Hundred Acre Wood South

04/04/2022

😆 I've discovered over the years that it's best to just enjoy the entertainment they provide and not be bothered trying to figure out how they manage to pull off stuff like this. 🤣

We have long been accustomed to the fact that many cats do not like to listen to their owners and in every possible way deny the rules of the human world. But some furry ones do not stop there and decide not to even recognize the laws of physics! Cats manage to fold into incredible poses, ...

25/05/2021

😿 As much as I'd like to rescue every little furry prodigal and homeless waif, HAWS is limited financially and labor-wise as to how many is too many to provide proper care physically, medically, and emotionally.

With six new rescues in April and Mizz Oreo unexpectedly squeezing out four precious babies last weekend, that point has been reached and I must hang out the sign for now.

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18/05/2020

I'm sure it's just a complete coincidence that I stumbled across this after putting up four different bird feeders today. 😲

21/04/2020

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22/03/2020

8-) My vision for Hundred Acre Wood South is constantly evolving. It has always included furkids and always will but its purpose is moving ever closer to being a sanctuary of sorts...mostly for cast off and differently-abled cats. It's not as though I've had an epiphany, but rather learned from others and the furkids themselves.

One very important thing I learned was from my older brother, Jim. He believes even strays and feral colony cats deserve a chance at life and some love from us hoomans. They end up returning it. I also learned the strong will and tenacity of cats from Tripod who spent thirteen years never caring or letting the fact that he only had three legs limit him. WaldoKat showed me how deep their love for others can be when he became BanditPup's "seeing eye cat" when he began to go blind. Watching him grieve for weeks after Bandit crossed the Rainbow Bridge also taught me love knows no bounds including species. HAWS will never look the other way if there is any way to rescue and rehome. That's why I took in the Hemingway Gang last October and Snaggletooth and Blanche two weeks ago.

That's why I'm so very happy to announce that HAWS has completed its first rehoming. Blanche was never totally happy about being an indoor-only cat and managed to escape twice in a week. I always found her two doors up where she was evidently comfortable and waiting for the previous couple to show back up. Since she had decided to live outdoors at will and had already made friends with the little boy, I spoke to the new neighbors and asked if they were willing to feed her and give her some loving. The mother just smiled and told me they had moved from a place where they had chickens and goats and her four-year-old son already knew how to care for animals...and had begged her to the max to "let the kitty stay." So Blanche is "back home" in a manner of speaking and has a couple of new friends that will love on her. That's all I can ask so it's a done deal. Success #1.

A few hours later another neighbor stopped by and asked if I had taken the black cat in. I said yes and that she was probably just days away from giving birth. She got all excited and made me promise to let her adopt one as a companion to her puppy. So it looks like Snag's first kid will have a new mommy and a best furbuddy too...and HAWS will have succeeded at saving another one in the process.

I can only hope and pray that this is the beginning of what will be an ongoing rescue & rehome project. I can't save them all but I will save the ones I can.

20/03/2020

This is just a simple fact of life at Hundred Acre Wood South. 😸