If you look to your right and scroll down just a bit, you’ll see I have a new donation widget up. I could not have a birthday month without also having a drive to raise money for a deserving cat rescue. With all the disasters and upheavals happening recently, I wanted to remind all of you that there are organizations out there that do great work day in and day out — that still need donations to keep running. I chose The Cat House on the Kings for a number of different reasons: like me, it is located in California (it’s about four hours north of Los Angeles just before you hit Fresno); it is the state’s largest no-kill cat sanctuary; and it’s home to unwanted cats, an adoption center and it works with local vets to provide low-cost spay and neutering. But mere facts can’t explain how magical this place is. Many of you have seen this video before, but it is worth watching again.
If you can’t see the video above, click here to watch it on YouTube.
Founder Lynea Lattanzio does not have to dream of Cat Island — she has created her own version of it. And even better, you can adopt any of these cats. Lynea would love nothing better than to see these kitties happily homed. And she has done that thousands of times! Currently, The Cathouse on the Kings has over 700 feline residents, about a dozen or so dogs (plus some goats), but in its 19-year history it has adopted out 18,000 cats, 5,000 dogs, and spayed and neutered 40,000 animals! You can see why I wanted to feature The Cat House on the Kings as my birthday donation pledge!
There are a number of different ways you can help keep The Cat House on the Kings running. You can donate via my widget to the right, or donate directly on their website. Did you know that if you sell on eBay, you can donate a portion of your sale proceeds to them? Or there is my favorite: you can sponsor a kitty (or even **cough, cough** a dog, if that is your preference)! Visit their contribute page for these, and many more ways to give.
While you’re partying on my blog this month, I hope you take a moment to click on the ChipIn Widget and send along some of your good cheer to this very worthy sanctuary!
Purr, Purr…what a wonderful birthday present you have here! We knew about The Cat House on the Kings, but this is a great reminder to donate to a wonderful sanctuary and even better cuz it celebrates your birthday!
We gave a little Sparkle!
What a wonderful place and mommy also wishes, just as Katnip Lounge mommy does, to live there.
We will donate in honor of your Birfdai Sparkle!
What a great place! We hope you raise lots of $$$ for it!!
DONE!!
What a great place and a great cause. Thanks for spreading the word about them.
We love that video of Cat House on the Kings. It is such an awesome place and so worthy of you featuring it for donations. Good choice Sparkle!
What a great place!! Everyone looks happy living there!
This place is amazing—I doubt if the cats would even want to leave!
What a great cause, Sparkle. That looks like cat paradise!
How wonderful. Hopefully the publicist will have some extra monies soon
What a great place to help out! YEAH Sparkle.
That place sounds amazing! And you are right – sometimes we rush to donate to those in emergency situations, but we cannot forget to support our local shelters.
What a great place. Thanks for telling us about it.
pawhugs, Max
Sparkle, thanks for sharing this with us. We had not heard of them before, but what a special place that is! We love that all of the kitties are available for adoption and the woofies too. Mom just got a crazy idea that this would be an awesome place for us to adopt our next dog from because the woofies are 100% proven to love kitties! Ha!
Mommy wants to live there. And take us with!
That’s such a wonderful place and they’ve helped so many animals! We’ll get our mommy to help us donate this month too!
Such a wonderful place!!! We’ll send them some green papers before your birthday month is over!
What a wonderful place for the cats and dogs to live – and they get on so well together.
If only there were more places like this.
Luv Hannah and Lucy xx xx
Oh Sparkle – that is a fabulous. Since being on Twitter for 2+ years, I’ve seen lots of videos come through on difgferent animal rescue sites. This is the best I’ve ever seen. If I had to live in a shelter, this is the one I’d like to be at. It’s cat heaven.
That is a super place to contribute to. That video is fantastic. She is an amazing and special person to do all that for those animals. I hope lots of people donate. Can;t think of a better place to give money to. Take care.
Wonderful Feature of The Cat House on the Kings and Great Birthday Gift for you, Sparkle.
Sparkle, what a wonderful sanctuary the Cat House on the Kings is! A very good cause indeed! I will make the Mom get out her Paypal password for me.
A lovely cause my dear.