Best Friends Sanctuary - Stray/Rescue Coventry

Best Friends Sanctuary - Stray/Rescue Coventry Stray and Rescued Dogs, Cats, Rabbits. Forever Home. Non Profit-Not Registered Charity Status.

22/07/2025



The Sanctuary Angels raise awareness and funds for animals and their rescuers. Angel Grants are currently Β£500. As a voluntary organisation, we rely 100% on public donations. We believe a kinder world for all is possible: www.thesanctuaryangels.com

Please see the other two posts!!
21/07/2025

Please see the other two posts!!

She is scared of dogs..Please see other posts!Search on the page for "Mavis"
21/07/2025

She is scared of dogs..
Please see other posts!
Search on the page for "Mavis"

MAVIS PLEASE SOMEONE APPLY FOR THIS GORGEOUS LADY WHO IS BORED OF  HAVING A SPACIOUS BEDROOM TO LIVE IN!She's on rotatio...
21/07/2025

MAVIS

PLEASE SOMEONE APPLY FOR THIS GORGEOUS LADY WHO IS BORED OF HAVING A SPACIOUS BEDROOM TO LIVE IN!

She's on rotation getting time in a lovely catio etc, but she NEEDS her own home!!!

Please share like crazy!!
I cannot believe no one has asked about her πŸ’”

She would make a perfect first cat!
But prefer to be an ONLY cat/"pet" free home please.

Who wouldn't want to wake up to this biscuit making cutie in the morning!?
Mavis is STILL waiting for someone to want her

She is affectionate and a bit of a lap cat, but also very chilled and is happy to relax and do her own thing while you are busy

She's scared of dogs and doesn't like cats invading her personal space
So can't ideally live with either

I strongly believe she has never lived with any other animals.

Mavis is playful.
Despite being around 5 years old.

She won't ruin your stuff being an older lady, no climbing your curtains.
She's a really good girl who always uses the litter tray.

She does groom herself but needs you to groom her also.

She's super cute but not a carry around cat.
She doesn't care if you work long hours.

She just needs someone to treat her well and respect her for being the clever girl she is that kept herself safe after being evicted/abandoned.
She crossed 8 lanes of traffic in her endeavours to find herself a home!
She chose homes without other animals in the area she was dumped.
Sadly those people didn't have a cat, because they were scared of cats. (How bizarre!)

Please tag a friend who needs a Mavis.
Or share
Preferably both!!!

NO ONE HAS ENQUIRED ABOUT HER 😒

She's beautiful. She's brave. She's clever. She's playful.

To make it quicker and easier please email [email protected] and then pop me message here to tell me you have.

21/07/2025

A conservatory can KILL your animals.
My daughter was friends with a girl who left two dogs in her conservatory while she went shopping...
Both died.
I believe she got a ban from keeping animals!

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21/07/2025

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If you choose to rescue animals, I am going to give you some sound advice - Grow thick skin and don't care what people think of you. I have known people to lose the battle with their minds and we just lost a kind, caring individual in my rescue network. Compassion fatigue is real, but nothing is worth your life. No pet. No rescue. No person's opinion. Nothing.

In rescue, that person that tells you what an angel you are and how wonderful you are every time you pick up a stray pet thrown at their door will also be the first person who tells people how your organization is worthless when you don't have space to pick up the 30th pet thrown off on their property. It's ok.

In rescue, the adopter that leaves you the five star review about how wonderful everyone has been will change that review quick when they return the pet even though you have spent hours trying to keep it in their home. One star reviews are ok.

In rescue, your friend will be your friend until you deny their application for a pet because they are a great friend but a terrible pet owner. That's ok too.

In rescue, you will answer 143 calls in a day (yesterday to be exact). But if you miss 6 calls in a row while you are in the shower, you will be the one who "never answers their phone". It's ok.

In rescue, other rescuers and random trolls will judge everything you do but never have time to pitch in a hand to help when they see something needing more attention. They will, however, have lots of time to talk about how they’d do it better while they harass and judge you. It will be ok.

In rescue, you will have to involve animal control and the police department sometimes. The people who you take pets from will hate you - and I mean REALLY hate you. Trust me, it's ok.

In rescue, pets will be put down and pets will die at the hands of abusers. We can't save them all - and that's ok. We save the ones that we can and pray for peace for the ones we can't.

I have been in the animal rescue world since 2009. I have dealt with every problem and every situation imaginable. I used to take some things to heart, then I realized - I am doing this for the animals, not for any person in this world. I have found my joy and no person will take that. If you are in rescue, don't let anyone or anything take your joy. Find peace that you will never please everyone. Find peace that you will never save them all. Never allow something you love to turn into something that ends your life.

By: Tiffany Rebecca

20/07/2025

Unfortunately...
The last colony I worked on...

A charity offered to pay for ALL cats to be neutered.
Don't get too excited...

This did NOT include anything else like flea and wormer, food or microchips.

Sadly because I choose to microchip ALL the cats I neuter, for back up.. (because WHY should a cat get PTS just because they have an abscess and ear tip and no chip?) the charity made getting neutering appointments impossible after that.

It went from the vets they use saying they had about 6 vets on and could always fit more cats in, to NO neutering for months..

No problem, I had already started neutering others at a different vet.
So I carried on doing a few here and there.

I did at least 10...
Meantime quite a few cats " disappeared"

Most kittens were taken by locals or the postie etc...one was dumped back because obviously they went crazy when let out in a home WITHOUT getting advice first 😱😿

But adults were going missing too.
It went from minimum 30 cats not including multiple kittens, to about 15-20 adults and one or two kittens.

As it turned out, this ("honest") charity, was behind the scenes, poking the bear, spreading malicious gossip.

They even got one employee to REPORT BACK exactly how many cats I was trapping each time!

She actually came out and counted them!!! Then RAN back in to ring the head of the charity 🀣🀣

Nothing like subtlety eh!

After I had neutered every cat I could get... fairly easily (staying for hours at a time sometimes) things came to a head there because the charity had told the ladies there that it was ok( their "ethics" not mine!) to give the cats away FREE to anyone that wanted them...

And this is a charity that is SUPPOSED to deal with and care about ferals!

So the cats were given away. When I was asked to hand over the last lot I had ready to return, I'm afraid relations broke down.
I was completely willing to carry on, but with a tense situation due to me sensing an " undercurrent" as I called it, I stepped back and waited for the business to contact me... After I had told them exactly what I did and didn't agree with and what I was and was not happy to participate in.

My messages got no response to that.

I reached out recently to check back in only to find that this "charitable" organisation had not bothered to find them ANY appointments with me out of the picture!
Not one cat had they trapped there at all! Not one cat had they agreed to fit in for neutering.

So guess what!???

Yes!

There's now potentially FIVE PREGNANT FEMALES...!!!

Work that out.
Their babies will almost total the WHOLE ORIGINAL COLONY!!!

It's ironic people in rescue are saying I'm not one (due to not being able to access THOUSANDS of pounds of funds available to ALL charities!)

This charity has put this colony back to square one!

Pointless!

Shameful

This is why I don't have any allegiance to local ones.

You can't "care about cats" but ONLY yours....

Moral of this story, if you're a rescue/charity, TRY to learn to be professional and don't ruin the lives of cats while claiming to be up there with the best!
Don't spread malicious gossip hindering cats!

Had they not insisted on meddling, EVERY CAT there would have been neutered, chipped, flea and worm treated by me and put back!
(Except the sick kittens I took)

People please see what's going on...
It's petty!
And causing harm

There is now another rescue going to a colony I've finished.. looking for the cats and posting them on FB asking who"owns " them...

Plenty of cats abandoned and neglected out there for us all to stop muscling in on others...!

Kitten + Panacur 🀣😈
19/07/2025

Kitten + Panacur
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😈

19/07/2025

Celebrating my 9th year on Facebook. Thank you for your continuing support. I could never have made it without you. πŸ™πŸ€—πŸŽ‰

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