Amanda's Ark

27/11/2025

🆘 URGENT LIFELINES NEEDED 🆘

Foster Families & Forever Homes needed for DOGS & CATS who need URGENT HELP NOW.

We have a very short timeframe and an almost impossible task, but we must achieve it.

Most boarding places are full, too expensive or not suitable and we have very few sponsors.

Below is a small selection, please reach out if you can help and I will make a perfect match.

Alternatively, if you can sponsor a dog or cat, please reach out to help save a life.

Contact Amanda on 084 287 5050, Western Cape, home checks apply, please share 🙏 🐾

24/11/2025

Limit looking lovingly into my eyes with his paw on my arm asking so nicely for attention 💓

20/11/2025

Morgen looking for Morgan, found him under the couch! 🛋️

16/11/2025

Wessie asleep on my new aircon manual ❄️

12/11/2025

Lovely girl Margaret needs a loving home, she’s approximately 2 and a feisty one, but very loving and very loyal.

No cats, sterilised, Margaret is a wonderful companion.

Contact Amanda on 084 287 5050 and please share, home checks apply and only the best home will be considered.

09/11/2025

A fly 🪰 caught my attention!

07/11/2025

This is what critical care looks like when you have a sick animal.

02/11/2025

Hi, I’m Amanda Lighthouse from Amanda's Ark, aptly named as a result of all the animals I rescued who live onboard.

We provide an important lifeline that must continue but this is only possible with the help of other kind souls joining with us.

I’ve been self-funding a cat colony for 6 years in addition to rescuing and re-homing dogs for 8 years, but I am no longer able to carry this labour of love alone.

With only a handful of regular sponsors covering less than 10% of what we need, it’s simply not possible to pour from an empty cup.

It’s a privilege and an honour to take care of these precious souls and I’m looking for mighty men & women of valour, honour and substance who will help me to keep going.

We don’t beg for money, even though we really need it and it’s a struggle to find donors, our intention is to give something in return to educate, motivate and inspire people to get involved and make a profound difference.

We provide premium content in the form of heartwarming real life stories of the lives we’ve saved, testimonies of happy ever afters when we re-home and blogs on a variety of topics in partnership with the Holy Spirit.

Please join our Lighthouse Family, please stretch out your hand if you can, please follow us to learn more and please share, thank you 🙏

Dear Cat Lovers, Introducing Amanda's Ark My name is Amanda Lighthouse, Amanda's Ark is my home, which I share with a colony of cats and a motle...

02/11/2025

Dear Cat Lovers,

This funding post is for our beloved cat colony who we have been taking care of for the last 6 years in the Cederberg part of South Africa.

Homeless cats live a very hard life and our support makes a huge difference, they are happy, safe, provided for and protected.

In the beginning, we self-funded because there were only a couple but now we need support as there is so much involved.

We need help with cat food, supplements, vaccines, sterilisations, flea & tick, worming, microchips, staff, cat housing, cooling, heating and vet bills.

We are small but mighty, there’s nothing we won’t do for our animals and our home is their home.

We need R750 (£33 / $44) 🎯 every day and need a hero today in full or in part - if you are reading this, please consider being an angel 😇

We don’t have any donors for the cats, I don’t take a salary and we are a very worthy cause, giving from our hearts.

Please support, please share and please get in touch if you would like to foster or adopt a cat, thank you 🐱

Dear Cat Lovers, Introducing Amanda's Ark My name is Amanda Lighthouse, Amanda's Ark is my home, which I share with a colony of cats and a motle...

31/10/2025

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Dad didn’t want a dog.
“It’s too much responsibility,” he said. “It’ll make a mess, take up too much time, and we’ll get too attached.” He never had pets growing up, and to him, a dog was just an unnecessary commitment.

Then one stormy evening, that all changed.

Driving home, he spotted a tiny gray pitbull pup curled up beside a dumpster, trembling in the cold rain. She was muddy, scared, and so small you could fit her in your hands. But when she looked up at him, something in his heart cracked open.

“Just for tonight,” he said, wrapping her in his jacket.

That night, he made her a bed out of an old towel and sat next to her until she fell asleep. The next morning, he took her to the vet. By the evening, he had bought her food, toys, and a red collar that said “Luna.”

Two days later, she was sleeping on his lap.
A week later, he was calling her “my little shadow.”
Now, they do everything together — watch TV, share snacks, and have entire conversations without words.

Dad didn’t want a dog.
But this dog wanted a dad.
And somehow, they both found exactly what they needed. ❤️🐾

28/10/2025

In addition to rescuing and re-homing animals, I write insightful and revelatory blogs in partnership with the Holy Spirit.

To be honest, I rarely share them, I guess I’m building up the courage as they are deep and profound and I lay myself bare.

I’ve decided to share this one in this moment, I wrote it during a difficult time when it all felt like too much and I needed to draw strength.

Those who know me, and that’s very few people, know that I never give up, even in times of weakness, but these times are hard.

I share this blog with you to encourage, uplift, motivate and inspire, rest in the difficult spaces and know that you are held, this too shall pass.

Most days I am a powerhouse, able to do extraordinary things and what would be impossible to most people, but some days, I struggle to even get out of bed, and today was one of those days.