Today was a great day at the Thrift Store, we made some final touches and OPENED!!!! It was late in the after noon when it looked completely open, so we only made a few sales, However we did sell several pieces, and People were so generous and gave extra! It gave me hope and renewed faith that this is going to work!! I CANT WAIT TO SEE HOW TOMMORROW DOES!!!!!

I got a call today that some kids came in and stole a kitten. I am so worried about what they are doing to it. We have posted a rule no kids under 16 without parents. Pray that the kitten will be returned, and the children punished.

I want to send a big fat thank you to all our donors! Yo know who you are!! The ones that slip a $20 in the donation bins, the ones that bring a bag of cat litter when we are almost out, and the ones that are stocking out thrift store with some of the coolest stuff! You are the reason that this rescue will succeed! your the ones giving me the drive to keep going, your the ones that are helping us save the lives of so many homeless animals!

Its happening!!! I spent the day in the cold rain with some awesome friends moving things into the Thrift Store even though the temperature was weird, we had so much fun going thru the boxes, and sorting things into departments. We got the INFO sign put up, and things should be clear to people so the donations will start coming in. I feel so much better today! Thank you to all the people that donated and thank you to all my friends that stepped p and helped me have a GREAT FIRST DAY!!!!

The Thrift store is located on the corner of Scottsville Rd and Small House Rd..... Look for the Banner, you cant miss it!

To clear up the confusion about us getting this space after all.... the land lord is having a hard time actually getting all his stuff out. I thought the pressure of us being there would encourage him to hurry up. Well it seem to work today... He got all his stuff pushed to half of the store and we have the rest to start moving things in, I didn't realize how much work this is going to be but that's OK.... If it goes like today, it will be an awesome expierances. I'm going to be sore for a while but awesome!!

Food over Fear.... Catching a feral cat!

I am so happy to be blogging good news! For a month I have been trying to catch a feral (wild) cat that has been hanging around my house. I have been worried about how many kittens he has been making, because I could see his marbles from far away. With situations like this you use a cat trap, but i have seen cats go crazy in those cages and it hurts my feelings to think about him in that cage till I got home. I decided to use the food over fear method. Using a sour cream tub to feed him under our RV the cat would soon see that I don't want to hurt him.

At first he would wait in the edge of the woods and wait till he couldn't see me. I brought my cat over to let him see me petting a cat, and my cat eating out of the bowl then leave so he would see its safe to do the same as my Goldie did. Each time I fed him, he would get a little closer to me. I knew it wouldn't be much longer.

Last night I heard a cat crying so I went to the door. There he sat begging for food. I ran to get the sour cram tub so not to thru off the routine and make him cautious, and then went to the RV where he was waiting, but this time I didn't scoot it all the way under, I put it on the edge and stepped back just a little. He looked at me and cried, and grabbed a quick bite then pulled back. after a few quick bites I scooted the food closer to me and out from under the RV he looked at me, an I wondered what he was thinking. I started to sing a soothing kitty song to him and he started to trust me. He slowly came over to the bowl and just sat there while he ate. I pet his head with just a little pull back from him. Then as much as I hated to do it for fear of loosing all the trust I built up, I quickly scruffed him up and Ran to the door of my house where 4 of my dogs were freaking out. I used my elbow to bang on the window so my husband would come get the dogs. So in your mind do you see this cat going nuts? Well surprisingly he never moved he was in kitten mode and he was completely trusting me to not hurt him.

I put him in our bathroom for the night. I knew my husband would not love this idea as hes allergic to cats, but I wanted to make sure I could catch him in the morning so I could have his nastys removed. He cried most of the night, but when I checked on him he wanted to cuddle with me????? How can he be so feral and then so cuddly???? Hes just scared, hes just a sweet kitten that is scared.

Scratches on his face, You can feel every bone in his body, scared, and not neutered. This is not a good situation for any cat. Because he wants to cuddle tells me at one time he was someones cat. Now scared out of his mine and starved???? Who dumped this cat???

Hes safe now, we will have him tested, fatten him up, neuter him and repair his wounds. The song I sang to him is "Sweet Sweet Tom Kitty" So I named him Tom Kitty. I cant wait to see how beautiful he turns out to be!

A very exciting thing happen yesterday. We were called to take a boxer that this lady found back in December. She asked us to take him because shes been looking for the owner and since it looks like they wouldn't come forward, she wanted us to help her find a home for him. While doing the intake exam, Chelsea discovered the dog had a Microchip. We were discouraged at first because the number was disconnected, but Chelsea did some digging and found the owners sister!! The lady was so excited to hear the dog was safe, and she said her brother will be so excited! Now that seems like the happy part of the story, and yes I was super stoked that we found the original home for the dog, and a family will stop worrying about their dog, and the dog will go back to its home so we can rescues another dog. But I was the most excited that the very responsible pet owners had not only micro chipped the dog, but they NEUTERED him meaning that the 6 months the dog has ran lose, he DID NOT make puppies!!!!! Lesson to learn from this.... Spay/neuter ~ tag your pets~ microchip your pets~ and if you change your number call your micro chipping company so they can have your updated info!


We have lots of yappy dogs right now, so the staff is really stressed at RePets. I don't know what to do for them, because they are just not getting adopted whither its the economy or just the breed, its so not fair, for us or the dogs.... I pray that they will find homes soon, and that they will be quiet today.


Summer is here and we are seeing lots of kids helping at RePets.... It makes me so happy to see them working at RePets, walking dogs, cleaning cages, and sweeping the floor..... One of those kids fell in love and even ADOPTED!!! My heart is full, Thank you to all my Volunteer's for being so awesome!!!


With the Thrift store about to open, and several of my staff moving on to new jobs, we are going to start the interview process. SO if your looking for a Job, and your the kind of person that works hard, understands animals, has the patients to work with traumatized animals, then please apply because we need a team that will stick with the animals thru the good and the bad! you can apply on line at www.RePets.biz



Last night I went to the DB music space to see how much he still had to move because we were supposed to have taken over at noon yesterday... remember every time I talk to him its just a few more days.... Todd and I took pictures last night, 9 hours after he said he would be out. So frustrating... I know I could move to the bigger location, but its only in a fair location, and its SOOO much more money.... We need that space but not till February and I am so scared to move now because of the cost, but I'm also afraid of losing it! Then I get angry at the slow poke and I just want to leap so I will at least have something!! ~ still not sure why this is so hard!

never a dull moment

Sitting here trying to figure out how to be positive after the stressful day I had today. I have some big decisions to sleep on today, and I find myself now scared to make a decision. First the good stuff that happen today, Because I don't want to be a downer....


We had several people bring us things for the thrift store today dispite all the confusion, we were still given a lot of support for people that truly care about this rescue. It gives me hope... however I moral support doesn't pay the bills so as much as I love my friends I still feel defeated, Loved but defeated!

Our senior doxie went home today... yea for Hannah!!!!

Madeline, although blind recognizes me voice and is looking so beautiful these days.. Soon she will have her surgery and be up for adoption!

A prank at Greenwood High school turned into a rescue today. Apparently a student bought a rat from a pet store and turned it loose the last day of school. Today they finally caught it and brought it to us. Now my first question was how do we know the one you caught is the one he bought, and how do we know that it was actually bought at a pet store? The RePets staff checked out the story and the baby rat is in fact a pet store rat. :o) never a dull moment!


Had a long talk with Lorri at The shelter about RePets.... Shes very encouraging, and I am glad to be able to call her a friend.

Went and looked at a few places for the thrift store. I know that today is the first and we were supposed to move in, but the spots not open and the land lord said he needed a few days to get his stuff out. That didn't surprise me... and I went looking for more places to rent.

Was insulted by a old cranky guy calling my idea Thrift store a junk store.
We looked at another place in the bad part of town that was way to expensive.
I drove around all day in the hot sun studying traffic flow and calling land lords, when I stumbled across a place that was the right size for fair rent..... This place has potential, it has possibility. If over 6000 sq ft, it has a large fenced in lot, and its land lord LOVES my idea of helping animals and the community. HOWEVER and there is always a however.... the Rent is $3000, the space is big sot he heat and air will be expensive, and its on Chestnut street so I have to wonder will people donate and adopt from that location enough so that I can afford to open smaller RePets in other county's? I have to decided whats best for the animals and the futures of our rescue...... Making decisions like this is making me old!

Great weekend.... Monday morning, ready to get at it!

Had a great week end at RePets! Several critters went home and got some great apps on dogs so we are hoping it all works out! Fashion bug gave us a big box o hangers, and Greener Groundz gave us some patio furnature.... :o)

I am looking forward to seeing pictures of Patches... I got a text that his new owners have taught him to ride a skateboard! If you haven't heard my husband and I own a skate shop so we are thinking about sponsoring him.... Can wait to see him ride!

All 6 of our Rat lades got adopted yesterday!!! We are so happy for them because at RePets they don't get a chance to get out and play because we have cats running around, and there is not a lot of rat lovers out there so we were super excited when a lady came in and adopted all 6 of them!!!

Its the First, and as advertised we were supposed to start excepting donations for the thrift store.... But no Thrift store to put the items in. We had a wonderful location and it was all going to work out.... But the land lord has so much stuff in there and for some reason just wont move it out so we can move in. I am going to go again today and see if there is any other hope of a location to move this to. Todd and i looked at some off the beaten path places late last night thinking if we advertised maybe people would still come.... Its just scary because down towns rent is cheaper, but not knowing if people will discover you is so discouraging because if this Thrift store doesn't do well, then our rescue will close, and that is not an option!