8-5-2017
We are sorry we have been absent for the last 2 months, life kept
happening. We hope you will accept our apology!
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Thank you to all the wonderful people who have come to our
open houses to visit with the cats!
Meet Amy, Jane & Sarah
These 3 wonderful ladies came to visit and help for a week! We have
a guest house available for out of town people wanting to come visit
and help :) We loved having them visit and are so grateful for all
the help they gave us!!
I asked them to write an article for you about their visit. We hope you enjoy!
This is our 2nd visit to BCR. I wanted to come back again because I love these
cats! There's no better feeling in the world than walking in to a room and all
the sweet little faces run over to greet you. The cats love to sit with you and
petting them is very relaxing, instantly making you forget about all going on
in the world today. Alana and all the wonderful staff are very welcoming and
I enjoyed talking with them.
Conveniently we stayed at the guest house on site which was really nice
because we were able to walk back there whenever we wanted. There was
plenty of room for the 3 of us with 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2 living rooms
and a kitchen. It was so much more convenient than driving back and forth
to a motel.
I was glad to be able to help out cleaning the rooms, doing chat and boxes, and
even got to do a few live tours on Facebook. Although there is a lot of cleaning
to be done you leave feeling like you have accomplished something and helped
out the beautiful kitties. In the afternoon we went room to room and sat with
all the cats and brushed and played with them and of course take lots of pictures.
I've never seen such friendly cats anywhere.
I came with a goal of petting the elusive Cassie and Liza, and did get to pet
Cassie, but not Liza. I did get fairly close to Liza, she had a least one eye on
me the whole time, but not close enough pet her. I also got kisses from Ella
which was very special too while also spending time with my favorite cats, all
90 of them. I was also glad to meet the new cats that were added since our last
visit and spend sometime with Colonel before he passed.
I want to thank Alana for opening up this opportunity for us to come and visit
and be able to spend time with the cats. I have learned so much more about
cats from Alana, especially regarding FELV+ and FIV+ cats. We were
glad to be able to spend our vacation at BCR and help out with what we could.
There is no better place for a crazy cat lady to be!
This one is from Jane.
I came to BCR last year for a vacation/trip to the beach. The guesthouse was
a pleasant surprise, roomy with modern conveniences (2 coffee pots).
You are welcome to stay at the guest house in exchange for volunteering at BCR.
We usually started around 8:15 am and worked until around 11 am. The work
consisted of wiping down the kuranda's, shoveling litter boxes, sweeping
and mopping the floors inside and out. All the while you are working among a
room full of kitties who sometimes look like they are inspecting how well you clean!
Speaking of clean, Alana and company keep the place ship shape. There are full
time and part time employees and a few volunteers. The first few days we
volunteered the helpful staff supplied us with guidance to what needs to be done.
The afternoon and rest of the night is yours to just relax with the kitties and
join in with chat and boxes.
If you need a break from life in general, BCR is a great place to be. The blind
cats are amazing and seem to have super spidey senses. You sit in the
middle of the floor and soon you will have several kitties all you. Cats have been
proven to lower blood pressure and seem to know how you are feeling. They
seem to love unconditionally.
This is from Amy:
Dan, Suzanne, Dawn, Seth, Fiona and Katherine came for open house
and held a special dance party fund raiser. They raised $1275
for the cats!! Thank you guys so much for your hard work!!
Thank you so much to everyone who donated to help!!
Good bye to our loved ones
It has been a rough 2 months, we have said good
bye to many loved ones.
Colonel - 6/15/2017 died of FIP
Crystal 7/13/2017 died of FIP
Callie - 7/20/17 Cancer tumor
Sylvester 7/20/17 Leukemia
Keller - 7/21/2017 Kidney disease & old age illnesses
Please Rate us
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help us be awarded a third year in a row? Just takes
a minute :) For you that have already rated us, Thank
you so much!!
We have welcomed new family members
Andy when he first arrived - FELV+
He came to us after being rescued from living on
the streets starving and injured. He is healing
and loving having plenty of food and a soft bed
to lay in. A super nice fellow!
Came to us as a stray rescued off of the streets.
The vets office he was taken to wanted to euthanize
him because he is a positive kitty. He is super
sweet and very grateful to be alive. You help
make that possible!!
Rescued from living on the streets. Was almost
euthanized for a lack of rescue for him. We are
happy we were able to help him. You won’t find
a nicer cat. Super sweet fellow. Very grateful
to be safe.
Rescued from starving under a parking garage.
They are fun crazy kitties.
Thank you to everyone who donated their paw points!
You helped earned another free pallet of litter for the
cats!! Isn’t that pawsome?? We use 60-70 boxes
of litter every single month! We are very grateful
for your generosity!
If you do not use your points, please consider donating
them to the blind cats. Freshstep lets us cash the
points in for a free pallet of litter! We use over 60 boxes
each month. A pallet is $1000 we can use for the cats!
Link to donate points ==> http://ow.ly/lPoF302ojhP
or you can just email them to me :) alana@blindcatrescue.com
Thank you for your generosity!
We have a heck of a time with kitties developing hyperthyroid!
Jewell was recently treated as were Keller, Ginny and Manxi.
Mandy wrote a wonderful article on it that you will find posted
on our blog.
You may read it here.
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Thank you so much to our wonderful
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your auctions so generously with the cats!!!
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