Rather than post a Caturday Cat this morning, I thought I would catch everyone up on the happenings around Mandarin’s Retreat. The Retreat has had to spend a bunch of money – into four figures – fixing the HVAC system in the Retreat’s Office. We remodeled our back porch into a home office and ITContinue reading “Odds, Ends & Asking for Help”
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Good Golly Miss Molly!
Today’s Caturday Cat is Miss Molly. She is a calico beauty who believes at Saturdays are only for petty kitties (her) and not for doing anythings except filling the food and water bowls and emptying the litter boxes. Molly came to the Retreat as a kitten who was found by a member of Sun CityContinue reading “Good Golly Miss Molly!”
Caturday’s Cat
This Caterday the Retreat would like to highlight Ms Katie who is one of the five Feline Leukemia (FeLV) positive cats who reside with us. Katie with her sister Alicia and her two brothers James and Quasar share a room with a FeLV+ transplant from Atlanta Little Miss Gray. Katie and her siblings were bornContinue reading “Caturday’s Cat”
Joys and Sorrows
Running a rescue is strange at times. We’ve had births and deaths, sickness and recovery along with just anger and pain. Mandarin’s Retreat is primarily a home for sick and hurt cats, but we try to branch out when we have the space. One of those branches is to be a temporary refuge for theContinue reading “Joys and Sorrows”
Saying Goodbye
On Tuesday 29 April we said goodbye to our VP of Operations, Winston. He was just 5 1/2 years old. He came to us at the request of our vet. He’d been dropped off without a word at the vets door, left to fend for himself through a cold, rainy night. He required bottle feedingContinue reading “Saying Goodbye”