My Cat Family Rescue

05/25/2024

💔 I hurt so much. You helped me through some tough times. Loved me so much.
You and Oso have fun now running around.
I love you so dang much. This is not goodbye.

05/25/2024

My beautiful boy passed away this morning.
I love you beyond words and will miss you every mins of the rest of my life. There's a hole in my heart.
Run free my boy.

12/05/2023

Look at those little beans.
I sure wish I could sleep like that.

10/09/2023

08/14/2023

Yep. I'm building this one day for my kitties.

Man that would be a fun outside, safe cat enclosure. Needs some cat towers and more places to get up high in.

(Not sure who made it, we just want something like this for our girl).

07/02/2023

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💔🐾12 yrs to the date that I last saw him, my missing BeeBop is still saying hello. Thanks everybody for all that you have done! I can never thank friends, followers, supporters and strangers enough. Wishing everyone a fabulous & safe long weekend! Please keep your pets secure. You don‘t want to be like me.😰💔🐾😟🙏

07/01/2023

Unsinkable Sam is a legendary cat said to have survived the sinking of three separate military vessels for two separate countries. Sam, originally named Oscar, was a ship cat on the German battleship Bismarck. After the ship’s sinking, Unsinkable Sam was rescued from the wreckage by the British Navy. Post rescue, Sam is said to have served on the HMS Cossack and the HMS Ark Royal, surviving the sinking of both. While the authenticity of this legend is sometimes doubted, the sailors of the British Navy believed it wholeheartedly, and a cat by the name of Unsinkable Sam retired to the Home for Sailors in Belfast in 1941 until his death in 1955.

06/15/2023

There was a cat, Jenny, who was one of the Titanic’s cat. She had her kittens onboard in Belfast. But when they got to the stop before heading to New York, she took her kittens off the boat and did not get back on.
You can read about her below...or by googling cat on Titanic.
Perhaps, that’s what this picture by artist Celia Pike, is of...Jenny and her babies watching the last sailing of the Titanic.

Artist: Celia Pike

The Titanic Cat - Jenny's Story
In the wee hours of the morning between April 14th and April 15th 1912 the queen of the White Star Line, the unsinkable Titanic, did indeed sink into the icy waters of the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Newfoundland. Countless human and animal lives were lost, but what about Jenny, the Titanic cat?

As the story goes …
Jenny was brought aboard the Titanic from her sister ship, the Olympia, to act as mascot and to help with the rodent control. She lived in the underbelly of the ship (or the kitchen depending on which story you read) and was tended to by a stoker named Jim Mulholland. He would frequently sneak table scraps for her.

Work was difficult to find in those days and Jim Mulholland had been temporary help on the Titanic during the ship’s sailing trials from the Irish Sea to Southampton. When he was offered a full time position for the Titanic’s maiden voyage to New York he was thrilled to have the employment.

During those sailing trials, about a week before the Titanic moored in Southampton, Jenny presented Jim and the Titanic with a litter of kittens. Jim made Jenny a comfortable spot where she could tend to her kittens. Looking after the mama cat and her kittens broke the monotony of Jim’s work. Jenny seemed content with her warm spot by the furnaces, her babies and her kitchen scraps from Jim.


However, as soon as the ship docked at Southampton Jenny had a good look at her surroundings and promptly started picking her kittens up by the scruff of their necks and moving them, one by one, down the gangplank and off the ship.

Jim watched her curiously and decided that this cat must know something that no one else knows!

He promptly packed his meagre belongings and departed the ship himself.

Truth or Titanic legend? Some other reports have Jenny and her kittens perishing with the Titanic, but the cat lover in me … I like Jim Mulholland’s story so I vote truth!

Years later the Irish Times ran Jenny’s story after a reporter spoke to an elderly man who related the tale. Was he Jim Mulholland himself or just someone with whom Jim shared his story? We may never know. A Daily Mirror edition from April of 1912 ran an article with the headline “Clever Mother Cat Saves Her Kittens from the Titanic” accompanied with the following picture. Is this Jenny’s litter? Again, we may never know.

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05/13/2023

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03/30/2023

Please help me bring my Owen and Mia home. They were wrongfully impounded into the shelter and me as the o… Lisa Slone needs your support for Save my babies!

12/31/2022

12/20/2022

Cats have been going in and out of Britain's Exeter Cathedral for a long time. A VERY long time. The kitty in this picture is strolling through an entry that cats have been using since 1305 AD - making this the world's oldest known cat door.

12/09/2022

What’s this missing?

11/08/2022

My big boy Calvin. 🥰🥰

11/08/2022

Hobbs 🥰🥰

11/08/2022

Buddy enjoying warm window.

11/08/2022

George loves the plants.

09/30/2022

09/14/2022

Today was a traumatic day. It was to sudden. To soon.
My handsome wonderful loving black beauty Tucker passed away.
You will be forever in my heart and soul. Until we meet again
I love you always and forever.

08/13/2022

Mr Calvin and Mr Hobbs. Yes my daughter loves Calvin and Hobbs comic. 🥰