Happy Cats is celebrating a year’s worth of adoptions with a beautiful 2013 calendar, featuring over 40 of our adopted cats and kittens. Each month has at least two cats or kittens, along with a famous cat quotation. The pages are 8.5″ by 11″, nice for hanging just about anywhere. Even better, Happy Cats is […]
Happy Cats Haven turns a year old in November! We’ve come a long way since our first baby steps and are delighted to be celebrating our 150+ cats and kittens adopted! Please join us at our birthday open house on Sunday, November 4th, at the Old Colorado City History Center, 1 South 24th Street (next […]
Happy Cats Haven was fortunate enough to be a part of the awards given by St. Paws Thrift Store during their recent award cycle. Through the hard work of Linda, Vicki, Marcy and all the other volunteers, local animal rescues like us can benefit from something that most folks do a lot of: shop! We’re […]
On March 8th, the Casper family helped us celebrate our 50th adoption by taking home Sparks and his brother Asher. They had visited several times to make sure the kittens were a good match for their children Quinn, Kieran and Duncan. Sparks and Asher were rescued by a Manitou firefighter who found them abandoned. They […]
Cats are getting fatter. About 1 in 5 cats were obese 25 years ago. Now that number is almost 1 in 3. While they’ve gotten safer in the last 20 years, the typical indoor cat is bored, overweight and at risk for disease and early death. Most dog owners know they need to walk their […]
One of the luxuries that our cats have at Happy Cats is the time to form bonds with another cat. As most cat people know, matching up cats can be tricky. To be fair, we ask a lot of our cats. It’s a little like dropping by your local homeless shelter, picking up (someone you […]
Happy Valentine’s Day tomorrow! The numbers are in. As of February 13, 2012, Happy Cats Haven has taken in 72 cats and kittens. We’ve adopted out 36 of them and the rest are safely in the shelter or in fosters. That means we’ve had 3 or 4 adoptions a week, so we’re happy about that. […]
Our first clicker training classes had a very good turnout! We scheduled our intro class on Sunday, January 29th, it filled and then we filled a second class. Some folks brought their spouses, so we had lots of new friends to meet. We had just enough time to hit the high spots in what we […]