Happy Tails Cat Sanctuary

19/01/2025

And you thought your kitty was tiny! Well, we found this and thought you might like it:

Scientists identified the tiny species of cat from a fossilized jawbone, which could date back as far as 300,000 years ago.

06/01/2025

We can relate.

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02/01/2025

This purrfect story just appeared in the Washington Post. We think it should be given 4 meows! What do you think?

Part Airbnb, part cat sanctuary, Purradise Springs offers animal lovers a unique stay in northern Florida.

02/01/2025

For anyone who has adopted a Happy Tails Cat, we'd love to hear from you!! We have found forever homes for so many fab felines over the years, and we often wonder how they are doing. So please send us (or post) a picture of your pet, with his/her name and age, and what makes your HTCS darling so very special. We're curious as cats to know!

01/01/2025

29/12/2024

After moving in together, my boyfriend and I immediately started thinking about adopting a cat. I looked online at many shelters in the Boston area. One day, I finished work early and I just had this feeling: I needed to go look for a cat right meow! I went to the only shelter that was nearby, downtown.

When I walked in, I was overwhelmed by the energy of care and love. As I was walking among the cages, I noticed this tiny quiet cat. She looked very sad and hopeless. I asked a volunteer about her. Turned out, this baby had been in this shelter for 1.5 months, and she became chronically ill with an upper respiratory infection.

There were bubbles coming out of her nose. She was sneezing and coughing. And my goodness - she was sad and shy. The doctor in the shelter told me that the only cure for her at this point would be a loving home. When I came back later that week with my boyfriend, we looked at many cats; most of them were active, joyful. I said, "Honey, if we don't adopt this sad kitten, no one will. She is very shy and she needs love to bring hope back to her heart."

We adopted her and renamed her Bast - the Ancient Egyptian goddess of cats. No pressure.

After we brought her home, her cold was gone in one week. It took us several months of patience and love to make her trust us enough and to not be afraid of hanging out with people. She is still not a lap cat, but she sits near us and even sometimes sleeps on our bed.

We built many different cat shelves around the house for her to own and to explore. The house is full of cat toys, cat tunnels and unconditional love that we provide to our little goddess. We are doctoral students and we have a lot of books and articles - Bast loves sleeping on them. We believe that's how she absorbs the knowledge of the world.

21/12/2024

Happy Caturday! 😻

19/12/2024

Don’t say unadoptable!!!
🙀 One day, my daughter went to the local shelter with a friend just to look at the kitties. A woman came in with a scrawny, half-grown kitten in a box and wanted to surrender him because there was “something wrong with this cat.”

The counter person at the shelter lifted him out of the box and placed him on the counter. He was shaking, his head was bobbing, and he had trouble standing. His legs kept sliding out from under him like a newborn calf’s does.

The shelter worker told the woman he was “unadoptable” and would be put down. She gave the woman a paper to fill out. My daughter asked the woman to give the kitten to her instead. “Please, give him to me. My mom will be really mad at me for 10 minutes or so, but that’s all.”

So that is how Ludicrous came to live with us. He has cerebellar hypoplasia, and as he aged, he began to walk better and better. He still has his moments where he has a spasm or falls, and it often sounds like we have a young c**t running through the house with our other cats.

He is a sweet boy who likes to be held and purrs sweet nothings into my ear. He loves sunbeams, tuna fish, and treats. He is now 12 years old.