When I was a little girl I found many stray pets and even wild animals, to mention a few...

While out riding my bike I found a kitten (she was between 8 and 10 weeks) I scooped her up and took her home we never found her owner but we found her a nice new home for her with a lovely couple.

I found a lop earred rabbit which turned out to be the ladies from the top of our road.

I've also found a yellow budgie in the grass while out playing!! I took it home and my dad put it in a spare bird cage we had (my dad bred zebra finches at the time)... we tried to nurse it back to health but it was dead the next day.

Anybody got any stories to share? x

Found a west highland terrier a couple of years back, we contacted everyone we could as it didn't have a collar and disc, RSPCA reluctantly scanned him and found who he belonged to they phoned the owner while we kept him in our car as we were worried if we handed him in he might not get home.

Another time we found a bag of puppies just under water in the local river, we dragged them out but could only get one breathing again. He became my first dog the late rather great Benny dog, he introduced me to a whole new world of broken nights, chewing things and being generally very naughty - loved that dog to bits !

My husband found two kittens in a plastic bag hanging from a tree branch, he brought them both home and the cats protection league were fantastic and found them lovely homes.

A baby squirrel came into our lives when one of my dogs brought it to us on a walk and we had no idea where she had found it, we kept him about 6 months to get him ready for the world and (illegally) released him into the wild when he was ready.

Apart from my pets, yes I've found many over the years. My most recent was a hedgehog a few weeks ago. I put it in a box with lots of paper and took it to a RSPCA wildlife centre.

Found a ferral kitten in the early 80's in the countryside miles from anywhere, took it home.

Trouble was it was a bugger to house train doing number 1's and 2's in the house for weeks, which drove my mam up the wall to the point she took it back to where I found it, my sisters and me persuaded her to give it a chance so she went and found it again and it never messed in the house again from that day on.

Trents it was called and got ran over in the end by a Robin Reliant (front wheel, made a right mess of him, poor thing) aged 15.

OH found a lovely white dog two days before xmas 5 years ago..we were very tempted to keep him as our dog loved him..

but we called the police and got a call back 3 hours later from them saying the owner had just called to report him lost..police said wish you hadnt called to report you found him...but we would have hated it if we lost ours and somepne just kept him.

Went on holiday 2 years ago ..came home with a stray cat that came in for food everyday..shes now happy and spoilt sleeping on our bed.

Found a staffi while in Brighton for the weekend...if we didnt have dog and 2 cats and a tiny cottage we would have cut short weekend and bought her home..took him to police station..not chipped etc..

Kept in touch with police they kept her in local pound for 10 days then she was PTS..we were devasted.

I used to bring home all kinds when I was a kid, baby sparrows, rogue hedgehogs, lonely newts, homeless snakes. I was generally told off and made to put them back where I found them.

This was a grey squirrel then?

Took in a stray cat, he was lovely, took him about 6 months to really settle.

Adopted 2 huskies in the last 5 years from husky welfare.

Saved numerous birds as a kid, usually they died but we always took them home to our Mum.

Found my rabbit Molly under a gorse bush off of a cycle path in a stinking indoor cage that was far too small for her The vet couldn't even sex her as she was that caked with her own filth We carried her for miles in this cage to the nearest village as I knew they had a vet surgery there. A police car went past us as well, but they didn't stop to ask why we had an animal cage out in the middle of nowhere. Two and a half years on, she is now running and jumping around my living room with her mate and is very healthy and happy

Had a lot of abandoned animals handed in when I worked with Cats Protection, some with absolutely horrific stories. Also had rabbits and dogs handed in as well, but luckily a lot of them were reunited with their owners and the rest were given a new chance of life with new homes I actually really enjoyed working with the ones that had obviously been abused (wrong choice of words since no animal deserves to be abused). To see them regain some trust in humans and find the right person to take them on after months of work made you regain some hope that not everyone out there was abusive, and those that neglected an animal are most certainly a minority

My grandad found a little dog sitting in the snow one year and brought him home, only to find his belly was pretty badly slashed. He was starving. He ended up staying with us for many years until he literally pined to death after his companion, our poodle died. What a great dog he was.

We found a doberman collapsed outside our front door one time and eventually traced his owners after a lot of detective work. I've never seen a dog so happy when he was reunited with his owners!

In recent years I've taken in many stray cats I've come across when feeding my ferals. Thomas had had his tail ripped off near the base and was suffering terribly. I managed to get him in, get him operated on and he's now living the high life. I've also taken in three dogs to add to the collection. We now have 7 cats and 4 dogs and I know I can't take in any more. That breaks my heart because there are so many out there that need a home, on the streets through no fault of their own; the fault of irresponsible people.

Hardly a stray animal, but I remember when I saw younger, my sister was out on her tricycle and she came back down the road peddling as fast as she could in tears because she found a scary bug. We go to see what it is, and it's a sky blue hermit crab with a donald duck on it.
Makes me laugh every time we think about it

This was back when I lived in America. we found 2 or 3 lost dogs aswell. Nothing since living in the UK though

I was recently found by a stray kitten, poor little thing turned up on my doorstep a few ago. I took him in, failed in trying to find who he belonged to so tried to get my existing cat to except him living with us but he wasn't having any of it.Tthe little fella is now being looked after by my mum and being spoilt to bits.

We found one of our cats in our wheelie bin a couple of years ago, I don't know if he managed to get trapped in there himself while scavenging for food, or if he was dumped there. He was in a really bad state,skinny, filthy and matted with an injury to his jaw which the vet thinks was caused by a kick

His owner was never found (and they'd need to have given me one hell of a good reason for the state he was in before I'd have returned him) so we ended up keeping him. He was diagnosed with FIV shortly after we took him in, but *touch wood* is doing really well at the moment.

Arwyn

About 11 years ago, I was walking across a field near where I used to live and saw 4 lads aged 16-18 spraying a box with lighter fuel. It didn't cross my mind to intervene until I heard this pathetic miaowing from the box. I tried to keep walking due to not liking cats, but my conscience got the better of me, and I could foresee the inevitable outcome. I ended up going over and asking the lads what was in the box. The oldest lad was quite misguided and his answer was that it didn't concern me, I should go and have intercourse with myself, and that failure to do so may involve harm to myself. I administered a quick attitude adjustment to the person of questionable parentage by means of introducing my forehead to his nose, and then shoving his head several times using my fists, until he decided he needed to lay down for a rest and to contemplate how he should respond to people in the future. After asking his associates did they have any objection to me taking the box away with me. Sorry for the way that was phrased, but I don't want seem as if I'm glorifying violence (no matter how much I consider it was justified). Surprisingly, they didn't so I took the box (and the jet black, small feline) home with me. When I got in I told my (now ex) wife that I was not interested in the slightest about having a cat, and would she please keep our children out of the kitchen because I didn't want them seeing the kitten - I also foresaw another inevitable outcome. I rang the RSPCA up, but was informed they couldn't get anyone out to pick up the kitten and could I keep hold of it until Monday? Needless to say, the kids heard it miaowing and within 2 minutes I'd acquired a new addition to the family.

It was in a sorry state though. It had so many fleas that when I tried rinsing the lighter fuel out it's coat the shower water was coming out the fur blood-red. At the time I didn't realise that it had ingested some of the lighter fuel and wasn't eating or drinking because of this. The most it was able to keep down was a small amount of water every now and again administered via a baby medicine syringe so it was getting quite weak (although thankfully cats have a metabolism that's very efficient when it comes to water which is why cat urine is so concentrated). There's a common misconception that I sat with the cat for 36 hours because I cared for it, and was crying. This is not true. I'm a man and the only reason I sat with it was because I didn't want my children being upset due to them taking to it so quickly, and I was suffering from hayfever at the time. Honest. Thankfully it pulled through, although it cost a shedload in vets fees (it seems to happen whenever I get a kitten - my current two cost me a fortune when I got them), and I was converted into a cat lover.

My wife has a stranger story. She found a stray rat in a Tama drum kit in a barn when she was younger, and took it home. She managed to convince her parents to take it to the vet, who did some tests and said it was a domesticated brown rat, and disease free so her parents let her keep it. Needless to say the rat was called Tama and apparently lived for years (although it became a huge rat because if she was in, it was let out all the time). It was also quite clean, and would run back to it's cage if it needed to take care of a call of nature. I wish my rats had done that when I used to let them out to play and explore the living room.

About ten years ago I started feeding a stray cat that was hanging around my garden. She was very scared of people and wouldn't let me get anywhere near her at first. I eventually (after a few years) got her to the point where she would sleep on my bed at night and when she was on my bed she would let me stroke her, but the rest of the time she would move away from me if I approached her. Sadly a couple of years ago I had to have her put to sleep as she got fluid on her chest which would have been caused by either a tumour or a heart problem. She would have needed long-term medication and there was no way I could have got her to take tablets (getting her in the basket to get her to the vet even when she was so ill was hard enough!) so I reluctantly made the decision to have her put to sleep, but at least she had a good few happy safe years with me.

I've also taken in three stray cats over the last few years that turned up on my doorstep, all of them hungry and full of fleas. One of them I kept, one went to my local animal sanctuary for re-homing, and one (three weeks ago) has gone to Cats Protection for re-homing. I also used to feed a feral cat a couple of years ago that used to turn up intermittently, but he stopped coming around so I hope he moved on to pastures new.

I've also picked up more than a few Myxy-infected wild rabbits from the roadside and taken them to the vets to be put to sleep! Oh, and I found a gull with a broken wing which was also PTS. And a jackdaw with a head wound.

Many years ago my dad found a little mongrel in a sack tied to a lamppost by the 2nd Dartford Tunnel that was being built at the time. He brought him home and we kept him for several years as a companion to our existing dog because one of our dogs had recently died.

i've got a guinea pig who was basically handed to me in the street because the owner didn't want it.

the girl carrying it was taking her down the road to dump her on the park, it was only by chance it was a nice day, so i was sitting in the front garden grooming one of my boars while talking to a friend. i hate to think what would have happened to the pig had i not been out there.

my big rabbit betty was found wandering the streets a year or two ago, the first bad snowwy winter we had. she was out in that, just by chance one day my mums partner managed to block her in one of his pigeon sheds, brought her round to me and she's been here ever since.
put posters about about her, but no one claimed her. she'd been free running for months as i remember one november night trying to catch her in the street a week or so after she was first seen, it was april when we actually caught her.
(she's an incredible digger though, so we can see exactly how she survived )
she's a lovely rabbit too. most of the time...

My younger cat of two was found as a kitten, barely six weeks old, under a car on a windy night (well early morning, but it was winter and still pretty dark at about 5am). I was asleep but a strange noise had awoken me, turned out it was her screaming. I opened a window and two young men walking past pointed out where she was. They seemed concerned, so I don't think she was anything to do with them. I said I would sort it out and ended up going across the road where she was under the car and gradually coaxing her across the road with me (she would not let me get near enough to pick her up). She came gingerly into the house (how brave of her, but she hopefully sensed I would not harm her) and the rest is history... we did ask around if anyone had lost a kitten but frankly, even if she had got out by accident, we weren't desperately inclined to find her owners

We. or should I say our dog at the time, found a tiny weeny ginger kitten right inside a hedge. He was about 5 weeks old the vet said and we decided we could not let him go to animal rescue. He was adorable and slept on our bed every night. When he was about 5 years old though, he suddenly died, Cardiomyopathy..he went quickly with no pain...we still talk about his funny little ways and he died years ago.When I was a child my brother brought home a Hare with a broken leg.My brother was the only person who could handle him, I remember the Hare used to growl!..when he recovered we ceremoniously released him back in the woods were he was found.

last year i was away for a night in York, my oldest daughter phoned me saying she had found a tiny, almost dead kitten in her dads work yard. she brought it home, it could only have been a few days old. what happened was the cats protection had been in two days earlier and taken away all the cats....except this wee one. i was a bit wary about bringing it in as it was from the feral cats and didnt want to risk our own cat catching anything, but the wee thing was so weak. its now a healthy, strapping boy who follows me everywhere and is very much loved.

only problem is, we thought it was a girl...called him Bella, a few months back we found she had extra bits! but, were not telling her she is actually a he we like having an all girl household

I have rescued 2 adult female cats and one male. 1 6wk old kitten then a year later another 5wk old kitten. Thats 3 years today i rescued the first kitten. From this june i have handreared 8 kittens aged from 6 days too 15 days old. I found little Harry who we only had for 3wks but it was the most happiest 3wks of his life. Then on Nov 5th i took in 4 kittens about 9wks old in a terrible state 2 went there new home a week later. Thats me done for this year. No more i need my sleep

Before my folks moved to Ireland they were the proud owner's of 20 budgies , 10 parakeets, 60 cocketeils , 4 ferrets 2 rabbits 2 dogs and 4 cats oh and a handful of quails and 10 Guinea pigs .

they helped out the local animal rescue centre ,

the dogs and cats we had before the bird thing we have always had rescue animals , My favs were the 3 old English sheepdogs we had got from a rescue place lovely animals .

They now live in Ireland and the dogs they have out there are both from the dog shelter , a greyhound cross we think with a rabbit as she bounces everywhere lol and a border collie

My mum used to take in animals to nurse back to health so we had numerous birds like Rooks, Blackbirds, Chaffinchs, the odd hedgehog and various reptiles and amphibians.

Have I ever stolen a dog off the street? Yes. Does my wife make me give them back? Yes.

I now have my own dog. I didn't find it on the street.