Although we often hear about people opening their homes to an adopted child or animal, that act can sometimes be more spontaneous and dependent on unforeseen circumstances lining up than on the process they tend to go through at agencies and shelters.
That's how one teen ended up accidentally adopting a puma, but a similar turn of fortune also saw an ICU nurse get invested enough in a baby under her care's well-being to adopt him herself.
But as affirming as it is to hear stories like these, we can also find that our fellow humans aren't the only ones with this caring instinct within them. Animals can end up adopting each other as well and it doesn't always matter if they're even members of the same species.
As one story illustrates, however, it can still seem miraculous when they are and a cat takes a kitten in need as one of her own.
