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Garth & Sierra
It’s more than 10 years ago that the Merritt cats came to us from a cat population explosion to which many BC rescues responded. We took in about a dozen cats initially, but the stresses... Read More
Aristocracy Among Us
We have a great many cats at the Sanctuary who are senior because they have lived much of their lives with us, but most of the cats in the Moore House – also known as... Read More
Torbie Twins (not!)
Ariel and Aspen are two pretty torbie girls who came in around the same time, and could easily be mistaken for sisters, but who in fact have no blood relationship. Aspen is from a shelter in... Read More
Steady Sweetness
Huey was one of the cats I met in my early days at the Sanctuary. He had come in with his “sister” Hannah from a situation in which their owner had moved and was no... Read More
Oodles of Orange
Pen 6 has become an important area of transition at the Cat Sanctuary. It’s a fairly small pen, but right at the beginning of the back pen complex – so there is lots of activity... Read More
Hello, Cuddles
Cuddles? Is that your real name? Seasoned cat handlers always know to proceed with caution. Animals-love-me type individuals insist on reaching for petting immediately.Your sign says “surrendered for aggression”. Quite a conundrum. On first... Read More
Big, Black & Beautiful
Not long ago we opened Pen 6 to allow all the “god” cats – (Aphrodite, Atlas, Juno, Athena, Mercury) – to explore a bigger world. Many of them have relocated to Pen 1, but I now find... Read More
A Needy Friend
Zivko came to us one of a group of cats “graduated” to us from the City Shelter about six years ago. Sometimes cats don’t do well at the Shelter for one reason or another, and... Read More
Hidden Sweetness
Four years ago, we brought in a colony of ferals to into Pen 6, and named them collectively “The Candy Cats”. Some of our feral pens remain closed – pens 3 and 4 are examples... Read More