RAPS depends on a small army of volunteers to help us deliver individualized care to thousands of animals! This month, we celebrate one of those spectacular humans, Jessica Bradshaw! What...
Crazy Cat Names
You’d be surprised how tough it can be to find fresh names for new arrivals! Here’s how we name cats – and some help we got recently from visiting schoolkids! When you have thousands of cats...
Urgent Rescue: Help Us Bring Abandoned Leukemia Cats to Safety
We urgently need your help to save a family of FeLV-positive cats who are in desperate need of care and a safe place to live. These cats – mama Moon and her four adolescent kittens – were found...
Three-legged Trooper Needs You
Please help us give this resilient Saskatchewan survivor the life he deserves! Trooper is a miracle cat! He survived the Saskatchewan winter with a brutal trap attached to his leg. He is now a...
Meet the Cat Sanctuary Interns
We were so fortunate to have the support this summer of a group of amazing young animal allies. Thanks to the Canada Summer Jobs program, we had three young people work with the administration team....
Remembering Waldi Trotzki
The RAPS family is remembering one of our longest-serving and most devoted animal allies. Waldi Trotzki passed away July 3. Waldi, along with wife Barbara, were among the founders of Richmond...
No, not all orange cats are male. But most are!
Except around here lately! The RAPS team has noticed a disproportionate number of orange females. What’s up with that? There are a fair number of misconceptions – urban myths, of a sort – about...
Cat colony in very dangerous situation … eight rescued, at least five still at large
As part of an ongoing rescue operation, the Regional Animal Protection Society has saved a cat who has spent about a year with a rope wrapped around her head and shoulder. The cat, who has...
College and Regional Animal Protection Society team up to rehome feral cats
The College of the Rockies will start working with the Regional Animal Protection Society (RAPS) to rehome 14 feral cats living on the Cranbrook campus. College officials said the RAPS Cat Sanctuary...
Humans of RAPS: Molly Sjerdal
Everything RAPS does is about the animals. But all we accomplish is thanks to a small army of aMAZing human beings! This week, meet Molly Sjerdal! What do you do at RAPS? My title is Animal...