‘Cat Angel’ who dedicated her life to helping stray and feral cats killed in car crash

Anne Rettie car crash

“Sad Sad Day! She helped so many cats and kittens, sad day for the rescue world. What a lovely compassionate person. She was a cat angel.” – Sue Clark of White Lake who runs Free Spirit Cat Rescue.

“I’m pretty sure Anne has been involved in dozens and dozens of pet rescues over the years.” – volunteer cat rescuer.

“Anne dedicated her life to helping stray and feral cats.” – Ottawa and Valley Lost Pet Network

Anne Rettie
Anne Rettie

It is indeed a sad day for all those involved in cat rescue in North America and wider afield when a cat rescuer dies in a car accident. In this instance it is Anne Rettie, 68, who is described as a ‘cat angel’. Elisa wrote about another lady involved in cat rescue some time ago who died in similar circumstances.

Rettie was killed in a three vehicle crash involving two cars and a cement truck on a road east of the town of Almonte, Canada. She had a small farm near Almonte. She worked as a freelance technical writer and was well known in the cat rescue community of the area. She had a Facebook page. There is no news about this on that page.

A close friend who lives in Ottawa, the capital of Canada, Natalia Kudryashova, said:

“It’s just awful. She was smart, kind and really funny, with a kind of British style of dry humour. She was so engaging, we gradually became very close.”


Kudryashova and Rettie created a small online business selling handicrafts by auction on Facebook: Cat’s Cradle Online Auctions. The money made helped fund their cat rescue activities.

The other people involved in the accident were seriously injured but they are not life threatening injuries.

Sources: Ottawa Citizen and Facebook

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