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Rescue Story: Blue’s Happy Ending
Outside on the porch, looking in. No one knows where Blue came from, but he certainly chose the right front porch to visit. At the beginning of December 2016 a friend I’ve known for years messaged me...
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Rescue Story: A Sweet Ginger Cast-off, Sun-Ra
Sun-Ra In another of my rescue stories Tess and her Boys, I mentioned a couple of neighbors who nearly annually brought me a female cat, usually with kittens, sometimes a male or a pair of brothers....
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Rescue Story: What Are The Chances?
The scene that night. How many times have you thought you saw a cat while driving…and how many times was it really a cat? For most rescuers, that would be pretty much every time. Our eyes and brain...
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Rescue Story: Toussaint and Petite Fleur, in Memory of Mlle.
Fleurette, at the top, Toussaint, bottom We are just past the anniversary of the day in 2011 when Mlle. Daisy Emerald Marguerite saw a photo of Giuseppe’s handsome face and her human caretaker...
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Rescue Story: A Little Baby Foster Kitten
In fact, the world does revolve around me. SEPTEMBER 25 IS the anniversary of the arrival of neonatal foster kitten Fromage, who was found caught in a bramble bush in an abandoned lot screeching for...
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Rescue Story: Moses, My Favorite Feral Cat
“A Rosy Glow”, pastel, 15″ x 11″, 1997 © Bernadette E. Kazmarski I lovingly remember my first feral kitten each year on Feral Cat Day. She taught me that love is worth waiting for. “I caught this...
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Rescue Story: Coming Back Home
Nikka She heard voices outside, coming toward the door, and even though she knew none of them was his, she still raised her head and lifted her ears. The voices walked past the door of her apartment,...
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Rescue Story: Instant Old Friends
Peaches and Kelly have the bedroom all to themselves. You just never know where you’ll meet another cat lover. The only sure thing is that you will meet them, even when you’re just on a simple quick...
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Rescue Story: Cast Away
The sign I made for the lost kitten (from 1997). Animals often join our lives to move us along in some place where we may be stagnating or to introduce something new to our lives aside from themselves....
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Rescue Story: Spot Changes His Spots
Sleeping. Who says an adult cat can’t change his spots? That’s how it worked out for Spot. When a new cat shows up at the feeding station on the porch, he doesn’t typically have a note with his resume...
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Rescue Story: What Are The Chances?
The scene that night. How many times have you thought you saw a cat while driving…and how many times was it really a cat? For most rescuers, that would be pretty much every time. Our eyes and brain...
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Rescue Story: Resourceful Mom Cat Gets Her Kittens Rescued
Kittens and mom. Well, her kittens did get rescued, and because of that she did too, but it might not have been the safest place to stash them. Employees of a department store at a local mall heard...
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Rescue Story: So a Cat Walks Into a Meeting…
Henry on his first night in my basement. Recent rescue stories have been kind of grim lately so I thought I’d share a funny one from 10 years ago. I originally published this story in 2012. It’s not a...
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Adopt A Cat Month: Never Underestimate a Senior Kitty
Peaches and Cream at their first home. THIS IS THE STORY of the calico sisters Rosebud and Angel, who became Peaches and Cream, and above is the very first photo I saw of them, the one given to me by...
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Rescue Story: Cats Know Who to Choose
“A Nap on the Feed Sacks”, watercolor, 4″ x 6″, 1994 © Bernadette E. Kazmarski I’d intended to write up a little rescue story from the mid-80s and to illustrate the story I wanted to photograph the...
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Rescue Story: A Sweet Ginger Cast-off, Sun-Ra
Sun-Ra In another of my rescue stories Tess and her Boys, I mentioned a couple of neighbors who nearly annually brought me a female cat, usually with kittens. They were nearly always older kittens and...
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Rescue Story: Moses, My First Feral Cat
“A Rosy Glow”, pastel, 15″ x 11″, 1997 © Bernadette E. Kazmarski I lovingly remember my first feral kitten each year around Feral Cat Day. She taught me that love is worth waiting for. “I caught this...
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Some Seasonal Reading to Rest and Relax
Cookie’s full of holiday cheer. Happy Holidays, and here’s to a Happy New Year to come! No new merchandise, no sales, just links to articles and stories you may have seen before but I think you’ll...
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Marketplace: Start Your New Year With “Great Rescues Day Book”
Great Rescues Day Book, cover and two-page spread. If you enjoy my rescue stories and my artwork, you can have, or give as a gift, a year’s worth of my portraits and rescue stories in Great Rescues Day...
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Rescue Story: Cast Away
The sign I made for the lost kitten (from 1997). I first wrote this story in 2014 when I found a copy of the “found kitty” sign in my files. There was so much to tell that I wrote it in two parts, but...
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