RAPS Cat Sanctuary

Back Courtyard Adoptables

05 Sep 2024

Many of our weekend visitors walk into the Sanctuary with the expectation that they will be petting cats, and are surprised by how many cats don’t want to be petted. For cat-savvy people, of course,...

Higgins

29 Aug 2024

Those of us who are involved in Sanctuary work find it hard to understand how people can just dump their cats, or let them out and not search when they disappear. Recent “dumpees” have been...

Trooper

19 Aug 2024

This week’s blog is brought to you by Sanctuary volunteer Brit Burant. Brit has been volunteering since Oct 2021 in the New Aids area. Friday evenings with the cats and other volunteers is her favourite...

rrrrrrrRoot Beer!

14 Aug 2024

At the Sanctuary we have our share of cats who prefer not to interact with other felines – mostly the ones I call the Garbo cats (“I vant to be alone….) This boy takes the...

Mindfulness in Motion

07 Aug 2024

This week’s blog comes to you from volunteer Laura Funay, who is one of our devoted Kitty Comforters. Every so often, an acquaintance will ask me: “ooh, what did you do to your hands?” If...

Ten Years of Blogging

31 Jul 2024

After establishing the Neko Blog in 2009, and giving us a wealth of wonderful photos and stories about the Sanctuary inhabitants, blog founder Claire Fossey was getting swamped at work, and finding that the blog...

Three Little Maids

24 Jul 2024

Although we continue to get single cats arriving into our care, we are one of the few rescues around that can take in a group of cats together. Many of the small rescues doing excellent...

Quiet Days in the Leukemia Pen

17 Jul 2024

Looking back over fourteen volunteer years, it’s interesting to recall how the numbers of FeLV (feline leukemia) and FIV (feline AIDS) cats has fluctuated. We’ve always had space for both sorts of residents, but at...

Sanctuary Salon

09 Jul 2024

Cats are often characterized as being very clean – constantly attending to their own grooming, and occasionally sharing grooming with others. That being so, you’d think there wouldn’t be much for humans to do, to...

Jelly

04 Jul 2024

The life of a cat living in the wild is often a short one, with dangers from the natural world and from humans. Even living in the cat pens with us, injuries can happen –...

DoubleWide Divas – Act 2

26 Jun 2024

It’s interesting how specific areas of the Sanctuary develop concentrations of specific personalities. I don’t think there’s any other area where there are so many temperamental cats – and of course their temperamental outbursts feed...

DoubleWide Divas – Act 1

17 Jun 2024

The DoubleWide trailer is the practical HQ for the Sanctuary, being the centre of the med-staff’s activities and one of the two laundry areas. On Saturdays and Sundays, when we have visitors on site, the...

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