Kitten rescued from a devastated place to a warm home by heroic human who never thought he'd become a cat person: 'He had to walk up to us and collapse at our feet'

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    While working in a country caught in the middle of a civil war, I came across this tiny orange boy in an abandoned warehouse.

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  • Maybe you were raised in a “dog household”. Maybe you never even liked cats. Then one climbs into your lap (or collapses at your feet) and rewrites the story. Cat people don’t always plan to be cat people. The universe just has other, furrier plans. They come into your life with stories you’ll never fully know - and still, they trust you. That trust changes everything. You're not just a caretaker, you’re part of a healing process, one that reaches deep into your heart and stays there for good.

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    He was incredibly weak, he pretty much used the last bit of energy he had to walk up to us and collapse at our feet.

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    With no vets in the city, we had no choice but to care for him ourselves. The only vaguely nutritious thing we could find was fresh goat milk,

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    which we fed to him with a syringe until he was strong enough to eat on his own.

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    A week or two later, he started getting more energetic and could finally eat little pieces of chicken (no cat food obtainable).

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    When it came time for us to leave the country, we were faced with a tough choice, either leave him behind,

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    knowing no one would look after him, or spend an outrageous amount of money and effort to bring him with us.

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    By then, he had completely won over our whole team. So we made the call, he was coming home.

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  • When you go through something big together, that bond becomes unshakeable. They’re not souvenirs from a chapter of your life. They’re part of your whole story now - woven in with your past, present, and future like they were always meant to be there. Either way, you don't find cats like these by chance. Cats show up when your life (and theirs) is ready to change forever. And if you're lucky, you end up with a sponge-furred surprise who reminds you every day why you said yes to love.

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    I'm happy to say that we managed to get Scotch-Brite (or "Scotchy" for short)

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    safely back to our home country in early December. He's now living his best life with my other cat,

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    who I rescued from a car engine back in August last year. I grew up in a dog- only household, so I never expected to become a cat person.

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    But here we are, two rescues later, and I couldn't be more grateful that the Cat Redistribution System chose me.

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    We ended up naming him Scotch-Brite because his fur was so rough and scruffy when we found him, it felt just like one of those scratchy cleaning sponges.

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  • We absolutely love it when a Cat Distribution System drop-off ends up in such a successful and heartwarming adoption. And not just the human-cat adoption process, but the fact that this orange floof was adopted into a house with another rescued cat. The cat-cat adoption process is also impawrtant - and it makes us so happy to know it went well too. Such a lovely adoption story.

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    LaureGilou ⚫ 21h ago I love you so much for not leaving him behind. 621 > Reply

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    ValmarieB6670 • 21h ago What a very lucky and handsome lil guy he is! 134 ○ Reply

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    • enbycats 21h ago The CDS really knows to whom to deliver! Well done! 115 > Reply

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    yrnkween ⚫ 21h ago Top 1% Commenter He's grown into a gorgeous boy. Thank you! for saving him and giving. him a good life. Ŵ 81 > Reply

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