Faylene is available for adoption at the MRFRS in Salisbury, Mass. I encourage everyone I know to foster — even if they’re dead set on adopting. Not only does fostering provide an invaluable service to rescue groups and the shelters who depend on them (not to mention the pets themselves), …

Read Cary Grant’s (a.k.a. CG’s) story in adopter Amanda’s own words. When Amanda Maurer saw CG’s photo on Petfinder, it was love at first sight. But then she read his description and had second thoughts. He was born with cerebellar hypoplasia, a condition in which the cerebellum is not mature …

Ten years ago, in a dream, a huge fuzzy cat stared at Aileen Rabagliati. She wasn’t sure where she was, but she sensed that it was an apartment of her own. She asked the cat who he was, and he replied, “I’m Steve, your cat.” It was one of those …

Rebecca Takacs had decided to buy a kitten from a breeder to make sure it wouldn’t have a congenital heart defect like the 8-month-old kitten she had just lost. Little did she know that adoptable pets on Petfinder are often as healthy as or even healthier than those from breeders. …

Emma came from a home where there were 27 cats, five dogs and 18 birds. “She had already had kittens of her own and she was also nursing kittens from some of the other cats in the home,” says her adopter, Pamela Hackett. Read Emma’s Happy Tail in her adopter …

We’re just about to the end of June, Adopt-A-Shelter-Cat Month, but here’s another story that shows a side of cats that some folks never get to see. Roxy with her “foster” kittens. Read how Kathy Spicer tells Roxy’s story.  Two years ago, the Spicers of North Canton, OH, adopted a …

Kylie Payeur didn’t even have to hold the pretty black-and-white cat in her arms to know that she was the one for her. “Just one look in her eyes, and I knew she would be mine forever,” Kylie, a resident of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, says. Read the story of …

It didn’t seem quite right to Patti Cecchino to adopt another pet so soon after the death of the family’s beloved Snowshoe cat. Nevertheless, the house felt very empty without her, so the Valencia, CA, woman began browsing on the web to see if there was a Snowshoe cat rescue …

Zach, Ginger Niles’ cat, needed a buddy, so she started looking at Petfinder. “Who would have ever thought you’d find a pet online?” she says. But she saw Angelo listed by Heaven to Betsy’s Rescue in Griffith, IN, and had a hunch that he was the right cat. Read the …

For four years, the two cats, Cooper and James, stayed in the care of Stray Pets In Need (SPIN) in Wellesley, MA. Their shyness kept them from being chosen when people were searching for cats to adopt. Read James and Cooper’s story in their “mom” Katie’s own words. During their …