My shift had just ended at the hospital so i was going home and i saw a cat enter the hospital I laughed and said what do u need medicine lil fella or what than i took a closer look and as u can see he’s totally blind and had serious malnutrition i could see every bone in his spine so i took him to the vet and stayed for 3 days than i took home he needed some 24 hr care his age between 7-10 ( from his teeth) , he never scratched me or hiss at me like never the way of his sleep made me laugh every time he slept anywhere like a truck that got flipped in the highway and he thinks that u will take him to his bed , when he get playful he wil hit u with the belly of his paw never the claws. it was the hardest fostering i had I really loved him but sadly couldn’t let him stay so i found a good home to have him

Was screaming a lot didn’t really see him but I tracked his ass by sound was really feral and fill my hands with scratches and bites ,
His paw was kinda broken now he come real far long and now he cuddles really nicely and 5 months old his name is fiesty cow or lelo and my other cats like him like a lot he will leave the dryfood and go to the house garbage looking for food u can take him out of the dumpster but you can’t take the dumpster out of him hahhaa he still kinda of feral but only for new people but give him time and he will cuddle with u

My blood boil when I remember but basically some neighbor put them like this because the mother birth them on her roof and she didn’t want cats wondering on the top of her building ( the food from kids that tried to help but didn’t know how ) i tried explaining to her a lot that they need there mother and she will not know them if u kept them away but she refused i put them back on the roof so basically i adopted them it was really rough couple of months but one died and the 7 lived and after they reached like 6 months then went to a (big farm literally ) my friend has one and he needed some so now they don’t recognize me but i am happy that they lived

I’m not gonna bang on about him too much here but this is Big, aka Biggie…

He’s a massive softie and when he sleeps, he’s dead… I open his mouth yet he’s still snoring….

One random day in January he just climbed into my car and since then he’s always around.
He’s just discovered the garden last Friday and hasn’t left it since, he’s basically Velcro and doesn’t leave me out his sight anymore… and the shocking part is he gets on great with my dog (which ALSO btw hates cats so I don’t understand either don’t ask me….. added pic of them both at the end, very surprising to me…)

Yeah idk where he came from I just know as soon as he’s in my arms he falls asleep 🤣🤣🤣

Link to first post: https://www.reddit.com/r/CatDistributionSystem/s/ytLhzicuMn

Hey everyone I’m back with an update!! If you can remember, we found a kitty 3 states away from our home during a trip. Our vet says she has a perfectly clean bill of health, we just have to fatten her up a bit and let her get bigger before she can get spayed! We were deciding on naming her Zoey/Zip/Zippy or something relating to the state we were in but we landed on a name after we got home. So we’d like to formally introduce ✨Nico✨!!

When we initially started the drive home I was (understandably) really worried about introducing her to our already established cats. I was super scared that, because our big cats are from the same litter, that they wouldn’t be very nice to her or shun her from being a part of the family. At first we kept her in our bathroom with her own litter box, food, and water. We’d let them all see each other through the door with a laundry basket in between (unfortunately the only “sheer” thing we had to keep a barrier but still allow them to see each other). To my surprise, there was no hissing, back arching, or swatting during any of their interactions. About a week after these laundry basket meetings we decided to get rid of it and let them fully interact with each other. I was prepared to grab one of my big cats and end the meeting immediately if someone went rouge. I would have never guessed that the moment we took away this laundry basket that Junimo (the big fluffy one) would be the first to enter. What surprised me most is the fact that after all the sniffing and inspecting he did, he started grooming her! Ever since that day, Junimo (June Bug) and Nico have been pretty much inseparable. They play all the time and I always find them sleeping together. Mittens, my other big cat, has always been scared of everything but loves to play. I’ll be sitting at my desk and out of nowhere Nico will be tumbling in the room with Mittens right on her tail. They’ll stop and play with some toy that’s on the ground for a few seconds then Mittens will bolt out of the room with Nico right behind him. Nico has shown such a sweet side of her and I’m so happy she’s been able to adjust to our family so easily. Unfortunately, the days of “cuddly small baby” are over and it’s now “fluffy war criminal” but hey, it was nice while it lasted, right? To be expected, she’s super food motivated so you’ll have to watch out for your plate while you’re eating dinner. She’s officially off of kmr and has shown more interest in regular wet food compared to kitten. Her favorite toy right now is a bundle of ribbon that’s attached to a ball that rolls around on its own but she’s pretty happy with anything she can get her grubby little paws on. Including my Lego sets :,) Overall, I’m happy to have another member of our family and glad she’s able to have another chance at life with us.

Big cat tax at the end. (Mittens left, Junebug right)

Pretty clean bill of health, more visits scheduled. He went from bathroom quarantine to bedroom quarantine (we have an older dog whos vision and hearing are going, want to wait til hes a bit bigger and she gets used to his scent).

Hes still a little skittish when I walk in, but he comes out fast, and he loves my wife. Of the 5 other animals we have, special needs dog is terrified of him, older dog whines to see him, but we're being careful. Older female cat is curious and interested, younger female just hisses like a brat, and male (in pictures) is slowly coming to terms that another cat also lives in 'his' room. He tolerates the kitten, but is less than thrilled. Kitten very much wants to be his friend.

Hes two months old, up to a relatively healthy weight, his injuries are healing nicely. We still didnt decide on a name yet, too many good choices. Smaug, bento, cheeto, Ryan gosling, pippen, puck, Hermes and mango​​

bf found kittens living his garden, we’ve been feeding them for a month but the mammy cat this week has moved them elsewhere and brings them back like once a day to eat, he lives on a bad country road and is afraid of a car hitting them as they’re so young and inexperienced. We’ve got a cardboard box in the downstairs bathroom and are planning to keep them there during the night. Is this unethical? the mammy cat is feral and will not come into the house but the kittens are picked up easily enough. Plan to get to vets soon to get dewormed and booked in for neutering etc. but just wanting a rough estimate of their age. These pics are two weeks old as of rn

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!!!

Every morning, our CDS kitty waits by the door to greet our pibble. Our pibble looks forward to it. She has made it part of her routine. It’s the cutest thing. They have an adorable friendship. Our pibble used to watch the kitty from the window and kind of whine. I wasn’t sure if she wanted to eat her or meet her. So we started minor interactions to see how it went. Our pibble has never been around a cat before that we knew of. But this is how it’s going. Just the sweetest thing I’ve ever seen. I would love to bring her inside but our other dog isn’t as fond of cats.

I always get my distribution on a regular basis 😁

From left to right: Sachi, Kit, and Kat 🐱💙

Sachi is not sibling to Kit and Kat but as you can see she's a natural 😸

Every rescue cats or kittens that I get I'd have to make sure there's a certain theme on every batch. Lol

Kit and Kat was rescued together with Mama cat, her name is Kisses. Their Chocolate themed names. 😁

Sachi was rescued alone, and I met some people lining up with me at an ATM and I asked them if they could suggest any names, so there's that. haha 😂

My bf works at a printer shop surrounded by a lot of stray cats. This little guy just showed up one day, walked in and asked for cuddles. He is very calm and cuddly. He is also around 6 months tops.

We asked the owner if he had a mom or siblings, but they all said it was the first time they saw him. They were also worried about him being attacked by other cats or by being struck by a car.

My bf and I were already gonna adopt once we move in about a month... I guess this moved up our plans. We got

We named him Sparrow

It has been a long and uncertain journey to get where we are. This little guy was heard crying in our yard the first week of June. After 2 weeks of baiting a live trap daily, we successfully trapped him. His front right leg was lame. The soonest available vet appointment was 3 days after trapping. During that time he became acutely ill, with copious discharge from his right ear, displaying severe neurological symptoms, and unable to eat on his own due to not being able to stand or move around because of the leg and neuro symptoms. I was terrified and wondered why I was chosen to rescue him if he wasn’t going to make it. But he was still eating and drinking with assistance, and using the litter box appropriately, so I had hope. He showed some improvement before the vet appointment, but the care team didn’t seem optimistic. 3 vet appointments, 3 weeks of antibiotics, countless hours nursing him back to health (literally, I’m an RN lol), and growing to more than double his weight when we found him, Papageno is learning how good life can be with a good home and a loving family. Tomorrow will be 4 weeks since we trapped him. He’s not 100% normal, and he might never be, and I’m still terrified he’s going to regress, but he has come such a long way, surprising even the veterinary team. I genuinely believe he found our yard for a reason.

We’ve lived 20 miles outside a medium sized city for 6 years and this is the first time the CDS has hit! My son found her under our shed and unfortunately we think she may have been dumped- she had very few ticks and no fleas on her. She is very friendly and cuddly towards us. The boys are taking her to the vet tomorrow for a check up- I’m guessing she’s somewhere around 6-8weeks old. My son has named her Tide and we are currently working on convincing dad she should stay and join our menagerie of animals 😂

Update: she’s 1.7 pounds! The vet estimates her to be around 7-8 weeks old. She is now all updated on vaccines. Our youngest dog has chosen to continuously clean her, so I think she has spoken 😉

Last night when I came home from lab (I’m a phd student in chemistry) I heard a screaming meow coming from under a car in the lot. When I called out to the sound he immediately came to me. I was obviously shocked because I’ve seen my fair share of strays around the city but have never encountered such a situation. He let me pick him up and bring him up to my apartment- I felt so anxious because I already have a cat and have dealt with a lot of trauma from a freak accident of my first rescue so I didn’t even know what to think. Plus I’ve never had to acclimate two cats and was consumed by fear of a territorial/hostile situation between them.

Fast forward to today and you can see how they are getting along in the photo(lol) . I didn’t even think such a click in personality between cats was possible. I was so astonished by this cats demeanor that I was absolutely dumbfounded that the vet said he wasn’t microchipped or neutered. Additionally, the change in my resident cats behavior towards being more curious and playful is more than obvious to me, as if he’s been waiting for a friend of his own kind all along.

I want to keep James (his given name from me) but I just don’t know if I can support another cat on my student salary. My parents have said that I should give him to a foster but I’m quite conflicted.
Any advice from one in a similar situation would be much appreciated.

Long story short- new stray showed up that seemed way too friendly to not be someone’s lost pet, so I plucked him off the street and brought him inside to post his info around. He doesn’t seem to belong to anyone afterall, but is quickly becoming an unintended part of the family.

Short story long- I leave food and water out for the neighborhood strays and ferals, and one showed up the other night that I’d never seen before. This poor cat would get startled and paranoid at every little noise to the point that it was too scared to eat, and I was thinking man what an awful way to live. Our resident porch stray (who is very sweet but gets territorial over his spot!) came over and started making those pre-fight aggression sounds towards this white cat, so I went outside to break it up. The scared white cat ended up at the end of the driveway and I thought “I’ll just throw out a ‘pspsps’ and see what happens”… and much to my surprise this anxious cat came running right up to me! We have a LOT of strays and ferals in the neighborhood, and this is the first time a “pspsps” has worked on any of them haha. He instantly let me pet him, and he started purring as soon as I touched him. I thought “this cat is way too friendly to be a feral, it must be someone’s pet that escaped”. I didn’t want to just take a picture though in case he never showed up again, so I knew if I wanted to help I’d have to commit. So I scooped him up (which he didn’t even mind!) and brought him inside.

I posted his picture on Nextdoor and a few other places. He had a tipped ear so I knew he’d been neutered and vaxxed (which is good since I had no time to set up any sort of quarantine from my other cats!), but I was still thinking he belonged to someone and maybe just had been gone so long he got TNR’d. He was friendly but he was DESPERATELY trying to escape and get back outside, he almost broke the screen off one of my windows trying! I almost just let him back out but I was like sorry bud I already posted you online, I gotta hold onto you for at least a few days! Luckily petting him or picking him up just instantly calms him down and gets him to purr, he is just such a sweetheart. He’s so sweet in fact that I actually had to check his paws to see if he had been de-clawed because I had only ever felt his pads! (Thankfully, not de-clawed, just very polite) Anyway, after the first two days I think he realized he was safe and stopped trying to get back outside, and seemed content to just look out the window like my other indoor kitties.

I got a couple responses on Nextdoor from people thinking he was their lost cat, but he ended up not being theirs. I took him to the vet to get scanned- no chip. It was looking more and more like I had just kidnapped a stray off the street lol. I certainly wasn’t going to kick him back outside and make him terrified and homeless again, but I’d never intended to keep him. It was getting dangerous though because I had to start calling him something. I was watching the NHL playoffs at the time and they kept mentioning this one defenseman’s name over and over: Theodore. I thought, man, that’s an adorable name lol. So he became Theodore, or Teddy Bear. And he really is a teddy bear, he’s just so amiable and chill. He’s very vanilla (which fits his appearance!), doesn’t have a big personality, just seems content to be here.

Two of my original cats are completely indifferent to his presence. My 3rd cat, my CDS delivery from last summer, is the issue. She has always wanted to play with my other two cats, but they’re much older than her and she’s a bit of a psychopath when she plays, so they absolutely shut her down any time she gets near them, even if she’s just trying to headbutt or snuggle. It’s made me really sad for her and I’ve considered getting her a kitten or younger cat just so she has someone to play with that didn’t always rebuke her socialization efforts. So in comes this new chill cat, who’s seemingly quite young and playful as well. What does she do? She hates him and hisses and runs any time he gets near her lol. That’s cats for you! (I realize I didn’t do proper introduction methods, but it was a spur of the moment thing bringing him in) So I’d been thinking I should find someone to adopt/foster Teddy since I didn’t want to cause my other cat daily stress, plus 4 is a lot for my tiny apartment. But it’s been a few weeks now and she seems less horrified by his presence, the hissing has lessened, and I’ll even hear them chasing each other at night! I’m just happy they’re finally playing with each other. So he’s pretty much part of the family for the moment

Last night, I was sleeping with the windows open. This cat came through the windows and started sleeping in my bed next to me. I was awoken by his purr. It was too warm too sleep with the windows closed ans I like cats so I let him stay.

Some people have issues with mosquito on summer, I have a cat issue apparently.

Nos, everytime the windows open, he comes in. I have started feeding him.

I think he lives here now

He is very cute, but he has a foot fetish and meows a lot. He his sleeping ans cleaning himself next to my desk.

Walter, the conquerer, spends most of his time with me. He loves my room, sleeps on my bed every night, and welcomes me when I come home from work everyday. My wife is jealous, and rightly so since she put in the majority of the work in gaining his trust when he was a stray. But he always welcomes her attention, so it's okay.

But who cares about that when he gifts us with TEEFS?! This guy doesn't know how to NOT be photogenic.

This is a great example of how Walter, the cat that goes bump in the night, has settled in and truly become a member of the family. Now he is not only loved, but also loves us.

The summer of greenhouse kitties is coming to an end....both litters Beans, Toast, Icarus, Oatmeal, Allspice and Cali all found homes. Just one kitty ,Pepper, is so feral he's attacked and escaped all three times, so he's just going to live here now with the outside colony of ferals. They're all black and orange and white so we're calling them our Halloween crew.

Pepper will get trapped and fixed when he's a little older, and any tips for catching the last momma (Spooky kitty, the black and white who looks like she has a day of the dead skull mask on) is appreciated. She's so smart she knows how to eat the sardines out of the trap without tripping it. This summer was fun, but we really don't want anymore kittens 😅

I have an Aussie and a Great Pyrenees. Went to let them outside this morning and the Aussie was fixated on a spot in the corner of the yard. I go over to check it only to find this little guy or girl. For the past half an hour, ive been petting it and it’s been purring, grooming itself, and it has been showing signs of being content. Right now, it is laying on my lap sleeping and i have learned that im allergic to cats. I can’t afford to keep the cat both money and time wise. I was thinking of dropping it off at a shelter but im not too sure.

Thanks to the suggestions you guys gave especially Batman, we now have a name for this boy! Batman influenced our name choice. Everyone meet Joker! Think Jack Nicholson’s Joker cuz this baby has flair! Thank you all for the great name choices! He is doing great he is doing well with the dogs no pictures yet of him with them but I will get them! He is slowly making friends with the resident cats. And he is a little whirlwind for sure. He is at the run everywhere and puff up
stage lol. We have to watch where we are walking because he runs everywhere. He is a blessing. We love him so much already.

… Bruiser! The featherweight champion of the apartment! In the past ten hours alone, Eugene “Baby Little Bruiser” LastName has been training in blade fighting, parkour, contortion and the speed fern.

Bruiser, the weeny baby kitten who came into my life while I was on a trip two states away, has officially become possessed by a demon. I’m pretty sure that’s what tipped him over three pounds. Today, he discovered jumping. Half an hour ago, he’d never seen that window sill before.

We are at 11 weeks now. He has his next appointment on Monday. Kid is thriving and is so confident, curious and beloved by everyone he meets, and he loves the attention. There’s no trace of the sick baby left in him these days. He’s all fluff and cuddles and chaos.

I don’t know how long is too long for CDS updates. Should this be the last one? (I honestly don’t know the etiquette here, so that’s a genuine question.)

(The costumes are practice for his harness, which is currently too big, somehow. Only with supervision.)

I was not ready for another cat so soon. I’d put all the old things in storage, thought I’d give it a year before I started looking for a new friend.

Cue the rescue I donated my late cat’s food and other perishables to showing me a pic of a cat abandoned at the vet in terrible condition. I offered to take him on as a foster but we fell in love over rotisserie chicken and the rest is becoming history.

This 12 year old Norwegian Forest Cat is a good boy who didn’t deserve to be starved, covered in dirt and fleas and scabs, or to have his nails grow into his foot pads. Thanks to the vet for cleaning his ears and nails, two baths and two flea treatments later he looks more like himself. He will never have to live like that again. Thanks 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

A few weeks ago, the CDS blessed us with Buster Fromage, soft as velvet with a sweet trilling, chirpy voice.

My mom died in February, and since then, I've felt adrift, only able to sleep for a couple of hours at a time. One thing that kept popping into my mind when I thought of her were the cats that were ever present in our lives. One night around 2 AM, unable to sleep, I hear yelling right outside my front door. I open up to see this guy. My husband tells the story better than I could:

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