Couple adopts Koda, a survivor of one of the worst hoarding and neglect cases authorities had seen, and makes sure his remaining years are nothing but love and comfort

Some cats' life circumstances just make their happy ever after even happier than usual.

There's a very big contrast between the start of Koda's life and the life he leads now, as u/StillSea9674 tells on r/nowmycat. It's like looking at a black-and-white page, with a very clear distinction between the two sides. Seeing a now-pampered cat in the beautiful pictures they added won't tell you anything about how he lived poorly for the first seven years of his life. If anything, we're grateful for the Cat Distribution System for fitting this beautiful boy with the right human parents, who now give him the best life he can live.

It's not that we didn't know that some people treat cats horridly, but hearing of a first-hand account with such horrendous details makes our stomachs ache. We can't fathom hurting animals (or people, for that matter) in this way. We can't understand how someone gets to a situation where they knowingly put animals in harm's way on such a scale. But unlike many on this property with hoarded animals, Koda was one of the only survivors. He was not well, though - this life led him to have many health issues that needed treating. And that's where we're so grateful for the CDS to pair him with the people willing to nurse him back to health, and loveingly so.

Reading through Koda's story is an emotional rollercoaster - but because after a very low low there's a very high high. The happy end is a sharp contrast to all that he had to go through. And as cat lovers who read many cat adoption stories every day, this one made us the happiest recently. It's that difference between the beginning and the end that makes the sadness-to-happiness spectrum very wide, and why it would make every cat lover reading this happy - at least when they get to the end.