On a rainy night in January, a cat named Atlas was meowing and crying at the door inside his house in Hawaii. The cat's owner, Sam Christie, figured that a stray animal was around — this is what Atlas did whenever he sensed another cat.

"It was super rainy and the roads were flooding a little bit," Christie told The Dodo. "I thought I heard a kitten meowing outside, so I put on some shoes and got a flashlight, and I crossed the street and started looking."

It turns out, Atlas had been right. In a field of thick, tall grass, Christie found a tiny, sopping wet kitten, who was only about 7 weeks old.

"I reached for her, and she just let me pick her right up, and she never hissed or anything," Christie said. "She seemed really happy to be with another somebody. So I just brought her back to my house across the street and started getting her cleaned up."

Though Atlas alerted Christie about the kitten, the cat initially wasn't too sure about having a kitten around.

"I just brought her into the house and held her up to Atlas, and he was just like, ‘What the hell is that?'" Christie said.

But it didn't take long for Atlas to relax around the kitten, named Nell, and adopt her as his own.