RAPS Cat Sanctuary » 2009

Greyson is a recent arrival at the shelter. Gaye, one of our animal care workers, brought him in at the beginning of...

Mario is a “cat magnet” according to the RAPS sanctuary website… and just about everybody else. Fittingly, his feature in The Love Blog is...

Emmy gets her name from her beautiful emerald eyes. She’s a friendly cat of the kind who’s difficult to photograph on account...

Leonard: our resident “hug muffin.” A story from Leslie (first published in The Love Blog in July 2009): “A favorite sanctuary cat, Leonard, is...

I’ve written about FIV cats Hubert, Fergus and Annie. With Fergus, I noted that to look at him, you’d never know there was anything wrong with...

At the sanctuary can be found friendly tame cats, skittish feral cats, tame cats who occasionally forget they’re supposed to like humans...

I have two contradictory first impressions of Baby, one audio and one visual, that stick with me even now. 1 – Ann’s...

I used to joke about writing a book called Cats Who Stare and People Who Love Them… Vita would be the ideal poster...

Pearl is a recent addition to the sanctuary. The words “a sweet, starved young adult” written on the sign outside her cage...

November 2009