Vincent’s medical debt has been reduced to $4,200 as of 22 May, but more help is needed. Choose one of 4 ways to help! Please click here or on the donate button.
We wish to thank Union Pacific, the El Paso Community Foundation and Amazon for the opportunity to apply for grants to aid our kitties!😸😸
Kitties need help year round. Can you plan to make a donation? We would appreciate your help and support!!
Kitten season is upon us. Have all your community cats been spayed or neutered? Contact Sun City Cats for assistance with your community cats
Skip to content
Mandarin's Retreat

Mandarin's Retreat

A Home for Wonky Cats

  • Home
  • Donate!
  • About Us
    • Blog
    • Mandarin
    • Mandarin Answers Questions
    • Shelter Statistics
    • Legal Documents & Stuff
  • Cat Galleries
  • Friends of Mandarin
  • Contact Us
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • BlueSky

Category Archives: Vet Care

Saturday Musings

It’s been a busy and frustrating week, with some successes and failures. Biggest frustration was being bounced off the DAFDay website and having no idea as to why. It’s all fixed now, but man. Sometimes it feels as if we’re just floundering around in this fund raising effort. I sat in on a marketing webinarContinue reading “Saturday Musings”

Posted byBuck HamiltonOctober 12, 2024April 20, 2025Posted inCaturday Feature, Thoughts and musings, Vet Care

Update on Stella

It’s been awhile since we’ve discussed Stella. As you may remember, Stella came to us with an inflamed, swollen nose, thought to be cancerous and a large polyp in her left ear. She was bedraggled, skeletal and listless. We sent her off to the vet, then arranged for an operation and a couple of biopsies.Continue reading “Update on Stella”

Posted byBuck HamiltonOctober 4, 2024April 20, 2025Posted inCat Pictures, Cat Stories, Caturday Feature, Vet Care

Temp Gallery

We’re trying to post gallery pictures of our cats in different situations, but have been running into roadblocks (or gallery blocks). Below is a draft of our Cats in Treatment gallery. This will be an active gallery as cats will move into or out of treatment. Please give us a shout on social media aboutContinue reading “Temp Gallery”

Posted byBuck HamiltonSeptember 13, 2024April 20, 2025Posted inCat Pictures, Vet CareTags:rescue

Much Going On

Before getting into the meat of my blog, I would like to give a big shout out to Steve for his donation to our “Keeping Promises” campaign to cover the vet bills of our cats. Steve found us via Reddit, which is a first for us. We had a nice exchange of emails and IContinue reading “Much Going On”

Posted byBuck HamiltonAugust 27, 2024April 20, 2025Posted inCat Stories, Odds & Ends, Vet Care

Good News about Stella

Last week I mentioned that Stella was a very sick kitty who everyone thought had one or two types of cancer. She didn’t have a very good prognosis. Her little nose was swollen, inflamed and was missing fur across the bridge. She had a tumor in her left ear which indicated a very complicated andContinue reading “Good News about Stella”

Posted byBuck HamiltonAugust 14, 2024April 20, 2025Posted inSick Kitties, Vet CareTags:funding, rescue

Posts pagination

Newer posts 1 2 3 Older posts
Mandarin's Retreat, proudly powered by WordPress.