Kitties & Cacao™ is not simply a cat rescue.
It is an emerging regenerative animal sanctuary and human connection space, rooted in primal feline care since the 1990s — long before premade raw food existed. Set as a NY State Non-Profit and heading towards our Federal 501c3 status.
What is taking shape here was built through years of devotion, daily care, and the quiet accumulation of lives that kept arriving. Not from a polished plan, but from the undeniable sense that something larger was asking to be born.
Built from years of real rescue work, Kitties & Cacao™ is the early expression of a deeper vision. One grounded in biological coherence, compassionate care, and the restoration of relationship between animals, humans, and the living world.
A Living Sanctuary Already in Motion
Kitties & Cacao™ is not a future idea.
It is already happening.
Right now, roughly 45 cats live inside the sanctuary spaces of our farmhouse, while another 25 remain part of the outdoor colony we feed, shelter, and tend each day. What began as helping a few cats in need became something much larger. A living system. A daily act of devotion. A home gradually reshaped around safety, nourishment, and care.
We’ve already adopted out over 55 cats (and counting) through our local pet store and rescue organizations we work with, as well as, having spayed and neutered over 40 cats and counting.
Every day here is built around real work.
Fresh, primal raw food and clean water for the indoor cats and the outdoor colony.
Two feedings per day.
Litter boxes cleaned twice daily.
A mudroom shelter for the ferals, warmed by heat lamps in the winter.
An indoor catio. A sanctuary side of the house filled with climbing spaces, quiet corners, and a great bay window where cats watch the wildlife move across the land.
It is not pristine.
It is not staged.
It is alive.
There is fur in the corners. Movement at the door. Cats coming and going. Some still learning trust. Some needing extra care. Some who were meant to pass through and somehow stayed.
What is here has been built through repetition, vigilance, tenderness, and the willingness to keep saying yes when another life needed help.
And that is what makes this place real.
Why This Place Exists
At the heart of Kitties & Cacao™ is a deeper belief.
That healing happens through relationship.
Through safety.
Through nourishment.
Through presence.
Through the restoration of connection with life itself.
Cats do something to a space. They soften it. They regulate it. They invite a different pace. A quieter attention. A more honest kind of presence.
Cacao carries its own intelligence.
For centuries it has been known as a heart opener, a plant that invites warmth, communion, and deeper connection. In the world of Kitties & Cacao™ , it represents something simple and profound: the kind of presence that allows humans to arrive more fully, soften more deeply, and remember their relationship to the living world around them.
This sanctuary is being built in honor of that same intelligence, not only in cacao, but in animals, and in life itself when it's given the right conditions to repair, reconnect, and become coherent again.
Kitties & Cacao™ exists where animal rescue, biological coherence, and human remembrance meet.
Founded by Gabrielle Brick
For years, Gabrielle's work as a Biological Wellness Educator & Living Food Formulator has centered on helping women restore coherence in a fragmented wellness culture.
Long before Kitties & Cacao™ had a name, that same devotion was shaping the way she cared for animals, gathered people, and listened for the forms of healing that restore relationship with life.
Cacao has been part of that path for more than twenty years.
It first came to Gabrielle at the beginning of her own healing journey and became a steady companion. A heart opener. An alchemical friend. Over time, it also became part of her creative and professional life, from pioneering raw heirloom chocolate and cacao elixirs to hosting cacao gatherings long before they became widely known.
Cats were arriving then, too.
Through rescue.
Through adoption.
Through abandonment.
Through the quiet, persistent sense that care itself was becoming a way of life.
Kitties & Cacao™ is where those paths meet.
A sanctuary shaped by rescue, nourishment, presence, and the deeper belief that healing happens best in the right conditions.
Be a Founder, Not Just a Follower
33 Founding Felines Circle
This is for the ones who feel it early. 🐾
Before the building is complete. Before the world catches up. Before there's a ribbon to cut or a crowd to join.
Kitties & Cacao™ is in its founding chapter — completing our Federal 501c3 filing, stabilizing wholesale accounts for the cats' primal diet, and improving sanctuary living conditions for the animals already in our care.
Thirty-three founding gifts of $111 will help make all of it possible.
Each Founding Feline receives:
Your name on the Sanctuary Founding Feline Wall
VIP invite to our first live gathering
A chance to name a rescue cat (optional)
$111 — One-Time Gift
Your gift directly funds the 501c3 legal transition — the foundation everything else is built on.
Every Gift Feeds The Mission
Support the Sanctuary
Your support funds nourishment, safety, and steady care.
You’re creating a world where cats are treated like the primal, powerful beings they are.
Join the Meow-List
Some people will land here and simply smile.
Others will feel that familiar pull… the one that says, stay close to this.
The Meow-List is for those who want to follow the rescues, witness the cats, receive sanctuary updates, hear the stories unfolding behind the scenes, and be part of what is growing here from the beginning.
You’ll receive:
Sanctuary updates
Rescue stories, Adoption opportunities
Ways to support the cats
Future gatherings and events
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