Katie's Place Photo Gallery

These photos give you a look at who we are and how we grew.

OUR FOUNDING FELINE

This is the "Katie" in "Katie's Place." She called the barn 'home' long before we came along, and she lived there for the rest of her life, until Summer 2006.
 
 

This is Katie's Place. You can see how it evolved since our start in January of 2001. It's still changing, bit by bit, all the time.






 
 
 

This is how it looked by the summer of 2004 with a new porch upstairs for the cats in the communal room we call Karen's Pen (the volunteer who created that room was named Karen).
 
 







Having created a much needed office area that we were proud of, look at what we did with it almost as soon as we'd completed it....

Baarbaraa had nowhere to go and we do everything we can to take animals like that. We couldn't put her in with the cats and the yard wasn't enclosed properly. So we eyed our new office and promptly dismantled it for her. Baarbaraa has since been adopted into a good home for sheep where she'll never be bred or sent to market.

The office still has a yearly tenant though. Barn swallows have been raising their families in the barn for years and still return each spring to nest in the beams of the roof. When we put a door on the entrance we cut a notch in it so the parents could come and go with food for the babies even when the place is locked.

The babies and their nest are in the middle of the photo. The notch we cut in the top of the door is just visible at the bottom right of the photo.We attached a stick for a perch.
 

Katie's Place has gone out into the community to raise awareness about homeless animals and to raise funds for our shelter. We've held hot dog sales, garage sales, pub nights, photos with Santa....

We held this mall adoptathon day in July 2001.
 


In November we were back in Haney Place Mall,
this time with crafts to sell too.
In May '03 we had a raffle/information booth outside Canadian Tire.
 

In June '03 Maple Ridge bands performed a concert benefit for Katie's Place under the name "Purr Tones"


 

Animal Photos with Santa held at Bosley's is a yearly event that is
enormously popular and raises a lot of money for the animals.





Garage sales are excellent fundraisers for us and different volunteers try to hold several garage sales at their homes each year.


 
 
 

That's Janice of Hearts-On-Noses Mini Pig Sanctuary in the centre with one leg bent. Hearts On Noses has joined with Katie's Place in a lot of fundraisers and the two shelters split the proceeds.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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