My current research focuses on informal stray cat care in the UAE as a site for human-nonhuman kinship as well as the production of social networks and political subjectivity across usually rigid class, race, and nationality lines. A small country with densely populated as well as rapidly modernizing cities like Dubai and Abu Dhabi, urban geographies in the UAE are constantly shifting, as are the circumstances of nonhuman urban dwellers, particularly cats. In the absence of a robust animal welfare infrastructure, informal social media groups on Facebook, WhatApp, and other platforms have become the sites for residents to share information about animals in need, look for fosters and adopters, and ask for financial support and advice. This paper considers the way meanings around human, animal, race, class, and urban belonging are produced and contested within these animal rescue and welfare social media groups. Since the Covid-19 pandemic began, many immigrants in the UAE have been losing their jobs, which means they also no longer have the right to reside in the country and must go home. As human conditions have become more precarious, so have those of their companion animals—abandonments are at an all-time high because many cannot afford to travel home with their pets. Often, desperate people will come onto these online communities asking for help in relocating with their pet(s), saying that if they are unable to pay the high costs associated with relocation, they will have no choice but to abandon them. The conversations that ensue on these posts are sometimes supportive but mostly rife with judgments about how one should never have adopted in the first place if they were not going to provide a forever home. As it is mostly low-wage immigrants from Asia and Africa that have high job insecurity, these conversations can become laden with racialized and classed comments. I examine some of these conversations in this article, and argue that they are cites in which existing racial hierarchies and class differences in the UAE are rehearsed, through racialized understandings of how different groups treat animals, understandings that are rooted in colonial discourses around animal care. However, these boards can also be spaces of sociality, sometimes cutting across offline geographic and racial segregations. For immigrants in particular, social media groups are spaces to forge community and new forms of urban belonging through shared kinship experiences with nonhumans.