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** Kara is prone to adopt stray cats. In "ComicBook/SupergirlsSuperPet", Kara finds a stray tabby cat and begs her orphanage's headmistress let her take him in, naming the cat "Streaky" because of the lightning bolt-like yellow streaks on his sides. Unbeknownst to her, Streaky had been given powers because of a bizarre Kryptonite-related accident, and would become her Action Pet for several years. ** ''ComicBook/Supergirl1982'': Several years later, Kara finds another stray kitten scrounging around her apartment and declares he is not homeless anymore, naming him "Streaky" after her first cat.

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** Kara is prone to adopt stray cats. In "ComicBook/SupergirlsSuperPet", Kara finds a stray tabby cat and begs her orphanage's headmistress let her take him in, naming the cat "Streaky" because of the lightning bolt-like yellow streaks on his sides. Unbeknownst to her, Streaky had been given powers because of a bizarre Kryptonite-related accident, and would become her Action Pet for several years. years.
** ''ComicBook/Supergirl1982'': Several years later, Kara finds another stray kitten scrounging around her apartment and declares he is not homeless anymore, naming him "Streaky" after her first cat.

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* ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} is prone to adopt stray cats. In ''ComicBook/ActionComics'' #261, Kara finds a stray tabby cat and takes him in, naming him "Streaky" on the spot because of the lightning bolt-like yellow streaks on his sides. Unbeknownst to her, Streaky had been given powers because of a bizarre Kryptonite-related accident, and would become her ActionPet for several years. ''[[ComicBook/Supergirl1982 Several years later]]'', Kara found another stray kitten scrounging around her apartment, and she right away took him to her house, naming him "Streaky" after her first cat.


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* ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'' story "ComicBook/TheSuperDogFromKrypton": Teen Clark Kent happens upon a super-powered stray dog which is spreading chaos across Smallville. Upon learning that strange god is his actual dog, Clark decides to adopt him.
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** Kara is prone to adopt stray cats. In "ComicBook/SupergirlsSuperPet", Kara finds a stray tabby cat and begs her orphanage's headmistress let her take him in, naming the cat "Streaky" because of the lightning bolt-like yellow streaks on his sides. Unbeknownst to her, Streaky had been given powers because of a bizarre Kryptonite-related accident, and would become her Action Pet for several years. ** ''ComicBook/Supergirl1982'': Several years later, Kara finds another stray kitten scrounging around her apartment and declares he is not homeless anymore, naming him "Streaky" after her first cat.
** In ''ComicBook/Supergirl2005'', Kara adopts a stray cat which she finds roaming and looking for food around her flat.
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* ''ComicStrip/{{Mutts}}'': [[spoiler: Guard Dog becomes a stray after being abandoned by his owner. This leads to him being unchained and taken to the shelter/clinic hybrid, where Doozy and her family adopt him and rename him "Sparky".]]
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* Nana from ''WebVideo/CreamHeroes'' had to have ended up at an animal shelter somehow, and had Claire not taken in her and her kittens, all three would have been euthanised. Once Nana has been introduced to the other cats and they get used to each other, she makes it her mission to befriend all of them.

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* Nana from ''WebVideo/CreamHeroes'' ''WebVideo/{{Kittisaurus}}'' had to have ended up at an animal shelter somehow, and had Claire not taken in her and her kittens, all three would have been euthanised.euthanized. Once Nana has been introduced to the other cats and they get used to each other, she makes it her mission to befriend all of them.
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* The titular character of ''WesternAnimation/OliverAndCompany'' was a stray kitten until Jenny found him.
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* Thomas O'Malley from ''WesternAnimation/TheAristocats'' is a stray cat who helps a pet molly and her kittens get back home. In the end, he ends up being taken in as well.

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* Thomas O'Malley from ''WesternAnimation/TheAristocats'' is a stray cat who helps a pedigree pet molly cat and her kittens get back home. In the end, he ends up being taken in as well.



* In ''Literature/WhiteFang'', Fang is born in the wild to a wolfdog that had turned stray. He's later adopted by his mother's owner, though he doesn't really become a "pet" until the end of the book when he finally knows the love of a kind master.

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* In ''Literature/WhiteFang'', White Fang is born in the wild to a wolfdog wolf-dog that had turned stray.run away and mated with a wolf. He's later adopted by his mother's owner, though he doesn't really become a "pet" until the end of the book when he finally knows the love of a kind master.
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* ''VideoGame/GothamKnights'' has a stray cat manage to get past all of the security of the Belfry (the Knights' secret lair), with the Knights deciding to keep him, buying cat food and (eventually, though the subtitles name him that even beforehand) naming him Cisco.

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* ''VideoGame/GothamKnights'' ''VideoGame/GothamKnights2022'' has a stray cat manage to get past all of the security of the Belfry (the Knights' secret lair), with the Knights deciding to keep him, buying cat food and (eventually, though the subtitles name him that even beforehand) naming him Cisco.



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* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'': The more pet-like Pokemon can come off as adopted pets, but almost none as strongly as Litten. It was rather fierce toward Ash (and pretty much everyone but Moani the fruit stand owner), not wanting to leave its surrogate Stoutland parent. Once the elderly dog died and the kitten had a day to work through its grief, it accepted Ash's offer to be "adopted" into his team.

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* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'': ''Anime/PokemonTheSeriesSunAndMoon'': The more pet-like Pokemon can come off as adopted pets, but almost none as strongly as Litten. It was rather fierce toward Ash (and pretty much everyone but Moani the fruit stand owner), not wanting to leave its surrogate Stoutland parent. Once the elderly dog died and the kitten had a day to work through its grief, it accepted Ash's offer to be "adopted" into his team.

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