Rico’s Refuge Cat Rescue

03/17/2025

Six kids saw the vet today, including five females and Mr. Crimson, pictured below! No more baby-making for this crew 🥳 A huge thank you to Joanna for raising some funds to go toward this vet visit!!

03/07/2025

Little Violet is still waiting for her adoptable family!! She’s super sweet, cuddly, and loves to play! Violet is quite the biscuit maker, and will bring her people so much joy every day with her fun antics! She loves naps in bed, and playing with her cat and dog friends. Violet has such a tiny meow, and rolls over for pets and scratches, with butt and chin scratches being her favourite! She really is such an easy-going gal!

Violet is spayed, microchipped, has age-appropriate vaccines, and has been dewormed and flea/tick/earmite-treated.
Send us a message for more information 💕

02/15/2025

Congratulations to Stewart (now “Sonny”) on finding the most loving people 🥳
This former spicy boy found true love in his adoptive mom and dad (shoutout to adoptive dad for loving all the fur babies despite his allergies). I could not be happier for this handsome guy🥹 His pawrents understood it may take patience and time for Sonny to get comfy, and were ready to put in the work. Thank you again for taking a chance on this shy guy!
Enjoy some cute pics of Sonny in his furever home

02/10/2025

✨Taking Applications✨

Violet is about 3.5 months old! This cutie patootie certainly acts her age. She loves to play with her springs and ball tower, and enjoys carrying her fuzzy crinkle toys around too!
Violet can be a bit shy at first, but warms up very quickly, and, when she does, loooves to get all the pets and cuddles! She enjoys watching cat tv, or taking naps in odd places (we once found her just chillin’ in a sweater 😂), and I need to mention her absolutely stunning coat; photos just don’t do her beauty justice!
Violet comes from a colony of 20+ cats, many needing additional TLC (enucleations, casting, etc.), but all of whom have since been vetted 🥳

Though she was a little spicy when she joined us, this bundle of fun is ready to settle in with her people! Violet would thrive in a home with cat friends she can run around and cuddle with, and she also loves dogs!
She does wonderfully for nail trims, has great litter habits, and is just an all-around joy. If you would like to learn more about Violet, don’t hesitate to reach out via message or email ([email protected]) ☺️
Her adoption includes spay, age-appropriate vaccinations, microchip, nail trim, flea/tick/earmite treatment, and deworming.

02/08/2025

Anyone else feeling like Sandy going into the weekend 😂

01/26/2025

Well, it’s official… Coconut was adopted!! 🥹🥳
Her foster parents just couldn’t handle the thought of her going anywhere. This is an especially tear-jerking one for me, as she was adopted by people near and dear to my heart. What started as their way of helping out a friend, has led to what I think is truly a very happy ending ❤️ (shoutout to them for getting this wiggly worm to sit still for this 😂)

01/23/2025

🐾410 days in care 🐾
Me again - with another reminder that Coconut is still available for adoption! I have no idea how this cute, goofy, zoomie-having, fly-chasing princess is still with us! Just look at those soulful eyes 🥰
If you would like to learn more about Coconut, please send us a message, or email [email protected]

01/13/2025

Some super duper exciting news…
🎉After over a year, Peach has been adopted!!!🎉

Peach, now Bikkit, has been settling into her new home very well! As such a shy gal while she learns to trust, she truly won the lottery with her paw-rents, and her fur-sibling, Beans 🥰
Biscuit is already exploring, taking treats from her people, and enjoying her cat TV! Thank you to her adopters, from the bottom of my heart, for adopting this former [very] spicy lady ❤️
Peep some of her cuteness below!

01/05/2025

A wee bit of a delay, but Happy Adoption to Iris, Bruce, and Nala, who all found wonderful homes 🥰 I am super grateful to their people for choosing to adopt!
We also found a wonderful barn placement for 3 of our less socialized friends. A huge thank you to C & L Farmgate for helping us over the past few years ❤️

12/22/2024

Nothing beats happy progression updates!! We’re about 50% of the way through her treatment, but look at those [functional] soulful eyes ❤️
Sandy is not out of the woods yet, but she can see again, jump and climb, and is the happiest little lady - she has even put on some weight!

12/14/2024

❄️ 367 days in care, and Lady Coconut is still waiting for her family to find her ❄️

12/14/2024

Free to Akwesasne members residing in any Akwesasne district. Winter Cat Shelter Workshop. We receive many messages from people who have been caring for cats since spring/summer. While we wish that we had an actual shelter to house all the cats, at this time we do not. This is a way to help those community cats. The next step you can do is spay and neuter them. We currently can fund 20 shelters, we are looking for a business sponsor or individuals to help pay for more shelters to be built. If we receive a donation we can have some kids come to the class and build the cat shelter as community service hours. Please message us if you can sponsor and help the rez cats of Akwesasne have a warm shelter for the winter. 🐾❤️🐈‍⬛🐾🐈
Community cats need love and compassion too! They didn’t ask to be left uncared for. Let’s do what we can to help them.
Register by email: [email protected]

12/02/2024

Happy Monday 🥳
Seven kids saw the vet today! We had one enucleation, two ears infected, and a mouth full of severe gingivitis (does this sound like a remixed Christmas jingle to anyone else lol). Can you guess who is very excited to medicate some spicy cats for the next three weeks? 😂
We are wrapping up our final colony of the year before taking a much needed break to focus on the cats in care. This has been an emotionally taxing colony, with more cats and surprises than anticipated.

A huge thank you and shoutout to the wonderful couple caring for these cats. They are dedicated to the safety and well-being of sooo many stray and unsocialized cats, and go above and beyond ensuring the cats have the finest accommodations, daily meals, love, and vetting. There are so many cats out there, and ignoring them doesn’t make the problem go away. Rescue can be straight-up depressing 😂 but we have had the privilege of meeting some truly kind, compassionate people on this journey, so thank you! ❤️
As always: please spay and neuter, and don’t ignore those without the luxury of a home!

11/27/2024

It is with great sadness I share that Riley gained his wings today. He was a sweet boy, who knew love and kindness in his final days.
Our page will remain silent for 24 hours to honour Riley’s memory. We will not respond to messages during this time.

11/25/2024

Another urgent intake. Please spay and neuter your pets, and those without homes, to help break the cycle and end the suffering 💔 We can all make a difference.

11/24/2024

🐾Help Needed🐾

6-month-old Elliott has FIP. Foster Mom came home and found him in this state after otherwise being health. He cannot see, has begun bumping into walls, and the discharge and swelling/hair loss around his eyes has gotten worse. Neurological/ocular FIP can progress very quickly, meaning treatment has to be started ASAP. Unfortunately, his sister is currently being treated for same, so the suggested diagnosis didn’t come as a surprise.
The first month of Elliott’s treatment has cost us $612. Elliott requires three months of treatment, and monthly bloodwork, which will cost us roughly $2400 when it’s all said and done.

These unexpected costs mean a substantial delay in providing vetting to colonies. I know it’s a crazy time of year, and honestly just a crazy time to be alive, but we could really use all the help we can get.
Donations can be sent to [email protected], and we would be very grateful for donations of alcohol empties. We’re also more than happy to pick-up donations as well! Every dollar makes a huge difference for us. Please share for little Elliott!

11/17/2024

Thank you so much to Angie and the whole Kibble 4 Paws team for everything they do for so many animals and organizations ❤️

11/13/2024

Happening tomorrow at 6pm at Diversity/Diversité Cornwall!

Tomorrow is our final youth yoga session and we will have KITTENS! This event will be open to 2SLGBTQ+ youth ages 8+. It is free to attend and registration is not required.

Thanks to Keep The Faith Cat Rescue for bringing the kittens for tomorrow’s yoga session, to Farhana for leading us in gentle yoga, and to MLSE Foundation for their generous support of Diversity/Diversité Cornwall youth fitness programming. We are so excited to see you tomorrow!