Location: Tampa, Florida, USA

At six weeks old this little guy is smaller than a mini pumpkin!

Location: Sydney, Australia

BB was adopted at six weeks old. The day after I posted an Internet message asking how best to adopt a feline, he was abandoned on the netball courts near my apartment block and found by some kids who live in our building. They brought him to me in a shoebox, flea-ridden and asleep. Fate? I like to think so. He’s now King of the (two-bedroom) castle and will be even if I adopt another meow-meow. BB likes scrounging bites of tuna, stalking insects, hiding in windowsills behind curtains, and staging sneak attacks at ankles.

Location: Fresno, Texas, USA

This is Isis. She is one of a litter of four whose mom gave birth in an old storage trailer. Isis, Katamari, and Mystikk and their brother Eek (my husband’s name for him, and it stuck) were all abandoned by their mom at three weeks of age. They have since grown into loving kittens with great personalities and huge purrs! They have totally taken over the office and back hallway of our house, and are expanding their range to the front room and master bedroom, much to the chagrin of five of the other six cats who live in the house. One of the older cats thinks the kittens are his personal play toys.