Healing Paws Cat Sanctuary is relocating
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Well I have good news and I have bad news for those following our 2 year long legal battle with Volusia County, FL. The good news is PROBATE HAS OFFICALLY ENDED WOO HOO!! According to our attorney we can now move forward with selling the current sanctuary and purchasing a new property OUT OF VOLUSIA COUNTY. I am back to looking for the purrfect place to call home. Hopefully we can be relocated as soon as end of October. Once we have found the purrfect future sanctuary we will update here. Now for the bad news. As some know I have been dealing with several medical issues over the last 6 months. Over that time I've had and contuine to have many tests run and continue to see many specialists. So far the news has not been the best news. As like many others did because of covid I put off all my yearly routine exams and now I'm paying for it. I'm currently in the process of being checked for ovarian cancer. This is one that you dont realize you have until it's to late most of the time. I've had symptoms for several months and didn't realize they were that until I had tests come back abnormal. I've also been diagnosed with a liver hemangioma which is a mass made up of blood vessels. Treatment for this is to have the section of liver where the mass is removed which is the current plan. However before my drs. move forward with this they want to do exploratory abdominal laparotomy surgery to make sure there is nothing else lurking around... We are still moving forward with relocating the sanctuary first and formost thru all this and I will contuine to update on both the relocation and my health issues as things move forward. Beacuse of all of my many extra medical bills over the last several months and the continuning bills that insurance doesn't cover the sanctuaries funds are running extremely low. I have updated our Amazon and Chewy wish lists to show the items we desperatly need at this time like cat chow complete dry, clumping litter and can cat food (any kind) You can find our wish lists under Healing Paws Cat Sanctuary on each site. You can also donate here on our site by clicking the PLEASE DONATE button or the GOFUNDME button both located below. Thank you for all the prayers and well wishes... Running a rescue is just like raising a child as it takes a village so PLEASE continue to share and donate!!
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Our caregiver Jackie is very sick.. Yet she still makes sure we are well cared for before her own needs. PLEASE help us raise funds to keep the Sanctuary funded so she can concentrate on getting better.
Healing Paws Cat Sanctuary is a all feral cat rescue
Meet Audie
Meet Audie ( it means noble strength) the inspiration for Healing Paws Cat Sanctuary .. 5 yrs ago before the Sanctuary existed someone contacted me about a VERY sick litter of (5) 2 week old kittens that didn't have a momma an 1 was VERY small an seemed to have an issue with her back legs an couldn't walk right .. Well ofcourse I took them in .. I knew as soon as they made it to me they had distemper an were all on deaths door .. I worked thru the night administering meds,fluids an love but unfortunately 4 of them passed ... All EXCEPT the runt with the nerve damage (as we would later diagnose) ... she barely weighed 4oz an was still so sick .. I kept treating her an loving on her day an night an after weeks of care Audie went on to make a full recovery of the distemper .. We would later learn she had nerve damage in both back legs that would be permanent BUT she don't let that stop her from running around like a idiot at 3am with her siblings!! Audie is gonna be 5 in Aug an weighs in at only 5.4lbs .. she is just a petite little thing but has a HUGE personality to make up for it ... It was then that I realized there wasn't anywhere for feral like her to live safely as in the wild she would not have survived.. An this is how Healing Paws came to be .. a 4oz little nugget that had the will an fight to survive deserved somewhere safe to call home 🐱💕