When Burp arrived at NAWS Humane Society, he looked like he’d been through a lifetime of hard days. He’d been found wandering the streets — thin, battered, and exhausted —…
When Nikos heard a cry from the roadside, he found a tiny kitten alone in the grass, covered in motor oil and likely fallen from a moving car. With no…
For years, an orange cat with one cloudy eye wandered under a bridge along a remote logging road in California. Locals called him Bayou. He looked worn and tired —…
When Emily from Rhode Island was in kindergarten, her family adopted a tiny kitten named Muffin. Emily couldn’t wait to hold and cuddle her new furry best friend — but…
It was 4 a.m. when a staff member from Orange County Animal Services arrived at work and spotted a cardboard box sitting near the dumpster. The label read “Coconut Water”…
It was a scorching Labor Day afternoon in Nevada when two small pet carriers sat quietly on the sidewalk outside a strip mall. A torn scrap of notebook paper fluttered…
Chef Franco Blanco was cruising down a busy Florida interstate when something small and dark rolled across his lane. At first, it looked like nothing more than a bit of…
It started with a faint, echoing cry coming from deep inside a fuel drum on a scorching August day. Two tiny kittens — hungry, exhausted, and terrified — had somehow…
At a recent adoption event hosted by NAWS Humane Society of Illinois, cats and kittens happily found new homes one after another. By the end of the day, most cages…
