Cats in The Valley at Rustic Hollow Shelter have weekend guests

The furballs that call our special needs sanctuary their 'fur'ever home had a delightful gathering of 'company' today. "Company" always bring treats and they are well appreciated from the purrs and meows I heard today as we traveled building to building to visit each and every furball that reside there.  Though some tend to be semi-feral (wild) the majority are the 'meet and greet' kind of cats. And Becca in The Kat Barn is a kind of 'wrap around your neck furpiece' kind of cat. She's tiny, she's cute and no one seems to mind wearing the 'Becca furpiece' as they visit different areas of The Kat Barn. The Kat Barn 'is what it is' a remodeled 1913 Barn. In fact, The Kat Barn has been under remodeling mode since 1985 when we first started to house the cats that had been dumped, brought, or arrived on paws to our home. The Kat Barn was the first and original Kat house for a group of felines that we (Wanda and I-she's the W in the C & W) decided that if we were going to be responsible 'pet parents' we needed to get all of the drop-offs, dumpees and guests neutered or spayed and vaccinated. And I was concerned about our wildlife predators that would come down the driveway or sneak in from the wooded areas behind the buildings and attack and kill the cats. So, every night the felines would be herded into the 'barn' by myself and two wonderful shepherd dogs who's job it was to see that the lagging behind felines were nudged gently into the barn. Doors would be shut....but at that time the barn had quite a few 'leaks' as we called them and a cat would emerge from a hole, here or there, and over and out again. It took some years but one day it became a fact that we no longer had any 'leaks' in The barn and we began our rescue officially finding homes for cats and continuing to s/n and vaccinate. Thus began what, unbeknown to us, would be the beginning of C & W's Rustic Hollow Shelter.