittens stayed, Lennar would come straight for her, ignoring everything else, and demand snuggles. When she called him out on his attention … Read more

Cat hisses at a human hand

Spicy, hissing kitten learns to trust humans

In early July, two kittens arrived at the foster home of Hoa, a volunteer for Waggytail Rescue. Unagi and Wasabi were ten-week-old tortoiseshell sisters, and they needed to be socialized to get used to humans. Hoa created welcome posts on her Instagram for the two kittens. In Wasabi’s pictures, the kitten backed away from Hoa’s … Read more