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Shailene Woodley recalls how adopting her first cat changed her life in an exclusive interview with PEOPLE

The actress rescued the feline, named Kitten, when she was 16 and starring in The Secret Life of the American Teenager

"Having the responsibility of her and her alone ... it felt like an entrance into adulthood," Woodley says

Shailene Woodley 's love of being a cat mom began when she was a teenager.

The actress, 33, who recently partnered with Mars and Calm to raise awareness for pet adoption for Global Adoption Weekend, rescued her first shelter cat in the late 2000s.

"Her name was Kitten. She was a little black cat that was teeny tiny when I got her, and then as she got older, I just kept the name," Woodley tells PEOPLE in an exclusive interview.

"I

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