Bear Den Cat Sanctuary founder Blake Stehling this week launched her first-ever children’s book. “One Dog at a Cat Sanctuary,” a story about the feline refuge’s lone dog who wandered on the property a few years ago.
Stehling founded Bear Den Cat Sanctuary in Bulverde in 2021, a 3-acre ranch for unhoused and abandoned cats. An aesthetic nurse by trade, Stehling previously told the Current that she got the idea for her cat sanctuary one day while pondering the type of legacy she wanted to leave behind.
“I got to a point where I started to question, ‘What am I doing with my life?” Stehling said. “How am I going to leave the world a better place than when I got here?”
Now, she can add “children’s book author” to her list of accolades.
Her new book follows that of “Dog,” a stray dog that was either dumped or wandered onto the ranch, who, despite being a canine, found a family among the sanctuary’s more than a hundred cats.
“It’s the true story about how Dog landed up here at the Cat Sanctuary,” Stehling told the Current. “I’ve never had a dog before, so that was a whole new experience. I told my daughter we can’t have a dog at a cat sanctuary. But little by little, we started letting her free-roam, and these feral cats just started loving her. It was crazy.”
Indeed, “One Dog at a Cat Sanctuary” isn’t just about the story of Dog, but rather, how sworn enemies can become best friends in the most unusual of circumstances.
Stehling’s book is on sale now at Barnes & Noble, Amazon, and will soon be available at Target. All profits go towards caring for the cats at the sanctuary.
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