A mother cat left her kitten. Elyse took him in.

A mother cat delivered one of her kittens to a doorstep in Pleasant Hall, Pennsylvania, left him there overnight, and went home without him. The kitten was four or five months old, the age when mother cats start finding their offspring tiresome. His new owner, Elyse, already had three cats, two of them the kitten's aunts, and a dog. Her mother agreed to the fourth cat on one condition: Elyse would pay the vet bills. There were plenty. The kitten arrived with fleas, mites and worms, and spent days being bathed before Frontline finished the job. He was neutered and treated, then named Baelfire, Bae for short, after a character from Once Upon a Time. The two bonded fast. He comes when called and sleeps wherever he likes. "He helped me through a difficult time in my life, just as I helped him through his," Elyse wrote.