Cat News & Stories

Viral cat stories, heartwarming rescues, famous internet cats, and feline news from around the world. The good stuff worth sharing.

Her Cat Ignored Every Show She Ever Watched. Then She Turned on NASA’s Moon Mission.

Miles doesn’t watch TV. His owner, Mariah Garrett, will tell you that without hesitation. He sits on her lap most evenings — has for nearly a decade — but the screen might as well be furniture. He’d rather nap than watch whatever she’s streaming. Garrett has tried. Miles is not interested. But on Monday evening, […]

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4-panel news grid showing Payapa the cat rescued from viral abuse video in the Philippines

They Named Her Payapa. It Means Peace. 48 Hours Earlier, She Was Being Kicked in a Sack on TikTok.

The video was eleven seconds long. A cat stuffed in a woven sack, swung by the corners, then kicked across dirt while someone laughed off-camera. The TikTok caption read: “POV: Buntis lahat ng ligaw na pusa” — all stray cats are pregnant. It had laughing emojis. By Sunday evening, April 5, the clip had jumped

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Cats Play With String Their Whole Lives. The First Time It Gets Stuck, You Have 48 Hours.

Your cat ate string. You’ve probably seen it happen — or almost happen. The batting paw, the head tipping back, the thread vanishing faster than you could get across the room. Most of the time, nothing comes of it. That’s exactly the problem. Every emergency vet clinic sees cases like Button’s. Button was a one-year-old

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Fred the kitten who woke owner from house fire

Fred Was Nine Weeks Old When the Dehumidifier Caught Fire. Donald Was Asleep. Fred Was Not.

The smoke hadn’t reached the bedroom yet. Donald VanWormer was asleep in his Tillamook, Oregon home in late February when something started pestering him. Fred — his nine-week-old kitten — wouldn’t stop. Not the usual 3 AM chaos. Something different. Insistent. VanWormer woke up. Then he smelled it. The dehumidifier had caught fire. A Nine-Week-Old

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Scottish Fold cat in Buddha Sit position with text: The ears fold at 3 weeks. The cartilage never stops.

Your Scottish Fold’s Ears Started Folding at Three Weeks Old. The Rest of Its Cartilage Never Stopped.

Scottish Folds are born with straight ears. Around day 21, the cartilage bends — but it doesn’t stop at the ears. The same gene reshapes joints throughout the body, which is why your Fold sits like a tiny Buddha and why seven countries have banned the breed entirely.

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Cat face extreme close-up with text: 5 Years Missing. One Scan Brought Her Home.

KitKat Vanished in 2021. Five Years Later, a Stranger Brought Her to a Shelter.

The last time Angelique Wethereit saw KitKat, it was 2021. The cat slipped out one day in Williamson County, Texas, and didn’t come back. Wethereit did what every cat owner does in those first raw weeks. She drove the neighborhood with windows down, calling. She posted on every lost pet group she could find. She

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Orange tabby cat in shelter kennel with text: Nobody Kept Him. Zeke Is Still Waiting.

His Owners Got Divorced and Nobody Kept Zeke. Now He’s Waiting for Someone Who Will.

Zeke sat in a cage and stared at the wall. He’d been brought into Beacon of Hope Animal Rescue in New Jersey a few days earlier, after five years in the same house — the same routines, the same people, the same lap that ran warm on cold mornings. He wasn’t crying or pacing. He

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Russian Blue cat Tinnie who saved owner from stroke and mother from heart attack

She Was Trying to Sleep. Tinnie Had Other Plans. When She Finally Got Up, She Was Having a Stroke.

The first time Tinnie saved a life, nobody outside the family knew about it. It was evening at a Colorado Springs home, and Shilah Marette’s mother had settled in for the night. Tinnie — a 20-pound Russian Blue with the kind of expression that suggests he’s been evaluating the situation and found most of it

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