If you have not stayed at the Brewster Inn since Sep 2023, you may wonder just who Brownie is. What little bit we know of her backstory is that she lived with a family on a road near us but they moved and left her. She was basically homeless and very weary of people. She started coming over to our house looking for food, which we were happy to provide. For two years, Tina would follow her around the property in all weathers to make sure she had some food. She would never let us get close to her until Sep 2023 when slowly she started to edge towards Tina who was sat at the back of the house where we park our car. They say when a cat is in distress, it will go towards someone that has shown it kindness and Brownie did just that. She was looking pretty rough but over the course of an hour, she came right up to Tina and allowed her to stroke her. She wasn’t looking too good and it turned out she had a big wound on the side of her neck that was bigger than a quarter. As time went on she would let us stroke her but she would never come inside the Brewster Inn. We didn’t know what to do to help her and it was a weekend and we reached out to Spirit’s Place Sanctuary and they were the first people to help us with her. We managed to get her in a carrier which was a miracle, and they actually checked her over and gave her first shots. A couple of months went by and we were able to get her started at our local vet’s office. Everyone there has been so fantastic with her. For about a year she was treated with antibiotics that started to heal the wound but she would scratch it open again. In Nov 2024 it was decided to operate on her and close the wound up. It turned out it was a benign cancer and is thankfully all gone. Fast forward to today and her wound is totally healed up and looks really good as the picture shows. We say she’s more than our cat, or the mascot, she is the queen and she knows it! Currently she’s still totally afraid of other people but loves to come inside to our quarters and snuggle up to sleep with us. She loves to sit outside and watch guests, and can often be spotted trying to “hide” among the flowers. She is still very shy and will run if approached by anyone other than the two of us. But, she has come a long way in the last few years and has been such a blessing to us. Guests who have seen her watching them from the gardens will always ask about how she’s doing and enjoy looking for her when they visit again.