Helen Sanders CatPAWS

08/26/2024

Benny's Birthday Party was a blast! Approximately 150 people showed up August 24 in Seal Beach to celebrate Benny, who turned seven this year, and is a survivor of animal abuse as a kitten. The party rocked music, games, raffles, vendors, food and even Garfield showed up to honor Benny. CatPAWS received a senate resolution for their animal welfare work in the OC and LA communities. Representatives from Sen. Janet Nguyen's office presented a beautiful resolution to CatPAWS Director Deborah Felin-Magaldi. If you missed the party, mark your calendar for the 3rd weekend in August, 2025.

08/26/2024

ATTN: CatPAWS adopters!!

Pets change our lives!

That’s why we’re joining our
friends at + in
celebrating Love Stories!
Celebrate the unique ways your CatPAWS kitty has changed your life for the better by submitting your Love Story before September 30.

Your Love Story could help us earn up to $100K in lifesaving funding PLUS fun prizes for you + your pet!

Learn more at

petcolove.org/love stories

08/25/2024

Wee Kody, from rescue to home

08/24/2024

Celebrating survival, resilience and the healing power of love - vendors, food, adoptions!

City of Long Beach Animal Care Services

08/23/2024

Super Benny and his person Bev are hoping to see you tomorrow for a fun afternoon in Seal Beach (just a few short blocks to the sand also, so bring your beach gear for after!)

Check it out here! https://helensanderscatpaws.com/news-event/bennys-birthday-party/

Benny
Benny's Birthday Bash

08/22/2024

“Wait - what?! You haven’t signed up to party with Benny this Saturday 8/24 in Seal Beach!”

This is a family fun community event with raffles, vendors, games, food, all for just $20 and kids 10 and under free. If in the Seal Beach CA area, please stop by! There will be kittens and also adoptable dogs from City of Long Beach Animal Care Services.

More info and sign up here!

https://helensanderscatpaws.com/news-event/bennys-birthday-party/

08/21/2024

JUST RESCUED! This crumpet is out of the shelter and off to foster care!

08/19/2024

Thank you to Hetty Chang from NBC LA for this report bringing awareness to the plight of homeless kittens, especially this time of year, and the lifesaving importance of fostering and adopting!

Thank you to City of Long Beach Animal Care Services for participating in our innovative DIY Kitten Care Kit program. To learn more about this program and help support it: https://helensanderscatpaws.com/diy-kitten-kits/



https://youtu.be/YHwbLH9krAU?feature=shared

Featuring Kitten Care Kit Program

08/19/2024

08/18/2024

Baked Potato is here to wish everyone a good Sunday!

08/17/2024

Happy Black Cat Appreciation Day!

This is Mykonos, just one of the adorable little cats soon to be available for adoption!

Long Beach/Orange County CA area

08/17/2024

We got a batch of kittens recently from a shelter - they’re all named now and settling in nicely into foster care! Ready for adoption soon! Long Beach/Orange County CA area

For adoption info: https://helensanderscatpaws.com/adopt/

08/16/2024

Fun at the Sun! CatPAWS is at the kitten cuddle right now at the Seal Beach Sun newspapers 216 Main St. We’ll be here until 4 PM. Stop on by!

Seal Beach residents enjoying a cuddle.

08/16/2024

Friday! At the beach! With kittens!

If in the Seal Beach, California area, come on by this afternoon and take a stroll down quaint Old Town Main Street, enjoy the fun shops and restaurants and stop in at the Sun Newspapers office to visit with some rescued kittens.

2-4pm
216 Main St
Seal Beach CA

08/16/2024

Thank you to Kate Karp for an incisive, well researched article on the link between animal abuse and domestic violence.

This issue is personal to us. Thank you, Kate, for bringing awareness to it.

Plus, meet four adoptable cats and dogs that need loving homes.

08/14/2024

A special cat named Holly used up a few of her 9 lives and finally gets a happy ending to her story!

She came to us broken in body but clearly not in spirit.

Named Holly by the shelter staff, she had been brought in after being hit by a car. With grievous injuries which included a broken jaw, fractured thorax and damage to her arm, her condition was beyond the capacity of the shelter to manage and she was networked to rescue organizations.

It was a lot to take on and we knew what that commitment would entail. In addition to the cost of surgeries and care - thousands of dollars - there would be weeks of tube and syringe feeding as her jaw healed and daily medication. The only way we could take her in and decided to do so was because of an offer to foster her by someone who worked at the shelter at the time. That saved her life as she was scheduled to be euthanized that day.

Holly had surgery, and her long road to recovery began. A feeding tube was placed as her jaw was immobilized. She was on strict cage rest while she healed. At one point she became anemic and there were some anxious days. Eventually she became stronger, she was able to eat on her own.

With nerve damage and paralysis on her arm, we explored options, consulting specialists. With the intensive recovery phase behind her, Holly was transferred to another foster for the next part of her recovery; the effort to save her arm. Her next foster took Holly to physical therapy appointments for weeks but ultimately the effort proved unsuccessful. Unable to use the arm, it was in her way, the top of the paw dragged on the floor and would become infected and the vet determined it had become actually painful for her. The difficult decision to amputate the limb was made.

As she was through previous treatment and surgery, Holly remained happy and friendly, purring and cuddling. All who met and cared for her - from the shelter staff when she first came in, battered and broken but still purring when they examined her, to the nurses and vets who treated her, to her foster caregivers - remarked on how strong of spirit, how positive, how very special she was.

Now a tripod, Holly was active and playful and so loving. The effort to find her a forever home began. A couple saw her online, read her story and wanted to meet her. They took over her fostering. Quickly beguiled by her gentle, friendly nature, the couple knew she was meant to be theirs.

Special thanks to all who cared for her, at the shelter City of Long Beach Animal Care Services, at the vet clinic, to her several fosters, especially Anna who worked at the shelter at the time and offered to foster her which saved her life, to Friends of Long Beach Animals which made a generous donation and all our donors who contributed to her significant medical bills. You are all part of Holly's story, too!

After a few of her nine lives used up, eight months in the making, Holly's story finally got its happy ending.

08/14/2024

Happy Went Home Wednesday!

Please welcome these new furry family members.

And remember - before these happy going home photos can happen there is whole team working to transport cats to safety, loving foster homes, volunteers keeping cats healthy and happy in the adoption center and the adoption team making matches!

You can join the Journey Home!

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08/13/2024

These two are such a delight! Read more about the Sleepy and Kody story! https://mailchi.mp/helensanderscatpaws.com/you-are-part-of-their-story

08/12/2024

Happy Monday!

The decakittens - the group of 10 recently rescued from a shelter - have settled in nicely in foster care!

08/10/2024

We’re participating in Clear the Shelters to bring awareness to the need for adoption and fostering!

https://donate.clearthesheltersfund.org/page/helen-sanders-catpaws

08/08/2024

We are 16 days away from BENNY'S BIRTHDAY PARTY on Saturday, August 24 at the Seal Beach Marina Community Center, 11 am - 3 pm. One of the main features is the array of vendors. Lisette Thierry makes beautiful handcrafted jewelry - come check it out at Benny's Party! She is SERIOUS with a jeweler's saw!! www.lisettethierry.com 's birthday party

08/08/2024

We know it’s but we have to give a shout out to Orange County Animal Allies which does such great work in the community.

One of our volunteers was traveling today and caught these nice ladies and these adorable pups brightening the day for travelers at the airport!

08/08/2024

Happy International Cat Day!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Cat_Day

Thank you to one of our foster team for this cute video of Junebug learning how to boop for treats!

08/07/2024

Chipping away at the root of unwanted litters, of the flood of kittens and pregnant cats overwhelming shelters and rescues, with so much attendant suffering and death. While this is a ‘do everything’ situation to include fostering, transfer and of course adoption, spay/neuter remains a foundational component.

Thank you to these organizations for helping make spay/neuter more accessible:

City of Long Beach Animal Care Services
Friends of Long Beach Animals
Orange County Animal Allies

Thank you to the people in our community helping break the cycle of litter after litter, to the dedicated medical team at Sunstone Animal Hospital

and of course to our own CatPAWS team!

08/06/2024

https://helensanderscatpaws.com/news-event/bennys-birthday-party/

Fun afternoon community event celebrating surviving and thriving for a special cat!

Bring the kids!

Benny's Birthday Party
Benny the Cat's Justice

08/05/2024

Happy Monday!

Be sure to “Show Us Your Kitties” and enter the 2025 Calendar Contest!

This is one of the top 12 winners from last year’s contest, and our current August kitty, a very special guy named Socrates. He was a kitten Helen Sanders CatPAWS rescued from a public shelter, a precious, friendly orange boy. He was struggling with eye and respiratory infections, and his devoted foster and our team pulled him through that.

Then he was stricken by the horrific feline infectious peritonitis (FIP) virus and we very nearly lost him again. His foster care provider cared for him night and day, administering the life saving medication, giving fluids, syringe feeding to support his body as he struggled to recover. And then…his foster care provider adopted him!

We so enjoy the beautiful photos and stories of all these beloved, rescued cats, and we’d love to see yours! So please enter today!

https://www.gogophotocontest.com/helensanderscatpaws

08/04/2024

Thank you to City of Long Beach Animal Care Services for helping us get these 10 little ones out of the shelter and off to foster care!