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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.

11/22/2025

What started as a simple day of running errands with a friend turned into something much bigger. We swung by the dump to toss some trash, and while we were there, I handed off some extra colony-kitty food to the kind gentlemen who care for the many cats that call the Racetrack Site home. That’s when they introduced me to Daytona and Bristol.

These two tiny beans had just opened their eyes, barely two weeks old, sick, and far too young to be without their mama. Every few days I went back to medicate their little eyes, hoping to save Bristol’s, because her URI was rough in those early days. Then a brutal heat wave hit, temps soaring over 100°F, and I couldn’t shake the worry for their safety. At about four weeks old, I finally took them into care.

They quickly became my most difficult bottle-babies to wean (send thoughts and prayers for my lost sleep 😅)… but every exhausted hour was so worth it. My Race Track Twins grew into bratty, hilarious, healthy teen kittens who have completely stolen my heart.

Today, they moved to their temporary foster to finish healing from their alters, and soon they’ll be ready for their next chapter. Daytona and Bristol will be available at at the beginning of December, just in time to find their very own holiday miracle.

Let’s get these precious babies a furever home this Christmas 🥹🎄❤️

11/21/2025

📻 I’m breaking the radio silence…

2025 has taken absolutely everything out of me. The kind of “tired” I’m feeling is soul-deep. Rescue has a way of knocking you down while you’re already on your knees, and these last few months have felt exactly like that. I’ve been crawling, just barely clinging on by my fingertips. I bit off far more than I can chew, and it nearly swallowed me whole.

The losses we’ve faced this year, within the rescue, my personal fosters, and my own family have been nothing short of devastating. I’ve questioned whether I can keep going more times than I’d ever admit out loud. But then I hear Shaun’s steady voice: “This is your dream. You are doing great work. This is what we do. We’re going to get through this.” And I see that little girl who once dreamt of being right here in these shoes, surrounded by rescues. That’s what has kept me showing up.

I’ve gone quiet these last few months as I've grieved those we lost and poured myself into those still fighting. Every waking moment has been cleaning, medicating, and intensively caring for the seven foster cats in our home. We’re finally closing in on the end of treatment. The Racetrack Twins, my tiny bottle babies from the end of the first wave of kittens this year, are heading to their temp foster tomorrow while they wait for their spot at the Cat Cafe. Figgy, Nubby, and Raisin are officially moving out of quarantine and are now adoptable 🥳! And while Ody still has a few hurdles, we’re getting there. Little by little, we’re trying to land back on our feet and find a new sense of normal. Baby steps...

Thank you, for carrying me through a season I wasn't sure I'd survive. I'm walking back into this fight with a bruised heart, but I'm not giving up. Not on myself, and certainly not on them 🤍🐾.

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