Krasnesky Manor for Wayward Cats

07/10/2025

NINE DAYS UNTIL Kit-Tea at The Manor! !!!

This is Harper Lee. Harper Lee is a three-year old female available for adoption. She promises not to Kill any Mockingbirds, but she will gladly pounce on any toys that you want to give her. Harper Lee loves to play, but she is just as happy to sit still with you for hours and snuggle while she arranges her literary thoughts.

Please share this post with anyone interested in adopting, or anyone that might be interested in attending the Kit-Tea 2025!!

07/10/2025

“If compassion was currency, how wealthy would you be?” - No Tail

(No Tail, 2008-2024)

*Book release update - Last format edit (a single mis-numbered page) was completed yesterday. Galley proof should be in hand by the 21st.*

07/10/2025

Not one of The Manor’s coyotes, obviously, but loved how playful this little one is! We watched this about a dozen times.

07/09/2025

“Listen lady, this is a private meeting—unless you brought snackies?”
Max~

07/09/2025

TEN DAYS UNTIL KIT-TEA 2025!!
Kit-Tea at The Manor!

Blanche is a true southern belle and as you can see by the look in those eyes, flirting is a part of her heritage. (The Dorothy Killed Trudy Party- A Golden Girls Fan Page). She is looking for her forever home with someone whose name starts with a B. Or an A. Or pretty much any letter of the alphabet. As long as they love cats she doesn’t care if they are a sweaty Argentinean cowboy, or a nice Lebanese couple.

Come to The Manor on the 19th and meet Blanche and her perky whiskers.

07/08/2025

ELEVEN DAYS UNTIL Kit-Tea at The Manor!!!!

This is Rumble. Rumble is very smol. He will be at The Manor’s adoption event on the 19th. He currently has no bad habits or favorite toys because of his smol-ness. If you adopt Rumble, you will have the unique privilege of watching Rumble grow.
Might you be part of Rumble’s future?
Come see us on the 19th!

07/08/2025

If You Love Butterflies, You Must Be Willing To Help The Caterpillars

Everyone loves butterflies. They are powdery flecks of rainbows. Floating reminders of wonder. Beautiful and practical, they can capture our attention for an interminable amount of time.
Caterpillars though…

Caterpillars rarely get the love that butterflies do. In fact, they often get the opposite. They might draw some curiosity but they will just as often elicit revilement. They can at times be almost as colorful as a butterfly, but they lack its grace. They are also often viewed as destructive. Butterflies pollinate but caterpillars eat and destroy.
Personally, I love caterpillars. No Tail once told me that it is not required for a caterpillar to turn into a butterfly in order for it to be beautiful.

Regardless of how you feel about caterpillars though, if you love butterflies, caterpillars are a necessity. If you want more butterflies, you have to be willing to help the caterpillars. You have to be willing to provide food for the caterpillars. You have to be willing to shelter the caterpillars. You have to be willing to pick a caterpillar up when it has fallen.

This applies to people as much as it does to butterflies and caterpillars. Almost everyone wants the "beautiful" people. The ones that we view as successful. The scientists, the engineers, the best-selling authors, the star athletes. The ones that are fun to look at it.
The caterpillars though…

The people that we don't like to touch. The ones that make us feel uncomfortable to look at. The ones that are struggling. When we see them in need, we tend to turn away. How many butterflies are lost every day because the person in need is not already beautiful enough to elicit our sympathy? Because they are too poor? Because they are too dirty? Because they don't look like us? Because they are too odd? Because they smell funny?

We never know what someone has the potential to become if they are just given the opportunity, but all we want are the butterflies.
"Let someone else deal with the caterpillars." Right?
"Let someone else love the rejected. " Right?
"Let someone else comfort the wayward and unwanted." Right?

No! That is not the way life works. WE are that someone. All of us.

If you want butterflies, feed the caterpillars.
If you want butterflies, shelter the caterpillars.
If you want butterflies, pick up the caterpillar that has fallen.
If you want butterflies, love the ones that others have rejected.

If you love butterflies, you must be willing to help the caterpillars.

07/08/2025

“I have decided to still be a dragon but I am going to give up breathing fire because I like snuggling and I don’t want to singe Mom’s hair so I am going to be a peaceful dragon but I still plan to hoard treasure and also I am going to be a Jedi too because i think we need Jedi as much as we need dragons.” - Otis

07/07/2025

“Listen lady, I think that’s the squirrel that owes me money. Can you get the door?
I’ll be right back, I promise.”
Max~

07/07/2025

The Kit-Tea 2025 quilt raffle is live!

We’ve never done an online raffle before so please pardon us if this is not as user-friendly as you would like.

Those that attend in person can buy raffle tickets on site, but we know that there are many people around the country that won’t be able to attend but would love a chance to win this quilt.

This is the solution that we came up with. It does require that you create an account with Better World. Also, the site will automatically request a “tip” that goes to the fundraising site but you can opt out of that. All proceeds will be distributed to the three rescue groups that attend. Our foundation does not keep any of the money Its just a placeholder

If you are not able to attend the Kit-Tea, but your name is drawn for the quilt, we will ship it to you out of pocket. No additional cost if you are in the US. If you are outside the US we appreciate your support but respectfully request you not participate in this particular event, since shipping a quilt this size to the UK or New Zealand would be problematic.

This is a one-of-a-kind, hand-crafted quilt, embroidered with the date and the event (Krasnesky Kit-Tea, 2025)

07/07/2025

Several of you expressed concern yesterday when Robin posted pictures of me on the roof, cleaning out the AC units. I am uncertain why "alarm" seemed to be the immediate reaction for so many of you.

Have I, in the past, balanced ladders on cement blocks on the stairs in order to hang paintings thirty feet up?
Possibly.

Did I ever stand on a two by four stuck through two, second floor windows in order to fix a corbel above the servant's wing eaves?
Maybe.

Did I hang, semi-inverted, out of a window thirty feet up one time in order to help rescue a raccoon who had gotten his foot caught on a gutter bracket?
Who hasn't?

But why everyone would immediately jump to the conclusion that I was being "unsafe" is beyond me.
For the record, the top of the roof is an actual captain's walk. It is a ten by fifteen foot platform intended to be stood upon. I was not precariously perched upon a dangerous precipice.

And no, I did not bring any ping pong balls or slinkies up onto the roof with me.

But now that you all mentioned it….

07/07/2025

"You don't have to be perfect today. You just have to try to be better than you were yesterday. Happy Monday, everyone, and have a great New Week!" - Thor