Healing Animal Scars - Sonya's Cat & Animal Rescue Society

12/02/2025

Please consider making a donation on giving tuesday, if you are in a position to do so

11/30/2025

🐾 This Giving Tuesday, YOU can change a life. 🐾
For Timber. For Rooster. For every cat still waiting for rescue.

📅 Giving Tuesday is here, and today we’re asking for your help to continue the work that means everything to us—rescuing, healing, and giving abandoned cats a chance at the gentle life they deserve.

Meet Timber, the cat who fell out of a tree back in October.
Just last week, Timber was found cold, hungry, and confused after being abandoned to fend for himself. When he arrived at Healing Animal Scars - Sonya's Cat & Animal Rescue Society , he was frightened, underweight, had matted fur, and unsure if he could trust anyone again.

With warmth, medical care, and patient hands, Timber has started to heal—physically and emotionally. His purr is returning, his eyes are brighter, he feels comfortable enough to play a little bit, and he’s learning what safety feels like.
Your donation helps us continue that journey.

And this is Rooster.

Rooster’s story is similar, but no less heartbreaking. Rescued after spending 3 years on the streets, he came to us with ticks and fleas in his fur, wounds that needed tending, and a look that said he had been surviving—not living.

But Rooster is also discovering safety. He is beginning to trust. He is learning love.
With your help, his tomorrow can be even brighter.

This Giving Tuesday, you can be their hero.

Your gift—no matter the size—provides:
🐾 Emergency medical care
🐾 Food, litter, and warm bedding
🐾 Spay/neuter services
🐾 Rehabilitation, socialization, and adoption support
🐾 A future full of hope

💛 Will you give today to help cats like Timber and Rooster heal?

➡️ [ ] Donors can send an EMT to [email protected]
[ ] Or make a payment by credit card at our Veterinary hospital, AprilVets Dartmouth Crossing
[ ] We have a square reader to accept debit and credit payments in person during the Virgin Radio Halifax Lights up the Community event
[ ] Make a donation to Healing Animal SCARS on My Giving Circle here https://mygivingcircle.org/healing-animal-scars-cat-rescue/donate/free
Call 902-469-MEOW to drop off donations.

Healing takes time. Saving lives takes community.
And today, you are the heart of ours. 🐱

Thank you—for caring, for giving, and for believing that every life is worth saving.

With gratitude,
Healing Animal SCARS - Sonya's Cat rescue group

11/27/2025

We are extremely honored that our rescue is going to be part of Virgin Radio Halifax Lights up the Community event at AprilVets Dartmouth Crossing on Wednesday December 3rd from 6am to 12 noon. I was absolutely tickled pink when they notified me that we had more nominations than any other organization they've ever had! Thank you so much to our loyal supporters for nominating us.

🎄This holiday season, the VIRGIN Radio Morning Show is popping into local non-profit organizations to highlight the amazing work they do and help spread some cheer across our community.

We’re kicking things off by supporting Healing Animal SCARS 🐱🩷 on December 3rd, broadcasting live from April Vets – Dartmouth Crossing from 6am–12pm!

How can you get involved? Details below!

11/27/2025

Our rescue got chosen for the Virgin Radio Halifax event "Lights up the Community", and we're going to be on air for their Morning Show on December 3rd collecting donations from the public (kind of like a food drive). We're going to host it at AprilVets Dartmouth Crossing. I'm wondering if any of my Adopters, fosters or supporters can come, if you are not working that morning. The show starts at 6:00 a.m. and goes until noon. We could set up a time when you could come by at some point during the morning for a brief interview on air about your experience with Healing Animal SCARS . Donation drive, list of suggested donations

[ ] World's Best Cat Litter- Green bags Comfort Care, or red bags
[ ] Royal Canin dry Gastrointestinal kitten food from vet hospitals
[ ] Royal Canin wet Gastrointestinal kitten food from vet hospitals
[ ] Purina Veterinary Diets - Essential Care wet food, adult cat or kitten, from vet hospitals
[ ] Purina Veterinary Diets - Essential Care dry food, adult cat or kitten, from vet hospitals
[ ] Royal Canin kitten food, wet or dry, from pet stores
[ ] Large or hooded cat beds for moms and kittens
[ ] Scratch posts or towers
[ ] Cardboard scratch houses
[ ] Round circle toy with cardboard in middle and ball that spins on a track
[ ] New interactive toys for kitties
[ ] Laser light toys for kitties
[ ] Tunnel toys for kitties
[ ] Medium size sturdy plastic cat carriers, clean and in good condition only

Our first 'Lights Up The Community' broadcast this year will be Wednesday, December 3rd with Healing Animal Scars - Sonya's Cat & Animal Rescue Society

will be set up at April Vets at 203 Hector Gate in Dartmouth Crossing from 6a to 12p accepting donations if you are able and willing.

Tune in for all the info!

11/27/2025

🎄This holiday season, the VIRGIN Radio Morning Show is popping into local non-profit organizations to highlight the amazing work they do and help spread some cheer across our community.

We’re kicking things off by supporting Healing Animal SCARS 🐱🩷 on December 3rd, broadcasting live from April Vets – Dartmouth Crossing from 6am–12pm!

How can you get involved? Details below!

11/26/2025

2 new boys joined Healing Animal SCARS - Sonya's Cat rescue group yesterday. First, Rooster arrived, a brown tabby boy who has been a stray for at least 3 years and is suffering from a ruptured abscess wound caused by an animal bite. Next we accepted Timber, an unneutered male orange and white boy who had been stuck up a tree and then strayed the neighborhood for a month before we trapped him. Fortunately these two boys are some of the lucky few who get rescue and shelter, while so many strays suffer. We have a foster home lined up for each of these boys. Rooster goes to the vet this afternoon for testing and treatment of his injury, and this evening I will bring Timber to the vet for testing and vaccines. Timber will go back to the vet tomorrow morning to be neutered. Both boys will recuperate in their foster homes and get socialized, and they should be ready for adoption soon through Healing Animal Scars - Sonya's Cat & Animal Rescue Society
This is why we are always fundraising. We appreciate donations towards our Veterinary bills. You can send an EMT to [email protected]

11/26/2025

The cats out of the bag! In case you weren't listening to Virgin Radio Halifax this morning, here's the big secret I've been waiting to tell everyone.
Our rescue got chosen for the Virgin Radio Halifax event "Lights up the Community", and we're going to be on air for their Morning Show on December 3rd collecting donations from the public (kind of like a food drive). We're going to host it at AprilVets Dartmouth Crossing
I'm wondering if any of my Adopters, fosters or supporters can come, if you are not working that morning. The show starts at 6:00 a.m. and goes until noon. We could set up a time when you could come by at some point during the morning for a brief interview on air about your experience with Healing Animal Scars - Sonya's Cat & Animal Rescue Society

Donation drive, list of suggested donations

[ ] World's Best Cat Litter- Green bags Comfort Care, or red bags
[ ] Royal Canin dry Gastrointestinal kitten food from vet hospitals
[ ] Royal Canin wet Gastrointestinal kitten food from vet hospitals
[ ] Purina Veterinary Diets - Essential Care wet food, adult cat or kitten, from vet hospitals
[ ] Purina Veterinary Diets - Essential Care dry food, adult cat or kitten, from vet hospitals
[ ] Royal Canin kitten food, wet or dry, from pet stores
[ ] Large or hooded cat beds for moms and kittens
[ ] Scratch posts or towers
[ ] Cardboard scratch houses
[ ] Round circle toy with cardboard in middle and ball that spins on a track
[ ] New interactive toys for kitties
[ ] Laser light toys for kitties
[ ] Tunnel toys for kitties
[ ] Medium size sturdy plastic cat carriers, clean and in good condition only

What we DON'T need
[ ] Plastic litter boxes
[ ] Costco brand wet cat food. Most kitties don't like it
[ ] Used or damaged toys
[ ] Clumping clay cat litter

Our rescue could really use dedicated volunteers to help with managing various aspects of the rescue. For example, we could use a social media manager, someone experienced with writing Grant applications, event coordinators, people to make things to sell at craft fairs and fundraising tables, a person with photography skills to get good pictures of the adoptable cats, tech-savvy individuals to post our adoptable cats. The list is endless!

I'm going to bring our special needs blind cat Helene the Blind Love Kitty at Healing Animal SCARS to AprilVets Dartmouth Crossing for the lights up the community event. I have a friend that will drop her off to us at 9:00 a.m., because I thought Helene wouldn't want to start her morning at 5:00 a.m. when I will be there to bring in the radio crew to set up everything for the show that starts at 6:00 a.m.

We are so grateful to our friends at Virgin Radio!

11/19/2025

Oshi is a sweet and very playful little boy who needs to get adopted to a home that has another cat ( or a friendly dog) who can match his energy level! He loves to wrestle with the other kittens at the rescue, and he tries to nurse from the adult cats here.
He must be 100% inside.
If you're interested in applying, you can fill out the application here
https://form.jotform.com/253147573793063
and then call me at 902-469-6369 to review the application and set up an appointment to meet him, if you are approved.
Oshi has been tested for feline leukemia, vaccinated twice, neutered, microchipped, and treated for parasites. He will come with the free 6-week trial of pet health insurance.