sweet Kalista

Holiday Greetings

an affectionate bunch

- chika
- Kalista
- Mishka
- Meggie

Chika

you can't tell from this photo how sweat I am. I love to be held and pet and give lots of head butts. Make sure you have a book at hand before you hold me, because once in your arms, I won't let go!

Black cat event!

a special adoption event - just for black kitties was held at the Kitten Rescue venues through out LA. Here is a scene from Pasadena Petco.

Mishka and Meggie

Kalista and her biscuits

I love making them!

Coco adopted!

I've had a lot of visitors interested in me. But I am finally at a new home!

Kalista

I was on death row in one of the LA city shelter until I was saved after the Best Friends event. I was under observation for 2 weeks at the Kitten rescue sanctuary and now I am here! i am a really sweat dilute calico

Coco

Meggie and Mishka

Coco being Coco

lets stay warm..

Mishka and Meggie bunched up

Meggie

I squeak instead of meow, and love to make biscuits on your lap and neck

Best Friends LA Adoption Event

Best Friends Animal Society (base in Utah) hosts a super pet adoption event every year at the La Brea Tar pits. Kitten Rescue along with other organizations and city shelter participates. It is a very successful event where a lot of animals find a home. But unfortunately many will not, and the left over cats from all city shelters will be euthenised after this event. So at the end of the day, all private no kill organization will each take how ever many kitties they can handle to make sure not a single cat goes back to the shelter. This year Kitten Rescue took in 9 adult cats and I heard every cat was saved.
We had a section of the Sanctuary isolated from the general population set up and ready to take them in. After a long day, they arrived on one of our volunteer's car. We matched the paper work with the inpound numbers marked on the carrier boxes. One at a time, we opened the box and awwed at the kitty that popped his/her head out (like opening a Christmas gift). Each got their deworming, flea treatment and vaccination and weight. Once everything was done, they were put in their own enclosure. I don't think they knew that today was their lucky day. and that even though it looks just like the enclosure they were in at the shelters, they are no longer on death row and now have a brigher future ahead.

Here is the link to the event
http://blogs.bestfriends.org/index.php/2010/11/09/los-angeles-super-adoption-brings-the-love/

and a video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhORTg_RHhA

Mishca and Meggie

Welcome Coco

Sanctuary project phase 2

This weekend, we painted the walls. With the help of a group of USC students and several KR volunteers, the work got done pretty smoothly.

This is the "before" shot where the walls had primer on from last week.

And when all was done, here is how the kitchen area looks.

still a lot more work left to do, but things are getting done one at a time!

Dexter

I got the urn I ordered for Dexter this past weekend. It's cute! If you are looking for something other than your typical vase or box with a picture frame, check out Alex's custom pet urns at http://www.custompeturns.com. She welded the name on the back.

Sanctuary project phase 1

We have a lot of projects planned to fix up the Sanctuary. The walls of the kitchen and adjacent laundry room will be painted. Today we tackle prepping the walls. First we had to herd all the kitties out of the room. Then we scrubbed and cleaned the walls and eventually 2 coats of primer was applied.

You're so used to it that you don't realize how dull the walls were. With the white primer, the room looked so clean and bright.

While we were at it, some of us stayed and deep cleaned the floors and provided fresh bedding for the kids. Haddi was the first to dart back into the Kitchen

Dexter

Dexter used up all his 9 lives on 10/18.  We will still be best buddies. 

Candy to Petco

snowball still chillin

Sabbath back to Sanctuary

for my own good, I am going to go hide during Halloween season.

prepping for a meeting

getting ready for a meeting at the sanctuary - all seats taken!

KR president Ben is flanked by Haddi and Dexter

Snowball chillin

tortie sis

I am Mishka

and I am Meggie

new family

a very lucky family was rescued from the shelter. A mom who is barely 1 year old, and her 5 prefect orange babies

watcha doin Dexter?

waiting for dinner off course

snowball back in the house

Honey Pie done with tour of duty

i am going back to the Sanctuary. I've been here for 2 month - had a lot of admirers, but no one serious enough to adopt me. Oh, well.. I tried.

meggie and mishka

Sabbath

Honey Pie

redman at the Sanctuary

Enjoying the evening breeze

the black cat meeting

at the Kitten Rescue Sanctuary, there is a secret club - the "black cat alliance". They hold meetings at the kitchen area and the date/times of the meetings are disclosed through self destructing memos hidden inside pill pockets. You must be all black to be eligible to join, but they might make and exception if you are a tux who has connections to humans with access to food. Can you spot Izzy who is spying in this meeting?

Munchie

so so so scared about this place. and I am so so so depressed about being abandoned from my dad.

RIP Jack

Sweet little Jack passed away today. He was a Leukemia positive kitty that lived at the Kitten Rescue Sanctuary. He had many health issues and went in and out of isolation many times, but always pulled through. He was loved by a dedicated KR volunteer who visited him all the time and spent time together in the sun. We will miss you