Karen's Cat Community - Animal Rescue and Sanctuary

26/11/2025

📬 Updated Contact Information for Karen’s Cat Community

Hi lovely cat people 💛🐾

We’ve made a few changes to our email system to help us stay organised and make sure your messages don’t get lost. As a tiny mother-and-daughter team, with no admin volunteers and both managing disabilities and part-time work, keeping on top of communication can be a challenge — so this update will really help us stay on track. Thank you for your patience and kindness. 💛

Here’s how to contact us from now on:

📮 General Enquiries / Help & Advice / Donations / Shop

➡️ [email protected]

This is now our main inbox for:
• Help & welfare advice
• Donation enquiries
• Shop donations
• Shop or order questions
• Enquiries about our sanctuary cats
(Please be patient — we will reply as soon as we can.)

🏡 Adoption Support (previous adopters only)
➡️ [email protected]
We are closed for active rescue and rehoming, so this inbox is only for past adopters needing support.

⛔ Our old Gmail address
Our old email [email protected]
is no longer actively monitored. If you’ve contacted us there recently, please resend your message to [email protected]

Thank you for understanding and for supporting our little sanctuary.
Your kindness keeps us going — and keeps our cats safe, loved, and cared for. 💛🐾

Karen & Lauren
Karen’s Cat Community

05/11/2025

🧣❄️ Winter Update from Karen’s Cat Community Shop ❄️🧣

As the colder months roll in, our little shop tends to get a bit quieter — but that doesn’t mean the shopping has to stop! 🛍️

We’ve just uploaded some lovely women’s bags and shoes to our Vinted page: 👠👜

Perfect for a cosy online browse from home — and every purchase helps support our rescue cats through the winter months. 🐾

If you can’t make it to the shop in person, this is a great way to still show your support and find some unique pre-loved treasures. 💛

05/11/2025

🎆 Fireworks Night Advice from Karen’s Cat Community 🎆

This time of year can be incredibly stressful for our feline friends (and all wildlife too). Loud bangs and flashing lights can cause fear, confusion, and even cats going missing as they bolt for safety.

Here’s what we do to help our cats feel calm and secure:

🐾 Vet-prescribed Gabapentin – always speak to your vet before giving any medication.
🐾 Calm Aid supplements and calming plug-ins or sprays around their favourite resting spots.
🐾 Cosy Cat TV on YouTube — our cats love the “Vintage Music & Crackling Fire” channel and usually fall fast asleep to it.
🐾 Keep them indoors and safe — ideally from the weekend before Fireworks Night to the weekend after, as displays can happen anytime.
🐾 For outdoor cats who insist on going out, let them out early in the afternoon and call them in before dark.

✨ A gentle reminder: Fireworks don’t just affect cats — they terrify wildlife, dogs, birds, and livestock too. Choosing quiet alternatives can make a huge difference.

Last weekend we had our own family fireworks night with the grandchildren, using silent floor fountains well away from our cat spaces.

🌟 The result? Beautiful lights, happy children, and calm, content cats. Silent fireworks give you all the sparkle, without the stress.

Let’s make this Fireworks Night a safe and peaceful one for everyone. 💛🐾

05/11/2025

📮 First 25 Calendars Sent!

We’re so happy to share that the first 25 Karen’s Cat Community 2026 Calendars are being sent off today! 💌🐾

Thank you so much to everyone who ordered — it truly means the world. We’re a very small team (just us, between rescue work, family, and jobs!), so everything is packed and posted by hand with lots of love — but that does mean it’s a little snail mail speed 🐌💖

If you need your calendar urgently, please email us at [email protected], and we’ll do our best to prioritise it. Otherwise, please bear with us — more calendars will be sent out over the next week!

Thank you again for your patience and support — every order helps our sanctuary cats and keeps us doing what we love most ❤️🐱

03/11/2025

📬🐌 Apologies for the snail mail! 🧡
A huge thank you to everyone who has bought one of our 2026 calendars so far! We’re packing and shipping them ourselves, and between work, family visits for Halloween (we love Halloween 🎃), and an unexpected emergency rescue — little Jack - we’re a bit behind schedule.

Lauren has sat down to pack the first 25 calendars today with her helper, the next 25 tomorrow. These will be shipped first class on Wednesday, and you’ll receive an email confirmation once yours is on the way.

The next batch will be packed and sent out next week. If you need your calendar urgently, please email us at [email protected] — otherwise, thank you so much for your patience and understanding while we catch up. 💌🐾

02/11/2025

25/10/2025

🌙 Bean's Journey: From Tiny to Mighty 🌙
Our very first kitten born at the sanctuary — Bean has grown from a tiny baby at his mum Lili-Wen’s side into a big, confident boy. 💕
He’s still as close to his mum as ever and shares a special bond with his adopted brother Barney.
Full of sass, love, and plenty of fluff — Bean is truly part of the heart of our sanctuary family. 🐾

25/10/2025

🌙 Meet Bean 🌙

Lili-Wen’s one and only kitten — though he’s not such a tiny Bean anymore! 😸
Like mother, like son, he’s full of sass and isn’t afraid to tell the other cats off when they annoy him. But with humans, he’s all love and cuddles. 💕

Bean has one very funny quirk… he loves being hoovered! 🧹 He’ll even follow us around the room waiting for his turn.

He could do with losing a little weight, but we think he’s perfect just the way he is — our gentle, mighty Bean, always keeping us smiling. 🐾

After a few homes fell through, we took it as a sign that he was meant to stay here — safe, happy, and always by his mum’s side. 💖

📸 Bean is June in our 2026 Karen’s Cat Community Calendar — our gentle, mighty Bean, who will always be part of our story.

24/10/2025

🌸 Lili-Wen’s Journey 🌸
From a tiny pregnant rescue in Bangor to proud mum of little Bean and adopted mother to our “Lost Boys,” Lili-Wen has come such a long way. 💕
Now she’s the queen of the Cat Room — small but mighty, full of sass, and living her best life with her son by her side. 🐾
Forever safe, forever loved. ❤️
📸 Featured as February in our 2026 Sanctuary Calendar.

24/10/2025

🌸 Meet Lili-Wen 🌸

Lili-Wen came to us from Bangor, North Wales, while she was pregnant. Several kind people helped to bring her to safety — a family friend even drove partway to meet us. She was one of our first pregnant rescues, though we’d already cared for many mums with tiny kittens before.

Tiny in size with the smallest paws you’ve ever seen, Lili-Wen was scanned and thought to be expecting three kittens — but when the time came, she gave birth to just one: our precious Bean. For a little while, we worried she might still have kittens hidden away, but it was soon confirmed that Bean was her only baby.

She was an incredible mother, gentle and patient, and later adopted several of our motherless kittens once they were past weaning — helping to teach them manners, confidence, and how to “cat properly.” This lively group became affectionately known as The Lost Boys — Bean, Barney, Tigger, Dexter, Boo, and Skelly.

As Bean grew up, Lili-Wen started to watch the world from the window and call to go outside. We allow supervised garden time, but she had absolutely no road sense — she’d run towards cars instead of away — so we knew she could only ever be safe in a secure, enclosed environment.

We tried to find her the perfect home, sometimes with her son Bean, sometimes with other cats she bonded with, but none of the matches ever felt right. As time passed, the enquiries slowed, and it became clear that her heart — and Bean’s — belonged here with us.

Now, Lili-Wen is one of our long-term sanctuary residents. She has ongoing dental issues and a chronic sore eye that leaves a red mark and needs bathing every day, so staying with us means she gets the extra care she needs. She’s the boss lady of the Cat Room, keeping all the boys in line with her loud crackly meow and bursts of zoomies when the mood takes her.

When she’s not keeping order, you’ll find her cuddled up on the sofa watching horror films (her favourite genre!) or curled up with Bean. She might be small, but she’s full of fire and personality — a true matriarch in miniature.
We’re so glad we trusted our instincts and kept her here where she feels safe and loved. This is her home, and this is where she belongs. ❤️

📸 Lili-Wen features as February in our 2026 Karen’s Cat Community Calendar — a beautiful reminder of the tiny cat with the biggest heart.

22/10/2025

🐾💛 Important Update from Karen’s Cat Community 💛🐾
We want to apologise for the recent silence — things have been busy behind the scenes.
For now, we remain closed for the foreseeable future and are not taking in new cats. Both Lauren and Karen have been working hard redecorating, securing and upgrading the sanctuary pens for winter, and catching up on important maintenance that we finally have time to do — ensuring our sanctuary cats have better areas for their care and comfort. These cats will be with us for the foreseeable future, and their wellbeing remains our top priority. 💕
Although we can’t take in any new cats at the moment, we’re still here to offer advice and guidance. Over the coming days, we’ll be sharing what to do if you find a stray cat and how to help safely while rescues across the UK are struggling for space.
If you have an emergency situation — such as an injured, elderly, or single kitten out in the cold — or if you’re struggling to hear back from other rescues, please email us at [email protected] and we’ll see how we can help or advise. 💌
We know it’s heartbreaking seeing so many cats in need. Please be patient with rescues as we all do our best to bring as many cats as possible into the warm as winter approaches. 🧣🐱
We’ll also start reintroducing our sanctuary cats here and sharing updates on how they’re all doing. Thank you for your kindness, patience, and continued support — it truly means the world to us and the cats still in our care. 💛🐾