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Cosmo the Christmas Miracle
Cosmo came into our lives in the fall of 2011. His owners were moving and had just decided to “leave him behind.” According to the owner,...
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Rescue Stories - Take a Chance (Part 3)
And his story continues.... One evening we found Chance sitting in his litter box crying. This is never a good thing, and it can indicate...
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Rescue Stories - A Second Chance for Snoopy
I was standing on top of a five foot tall berm of composting horse poop trying to decide if it had “cooked” enough to put in my raised...
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Rescue Stories - Take a Chance (Part 2)
Chance survived his initial ordeal and was discharged from the hospital. He was in such a weakened state we did not want to put him in a...
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Rescue Stories - Take a Chance (Part 1)
I stood staring at the small kitten on the table in front of me while I held the tube near his face. Oxygen was flowing, but he didn’t...
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Rescue Stories: Pretty Paddy
Paddy started out as a neighborhood cat. No one knew where he came from, but he was a young adult, and pretty friendly, when he showed...
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Rainbow Bridge Stories - Joey
Joey came into our lives from another rescue as a completely unrepentant feral cat: ears flat back, hissing, spitting, swatting. Joey was...
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Rainbow Bridge Stories - Valarie
This is going to start out sounding like a sad post, but it really isn't. We unexpectedly said good-bye to a little brown tabby cat we...
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Rescue Stories - Saving Sophie
Sophie’s mother, Lily, brought Sophie to my neighbor Bob’s house because Sophie was dying. Her mother had done all she could for her, but...
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Beautiful Blaze
Sweet, mellow Blaze got a rough start in life and it took a lot of ups and downs before she got her happy ending. We persisted and so did...
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Lola and Honey Find a Forever Home
This lovely lady is Lola, she turned up on the doorstep of one of our fosterers about 10 years ago. She was a little skinny, a little...
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Meet Miss Moffett
Miss Moffett’s story started on one very unlucky night 8 years ago when she was hit by a car. She was tiny – about 4 months old – so it...
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Rescue Stories - Heavenly Halo
The little black/white kitty glowering at the camera is Halo. Was Halo. She crossed the Rainbow Bridge June 2, 2015, but she still has a...
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Rainbow Bridge Stories - Rocky
Six years ago today, we said goodbye to Rocky. A year earlier he had appeared as a sick feral cat in someone’s yard. She called a local...
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Senior Spotlight - Princess Athena
Athena is a beautiful, long-haired black cat who came to Helen’s Haven later in life. She was the well-loved princess of a very caring...
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Beloved Maggie
I post pictures of Maggie and refer to her often. Some of you knew her personally, but most did not. Maggie aka The Beautiful Maggie aka...
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A Happy Ending for Zoey
Zoey had a sister, Molly, and a human mom who loved them very much. But, when they were in mid-life, their mom's circumstances changed,...
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Senior Spotlight - Mellow Mia
This sweet girl was adopted out of a local shelter 13 years ago when she was a baby. The shelters (and rescues) hope they are going in to...
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Rescue Stories - Kayla's Chance
Kayla was a little feral calico cat living in our neighborhood. Someone had trapped her and had her spayed - the little "v" notched into...
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Kitten Season (Part 1)
We pulled Miss Kitty from a "shelter" that isn't so much a shelter as a holding area of cages for animals brought in by animal control....
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