Rainbow's Bridge Animal Rescue - RBAR

Rainbow's Bridge Animal Rescue - RBAR Small scale GTA cat rescue. Please help: Spay/ neuter, vaccinate, microchip & keep your own pet!

LOCATION: Oakville, ON L6H 6J5

Adoption Application: https://form.jotform.com/243535354095055

Moment of truth: This s**t is HARD. Papa has gone from loving & trusting implicitly back to hissing & fleeing & running...
06/01/2026

Moment of truth: This s**t is HARD. Papa has gone from loving & trusting implicitly back to hissing & fleeing & running because he feels unsafe & threatened now that we have to medicate him EVERY. SINGLE. DAY FOR 84 DAYS.

This isn't a domesticated house cat, this is a fearful/ borderline feral that took 10 months to realize how much he was loved & how safe he is to nearly completely regressing in 5 days of treatment. We have 79 days left of chasing this epic & loving & forgiving soul just trying to save his life. He can't understand that we're doing this for him or how deeply I love him or how much he means to me. He just sees the person he loved & trusted is no longer safe & comfy, she's scary... and that breaks my soul.

This is me completely soul crushed, sobbing & out of steam. Exhausted from days that start at 6AM, end at midnight & now enter FIP...

You'll see one of our board of directors Alicia trying to talk me off the ledge cause I can't stop sobbing because I'm exhausted, depleted, maxed, out but 36 souls are relying on us so here we are. If it weren't for her showing up every day to help me medicate sweet Papa, I don't know what I'd do.

All that to say, THANK YOU, for all you do to keep us going & a special thanks to A for showing up every single day to save these little lives. It takes a VILLAGE & we truly have the best! ♥️🐾

♥️ ALMOST THERE RBAR COMMUNITY! JUST 22 NUMBERS LEFT ONBTHE BOARD, NESRLY 80% SOLD OUT! HELP US CLOSE THIS OUT & DRAW T...
05/31/2026

♥️ ALMOST THERE RBAR COMMUNITY! JUST 22 NUMBERS LEFT ONBTHE BOARD, NESRLY 80% SOLD OUT!

HELP US CLOSE THIS OUT & DRAW TODAY! 🥳🥳🥳

1. $20/ Square
2. IM, DM or comment your selected number
3. We'll confirm it's available
4. Etransfer to [email protected]

Remaining numbers on the board:
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www.rainbowsbridgeanimalrescue.com

05/29/2026

♥️ Can you help us close out our fundraiser board this weekend? $1,000 for ONE Lucky community member & $1,000 towards the animals in care!

Currently, in one month between veterinary expenses, food & litter, our expenses are more than $8,000! Can you imagine!

Finnigan's Vet bills: $2,700
Papa's vet bills: $2,600
Gracie's vet bills (Tree kitty): $850
Food & Litter: $2,000

That's one month of care for just 3 cats under RBAR'S care out of 30!

Want to buy a square for a chance to win $1,000!

1. Select 1 or more numbers
2. Comment, DM, PM, text 🤣 To confirm your numbers are available
3. Upon confirmation of your numbers availability, please etransfer $20/ Square that you've selected
4. Tune in when we sell out the board & announce the winner of $1,000!

Thank you for your ongoing support, kindness & advocacy for the animals! ♥️🐾

www.rainbowsbridgeanimalrescue.com

05/28/2026

♥️ I don't think I have the words to convey how hard these souls work to trust again, but I'm going to try.

Papa was found to be living under a shed, protecting a mama & her 4 kittens. When the trapper went out to secure mama & kittens, she shared that Papa had been wandering the neighbourhood for months, unclaimed, no family, visiting multiple yards & homes for food & water. He wouldn't allow touching, he wouldn't go near a humans. When the trapper messaged & asked if they should get him too, we said of course.

When we say yes, we don't require that they behave properly, we don't require that they are touchable or handleable or even healthy, RBAR is about the souls that won't have another place to land. These ones will be TNR'd & released if they land anywhere else because the time, energy & space required to socialize ferals, fearfuls & restore & rehabilitate medical cases is long, arduous, costly & painstaking - But we don't care, that's exactly who we're here for, the souls that won't get a shot elsewhere & truly the place that intakes from other rescues when they won't behave in a way that allows adoption fast enough. Can I tell you what an honour that is? How grateful we are to be seen as the safe space for "unadoptables".

Why does this matter in Papa's case? It's like a mirror to Spirit's... Arrived airplane eared, lunging, spitting, saucer eyed. We would get lunged at sliced, attacked for trying to clean litter & provide clean food, water, toys, wands, tube treat, etc. Anything we do with these types of intakes is a threat to them. But we do it daily & we do it lovingly & we do it patiently, through many tears & much exhaustion.

Papa & I had forged such a trusting & loving bond over these months, he had flourished with the love & care of the RBAR volunteers & we were just patiently awaiting his forever family... And BAM, FIP... 10 Months in care, the exact amount of months Spirit was in care before he fell very ill as well... It's such an oddity that these completely fearful souls finally release, decompress & trust & are hit with devastating illness but again, they're in the right place, CONT'D...

05/27/2026

🚨 RBAR'S 2nd invoice for Papa's FIP TREATMENT!

PAPA'S TOTAL VET BILLS IN 48 HOURS: $2,607.68
TOTAL FOR TODAY: $881.40
TOTAL FROM YESTERDAY: $1,726.28
TOTAL DONATIONS RECEIVED: $425
AMOUNT REMAINING: $2,182.68

♥️ Every donation helps - Etransfer [email protected]

05/26/2026

🚨 PLEASE HELP US SAVE PAPA'S LIFE!

We've been hit with devastating news today, our sweet Papa has been diagnosed with FIP. FIP is Feline Infectious Peritonitis. It is a complex, progressive, and historically fatal viral disease in cats caused by an abnormal immune reaction to the common feline coronavirus. However, TODAY - THERE IS TREATMENT! And the chance of survival is over 80%!

Papa's medication arrives tomorrow & we'll be 84 days of treatment to health & wellness & nothing is going to stand in the way of providing Papa the very best care!

Papa had been thriving in care, loving life waiting for his furever family & all of a sudden, started feeling under the weather.

After so many healthy, thriving months in care, we were shocked to learn the feline coronavirus can lay dormant in wait & awake at any moment & here we are today.

Papa has helped countless cats at RBAR acclimate to the good life, he has blossomed in care & we are equally dedicated to ensuring he has the opportunity to carry on living his best life!

PLEASE HELP US SAVE PAPA'S LIFE!

Today's vet bill is $1,726.68.
FIP medication will be: $780+tax

ETRANSFER: [email protected]

05/25/2026

♥️ Welcome Sweet Bandit!

Sweet Bandit came to us recently as a result of what we were initially told was a park dump. We received a message from a community member sharing they found a lone kitten in a box, in a park, late at night! Of course, we went into triage mode because this is a near worst case scenario, a single kitten? There's never a single kitten, there would be have been more, what about a mama? Box closed or open, tall or short? Is the kitten responsive, any wounds, any lethargy, any bleeding, conjunctivitis, diarrhea, upper respiratory, deformities. This is the triage that's goes through a rescuers mind when they get a message at 11:30 at night that a lone kitten was found in a box in a park...

Fast forward to the truth, while we understand it can be scary & uncomfortable, HONESTY IS ALWAYS THE BEST POLICY! It's what allows us to skip the panic, triage & urgency that we would treat a park dump with & approach the circumstance with more time & patience. Bandit ended up being a Kijiji purchase, just like Charlie! This young person had wanted a cat for so long, but weren't allowed a pet in the home... We've all made brash decisions in the moment & then perhaps realized a different path would have been best but here we were at midnight with a lone kitten that needed intake.

We appreciate Bandit's person sharing the true situation with us as we were able to learn that Bandit had no vetting, was 8 weeks old & while quite skinny, he was in great shape all around. Our first trip to the vet was immediately on intake to ensure wellness! And we were back today at the clinic for his 1st FVRCP!

Bandit is one of the lucky ones, bright, seemingly healthy, his humanad advocated for him to land in rescue versus trying to return to a BYB & for that we're grateful! Because Bandit won't be a statistic, Bandit won't be another wondering Tom cat, losing his life to disease, to coyotes, to cars or cruel people, he'll have advocacy & that's because his human cared for his wellbeing and wanted to ensure he would be loved & cared for all his days!

Bandit is sweet, energetic, playful, loving, trusting, curious, does great with his zoo crew here at R

05/22/2026

♥️ Happy Friday! King here, reporting from THE GOOD LIFE with my new mom & brother! I'm spoiled, adored, snuggled & cuddled & I couldn't be happier! 🥰🥰🥰

The good life suits you, buddy! So happy to see you thriving with your forever family, Mama + Diesel! ♥️🐾

Think an RBAR Adoptable is the fit for your family? Email us at [email protected] or complete an application at www.rainbowsbridgeanimalrescue.com

Even though this purrfect fella is adopted, there are still so many more little loves waiting for loving families just like King's! 🥰🥳

05/20/2026

♥️ Mac & Cheese Heart Explosion! Mama Lola is doing a truly magnificent job at caring for her littles. They're strong, curious, adventurous observers, exploring a new corner of their enclosure daily!

Happy 1 Month Birthday, Mac & Cheese! We're so very grateful you landed here with us at RBAR. Your mama & Papa are such sweet souls, we knew you'd be equally lovely!

Mac & Cheese are available for pre-adoption! If you feel these ginger boys are the fit for you, complete an application at www.rainbowsbridgeanimalrescue.com

Bonded pair adoption fee: $550
Included:
• Neuter
• FVRCP x 2
• Rabies
• Microchip
• Dewormer
• Revolution
• Any additional care to provide wellness ♥️🐾

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Oakville, ON
L6H6J5

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