Cat Stories

Valentine's Day photos of dogs, horses, birds, cats and guinea pigs celebrating love.

Cat declawing can cause problems for cats, such as joint stiffness, behavioral challenges, loss of ability to climb and balance. It is cruel.

Kitten tests positive for panleukopenia (feline distemper), but survives. He now has cerebellar hypoplasia (CH) as a result but is living happily.

Angry senior cat, who would spit, hiss and growl at people, is helped with reward-based clicker training and then goes on to be adopted.

See photos of 11 animals - a puppy and kitten, dogs and cats, birds, a lamb and a horse - that will make you happy.

Happy ending for a microchipped cat who was lost in Zion National Park. Read her story.

Cat with a urinary blockage due to large crystals has emergency surgery to prevent his bladder from rupturing. He is now living the good life.

Shy cat used to hide all the time, but then she realized she loved riding on people's shoulders. This shoulder cat's whole life has changed.

Deaf, blind, three-legged kitten may have special needs, but he doesn't realize it. He is living life to the fullest in his adoptive home.

Read about an FeLV cat's journey from Anchorage Animal Care & Control, to Mojo's Hope, to NEKO Cat Café in Seattle, where he is adopted

Recap of the Best Friends Super Adoption, held at the Meadowlands Expo Center in Secaucus, New Jersey, and some of joyous NYC pet adoptions.

The shelter save rate for cats in Harris County, Texas, climbs dramatically with implementation of community cat, kitten foster and other strategies.

An FIV-positive cat from Best Friends is adopted and is now living the high life, literally, on the 19th floor of a high rise in Atlanta.

Read the best (and more popular) pet stories of 2018 about dogs and a cat who overcame odds to find love and a forever home.