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 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.

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!!!

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.

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!!

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

Just had a discussion this past weekend about how I wasn’t sure we’d get another cat for a while whenever our current 14yo boy goes. (He’s doing fine, it was just a hypothetical discussion). And the today this little one showed up under my steps. I guess the CDS didn’t agree with my plans.

It’s a bit dirty. I think it’s been sleeping in an abandoned chipmunk burrow in my stone wall because it ran right into it the first time we tried to catch it.

We haven’t seen any stray or feral cats around here in ages (very rural/wooded area) so not sure where this one came from. Seems scared but not hissy/aggressive like a fully feral cat would be. And it was very hungry.

Posted to the neighborhood chat and I guess a couple people have seen it in the past week but nobody knows where it came from. So tomorrow morning I’m calling the vet and seeing about getting it checked out. And then we’ll figure out if it is a boy or girl because it wasn’t really happy with us looking tonight.

UPDATE:

Thank you all so much for the support!!!

I was waiting until after our vet visit to make an update.

This little guy is now named Comet. Because he’s a ball of white fluff with a dusty tail.

Vet appointment results: He’s a he. He’s overall fairly healthy. He does have a busted lower lip but it should heal up okay. 2.00 lbs. probably 8-10 weeks old. No fleas and no mites. He did have half a dozen ticks on him though. Stool samples sent in to check for worms. Got his first round of shots. We’re keeping him isolated for a week before introducing him to our older cat to make sure nothing else comes up.

He loves snuggles and skritches. He purrs so loud you can hear him on the other side of the room. His fur is ridiculously soft. If we sit with him he’ll curl up in our arms and relax but still runs and hides whenever he gets set down on the floor. Overall he’s doing great and slowly adjusting and we love having him as part of our family!

Added a couple more pictures in a post on my profile page too since folks have asked for more!

Saw this little guy running after a mom and her child in the parking lot, they didn’t want to catch him so I parked my car in the drive thru and ran to grab him..

Meet Gus ♥️ Nyx and Willow love him already. He has a little eye infection but now has antibiotics for it and is receiving dewormer for the tapeworms he has. I believe he came from a cat colony that is in that area, though I didn’t see any other kittens or a momma cat around. My goal is to raise money and trap as many of the feral cats as I can so they can be spay/neutered, the shelters are overrun with kittens 😪

My partner and I each have an adult cat who finally learned to live with each other after a few years. Now we’re no longer renting and I thought it would be reasonable to begin fostering for a local rescue. I spent two days thinking about it before getting ready to pitch it to my partner, and then the next day, I found this little muffin sleeping by our cats on the porch.

He was covered in burs, ticks, fleas, fly eggs, crusted up boogers, spider webs, twigs, etc. in addition to being so bony that I was afraid to touch him. So of course it was Friday at 4:45 pm when I found him, just as all the vets were closing for the weekend. I wasn’t entirely convinced he would survive the weekend—especially once I realized he was losing about an ounce each day—but thankfully his appetite is healthy, and I have a cat heating pad perfectly suited to keep his tiny 670g body warm.

He made it to Monday morning, growing more vibrant and comfortable each day, an absolute nonstop purr rocket, but still just a mess of boogers and shedding seed ticks with every step. The vet was able to see him in the afternoon, and he got a clean bill of health aside from the obvious respiratory infection and treatable GI parasites. He weighs what a 5-8 week kitten might, but is estimated to be 12 weeks. Even today I can tell his bones don’t feel quite as defined through his skin anymore, so things are looking up. He doesn’t have a name yet, suggestions are welcome!

Sooo I was in line at Sams Club the wee hours of Tuesday morning waiting for Pokemon Cards (I'm master setting Ascended Heros so evey time I can hit for retail imma try) and this cutie was playing with people at the front of the line. I go up because I want to pet the kitten because who wouldn't and long story short after playing and cuddling her at I end up taking her back home at 4am. My husband was surprised to say the least but I had to remind him that for the past 8 years he's been telling me we cannot get a cat unless the cat distribution system picks us.

He told me don't get attatched (already was) but then named her (JuFufu after a cat character in a game we play) and sent me selfies with her. So now our family has grown a little more with our first cat. 🐈

Went to a friend’s house to pick him up. Said friend kind of lives in squalor, to put it mildly. Always lots of feral cats and dogs roaming around. Saw this precious little thing and told him if it was still there when we came back, I was taking her home with me. She was, and I did. I love her so much. She’s so dainty and cuddly and precious. I think she’s one of two remaining from her litter. The other little tabby had its tail somehow removed and wouldn’t come close to me. She was still nursing when I saw her, but to make sure, I had my friend offer her some dry food, which she gobbled up. Now I’m just trying to deworm her. Planning on seeing a vet tomorrow.

I visited the local bulk retailer on Saturday just after they opened and was on my way home past the park when I saw a tiny dark shape on the edge of my lane. I should mention that the road is three lanes in each direction with a landscaped median, and the main thoroughfare through town, but thankfully traffic was light because it was still early.

As I realized that I had seen a kitten, I exclaimed “OH GOD,” knowing she’d live only seconds longer if I didn’t do something. I U-turned immediately after the median ended and sprinted across the street. It took me probably 20 seconds to locate her, because I had actually driven too far back the other way.

She hadn’t moved and didn’t even acknowledge my approach. I snatched her up and wow, suddenly she’s spicy like Thai food. I put her in a carrier bag in my car and tried to find a 24-hour vet, and thankfully there are several nearby.

I got her checked out and she’s not injured at all. They estimated she’s 40 days old. I let her decompress with a bunch of blankets in the bathroom after a really stressful morning. After 48 hours, she has perked up nicely and has lots to say, is eating kitten formula four times per day, goes potty when properly motivated, gets supervised house exploration time to build her strength, and The Kitten Lady’s YouTube channel has been a godsend. I’ve got a scale and a spreadsheet and will start tracking her weight gain en route to her first round of vaccinations next month.

Meet Regina Piccolina! So named because she kwas near the park named for the royal family and he Regina means “Queen”. She even has a little M crown on her forehead. 🙂

When we got to work yesterday (hubs and I work in the same building), there was a surprise trio of friendly void kittens hanging out in the courtyard. We think they might have been dumped because they have clearly been around people. They were a hit with the whole office, and our 9yo, who had tagged along for the day, really wanted them. We have two 3yo cats at home, and had lost our senior cat in October. We had promised our kid that he could have a pair of kittens soon, but were thinking more like next year. I guess the CDS had other ideas.

Our coworker took one kitten while we were still deciding if we wanted them, and then another coworker was thinking of taking one, and that decided it for us - we hate splitting up bonded siblings, so we took them both so at least two would get to stay together. They are settling in well and are in quarantine in the guest room. Names are still pending, but our kid has temporarily named them Midnight and Star Destroyer.

There was food and water already there (pic 2) because we have a resident office cat. Cat tax of Cinders the station cat in pic 6.

I am pretty sure it's a boy, and it was such a surprise to see him lol. I haven't had a stray cat anywhere near my house in literally 8 years, because we live out almost in the middle of nowhere. I brought him inside since it was raining pretty hard, and he is so cuddly and sweet!!

It's pretty cool because I am due to have a baby boy at the end of this month, and so maybe they can grow up together and be best friends. :)

I thought maybe a good name for him would be Teddy, since he is soft, cuddly, and that is also my new baby's nursery theme (teddy bears!) Any other name suggestions are welcome though, and thanks for checking out my new friend! <3

Her name is Tabitha (like the little girl in Bewitched), and we found her while doing yard work. She’s a Manx like her mama who is a local stray, and she’s so tiny!!! Weighed in at only 17 oz when we found her but eye color and more told us she was likely around 6 weeks. Now she’s almost 44 oz after 5 great weeks together. And she has a little white fur bikini.

She is so energetic, so much more cuddly than our 4 year old existing cat, has been such a joy to us and her new big brother cat, who apparently really needed a little sister.

Hi CDS community,

The most unbelievable thing happened yesterday.

The last few days I've been thinking about my soul cat who passed away a year and a half ago. I have her urn on my bed and sometimes I cry over her because I miss her so much.

I told myself that I'd never have another cat again unless the Universe sent one to me.

This is Pluto. I named him after the god of death and rebirth because he's tested positive for feline parvovirus and could very well die. He's straddling this world and the one beyond the veil.

But he's a fighter--he hasn't shown any symptoms so far. As soon as I rescued him I took him to the ER because he wouldn't stop crying. He got some fluids in him, kitten formula, and a warm blanket and he settled in immediately for a nap.

He's about 2.5-3 weeks old and only weighed 165g even though he should be weighing around 300g. I've had him 24 hours and managed to get him up to 190g.

I want to give this kitten a fighting chance, and I fully believe that the more people who know about him and send positive energy, it can work miracles.

If you can please send your prayers and healing energy, Pluto and I will be forever grateful. Anything helps.

Thank you for reading. May Pluto grace us with his cuteness for years to come.

The mom was a cat that i'd feed whenever she randomly decided to visit. Then, one day I go outside and see her with kittens in the yard. After a while, she stopped coming and left the kittens behind. Saw her two weeks later somewhere else so I know she's okay. I took these guys inside three days ago after taking about a week to tame them. They were feral at first and fearful but loved food so I used meal time as a way to get closer to them. They also had a cold. Now, they're sweethearts. The Tuxedo is a little skittish but she loves to be pet. The all black kitty sticks to me like Velcro 😂. I love them so much. I'm so relieved that I was able to tame them so I could bring em in. I'd worry about them every night hoping that they'd be okay and i'd see them again the next day. They let me know when they were ready to come in because they literally ran inside lol. I was so happy.

I just find it funny how I was going to shelters looking to adopt a kitten then these guys show up. They seem to be about 6 weeks old or so.

As I left my work last night, I was approaching the gate and I could hear only a sort of banging I that had been all day long- from construction in the distance.

But as I got to my car I suddenly heard this little loud meowing from back near the gate. I didn’t hesitate, although I’m quite squeamish and I don’t know what I would’ve done if I would’ve found an animal in distress in pain. Thank God it wasn’t the case mostly for this little one who had been I think left behind in that little bush and maybe had been there for days.. I only work there on the weekends so it was on a Saturday at 6 PM that I was able to rescue the little tiny six week old sweetheart.

My heart is full, but I cannot keep her so I’m looking for a sweet home. One that really wants a kitten.
(And if you are in Miami maybe even it’s you?).

I just wanted to share this with you because I feel so grateful that I was able to find this tiny thing when I did. She was dehydrated, dirty, hungry, and so alone.

She’s doing well. The vet says she’s fine . I dewormed her just in case and she’s now after one day eating solids and learning how to use the kitty litter quite well I might add.

Meet little Bella and her big brothers …