In January 2017, Maya Glick was working at her local animal shelter in Austin, Texas, when a family brought in Helix, a handsome tabby and white cat who was approximately four years old. According to the family, Helix — who was born with cerebellar hypoplasia (CH) in November 2012 — had become too difficult for…

When Katie Walker learned that Perth Rescue Angels, her local animal rescue, was looking for someone to foster a senior cat they had recently taken in as stray, she felt compelled to help the fluffy but malnourished and underweight tabby and white feline. Shortly after she was rescued, the senior cat — who a vet determined…

When Hector and his girlfriend, Karlene, decided to foster two kittens, Pancakes and Danger, in August 2016, they were uncertain if they would ever be able to provide a permanent home to a cat: Karlene was allergic to cats, preventing the Chicago couple from having a feline friend of their own. However, that summer, Karlene…

When Alley Kay saw a video of Bubbi, a handsome four-year-old cat with a cleft lip, on TLC Animal Aid’s Facebook page, she fell in love with the sweet tabby and white kitty with the adorably different face. Bubbi had been adopted from TLC Animal Aid, Alley’s local animal rescue in Windsor, Ontario, Canada, when he was…

In August 2017, Bre, a San Diego vet tech, found a tiny kitten who had been abandoned in a bush in the parking lot of the animal hospital where she works. After a thorough medical examination, Bre discovered the kitten was approximately six weeks old, and she had ringworm, matted fur, and severe infections in…

When Tara Kawczynski, a vet tech and the president of The Odd Cat Sanctuary, an animal rescue in Salem, Massachusetts, was contacted in April 2015 about a kitten who was desperately in need of medical attention, she was eager to help. The 6-week-old kitten had been seriously injured in her foster home when a pet carrier…

When Katie Walker saw a fluffy tabby kitten in a Facebook post for lost and missing pets in Perth, Australia, she was immediately taken with the adorably different cat who appeared to have a cleft palate. In September 2017, Katie, who has adopted multiple special needs pets, tagged the president of her favorite local animal…

In the spring of 2012, Carrie Hawks, a fantasy cat artist from Pensacola, Florida, discovered that a two-legged kitten and his mother and siblings were living in the woods near her father’s work, and she decided she had to help the family of feral felines, especially the young tabby and white cat without back legs. Carrie tried…

Shortly after Sharon Edwards moved from Sydney to her new home in Melbourne, Australia, in February 2015, she discovered a handsome grey cat who lived on her block. The feline, who her neighbors called Smokey, was a community cat who had been living in the area for approximately five years when Sharon saw him for…

On January 29, 2017, Anna and her sister were leaving a relative’s house in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, following a family dinner celebrating the Lunar New Year, when she heard an unusual sound. “We were walking to our car,” remembers Anna, “when I thought I heard a cat’s mew.” However, Anna’s sister denied hearing the noise,…