After surviving the unthinkable, my spouse and I bought a little house on a mountain that came with a big surprise - 44 sick, unfixed & starving cats - and we need your help!

To catch you up, my husband and I met by chance after he saved my life during a Colorado mountain blizzard some years ago. We traveled the country together, working and seeing many national parks, even getting married along the way! In 2020, I got to return the life saver favor when my husband survived an extreme traumatic brain injury, a coma, three brain surgeries, seizures, and a stroke, after being accidentally shot in the head at a family party.

When he finally woke up, this true CatDad asked for a red Mountain Dew, a pack of new underwear, and a LOT of cats! There was just one problem.. He was completely paralyzed except for his right thumb, and they told me he would never leave the hospital.

I told them ‘you don’t know us.”

Being disabled myself with a connective tissue disorder and heart condition, CatDad’s recovery was an uphill battle for us both, but we persevered. Not only has he beaten the odds by living through an injury that has a 1% survival rate, but even partially paralyzed, today, he can walk.

Through more hard work and dedication, we managed to scrape together to buy the perfect little house - on top of a mountain, in the middle of a national forest - where we could build both a cat sanctuary and the small farmstead we’d dreamt of.

It wasn’t until we moved in that we found out the previous owner left us a little surprise! More than 30 starving, sick, and unfixed cats - plus the 13 kittens we saved, for a grand total of 44 cats!

With the help of our donors, our first GoFundMe campaign to spay, neuter, and shelter all of the cats here was a success. We have officially fixed all 39 intact cats on the Sunshine Pines property. This means together we have prevented potentially hundreds, if not thousands, of unrequested kittens from being born!

Our next big project here is to expand the colony’s living quarters. The current porch is just too small for all of the outside cats and their shelters, especially during long bouts of bad weather. Our goal is to extend it into a larger all season catio to protect them all from the elements, predators, and whatever else might be lurking!

While that’s going on, we are expanding our TNR efforts to our local community, including our own neighborhood, and the feral cat colony that’s taking over our local post office - #themailboxkitties!

We also have a few other big projects planned for the future; a merch line (including a 12 months of Meemaw calendar), converting our school bus into a mobile pet rescue & pantry, and becoming a recognized 501c3 and official cat sanctuary, so please know we greatly appreciate your donation and support for cats in need.

Please help us feed and care for these beautiful animals, and turn the Sunshine Pines property into the sanctuary these 44 formerly abandoned cats truly deserve.

We couldn’t do any of this without you.

Love,

Sunshine Pines Rescue

Links to help the cats:

✅ You can now donate monthly through our site: https://sunshinepinesrescue.org/donate/

✅ Cashapp: $sunshinepinesrescue

✅ Venmo: sunshinepinesrescue

✅ Amazon wish list: https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/1VZ4AIA4MVDF5?ref_=wl_share

✅ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@sunshinepinesrescue?_t=ZT-8u60HaYP5CN&_r=1