Jaga stretched out on the carpet. Photo: Catz 4 Life
Someone left her in a park, zipped inside a pet carrier with her newborn kittens. Then she went on to raise her own litter and four orphans as well.
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The carrier was gray and red mesh. It was sitting in the grass at the edge of a park, across from Park Grounds, in front of a yellow house.
Inside was a black and white mother cat. Her kittens were tucked in beside her. The carrier was zipped shut.
A passerby noticed it and called for help. That one call is where Jaga’s story turns.
A rescue that was already full
The call reached Catz 4 Life, Inc., a cat rescue in Georgia. It had no room.
It took the family anyway.
“Our rescue is full, but we couldn’t let this little family go without a safe place,” Aimee of Catz 4 Life told LoveMeow.
One night at the clinic
Several people helped move the family to safety. The clinic at The Cat Doctor Atlanta kept Jaga and her kittens overnight.
By the next day, they were out of danger.
“Mom looks understandably bewildered; what a terrible experience, but she is in a home full of lovely people, and we will make sure she never faces that kind of ordeal again,” Aimee said.
Five Thundercats
In foster care, Jaga went back to the work she had been doing all along. She raised the five kittens who had been left in the carrier with her.
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The rescue nicknamed the litter the Thundercats. She nursed them and groomed them while they grew from tiny newborns into healthy kittens.
One by one, all five were adopted.
Four more who weren’t hers
That could have been the end of her mothering. It wasn’t.
A separate litter of four orphaned kittens needed a mother. Jaga took them in.
The rescue called this second group the Guardians of the Galaxy. She let them nurse, groomed them and let them pile up against her, just as she had with her own.
All four of the Guardians were adopted too.
“She did her time raising nine kittens,” Aimee said.
A cat with no one left to raise
With every kitten in a home, Jaga’s days changed. She settled in with the other cats in her foster home.
According to the rescue, she has been thoroughly enjoying her new child-free life.
Long, lean and very calm
Now that she isn’t busy raising kittens, her own personality has more room.
She is long and lean, with a sleek build. The rescue suspects she may have some Oriental Shorthair in her background.
She is also young. The rescue’s adoption listing gives her age as one year and six months.
She is also relaxed. “She’s a pretty chill cat,” Aimee said.
Still waiting for her own home
There’s one part of this story that hasn’t ended yet.
As of LoveMeow’s report in October 2026, all nine kittens had been adopted. Jaga was the one member of the family still waiting for a home of her own.
The mother who was left zipped inside a carrier made sure nine kittens got a start in life. The next home is meant to be hers.
