News
In the News
A Place of Love, Hope, and Art for its owner and inhabitants – Chatham News & Record- Aug. 2020
Pittsboro Woman Rescues More Than 300 Cats – May 2018
A Special Visit to the Goathouse with Katzenworld – April 2018
Goathouse Refuge Featured in New Book – March 2018
The Goathouse Refuge saves a tiny kitten from a kill shelter – June, 2016
The Goathouse Refuge sets record number of adoptions for 2014 – January, 2015
Five Minutes to Heartbreak – don’t dump you cat to go on vacation – July, 2014
Man Opens Shooting Range Next To Cat Refuge: Internet Gets Angry – June 20, 2014
Siglinda’s cooking pots are mentioned by an article in the Wall Street Journal – May 2, 2014
Cupid of the Goathouse Refuge is featured in Life With Cats – February 6, 2014
GOATHOUSE REFUGE IS A HAVEN FOR HOMELESS CATS – August 27, 2013
Pie and Pets Pizza Event Fundraiser Pictures at Chapelboro.com – August 3, 2013
Garden Gourmands Fundraiser Pictures at Chapelboro.com – May 19, 2013
Story broadcast on WGHP (Greensboro- High Point) by Bob Buckley – April 25, 2013
Goathouse Refuge Video on NBC’s Today Show – March 7, 2013
Goathouse Refuge on Time Warner Cable News 14 – February 21, 2013
Animal advocates work to reduce euthanasia rates, News & Observer – Raleigh, NC – January 12, 2013
300 Cats, Yes. Craziness, No., New York Times – New York, NY – January 10, 2013
Meet Siglinda Scarpa, a Cat-Loving Artist Who Opened Goathouse Refuge
Catster.com – September 28, 2012
Making New Friends (an article about volunteering at the Goathouse, September 1, 2012)
Real Nurses
UNC Health Care – Chapel Hill, NC – July 25, 2012
An RN in the Newborn Critical Care Center at UNC Hospitals spends a lot of her time outside the hospital taking care of hundreds of cats at an animal sanctuary
Children Find Calm and Companionship at Pittsboro Cat Refuge
News & Observer – Raleigh, NC – May 6, 2012
UNC Students Partner with Cat Refuge
Reesenews – Chapel Hill, NC – February 1, 2012
A Place to Call Home
Animal Wellness Magazine – January 31, 2012
The Story with Dick Gordon (around the 40 minute mark)
WUNC-FM – Chapel Hill, NC – January 19, 2012
Shelter Cat Care Questioned – Chapel Hill News, May 25, 2011
Chatham County’s privately run Goathouse Refuge, for instance, runs a small “cat house” with multiple places to hide and sleep; kittens live in a screened-in area. The cats also have the run of a fenced-in portion of the wooded property during the day.
The Healing Power of Pets Siglinda’s email to The People’s Pharmacy, April 2011
Amazing Magic at Goathouse Refuge The Triangle, March 2011
Cats Roam Free at the Goathouse Refuge The Examiner – October 31, 2010
The Goathouse Refuge, Cage-Free Cat Sanctuary Love Meow, October 7, 2010
The Cats Meow – Letter to the Editor
Chapel Hill News – Chapel Hill, NC – August 18, 2010
Nikolai Featured in “Least Likely to Be Adopted”
Independent Weekly – Durham, NC – August 2010
Shelby Featured in “Cat Shelters Stretched Thin”
News & Observer – Raleigh, NC – October 31, 2009
Rivers Agency: Giving Back in Creative Ways May 28, 2009
Multimedia
Presented by UNC Health Care, July 2012
Presented by UNC-TV, March 2011
This was captured just moments after we opened the gate for the first time so that our cats could enjoy their new, 3-acre enclosure!
Taken by Raleigh News & Observer staff writer Sara Peach during the summer of 2008.
30 Seconds in the Life of a Goathouse Refuge Kitty
Additional video of cats on the refuge grounds available on our Flickr page.
