San Antonio cat sanctuary founder launches youngsters's guide about unlikely friendship

Canine, proper, and certainly one of Bear Den’s resident felines sunbathe collectively on a sunny afternoon. Credit score: Blake Stehling

Bear Den Cat Sanctuary founder Blake Stehling this week launched her first-ever youngsters’s guide. “One Canine at a Cat Sanctuary,” a narrative in regards to the feline refuge’s lone canine who wandered on the property a number of years in the past.

Stehling based Bear Den Cat Sanctuary in Bulverde in 2021, a 3-acre ranch for unhoused and deserted cats. An aesthetic nurse by commerce, Stehling beforehand instructed the Present that she bought the thought for her cat sanctuary at some point whereas pondering the kind of legacy she wished to go away behind.

“I bought to a degree the place I began to query, ‘What am I doing with my life?” Stehling mentioned. “How am I going to go away the world a greater place than once I bought right here?”

Now, she will be able to add “youngsters’s guide writer” to her listing of accolades.

Her new guide follows that of “Canine,” a stray canine that was both dumped or wandered onto the ranch, who, regardless of being a canine, discovered a household among the many sanctuary’s greater than 100 cats.

“It’s the true story about how Canine landed up right here on the Cat Sanctuary,” Stehling instructed the Present. “I’ve by no means had a canine earlier than, in order that was an entire new expertise. I instructed my daughter we are able to’t have a canine at a cat sanctuary. However little by little, we began letting her free-roam, and these feral cats simply began loving her. It was loopy.”

Certainly, “One Canine at a Cat Sanctuary” isn’t simply in regards to the story of Canine, however quite, how sworn enemies can grow to be greatest pals in probably the most uncommon of circumstances.

Stehling’s guide is on sale now at Barnes & Noble, Amazon, and can quickly be out there at Goal. All income go in the direction of caring for the cats on the sanctuary.

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