Wendy Welch started a feline rescue and adoption program in Big Stone Gap, Virginia, where cats roam around her used bookstore, Tales of the Lonesome Pine, and now helps run Hazel’s House, which serves as a temporary home for cats until they can be adopted. Shown are Welch and February inside the bookstore.
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Dixie (right), Rasky (center) and Pesky (left) — the first three cats to arrive at Hazel’s House — settle in. Appalachian Feline Friends, a cat rescue group, donated the house to save cats from being euthanized at overcrowded shelters.
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Wendy Welch talks about Appalachian Feline Friends, her nonprofit cat rescue organization. Volunteers come in each day to play with and feed the cats at Hazel’s House.
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Pesky gets comfortable in a box attached to the wall of the house.
Anyone interested in helping with Hazel’s House can contact Appalachian Feline Friends on Facebook at www.facebook.com/appalachianfelinefriends/ or call Wendy Welch at Tales of the Lonesome Pine at 276-523-5097.
Call Welch at the bookstore if you’re interested in adopting a cat, for which there is a $40 fee.
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Wendy Welch started a feline rescue and adoption program in Big Stone Gap, Virginia, where cats roam around her used bookstore, Tales of the Lonesome Pine, and now helps run Hazel’s House, which serves as a temporary home for cats until they can be adopted. Shown are Welch and February inside the bookstore.
Dixie (right), Rasky (center) and Pesky (left) — the first three cats to arrive at Hazel’s House — settle in. Appalachian Feline Friends, a cat rescue group, donated the house to save cats from being euthanized at overcrowded shelters.
Wendy Welch talks about Appalachian Feline Friends, her nonprofit cat rescue organization. Volunteers come in each day to play with and feed the cats at Hazel’s House.
