Animal Rescue & Rehab Centre - ARRC NPC 2018/592622/08

16/02/2025

HAPPY SUNDAY FROM ARRC 😻- I've been trying to post since early this morning but again no network 🤬. HUGE THANKYOU to Mandy for the takealot order received on Friday- 6 boxes of sachets 😻 & the 2kg bag of RC mom and babycat biscuits which I fetched from What's cooking? yesterday😻❤. Jacob (and all the others too) are SO HAPPY - thankyou so much. Thankyou also to Erica for the book monies and for the donation left with her from one of the customers - very appreciated 😻. Thankyou also to Debs for feeding at Albert for me last night & to Jo & Ben for uplifting pregnant mommy cat & taking her through to her new forever home - so grateful - I felt awful yesterday so really appreciated the help❤, and of course huge thankyou to Michele the kitten fairy for posting this lovely kitty and for finding her a loving home - you are amazing❤. To Tyrone- you are the best - you are literally a life saver❤. Took the little black baby for his vacs yesterday - she is a he🙈 so his name is now Thor. Gosh what an absolute cutie - play, play, play. Thor is now ready to go to a loving forever home - he is 7 weeks old ❤😻

14/02/2025

Valentine's Day for me just brings up memories of finding Chicken Boy in the rubbish pile in Spine rd squatter camp 3 years ago. 4 weeks old, full of fly eggs & maggots - a wonderful Valentines gift🙈. Today, my Siamese Shack Cat is very spoilt, very loved, but very badly behaved🥴

14/02/2025

Managed to nab 2 of the 3 kitties going to the vets this morning. Mickey Mouse apparently also reads minds and did a disappearing act🙈. Will probably have to take him to Hillcrest vet tomorrow when I take the little black kitten, Ebony, for her vaccs. Poor little Snowflake has a sore mouth again 😪 - 2 dentals done & she still gets gingivitis. Hopefully, a few injections is all she will need today. Mrs. Fishwicks also went in this morning for a skin Injection - neither were too happy when they realized my plans for them for today😪. Payday at last👏 but after all the loans are paid, debit orders taken & last months unpaid bills have been paid🙈 - its like I worked for free😂😂
I have to be super careful this month & Royal Canin for the cats is now not doable unless I win the lotto. I do, however, feel extremely guilty at depriving poor Jacob his mom & babycat biscuits - he does really love them and he hasnt been well with all the rain. If anyone is able to share a bit of Valentine love ❤😻 with our special old man and donate towards a bag (R450 /2kg, R750 /4kg) for him we would both be very grateful❤.

14/02/2025

14/02/2025

❤❤HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY❤❤

13/02/2025

Thought I would re-post Mae-Ling's story. This beautiful girl was another rescue from Albert Luthuli in 2005. She was found as a 6 or 7 week old kitten running frantically between the trucks parked at the laundry. One of the laundry staff phoned to tell me about her. I went down to have a look, had no trap or carrier with me, just a cardboard box🤣🤣🤣 & a prayer that she was tame. Well she was quite feral / or at least terrified, & she gave me the run around for a good few hrs - running from one truck to the next, climbing up into the engines🙈. It was actually quite terrifying as there is lots of traffic going in & out of the laundry & she was so tiny that she looked like a rat running on the road. Eventually she tired & I managed to nab her quite easily from one of the engines. Very hissy, spitty, wild little baby but I think it was mostly fear because once I got her to where I lived at the time, she calmed down very quickly. About a year before I moved to the property in Crestholme, my neighbour, in Durban, threw a brick a Mae-Ling - hoping to kill her as he had with a few of my other cats 😡. Instead, he managed to break 2 of her legs - 1 front, 1 back & both had to be pinned. The pin was removed from the front leg after the bone had healed but the pin in the back leg is still there as her knee was broken so the pin remains. She shows no signs of having had this terrible trauma - no limp or arthritis thankfully. Mae-Ling lives as a house cat. She is very loving - when she wants to be🤣 - typical female cat. Can chat up a storm when she wants something, but for the most part, she is quiet & keeps to herself. I often have to go & look for her in one of her favorite spots, just to make sure she is fine because she is so antisocial. She is very precious, still so beautiful although, at almost 20 is definitely showing signs of age & is quite thin but still healthy. Praying we still have many more years together❤😻

13/02/2025

12/02/2025

I very rarely post at night & posts of thanks are usually done the next day at the first chance I get. People must think I'm so rude & ungrateful but it isnt the case at all. When I get home, usually between 8 & 9pm, my 2nd day starts, & I literally dont stop or sit down until I drive out at 6 in the morning. Unpacking the cat food from the car, feeding the merry millions - house & yard cats 1st, then the run cats takes 4 hrs- then medicating & preparing carriers for cats going to the vet in the morning etc - not much time to post. Tonight, I'm exhausted, put catnip down for the kitties to keep them occupied while I have a quick cup of coffee & write a post of thanks❤. LOTS of thanks to make - Mandy for the huge 60/60 order of food for me (3 meals😋😍 & chocolate 🤩), 3 boxes of sachets plus 13 loose sachets & tins😻 for the cats, plus a cash donation - you are a life saver - thankyou so much❤. Thankyou so much to Jackie Salter for the awesome donation of dry (Purina Pro) & wet food (Hills) & to Hilton for very kindly fetching & delivering it to ARRC 😻 - SO grateful - much needed, I was all out of dry food & to Verushka, Cathy & Erica (book monies) for funds - hugely grateful - thankyou ALL so much😻❤. Using Hilton's photo of Jackie's donation as I don't have working lights in my garage to take a photo of the delivery 🙈. You are all so special to us & very appreciated❤. Gosh, this slave had better get busy dishing up dinner - the masters are all staring at me - wondering why the delay 🙈😂

12/02/2025

A few more of my beautiful fur-kids who are available for virtual adoption😻❤

12/02/2025

Huge thankyou to Steph for funds yesterday- used for the cats dinner last night but tonight is a different story - virtually out of everything 😪. Municipal bill not paid, vets not paid, geyser not sorted, car not sorted and thanks to the lousy weather, a few of the chronic care cats needing more antibiotics and nebulizing medicine😿. It is just becoming increasingly more difficult to keep going and the demand for help for unwanted cats is growing by the day 💔. If anyone can help towards food for tonight it would be greatly appreciated 🙏😻

11/02/2025

Not at work today - off to the doctor😖. Just wanted to post this beautiful little baby that came in last night. Found in a box on someones doorstep 🤬. I will take her for her vacs on Saturday- she looks to be about 7 weeks - all black with a few white hairs on her chest. SHE IS ADORABLE❤. Very loving and chatty and happily playing with the toys in her holding cage. She will be available for adoption once shes had her vacs and an all over vet check❤😻

10/02/2025

I couldn't resist taking this pic of "after dinner Rags"😂. If that isnt a look of total contentment I dont know what is❤. Would love to know what he was dreaming about🤔

10/02/2025

Huge thankyou to our kitty virtual adopters⭐😻❤ YOU ARE AMAZING

Darth has been adopted by Debbie M❤
Mickey Mouse has been adopted by Jo ❤
Lacey has been adopted by Mark S ❤
Bear has been adopted by Anonymous ❤
Fudge has been adopted by Erica A❤

10/02/2025

HAPPY MONDAY EVERYONE🥴 - Where did the weekend go?🤔. Huge thankyous to Bev & Tarryn for funds received over the weekend- still 4 days till payday, limping along so VERY grateful for the funds which I used for cat food😻. Thankyou also to my 5 virtual adopters - I will post the adopted kitties separately😻. Thankyou to Debs for feeding at Albert on Sat night - really appreciated. I released our little feral Albert kitty last night after her spay❤. Thankyou also to the donors of the sachet & the 10kg of Heritage View which I fetched from What's cooking? On Saturday- very grateful - very short on dry food & the cats are so unimpressed with no RC Ageing or mom & baby cat but they will have to adjust sadly😿. We had some lovely visitors yesterday, despite the not great weather🙈. 1st to arrive were Shuaib, Humarah, & their beautiful daughter Hamnah, bearing gifts of a bag of Whiskas & a donation😻 - followed by Cayley & her partner 😻thankyou so much to you all for visiting & for the gifts - the cats were over the moon with all the extra hands & laps at their disposal & Darth so happy with all the feet to lie on😂. So wonderful having new, 1st time visitors & I really hope you will all visit us again very soon. Humarah & Hamnah took some amazing photos & sent them through to me to use on the page👏❤ - thankyou for sharing❤. Baby Zoro clearly likes having his photo taken & was a big hit with everyone. I do need to teach the furkids a few manners though, they are very naughty with climbing clothes & getting nosey with the visitors cars😂. Thankyou special peeps❤😻

09/02/2025

GOOD MORNING FROM ARRC- HAPPY SUNDAY🐱🐈❤😻🐾 Been trying to post since this morning but no network 😖

07/02/2025

Would you like to make a difference and virtually adopt a cat for R250 a month? 😻❤ Here are a few more kitties looking to be adopted❤😻

07/02/2025

Huge thankyou to our kitty virtual adopters⭐😻❤ YOU ARE AMAZING

Golly has been adopted by Debbie M❤
Henry has been adopted by Jenny S ❤
Chi Chi has been adopted by Michelle P ❤
Jacob has been adopted by Cait B ❤
Snowflake has been adopted by Valda W ❤

07/02/2025

Thankyou for all the kind words for Daisy❤. It never gets easier - even when you are prepared, but I think it's worse when its sudden or unexpected. It shatters your heart💔. I do believe there is a better place past the rainbow bridge, and I am grateful that, despite how painful & hard it is to do, we can euthenase humanely to prevent suffering. The thought of any animal who has enjoyed a happy, healthy life, leaving it after prolonged suffering is heartbreaking 💔. We have to love them enough to let them go.
On a much happier note - I have a huge thankyou to make to Mandy for another delivery of sachets & cat nip (the cats drug lord😂😂). 4 boxes of sachets & 3 more boxes of nip 😻 - extremely grateful for so much help getting us through till payday❤😻❤😻 you are an angel. Also hugely grateful to Janine & Valda (sponsored Snowflake for a year😻) for funds - much needed for cat food THANKYOU ❤. Too much rain over the last few days🥴 cats are bored & driving me nuts 😂. Shredded loo rolls, overturned water bowls, muddy footprints & shake marks on the floors & walls - hope the sun is shining tomorrow 🙏. As usual - to the cats, the box is a good as the contents it held😂😻 - the kittens have learned already - grab it fast & dont leave it for a second😂😻. Bear & Rags looking non too bright😂 waiting patiently (the only 2 who are patient) for dinner. Zoro & Snoozy having fun in the box😻