Did You Know OSCatR has a Wish List?

Christmas is only about 36 hours away!  You still have some time to pick up a few things from our Christmas Wish List!  Our entire rescue is volunteer based, and we often depend on generous donations to provide our foster families with supplies!

No donation is too small!

Did you buy a new brand of cat food and your cat refused it?  We gladly accept open bags.

Did you accidentally let your cat food expire?  No problem!  Our colony cats are just happy to have free food to eat.

Big Christmas purchase from Canadian Tire?  We will gladly accept your Canadian Tire money! It helps us buy traps!

You get the idea!  We will accept any donation you can provide!  Please email rescue@oscatr.ca to arrange for pick up or a drop off location.

Thanks for thinking of us, and have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! :)

Did You Hear...?

Orchid is now available for adoption!!!  I always knew she would be the first to go up for adoption! The day we rescued her, I brought her home and she sat on my lap and cuddled.  She was always my favourite from the group.  To be honest, I thought she would be my first ever Foster Fail!  I really thought I would keep her to myself!

But this girl deserves a wonderful family and permanent home!  What can I say about Orchid...She is gorgeous and has BEAUTIFUL markings!  She is a lovely silvery grey colour!  The minute I open the door to the cat room, the first thing I hear is her purring.  She usually comes to the door to greet me.  She purrs the entire time I am in the room with them.  If I try to touch another cat, she pushes her way over to get in on the petting!  She gives amazing head butts, just to let you know that she still wants you to pet her!  She eats treats out of my hand and gives me kisses constantly!  She still doesn't love being picked up, but she is happy to sit on your lap (as long as you pet her...the WHOLE time!)  She is very tidy, uses her litterbox well, and has no food issues.

The only requirement for adopting Orchid is, she needs to have another cat companion in her new home with her.  Because she was rescued from a hoarding situation, she is a very social girl.  She craves attention, and if she can't get it from her human, she needs a feline friend to cuddle up with!

Orchid does not have a mean bone in her body!  She is an all around sweetheart!  So please, please make this adoption process easy on me!  Because I know I will cry when she leaves me! But they will be happy tears!

Check out Orchid's album on our facebook page!  Or better yet head to helpcats.ca and submit and application to meet her!  I promise you won't be disappointed with this girl!

More Fire Cats are on the Move!!

It's becoming more real!  These cats are going to get an amazing shot at a new life!!  Eclipse and Lotus moved to their new foster homes today!!  Their new foster mom is experienced and will take great care of them.  Her goal is to socialize them, and make them human loving and trusting cats!  I'm confident she can get this done!

Lotus is a lovely brown tabby, that has made great progress in her 4.5 weeks in care.  Lotus was extremely sick when she was first trapped.  Antibiotics have made a world of a difference for her. Lotus will eat treats from my hand and purrs up a storm when you pet her.  She is just beginning to be interested in playing with toys.  I know her new foster mom will have her playing in no time.

Eclipse is a Lynx Point Siamese Mix, and she has the attitude that comes with her breed!  When I got Eclipse, I could not touch her without her biting me or trying to bite me!  Eventually, I got to the point where I could touch her lightly, but she would still hiss at me every single time.  Eclipse did learn to play with toys in her time with me, and she was working hard to teach Lotus how to as well.  Eclipse will challenge her new foster mom, but I have no doubt that her new mom will get her to come around and see how awesome humans really are!

Please join me in wishing Nadine good luck on her new adventure with Eclipse and Lotus!!

The Fire Cats are one the Move

Today is an exciting day for some of the fire cats!  Because I have 8 cats here, it is really hard to work with the cats and get them used to people, playing and loving the indoor life.  We put out a plea for new fosters, and we got some!

Today, Trillium and Bluebell are moving together with their new foster Mom and family!  They will get lots of one on one attention, and hopefully learn to trust humans more!  Trillium is really coming around.  She enjoys being pet and will even start to purr for me! Bluebell is still pretty nervous. She is a little older (maybe 2ish) so she has had more time to become less trusting!  But thankfully, I'm certain with a little work she will be a great cat.

Please send along your good thoughts and healing powers to Trillium and Bluebell's new foster mom Pattie!

Stay tuned, tomorrow some more cats will be on the move!

Eclipse Learns to Play

Often, we find ourselves having to teach foster cats how to play.  In the case of the fire cats, they certainly need to be taught.  I have been working hard with my group and finally I have got Eclipse playing a little bit!  Lotus is VERY curious and so close to jumping in to play as well.

Enjoy these videos of them playing with Cat wands!

Orchid Loves Belly Rubs

Orchid is one of the only fire cats that is desperate for affection.  She loves getting pet and rubbed.  She starts purring as soon as I walk into the room.   She gives me tons of licks while I pet her and she likes to nibble on my fingers.  We call those love bites :)   Orchid often rolls onto her back so that I have full access to her belly!  She loves her belly rubs. 

Here are a few videos of the progress made with  Orchid.  You can see that some of the others are interested but just not sure about it yet.  But they will come around, I'm confident in that!

A List to Santa from the Fire Cats

We are a group of 18 cats that Ottawa Stray Cat Rescue rescued from a house that burned down a few weeks ago. The team worked really hard,  and we made them trap each and everyone of us. We didn't really trust their intentions, but now we know they are great people. Unfortunately, since there are so many of us, we think they could use your help Santa. We would love to ask you if you could supply them with a few things to help them out.

First of all, we would love to get a couple more new traps for them. Unfortunately, some of our siblings are still out there and we want them caught, we miss them. We would also love someone to help sponsor us! Sadly, none of us have been spayed or neutered and we all have some sicknesses from being out in the cold. We are going to cost them lots of money at the vet.  

Now for us, we would love some nice scratching posts and cat trees!  We like to climb and we like to be up high. We are a little messy with litter boxes, because they are new to us, so some covered litter boxes would be helpful for our foster parents. And on that note, litter would be great for them too! There are lots of us and we go through a  lot of litter. We are learning to play, so some toys and wand toys would really help us learn. And turns out we love TREATS too! We would love if you could fill our stockings with those yummy treats.  

Thanks Santa, We know you can help us out!  

Love,  Iris, Lilac, Orchid, Bluebell, Eclipse, Trillium, Calla, Lotus,  Daphlia, York, Colonel, Murray, Puma, Carly, Anubis, Timber King and  Theo