My Dear Supporters:
20 years ago Blind Cat Rescue was started as a dream to help Blind Cats. Over the years, because
of your love and support, thousands of blind cats have been saved, tens of thousands of people have
been educated about blind cats and many people have given blind cats a home.
A few years later, we added helping FIV- and leukemia-positive cats because they are euthanized
so quickly by rescues and at shelters and vet offices. Now, because of you, many are given another
chance at life. Other shelters are also helping them and cat's lives are being saved.
5 years ago, because of your love and support, we started a spay/neuter program to help homeless
community cats. We are fixing large colonies that are being fed but not fixed (think, Grannie is feeding
all the strays but they keep reproducing). We have fixed more than 12,000 cats in the past 5 years,
preventing tens of thousands of homeless babies from being born. Some of them would have become
blind from untreated infections, some would be born to leukemia-positive and FIV-positive moms, and
many starve, die of sickness, or are run over by cars. Your help has saved a lot of lives!
Thank you so much for always being there for the cats! You have held our hands and cried with
us when a cat passes away, you have laughed in joy at watching them grow up. You have voted, you
have shared, you have donated, and you have visited and played with them and helped clean, You have
always been there for them and I am so grateful to you!
Now, 20 years later, due to my health, it is time for me to step down and retire. Blind Cat Rescue
will continue with a younger generation taking over. I will remain here until the fall to continue helping
with the transition.
Samantha Steffens has been with me for 5 years and will take over my Executive Director job.
Alyson Aguilar has been with us for more than 4 years and will be taking over as the Shelter Manager. I
know in their hands the cats and BCR will be taken care of. They have big plans and I will be excited to
see how they grow. I hope you will continue to love and support the cats and be there for them as much
as you have been for me. Again, thank you so much for all you have done for the cats. Your support
has accomplished so much and I will be forever grateful to you!
Sincerely,
Alana
Samantha:
I am honored to continue the work that began as a mother-daughter operation and has
now become a community of people who are dedicated to providing love and care for cats that
are blind, FELV, and FIV-positive. I promise to lead our mission with dedication to the cats,
supporters, and staff. We will provide utmost transparency in the care of cats, contributions
distribution, and the future of Blind Cat Rescue. In 2018, I had the chance to change my career
path and pursue my passion for caring for cats when I started working at Blind Cat Rescue as a
cat care attendant. The year before that, I was fostering cats from 4,700 miles away in Oahu,
Hawaii, and I learned about BCR through shared posts. BCR's posts educated me on the
importance of providing blind, FELV, and FIV cats with a chance at life. When my spouse and I
relocated to the Fayetteville area I was finally able to visit! I happened to stumble across a job
application and had to seize that opportunity. Caring for the cats and falling in love with every
one of them solidified my dream of where I personally needed to be. Thanks to the international
network of profound support that shares this value through BCR, I found my way to this amazing
community that has inspired me to make a difference every day.
Alyson:
Hello Blind Cat Rescue Supporters and lovers of cats alike. I just wanted to say thank
you for all of your incredible love and support since Alana and her daughter started this
sanctuary for cats deemed unadoptable. If it weren’t for you guys, the many lives that BCR has
saved and will continue to save would not exist. I also thank you guys not only for the support
but for creating this community. Blind Cat Rescue has truly become a second family to me and I
have gotten to meet genuine people and have made life-lasting relationships with them.Coming
to BCR back in July of 2019, I was blown away with this place and all that Alana had started. I
have gotten to learn and continue to learn so much about the blind, FIV, and leukemia-positive
cats. My love for and interest in this sanctuary grew daily and this job quickly turned into
something that I could see becoming much more than just a job. Taking care of so many lives is
truly rewarding and getting to love them and share them with the world is one of the most
beautiful things I’ll ever get to do during my life.Continuing what Alana started so many years
ago and reaching out and educating more and more people about blind, FIV, and leukemia-
positive cats is truly an honor. Again, you guys are amazing and I can’t wait to continue caring
for the BCR cats saving more lives!
A Special Message From Blind Cat Rescue’s Board of Directors:
Seth (President of board of Directors)
You’ve read Alana’s news and heard Sam's wonderful message. The BCR board would like to
express profound gratitude to Alana for creating this wonderful organization, for helping it grow
and thrive for 20 years, and for helping secure its future - all with your help. We’re forever
grateful to her for all the hard work, love and dedication she’s given BCR.
We are also very happy that, as Alana put it, the next generation of BCR leadership is in place.
We have great confidence in Samantha and Alyson, who have both demonstrated that they care
deeply for the cats and are wonderful leaders. Both of them have spent time with Alana learning the
many aspects of running BCR, and we are certain that they will continue BCR’s amazing work and
take the organization into the future. As a board, we’re here to assist Sam and Alyson in any
way we can and to help them keep BCR moving forward.
We realize that Alana's news may surprise many of you and we agree that this is a big change
for the BCR family! We want you to assure you that Job #1 will continue to be providing excellent
and consistent care for our resident cats so that we live up to the promise we make to them when
they arrive – that BCR is their forever home. That will never change.
We also want to assure you - the cats’ wonderful sponsors, sustainers and supporters -
that you and the cats will continue your very special relationship! The things you love and are
accustomed to seeing aren’t changing. You are the reason the BCR cats have the loving home they do
and we thank you so much for making it all happen for the past 20 years.
On behalf of all the BCR board members, we thank you for loving the BCR cats so much and for
your ongoing support for BCR, and especially for Samantha and Alyson as they take on their new roles.
Sincerely,
Seth Jason
President, BCR Board of Directors
Messages to You from Samantha and Alyson:
Samantha (Left) and Alyson (Right)
Big Changes for Blind Cat Rescue and Sanctuary, Inc
for 2024!
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Thank you to our sponsors!
We understand that this news may come as a surprise to many of you!
Please be assured that all the things you love and are used to with BCR
will still be here. That includes our care for the cats, live tours, our
social media posts, Open Houses and your visits! We promise to carry
on Alana’s work and vision for BCR.
Some of you may wish to honor and celebrate Alana’s
accomplishments with a donation to support BCR cats. If you’d like to
do that, just click on the pink button and we thank you.
We invite you to leave Alana a special message to show her how much
she means to the cats, BCR’s supporters and the many lives- both cats
and humans alike- that she has touched thanks to you!
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My Dear Supporters:
20 years ago Blind Cat Rescue was started as a dream to help
Blind Cats. Over the years, because of your love and support,
thousands of blind cats have been saved, tens of thousands of people
have been educated about blind cats and many people have given
blind cats a home.
A few years later, we added helping FIV- and
leukemia-positive cats because they are euthanized so quickly by
rescues and at shelters and vet offices. Now, because of you, many are
given another chance at life. Other shelters are also helping them and
cat's lives are being saved.
5 years ago, because of your love and support, we started a
spay/neuter program to help homeless community cats. We are fixing
large colonies that are being fed but not fixed (think, Grannie is
feeding all the strays but they keep reproducing). We have fixed more
than 12,000 cats in the past 5 years, preventing tens of thousands of
homeless babies from being born. Some of them would have become
blind from untreated infections, some would be born to
leukemia-positive and FIV-positive moms, and many starve, die of
sickness, or are run over by car. Your help has saved a lot of lives!
Thank you so much for always being there for the cats! You
have held our hands and cried with us when a cat passes away, you
have laughed in joy at watching them grow up. You have voted, you
have shared, you have donated, and you have visited and played with
them and helped clean, You have always been there for them and
I am so grateful to you!
Now, 20 years later, due to my health, it is time for me to step
down and retire. Blind Cat Rescue will continue with a younger
generation taking over. I will remain here until the fall to continue
helping with the transition.
Samantha Steffens has been with me for 5 years and will take
over my Executive Director job. Alyson Aguilar has been with us for
more than 4 years and will be taking over as the Shelter Manager. I
know in their hands the cats and BCR will be taken care of. They
have big plans and I will be excited to see how they grow. I hope you
will continue to love and support the cats and be there for them as
much as you have been for me. Again, thank you so much for all you
have done for the cats. Your support has accomplished so much and I
will be forever grateful to you!
Sincerely,
Alana
Samantha:
I am honored to continue the work that began as a mother-
daughter operation and has now become a community of
people who are dedicated to providing love and care for cats
that are blind, FELV, and FIV-positive. I promise to lead our
mission with dedication to the cats, supporters, and staff.
We will provide utmost transparency in the care of cats,
contributions distribution, and the future of Blind Cat Rescue.
In 2018, I had the chance to change my career path and
pursue my passion for caring for cats when I started working
at Blind Cat Rescue as a cat care attendant. The year before
that, I was fostering cats from 4,700 miles away in Oahu,
Hawaii, and I learned about BCR through shared posts.
BCR's posts educated me on the importance of providing
blind, FELV, and FIV cats with a chance at life. When my
spouse and I relocated to the Fayetteville area I was finally
able to visit! I happened to stumble across a job application
and had to seize that opportunity. Caring for the cats and
falling in love with every one of them solidified my dream of
where I personally needed to be. Thanks to the international
network of profound support that shares this value through
BCR, I found my way to this amazing community that has
inspired me to make a difference every day.
Alyson:
Hello Blind Cat Rescue Supporters and lovers of cats alike.
I just wanted to say thank you for all of your incredible love
and support since Alana and her daughter started this
sanctuary for cats deemed unadoptable. If it weren’t for you
guys, the many lives that BCR has saved and will continue to
save would not exist. I also thank you guys not only for the
support but for creating this community. Blind Cat Rescue
has truly become a second family to me and I have gotten to
meet genuine people and have made life-lasting relationships
with them. Coming to BCR back in July of 2019, I was blown
away with this place and all that Alana had started. I have
gotten to learn and continue to learn so much about the blind,
FIV, and leukemia-positive
cats. My love for and interest in this sanctuary grew daily and
this job quickly turned into something that I could see
becoming much more than just a job. Taking care of so many
lives is truly rewarding and getting to love them and share
them with the world is one of the most beautiful things I’ll
ever get to do during my life. Continuing what Alana started
so many years ago and reaching out and educating more and
more people about blind, FIV, and leukemia-positive cats is
truly an honor. Again, you guys are amazing and I can’t wait
to continue caring for the BCR cats saving more lives!
A Special Message From Blind Cat
Rescue’s Board of Directors:
Seth (President of board of Directors)
You’ve read Alana’s news and heard Sam's wonderful message.
The BCR board would like to express profound gratitude to
Alana for creating this wonderful organization, for helping it
grow and thrive for 20 years, and for helping secure its future
- all with your help. We’re forever grateful to her for all the
hard work, love and dedication she’s given BCR.
We are also very happy that, as Alana put it, the next
generation of BCR leadership is in place. We have great
confidence in Samantha and Alyson, who have both
demonstrated that they care deeply for the cats and are
wonderful leaders. Both of them have spent time with Alana
learning the many aspects of running BCR, and we are certain
that they will continue BCR’s amazing work and take the
organization into the future. As a board, we’re here to assist
Sam and Alyson in any way we can and to help them keep
BCR moving forward.
We realize that Alana's news may surprise many of you and
we agree that this is a big change
for the BCR family! We want you to assure you that Job #1
will continue to be providing excellent and consistent care for
our resident cats so that we live up to the promise we make to
them when they arrive – that BCR is their forever home.
That will never change.
We also want to assure you - the cats’ wonderful sponsors,
sustainers and supporters - that you and the cats will continue
your very special relationship! The things you love and are
accustomed to seeing aren’t changing. You are the reason the
BCR cats have the loving home they do and we thank you so
much for making it all happen for the past 20 years.
On behalf of all the BCR board members, we thank you for
loving the BCR cats so much and for your ongoing support
for BCR, and especially for Samantha and Alyson as they take
on their new roles.
Sincerely,
Seth Jason
President, BCR Board of Directors
Messages to You from
Samantha and Alyson:
Samantha (Left) and Alyson (Right)
Big Changes for
Blind Cat Rescue and Sanctuary, Inc
for 2024!
We understand that this news may come as a
surprise to many of you! Please be assured that
all the things you love and are used to with BCR
will still be here. That includes our care for the
cats, live tours, our social media posts, Open
Houses and your visits! We promise to carry on
Alana’s work and vision for BCR.
Some of you may wish to honor and celebrate
Alana’s accomplishments with a donation to
support BCR cats. If you’d like to do that, just click
on the pink button below and we thank you.
We invite you to leave Alana a special message to
show her how much she means to the cats, BCR’s
supporters and the many lives- both cats and
humans alike- that she has touched thanks to
you!
