Having rescued and fostered cats since the mid-80s, I’m nearly exhausted when the number of cats who still need rescue doesn’t seem to diminish.

Sometimes we focus on the cats we can’t save, and if it hadn’t been for painting portraits of rescued pets I may have abandoned the effort. Creating portraits saved me from letting go by introducing me to not only pets who had been lovingly rescued, but also the people who rescued them.

This calendar is as much about those rescuers as it is about the cats in the portraits. I’m happy to share these happy endings and introduce you to these devoted animal rescuers.