Rescue Story: Mimi This Morning
On March 25, 2011, I fell in love. Or I realized I had fallen in love long before. Probably the
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March Great Rescue and Commissioned Portrait: Holly on the Rocker
A LITTLE WHITE LIE is sometimes what it takes to save an animal from a bad situation. Well, that and
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Take It From The Cat Herself: Mimi’s 30 Reasons to Spay Your Cat (and Neuter Guys Too)
While this isn’t technically a rescue story I’ve personally rescued dozens of kittens from oops litters and their moms. Mimi
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Rescue Story: Blue’s Happy Ending, 2016
This story is from a decade ago this month. I’ve been sorting through the rescue stories I’ve published here, thinking
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Rescue Story: Cast Away, an Unwanted Kitten, and Our Expectations
Sasha’s rescue story begins in January 1997, before many of the changes in animal rescue that largely began in the
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The Unintended Gift: A Kitten in a Box Under the Tree in 1970, and Where He Led Me
Now it’s time for my own rescue story, my first cat*, how I came to fill my life with cats
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Rescue Story: My Spare Tortie, Sienna
Sienna was a TNR kitty who turned out to be socialized though she did not make eye contact, ran when
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Rescue Story: A Little Tortie Kitten Who Became Cookie
ON DECEMBER 6, 1992, during a heavy storm of snow and ice, a little neighbor boy brought me a kitten
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Rescue Story: A Tiny Frightened “Unadoptable” Kitten…Who Grew Up to be Basil
As part of celebrating Basil this week to soften the memory of the first symptoms of his bladder condition last
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Autumn Refresh for Community Cats’ Shelters and Routines
Sometimes we have warm sunny days at Thanksgiving, and sometimes a snowstorm for Halloween. It’s never predictable day to day,
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