Rico’s Refuge Cat Rescue

01/13/2025

Some super duper exciting news…
🎉After over a year, Peach has been adopted!!!🎉

Peach, now Bikkit, has been settling into her new home very well! As such a shy gal while she learns to trust, she truly won the lottery with her paw-rents, and her fur-sibling, Beans 🥰
Biscuit is already exploring, taking treats from her people, and enjoying her cat TV! Thank you to her adopters, from the bottom of my heart, for adopting this former [very] spicy lady ❤️
Peep some of her cuteness below!

01/05/2025

A wee bit of a delay, but Happy Adoption to Iris, Bruce, and Nala, who all found wonderful homes 🥰 I am super grateful to their people for choosing to adopt!
We also found a wonderful barn placement for 3 of our less socialized friends. A huge thank you to C & L Farmgate for helping us over the past few years ❤️

12/22/2024

Nothing beats happy progression updates!! We’re about 50% of the way through her treatment, but look at those [functional] soulful eyes ❤️
Sandy is not out of the woods yet, but she can see again, jump and climb, and is the happiest little lady - she has even put on some weight!

12/14/2024

❄️ 367 days in care, and Lady Coconut is still waiting for her family to find her ❄️

12/14/2024

Free to Akwesasne members residing in any Akwesasne district. Winter Cat Shelter Workshop. We receive many messages from people who have been caring for cats since spring/summer. While we wish that we had an actual shelter to house all the cats, at this time we do not. This is a way to help those community cats. The next step you can do is spay and neuter them. We currently can fund 20 shelters, we are looking for a business sponsor or individuals to help pay for more shelters to be built. If we receive a donation we can have some kids come to the class and build the cat shelter as community service hours. Please message us if you can sponsor and help the rez cats of Akwesasne have a warm shelter for the winter. 🐾❤️🐈‍⬛🐾🐈
Community cats need love and compassion too! They didn’t ask to be left uncared for. Let’s do what we can to help them.
Register by email: [email protected]

12/02/2024

Happy Monday 🥳
Seven kids saw the vet today! We had one enucleation, two ears infected, and a mouth full of severe gingivitis (does this sound like a remixed Christmas jingle to anyone else lol). Can you guess who is very excited to medicate some spicy cats for the next three weeks? 😂
We are wrapping up our final colony of the year before taking a much needed break to focus on the cats in care. This has been an emotionally taxing colony, with more cats and surprises than anticipated.

A huge thank you and shoutout to the wonderful couple caring for these cats. They are dedicated to the safety and well-being of sooo many stray and unsocialized cats, and go above and beyond ensuring the cats have the finest accommodations, daily meals, love, and vetting. There are so many cats out there, and ignoring them doesn’t make the problem go away. Rescue can be straight-up depressing 😂 but we have had the privilege of meeting some truly kind, compassionate people on this journey, so thank you! ❤️
As always: please spay and neuter, and don’t ignore those without the luxury of a home!

11/27/2024

It is with great sadness I share that Riley gained his wings today. He was a sweet boy, who knew love and kindness in his final days.
Our page will remain silent for 24 hours to honour Riley’s memory. We will not respond to messages during this time.

11/25/2024

Another urgent intake. Please spay and neuter your pets, and those without homes, to help break the cycle and end the suffering 💔 We can all make a difference.

11/24/2024

🐾Help Needed🐾

6-month-old Elliott has FIP. Foster Mom came home and found him in this state after otherwise being health. He cannot see, has begun bumping into walls, and the discharge and swelling/hair loss around his eyes has gotten worse. Neurological/ocular FIP can progress very quickly, meaning treatment has to be started ASAP. Unfortunately, his sister is currently being treated for same, so the suggested diagnosis didn’t come as a surprise.
The first month of Elliott’s treatment has cost us $612. Elliott requires three months of treatment, and monthly bloodwork, which will cost us roughly $2400 when it’s all said and done.

These unexpected costs mean a substantial delay in providing vetting to colonies. I know it’s a crazy time of year, and honestly just a crazy time to be alive, but we could really use all the help we can get.
Donations can be sent to [email protected], and we would be very grateful for donations of alcohol empties. We’re also more than happy to pick-up donations as well! Every dollar makes a huge difference for us. Please share for little Elliott!

11/17/2024

Thank you so much to Angie and the whole Kibble 4 Paws team for everything they do for so many animals and organizations ❤️

11/13/2024

Happening tomorrow at 6pm at Diversity/Diversité Cornwall!

Tomorrow is our final youth yoga session and we will have KITTENS! This event will be open to 2SLGBTQ+ youth ages 8+. It is free to attend and registration is not required.

Thanks to Keep The Faith Cat Rescue for bringing the kittens for tomorrow’s yoga session, to Farhana for leading us in gentle yoga, and to MLSE Foundation for their generous support of Diversity/Diversité Cornwall youth fitness programming. We are so excited to see you tomorrow!

11/10/2024

✨Taking Applications✨

Iris is looking for her people! This confident cutie patootie is super sweet! She loves to play with her respectful dog and cat foster siblings, and enjoys a good cuddle session. Iris has a lot of energy, true to her young age, and needs lots of love and attention! She loves her toy mice, springs, and interactive butterfly toy.
Iris also has great litter habits.

Her adoption includes spay, age-appropriate vaccines, microchip, flea/tick/earmite treatment, and nail trim! Reach out via direct message, or send us an email ([email protected]), for more information!

11/07/2024

Five cats saw the vet today, including the “Winners Cat” and some colony kids. Kudos to Carrol who raised money to cover some of Winners Kitty’s vetting.
I really don’t like to ask, but need to get better at it as it all primarily comes out of my pocket, and it just isn’t sustainable anymore; we would be very grateful for any donations to help offset some of the costs we’ve accrued. We’re operating in the red, and could really use all the help we can get so we can continue supporting community cats!
E-transfer: [email protected]
Every dollar truly makes a huge difference ❤️ Thank you for sticking around with us on this journey!

11/05/2024

Two more kids off to the vet this morning!

11/02/2024

🙌✨RAISE THE WOOF✨🙌

🐾 Thank You for 15 Paw-some Years! 🐾

We’re wagging our tails with joy as we celebrate 15 incredible years of serving our fur-tastic customers! 🐶🐱 Whether you’ve been with us since our first bark or you’re a new face in the pack, we couldn’t have done it without your loyal paw-ticipation! 🐾🎉 As a local family owned small business there are always challenges to face. We could not be more grateful and appreciative of each and every one of you who have chosen to support us and make our journey as a small business a little bit easier! 🐾🥰

To show our appreciation, Starting November 1st we are going to have 15% OFF the entire store for 15 DAYS! During that time you will also receive a ballot with your purchase to enter in one of many giveaway baskets which have been graciously donated from our amazing reps and distributors!🐾✨😍

Here’s to many more years of tail wags, purrs, and paw-sitive moments together! Thank you for being part of our pack! ❤️🐾

11/02/2024

✨ Nala was adopted ✨

Nala found her family this week, and I know she’ll be spoiled for the rest of her days 🥰
We love happy endings!!!

10/31/2024

Stopped giving updates as I’m too busy, but I’m going to try to get back into it…

Four cats off to the vet today for spay/neuter!

10/28/2024

Some happy news to share 🥳

MooMoo and Meadow have been adopted! Their foster mom just couldn’t part with them; they stole each other’s hearts 🥰
These two will be absolutely spoiled, and showered with love for the rest of their days ❤️ Thank you, Monika, for opening your home and heart to foster and adopt. I couldn’t be happier for these two, their cat sibling, and Mom, to have such a beautiful life together!