-Both of my parents cats when I lived at home were strays.
-Our current dog is a rescue from a kill shelter, he was the last left in his entire family that had been abandoned in his previous owners backyard.
-I found my current cat's mom on the campus of my University...I took her to the vet because she was pregnant and the vet offered to take her until she had the kittens. He fell in love with her, kept her and I took one of her kittens and the others were adopted out to good homes.
-I ounce found a baby squirrel that had fallen out of its nest on a biking trail and tracked down a woman who raised squirrels and took it to her.