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01/27/2026

✨ The Cat Distribution System Strikes Again ✨
Please help us welcome Ody home… for good ❤️🏡

Found downtown surviving out of trash cans, Ody fought his way through illness, injuries, and a long road to healing. From the very beginning, he reminded me so much of our beloved Puddin, I knew our paths crossed for a reason.

Like his namesake Odysseus, Ody faced many trials on his journey home. Ringworm. UTIs. Big adjustments. And even a foster move that showed us one important truth…

Home isn’t a place. It’s where you feel safe. 💙

Ody thrives with his catio and his family. The moment he came back, he knew, this is where he belongs.

Sometimes you have to let them go… and trust they’ll find their way back. 🐾

Welcome home forever, sweet boy. 🏡✨

01/14/2026

Sawyer is the most thankful boy to be alive. He is just happy to be with his humans, play with stuffies, and go for car rides. His initial vetting will be complete 1/22. is still looking for a local committed foster to see him through his heartworm treatment and get him prepped for adoption.

✅️ Dogs
✅️ Housebroken
✅️ Making strides with crate training
✅️ Knows some basics
🚫 No cats
🚫 No small children due to puppy mouthing and jumping

12/21/2025

2025 wasn’t the year we expected. It took turns we never saw coming and brought losses we’re still learning how to carry. Some days changed us forever, leaving behind grief, doubts, and a quiet ache, but also a deeper understanding of love, resilience, and what it truly means to keep going.

12/13/2025

This is Mouse's first Christmas as a house cat 🥹❤️. Merry merry pretty girl 🎄.

One of my colony kitties who chose to befriend her humans. Mouse was adopted by my MIL and is the happiest quirky girl. It warms my heart to see her safe, loved, and warm this Christmas.

12/04/2025

I'd just walked out of the euthanasia room after saying goodbye to our old man Kringle. I'd had zero time to put myself back together and was not ready to welcome another. But when the text came through that this kitten had a treatable URI and they were looking at euthanasia due to the risk of disease spread and the fact she was not eating, I couldn't turn away. She hadn't even had a chance to live. So we turned around, scooped up this pitiful, little, pruny, sick thing and got her admitted to the same office where our boy had just crossed the bridge. Walking back in there so soon tore off a pretty fresh scab but sweet Raisin needed the best care and that is exactly what she got.

Soon after she came home with me where she initially wouldn't eat a thing unless she was being cradled and hand fed 😆. Once she met the other cats we quickly became chopped liver. Raisin is a cats, cat through and through. She loves being with her friends and loves to play, but can play hard to get with humans. Once you've got her, though, she is all love. She's just a bit shy.

Thank you for giving this girl the chance at furever she so deserves after all she's endured in her short time. Here's to new beginnings my little Raisin 🐾❤️.

12/01/2025

I brought my handsome Nub Butts back to the shelter this afternoon to increase his chances of adoption and not even 2 hours later he went home 🥹❤️. Congratulations my sweet boy! I hope you're spoiled rotten.

11/27/2025

Today, and every day, I’m most grateful for the one behind the scenes. The one who works countless hours to support us and this impossible mission.
For the one who comes home exhausted but still helps me tend to all the chaos: cleaning, bottle-feeding, treating wounds, giving meds, and driving endless miles to get animals to safety, even on Thanksgiving Eve.

For the one who builds the cat enclosures on unrealistic timelines, even when our personal life feels crippling. The one who says “not one more,” yet is always the first to lift me back up when I’ve taken on too much, whispering encouragement, reminding me that we’ll get through it together.

“Thank you” will never feel like enough. ❤️

11/26/2025

The babies are LOVING the new cat house 😍. We are missing one. In true Raisin fashion she has found a new hidey hole 😂. We'll share her glow up soon.

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