RAPS Cat Sanctuary

This is RAPS’ 25th year of saving and improving the lives of animals. RAPS began (as Richmond Homeless Cats), in 1995, with...

More than half of our Sanctuary cats have come in as ferals. Feral cats are those born wild, or living wild from...

November is National Diabetes Month – and not just for humans, but also for pets as well. Just as in humans, cats...

Hillie was featured in a blog a couple of years ago, but her circumstances have changed, and I decided it was worth reintroducing her,...

With the summer heat also comes a regular phenomenon at the Cat Sanctuary – lots of hair! Volunteers regularly spend extra time...

Just as a cat’s coat pattern and colour is dictated by genetics (see here and here) so also is eye colour. Most kittens are born...

One of the questions often asked by Sunday visitors is “Who chooses the cats’ names?” Usually the answer to that is that...

Every new cat in the Sanctuary is spayed or neutered (speutered) before being released into the general population. There will be no...

When I take visitors round on a Sunday, I always stop at the back feral pen and introduce them to Dell. He’s been featured...

The majority of the cats we have at the Sanctuary are ferals, coming to us from having been living wild, or born...

Dell