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An Angel visits the Cat House At the end of September, The Cat House on the Kings was visited by a little angel on earth, 7 year old Kaylie Bergen. Sadly, Kaylie was diagnosed in February 2010 with a very rare brain stem tumor, for which she is being aggressively treated. Cud- dling with the kitties at the King County Pet Adoption Center in Kent Washington helped Kaylie cope with chemotherapy treatments, so much so that her family decided to bring animals home to be fostered. Kaylie absolutely loves fostering and has helped close to 100 kitties in the past year. The entire family is involved, mom Christy, Dad Russ, and brother Dylan have all gotten into the act and dedicated one bedroom just for the fos- ter cats. Since I missed their visit, I asked Kaylie’s mom, Christy, to fill me in on the reason for their trip to our shelter. I am printing her response, as there is no way I could say it better: We first saw The Cat House on the Kings on TV. With Kaylie’s love for cats I often search the TV guide for good cat shows to record. We all love cats, but Kaylie LOVES cats :) I think we saw it first on “Must Love Cats” but it was the full hour special, “The lady with 700 cats” that got Kaylie really wanting to come for a visit. I looked on the website and was so happy to see daily tours were available, and af- ter telling Kaylie’s story we were offered a room for the night. Talk about excitement at our house when I got off the phone....a sleepover with 700 cats, better than Dis- neyland! She was so excited and giggly on the drive down from Seattle and right when we arrived and went through the gate, a cat hopped up into her lap for some love, and another 5 were around her wheelchair- she was overjoyed! She loved everything about our visit to the Cat House, she loved each and every cat there and loved that they are everywhere. She loved the golf cart ride which a cat and dog joined us on. She loves Lynea, she is truly her hero and has big dreams of following in her footsteps. She loved waking up and having breakfast with the seniors. She even loved the little dogs that were there. She LOVED it all. It was so incredibly special for all of us and will be forever remembered as the best trip ever!! The love from Lynea and all the people there has been fantastic. The opportunity to stay the night with all the cats is a dream come true and I can’t tell you how much joy Kaylie got from this. It was so fun to be there at nighttime. Everyone has continued to show their love of Kaylie on facebook and have sent nice gifts to her in the mail. You guys are really amazing people!!! Thank you After we returned home from visiting, she said she was ready to go back again :) Kaylie’s doing ok, she’s in good spirits and feeling pretty good. She’s continuing chemo daily at home. We take it one day at a time and are thankful for every day. She contin- ues to love our cats, our foster cats, and all of your cats. Kaylie lost her ability to smile last year, which I miss so much, but I know she is smiling ear to ear on the inside in all of these pictures. Thank you again for every- thing you do to keep these kitties safe and cage free and the Cat House going! Love Christy Return Service Requested Get your newsletter early and every page will be in full color! Send an email to: [email protected]. Be sure to include your name and US Postal Service address so we can match you up to our files. If you previously signed up to receive this newsletter electronically and have received the hardcopy edition, our last attempt to send you e-mail was rejected. Please contact [email protected] via e-mail from the address you want us to use and we’ll switch you back to electronic delivery.

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An Angel visits the Cat HouseAt the end of September, The Cat House on the Kings was visited by a little angel on earth, 7 year old Kaylie Bergen. Sadly, Kaylie was diagnosed in February 2010 with a very rare brain stem tumor, for which she is being aggressively treated. Cud-dling with the kitties at the King County Pet Adoption Center in Kent Washington helped Kaylie cope with chemotherapy treatments, so much so that her family decided to bring animals home to be fostered.

Kaylie absolutely loves fostering and has helped close to 100 kitties in the past year. The entire family is involved, mom Christy, Dad Russ, and brother Dylan have all gotten into the act and dedicated one bedroom just for the fos-ter cats.

Since I missed their visit, I asked Kaylie’s mom, Christy, to fill me in on the reason for their trip to our shelter. I am printing her response, as there is no way I could say it better:

We first saw The Cat House on the Kings on TV. With Kaylie’s love for cats I often search the TV guide for good cat shows to record. We all love cats, but Kaylie LOVES cats :) I think we saw it first on “Must Love Cats” but it was the full hour special, “The lady with 700 cats” that got Kaylie really wanting to come for a visit.

I looked on the website and was so happy to see daily tours were available, and af-ter telling Kaylie’s story we were offered a room for the night. Talk about excitement

at our house when I got off the phone....a sleepover with 700 cats, better than Dis-neyland! She was so excited and giggly on the drive down from Seattle and right when we arrived and went through the gate, a cat hopped up into her lap for some love, and another 5 were around her wheelchair- she was overjoyed! She loved everything about our visit to the Cat House, she loved each and every cat there and loved that they are everywhere. She loved the golf cart ride which a cat and dog joined us on. She loves Lynea, she is truly her hero and has big dreams of following in her footsteps. She loved waking up and having breakfast with the seniors. She even loved the little dogs

that were there. She LOVED it all.

It was so incredibly special for all of us and will be forever remembered as the best trip

ever!! The love from Lynea and all the people there has been fantastic. The opportunity to stay the night with all the cats is a dream come true and I can’t tell you how much joy Kaylie got from this. It was so fun to be there at nighttime.

Everyone has continued to show their love of Kaylie on facebook and have sent nice gifts to her in the mail. You guys are really amazing people!!! Thank you

After we returned home from visiting, she said she was ready to go back again :)

Kaylie’s doing ok, she’s in good spirits and feeling pretty good. She’s continuing chemo daily at home. We take it one day at a time and are thankful for every day. She contin-ues to love our cats, our foster cats, and all of your cats.

Kaylie lost her ability to smile last year, which I miss so much, but I know she is smiling ear to ear on the inside in all of these pictures. Thank you again for every-thing you do to keep these kitties safe and cage free and the Cat House going!

Love Christy

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LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT“Why You Should Adopt a Senior Cat for the Holidays!”

By Lori DiBacco

It was a cold late February afternoon when my friend and I arrived for our first visit to “The Cat House on the Kings.” We drove north from San Diego to spend one night surrounding ourselves in the fur and “feline-ness” of the experience. After a brief tour of the property, we walked into the senior house, an amazing sanctu-ary where the older (age eight and up) kit-ties live in blissful harmony. These amazing creatures have come to live here because their humans had the forethought to plan ahead for their care before they were no longer able to do so. There is a guest suite within the senior house where visitors can spend the night for a nominal donation and take a senior kitty or two or three to cuddle at night. Something they all dearly crave.

Linda Baker, the senior house “Dorm Mom”, is completely devoted to the cats that live there. My friend and I randomly chose four seniors to be our overnight guests in the suite, and we had a quiet and peace-ful evening. The morning following our ar-rival, I locked eyes with “the one”: a skin

and bones, sickly looking black and white Oriental Shorthair mix. Linda let me know that “Spike really needs a human” and had not been thriving since losing his human the year before at the age of ten.

Our last five cats were adopted as seniors: Harley, a handsome 13-year-old brown American Shorthair, we adopted at the age

of 11, and a housemate, LJ, a silver clas-sic American Shorthair tabby are our cur-rent cats. Our family was perfect with just the four of us. So what happened next, I consider some sort of a sign.

I sat down at the kitchen table and Spike jumped up on my lap, wrapped his paws around my neck, and snuggled his head under my chin. Spike had just chosen me as HIS new human.

It has been almost eight months since Spike joined our family. He is now a big gorgeous 14 pound bright-eyed boy with a thick, glossy, glorious coat of fur. His con-stant need for human contact and snug-gling is so strong, I think he’d stay on my shoulder 24 hours a day if I let him! If you’ve got room in your heart, please consider adopting a senior.They are trained, calm and can actually walk

through the house without knocking things from the tables and counters. They do not swat at the breakable Christmas tree orna-ments and above all they are forever grate-ful to you for adopting and loving them. . You made them a very special part of your family for the holidays.

Try a gift to each other’s favorite charity!

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The special needs young adult students at the Solano County Office of Educa-tion make crocheted rag rugs from donated, recycled material. Inspired by their teacher’s love for animals and para-educator, Lori Fransen’s, volunteer work with cats, they generously donated one of their 36 x 20 hand-made rugs as an auction item for the Halloween Open House. Lori delivered it to our event and according to event chair, Tammy Barker “The bidders loved it and it brought in lots of money”. Thank you, Lori for inspiring your students to “help the kitties”.

Leave No Paws Behind: $500Ark Antiques: $10,000 grant

Double Taurus Animal Foundation: $600 grantStefaneli Distributing: $250

ASPCA: $5000 grantJulie Joyce: $5000

PetCo Foundation: $1564.74, $5000, $500, $1631.72 grants (they gave us food, too!)

TOTAL: $30,046.44

Stuck on Gift Ideas?

Students’ donation helps the Cat House

The Cat House on the Kings spayed/neutered over

1000 animals this year!

Thanks to these grants and donations:

ASPCA also awarded us a $5000 transportation grant which has allowed us to send animals to forever homes in Oregon on three

separate occasions. ASPCA, you ROCK!

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I had the pleasure of speaking with Gilbert Hernandez at length about his wife, Gayle Ann Jorgensen. I wanted to know what in-spired her to give such a generous gift to the Cat House on the Kings.

Gayle and Gil met on the campus of Cal Poly Pomona in 1989 where she was majoring in Animal Science, and he was majoring in business. They went their separate ways after granduation: she back to home to Fremont, Gil to Sanger. They did maintain a long distance relatonship for 10 years, as he hated city life and she hat-ed being away from it. Gayle finally relented and moved to Sanger where she and Gil were married in March of 1998.

Gayle absolutely loves animals, especially horses and cats, and it didn’t take her long to find out about the Cat House on the Kings. She and Gil volunteered there and made sure to attend all the fund raisers. Gayle was also looking forward to a trip to Wonder Valley Ranch and Gil was losing weight so he’d be under the weight limit for the ride when disaster struck. In May of 2011 Gayle felt numb-ness in her left foot and underwent a barrage of tests. A biopsy in June confirmed she had a stage 3 malignant brain tumor. The news wasn’t good. Her tumor was very rare (only 2.3% of all brain tumors are of this type, and 67% of those die within three years.)

Gayle is already paralyzed on one side and the tumor is pressing on her optic nerve, causing some blindness. You can hear the love in Gil’s voice when he talks about quitting his job and caring for her full time.Two weeks prior to the Halloween Open House where this picture was taken, Gil blacked out while cleaning and doing maintenance on the roof of their home. That put him in the hospital (diagnosed with retro grade amnesia as he did not remember anything) and Gayle had to move into assisted care.

Gayle’s intention to help those she loved while she was able, re-sulted in donations to both of her nieces’ college funds. Despite all the illness and injury, both Gayle and Gil showed up on October 29th to present Lynea with a check for $5,000. Gil calls Gayle a “Super Trooper with an amazing disposition” in describing her spir-its as she fights this battle. We, at The Cat House on the Kings, are humbled to be the recipient of her largesse.

Rochelle Noblett

I WANT TO SPONSOR A CAT FOR $15 PER MONTH

Long-time supporter gives $5,000 to The Cat House on the Kings

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The Cat House on the Kings is a private, nonprofit, no-cage, no-kill sanctuary, rescue and adoption center for cats run solely on donations and out-of-pocket funding by our founder Lynea Lattanzio.

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The Cat House is open to visitors daily by appointment only (except major holidays)Hours 8:00am -11:00am; 1:00 pm – 4:00 pmWe are located near Reedley, CA. Southeast of Fresno.

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Please try GoodSearch.com http://www.goodsearch.com/nonprofit/cat-house-on-the-kings.aspx as your free

internet search engine. Specify The Cat House on the Kings when you sign up and every time you search, dine

or shop, we’ll receive a donation. Sound easy? It is!

October 29th The Cat House on the Kings hosted the Autumn Harvest and Halloween Open House. Chaired by Tammy Barker-Noell and her committee: of Har-vie Schreiber, Carol Neff, Amanda Barker, Jennifer Dooms, Marie Pierce and Sue Rance, this event broke all records in attendance and funds raised.

Jennifer and Chris created 40 lbs. of raw food while conveying information about its benefits to a steady stream of Open House attendees. Feline’s Pride man-ufactures both the raw formula, ready-to-eat food and “raw made easy kits”, supplements that can be added to raw meat to make it nutritionally complete. Our kitties were happy to demonstrate how much they enjoyed it by eating it all!

Jennifer and Chris were quick to say they’d be com-ing back. “Chris and I were both blown away by the sheer scale of the operation you guys are running out there. It’s amazing to see so many kitties running around, lying in the sunshine and enjoying life. The most touching fact is that some of those cats are ill and will likely never find a home. But you guys gave them a chance and gave them a great place to live out the rest of their days in peace and comfort, not locked in a tiny cold cage with no contact from other living beings. From all of us here at Feline’s Pride, thank you for what you do.

www.felinespride.com

Kathy Carbaugh, a volunteer for The Cat House on the Kings and a feline raw food diet advocate, welcomed Jennifer Taylor and Chris Kalinowski of Feline’s Pride, the week leading up to the Autumn Open House. Chris and Jennifer flew in from Buffalo, New York to volun-teer and to demonstrate how to make and use a raw diet for cats. According to Kathy “Jennifer and I were able to work together as if we’d been a team for years, not just hours.”

A ‘vampire” and her mom relax on the east lawn.

Chris Kalinowski, production manager of Feline’s Pride and Jennifer Tay-lor, the general manager, educate our Open House attendees about the benefits of a raw food diet.

Autumn Harvest and Halloween Open House.

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A note from Tammy:

I want to thank the Fundraising commit-tee for all their dedication and hard work to make this open house a huge success and also thank the volunteers who helped prior to and the day of the event. I couldn’t have done it without them. I would also like to thank my husband Terry and my daughter Amanda for supporting me, all their help and for giving me the freedom to follow my passion.

Thanks to Kathryn Herr and Justin Sacher from Channel 47 who judged our kid’s cos-tume contest, thanks to the Fresno Sheriff K9 units for their demonstration and to the Clovis Old Town Kiwanis for volun-teering their time to feed us and donating the proceeds back to The Cat House.

A huge THANK YOUto our donors:12TH ANNUAL J.G. BOSWELL GOLF TOUR-NAMENTALICE NICHOLS-UP COUNTRYALLEN GIBSONAMANDA BARKERAMANDA GLASCOAMENITIES AVEDA SALON & SPAAPRIL MURPHY, ARTIST/AEM GALLERYARBY’SBAJA FRESHBARBERSHOP 609BEAR CREEK GIFTS & CABIN DÉCORBIG KITTY DESIGNSBOBBY SALAZAR’SBRASS UNICORNBROOK & ROBIN LOPEZ AND THEIR MOMCAFÉ LEONCARLA MONTAGNOCAROL BRAINERDCAROL DOUGLASSCAROL NEFFCHANNEL 47CHARLOTTE’S BAKERYCHERYL RINKERCHIPOTLECHRISTINE BAGLEYCHUCK E CHEESECOLLEEN’S CUSTOME PET PHOTOGRA-PHYDEBBIE BUCKMANDESIGNER FLOWER CENTERDOLLS, BEARS & MOREDOUG-OUT COOKIESEL POLLO LOCOELEPHANT BARELI’S PET SUPPLYERICK’S SALON BOUTIQUE FELICIA ANGEL-OHAYONFEROL HENKELSFURRY LAND PET SUPPLIESGENO’S SANDWICHESGOODGUYS JOHN BROWNRIGHELEN FORT

HELEN MOORDIGIANHOLIDAY INN EXPRESS SANTA BARBARAIN-N-OUT BURGERJACKIE DALE: TRAFFIC MAGAZINEJACQUELINE HARDESTYJAN KNUDSONJEFF MCMILLANJENNIFER DOOMSJOSEPH OHAYONKARA FRANKLINKAORI TSUTAYAKAREN RAEKATHRYN HERRKELLY’S PET SUPPLIESKEOTHIP AUTHENTIC THAI CUISINEKIKU FLORALKIM’S BIRTHDAY PARTY PETTING ZOOKRISTIN SHAMEL-THE GILDED TOUCHLA VOGUE BEAUTY SHOPPELENI MORTENSENLORI DIBACCOLORI FRANSEN LUNA PIZZERIA & ITALIAN RESTAURANTLYNETTE SMITH ELI’S PET SUPPLYM & E FLOWERSMARGARET HUDSONMARIE PEARCEMC DONALDSME AND MOLLY P ME N ED’S PIZZAMODERN CATMOUNTAIN CAT TREESNAILS BY ERINOLD TOWN CLOVIS KIWANISP.F. CHANGSPANDA EXPRESSPAT CALLISTROPEG BISSELLPEGGY KRAUSEPET ERPETCOPETSMARTPHYLLIS ESTEEPIEMONTE’SPORT OF SUBSQUILTERS PARADISE, INC.R.C. GABLEY RACHEL GIBSONRED ROBINREEDLEY TRADING POSTREEDLY FLOWER SHOPRON & HARVIE SCHREIBERROUND TABLE PIZZASHARON GRABESIMONIAN FARMSSPARKLE PLENTY MOBILE PET GROOM-INGSPINNERS RECORDSSTARBUCKSSUELLYN MILCHOVICHSUSAN WILDERMANTAMMY BARKERTERRY NOELLTIM MOORETOM & TINA ELLISTOMMY’S HAMBURGERSTOWER HEALTH & DIET FOODSTOWER THEATRETRADER JOE’STRISTAN MALLORY VALENTINO’S PIZZERIAVENESSA GAMBOAWHITIES PET STOREWHOLE FOODSWONDER VALLEY RANCH RESORT

Alicia Lomas-GrossAmanda BarkerAmy BoltonAnna GronzalezAnne-Marie GrossAntoinette TaillacArmando SolisArthur RileyAshley RichardBeth BrookeCarol NeffCelia AngelCheryl HicksCheryl RinkerChris OviedoChristine BowmanChristine SalcedoChristopher RuizChristopher SmithConor RighettiDanielle BakerDave AyersDeanna SalamancaDiana Elliott Dylan DavisEileen RomeroEmma MartinezFelicia OhayonFrank KamplingFrank StaffordMCGeri RamirezHarvie SchreiberHelen RamirezHomer OviedoIssac OviedoJamie DupontJanie StaffordJacqueline HardestyJeff Staicer

Jennifer DoomsJenny RighettiJessica GravesJohn HoskinsKara FranklinJohn HintonKaren RaeKathleen HealeyKathy CarbaughKathy ScheerLauren VeloriaLeni MortensenLinda BakerLisa BoyajianLiz BuntingMarcey StarkMarie Peirce Marjorie DickMelody ShannonMichelle ShannonOwne VangPat CallistroPatty HoskinsRainey PearceRoger RichSandra GoodsoozianSarah Kristine BartleSelena DuketSheila ZamoraSilas ShannonSofia RighettiStephanie GalvanSue RanceSue StaicerTammy Barker-NoellTerry NoellDJTiffany PorrasVenessa GamboaVictoria Miller

THANKS TO OUR VOLUNTEERS

Tammy Barker Noell with daughter Amanda Barker and Sarge

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Boy, what a whirlwind of a day we had at the Visalia Spooktacular Cat Show on Saturday, October 22. My buddy in crime was fellow board member, Francie Caraker. As always, Francie was up early and ready to pick up two of the many beauties at Cat House on the Kings to show in the Do-mestic Feline division (non-professional, mixed breeds). We also brought 4 kittens along to the show who were up for adoption. Two of them were Siamese types, one was a Russian Blue mix, and the fourth was a playful, or-ange tabby.

Francie and I know little to nothing about cat shows so we were both exceedingly happy when another Cat House volunteer showed up to help us. Pam Nishimoto was a real jewel! She actu-ally knew much about cat shows and prevented us from making some horrible mistakes, like not show-ing up on time with our cat at the cor-rect arena. We would forget to listen to the announcements or simply did not understand what was being said. Thank you BIG TIME, Pam.

Our “show kitties” were lovely. Each was to be shown 6 times. Unfortunate-ly, one of our “stars” became stressed by all the commotion and so we decid-ed to give her a breather. Pretty Girl

is indeed a gorgeous long-haired, Sia-mese blue-cream mix. If she had been feeling better, we’re sure that little lady would have captured many awards. But that’s okay. We’ll save her for next year!! On the other hand, our winning feline of the day brought back 5 of the 6

awards-----one was FIRST PLACE out of a pool of 15 domestic cats!!! Yip-pee for Apollo. He is an outstanding, Ragdoll Siamese mix and obviously he charmed the judges. Besides having those good looks, Apollo is a wonder-fully cuddly kitty; the type that searches out love and snuggles. What a guy!!

The other good news was that our orange tabby kitten got adopted by a cat lover from San Diego. Thankfully, our adoptor was willing to fill out the

necessary forms and go through the Cat House “investigation” to secure great homes for all our kitties. That, of course, meant a delay in our devoted cat fan being able to have her kitten. But she endured the wait and received her baby the very next weekend during

the Cat House celebration Open House. Now that little kitty has a home with loads of love in addition to play time with a new kitty fam-ily. Almost as magnificent, the little kitty now lives in the continually perfect weather of San Diego!!! Maybe we should all come back as kit-ties with that “special look” that can capture the hearts of San Diego residents who love cats as much as we do. That’s my goal.

We want to thank Show Manager, Neta Cox, of Tonks West who did such an

efficient job of putting the Spooktacu-lar Cat Show together. We also owe a debt of gratitude to Janeen’s Furni-ture Gallery, Inc. and Marilyn Winters of VanWin Cattery who donated the entry fee for showing our lovely adult felines.Best to all you kitty lovers,Lin FaurieBoard Member/Volunteer

CHOTK brings home awards at the Tonk’s West Spooktacular Cat Show

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VolunteersFoster Homes

NewspaperBleach

Paper TowelsPine CleanerRecyclables

The above items can be dropped off at Petco on Blackstone near Ashlan in Fresno, or at the shelter

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WE’RE IN THE RUNNING FOR $50,000!Thanks to the persistence of our grant writer, Tracy Monge, we’ve finally made it into the Pepsi Refresh Challenge. If we get the most votes, my dream of an on-site spay and neuter clinic will be a real-ity! Please, please, please, vote for us every day. Keep a reminder on your calendar, put it on your facebook pages and ask all your family and friends to vote for us. The $5000 grant we received when you, our beloved supporters, voted for us on the Animal Rescue Site was a tremendous help in the care and feeding of our nearly 1000 furry residents. Imagine what 10 times that amount will do! I am so excited at the thought of the clinic, I can hardly contain myself! Here is the link: http:/ /www.refresheverything.com/cathou-seonthekingsThank each and every one of you for your sup-port.Love you all,

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Letter from Lynea

Tristan Mallory presents a check to Tammy Barker for $415.00 from the 12th Annual J.G. Boswell Water Depart-ment Golf Tournament.

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A desire to teach communi-ty service to her students at Fort Miller Middle School in cen-tral Fresno led principal Deb-bie Buckman, a long-time supporter, to The Cat House on the Kings. With the help of teachers Mr. Kohl, Mrs. Are-takis, Ms. Vierra and school psychologist Deena Ravic-chio a competition was set up between classes to see who could raise the most money for the care of the cats in a week’s time.

“The Nat Geo WILD special gave us the perfect avenue to introduce kids before

they got there” said Ms. Buckman. The teachers showed leadership and ca-reer pathways class-es the “The Lady with 700 Cats”, and got an overwhelming response from the students. A lottery system was used to winnow the num-ber of students who

signed up due to limited seats". (The visit coincided with the Autumn Open House on October 29th, a Saturday, so it wasn’t getting out of classes that motivated the kids.)

According to Debbie “The kids can hardly wait to come back! We had a hard time getting them to leave. I think the thing that surprised them the most was seeing that all the cats (and dogs) really got along. It was ADORABLE to see the kids’ reaction to meeting Lynea, and seeing both Hoss and Jasper,” two animals that were prominently featured in the video. “It was hard for any of them to walk past a single cat without giving them a love.”

We are almost as excited as the kids about this, and look forward to the day they can come back.

Fort Miller Middle School Students Raise $500for The Cat House on the Kings

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Amy and Malana from UCLA

Hi guys, I just wanted to thank you for having my daughter and I for the weekend. It was an amazing experience and (if you’ll have us, of course) we would love to come back in Decem-ber. I hope that we were helpful and it’s an eye opener see-ing how much work goes into the cat house. Ashley and Linda were GREAT and kept us busy. I’m already spreading the word over here at UCLA how much help is needed and how peaceful and healing it is at the cat house. My daughter cried when we left and neither of us wanted to go home. I had brought supplies (blankets, bleach, food and litter) and am already working on rounding up more. So we’ll see you guys in December and will be ready to work. I took tons of pictures and videos and attached a couple of my favorites. Thanks again! We literally can’t wait to come back. Amy FelixAccountant, UCLA Student Accounting

Thank you Purina, for the donation of Tidy Cat LitterThank you Purina, for the donation of Tidy Cat Litter

Malana Felix getting more love than she can handle!

Page 10: An Angel visits the Cat House...An Angel visits the Cat House At the end of September, The Cat House on the Kings was visited by a little angel on earth, 7 year old Kaylie Bergen

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ITEM PRICE COLOR QTYSIZE TOTAL

Mens “Cool Cat” T-shirt $15.00 Carolina Blue

Mens “Stupid” T-shirt $15.00 Irish Green

$20.00Womens “Stupid” T-shirt Heather Sapphire

Mens “Mom Cat” T-shirt $15.00 Aubergine

$20.00Womens “Mom Cat” T-shirt Purple

$2.00Reusable “Stupid” bag Green

Womens “Cool Cat” T-shirt $20.00 Azalea

grand total

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Mens’ shirts available in sizes Small thru 3XWomens’ shirts available in sizes Small thru 3X (Junior-fitted cut)

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Make checks payable to Pete’s Sport Shop. Official Supplier of Cat House on the Kings

Merchandise. Profit is donated to Cat House.Pete’s Sport Shop124 South C StreetMadera, CA 93638(559) 673-5951

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