Ladybug and Honeybee Mascots
Introducing our kitties! Midnight, Linda, Max, Meeko, and Diamond
Despite our best efforts of getting them all fixed, chipped, and protected with a good home, treats, kitty towers in the windows, etc. and lots of love and energy balancing, four of our furbabies having been missing several months. We are still praying that someone somewhere knows something and we will be reunited soon!
DOWNLOADABLE POSTER: https://ladybugwellness.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/REWARD.pdf
Please help us find our fur family. Download and print this poster to put it up in areas in and around Prince George BC Canada. Thank you so much!
PLEASE encourage friends and neighbors to check found animals for microchips. Please check any animals past 6 months of age for microchips to ensure they are with their registered owners.
2022: July 3 Diamond, July 13 Meeko, July 17 Max, and September 24, Momma Linda.
Scroll to bottom for latest updates.
Midnight is still here with us and has been missing his furfamily desperately.
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Many people ask about our kitties. Sometimes clients coming for Honeybee Inspirations and Ladybug Wellness appointments might get to meet our furbaby mascots as we both operate out of our home office. Sometimes they might come to visit on camera while I am on Zoom calls as well.
We are animal lovers here!! I grew up with dogs and have fond memories of childhood with dogs and cats and budgies. When my children were small, we still had dogs and cats, then a hamster zoo while renting homes (that is a story in itself!). We were back to dogs and cats again when we moved into a home of our own. We have been in this home since 2005 and we have had furbaby kitties all along.
Did you know: Cats can be helpful to heal our bodies. The vagus nerve is an integral part of our energetic and physical grounding system. A cats purring can stimulate the vagus nerve in our bodies when they choose to cuddle with us. Remember, cats do not have owners, they have staff and – yes, they do rule the roost around here as our resident mascots.
Cats are all about intuitive senses. They are independent creatures. Cats are the embodiment of sentient beings and innocent souls. There is good reason why so many energy healers are also cat lovers.
Animals, especially cats, are quite adept at absorbing energies which they must then release in other ways. This is my understanding of why cats love the “earthing” process of exchanging ions out in the grass. We have many clients come to our home office and some people have called the cats “therapy cats”. I tend to agree!
Ladybug Wellness offers distance healing sessions. I have a life-sized doll to work with when doing distance sessions. When clients come for Reiki, CCMBA, Black Pearl sessions, the cats are not allowed in my Reiki room. (They tend to sit by the door to soak up energies from there).
When we have distance sessions meaning the client is not physically present, the cats quite enjoy soaking up the energy inside my Reiki room. They can also add some energy healing benefits as well. Quite often they love to sleep in there when no one else is occupying the room. Yes, I do clean out cat fur regularly before clients visit.
A little background:
Currently (May 2022) we have 5 cats. Midnight, Linda, Max, Meeko, and Diamond. Yes, they are a handful, but oh so much fun.
In March of 2021, our 19-year-old furbaby Zoomer passed away. His tribute page here: https://ladybugwellness.ca/tribute-zoomer
In July of 2021, the tenants next door moved and the place was sold. We are uncertain if that was a factor when two of our cats, Ebony and Niko went missing. We are really thankful that the rental next door sold and the new tenants have much loved furbabies as well.
In September of 2021, I lost my soul mate. Having suffered so much loss in a short time, I just wanted some more life around here. We “put it out there” to find a couple more furballs. I didn’t place ads, just watched for social media postings.
I connected with one person who said they had 3 male babies and a mama looking for a home. We went for a short road trip to pick them all up as the babies were only 4 weeks old and the lady was moving and needed to re-home them quickly.
We already had Midnight, who was just over a year old when the others came to live with us. We had acquired Midnight and Ebony back in June 2020 at 7 weeks old. As mentioned, Ebony went missing in July so Midnight was awfully lonely here without his littermate brother. Niko was a rescue we acquired at 2 years old from my now deceased son in law. She was tortoiseshell and about 6 years old when she went missing.
Midnight is a big boy at over 18 pounds, but when he first met these new intruders, he relegated himself to the basement. Sometimes he would venture upstairs but when he saw those itty bitty furballs, he retreated quickly. It didn’t help matters when Mama Linda was being quite protective hissing at him.
Being responsible pet owners, we always get our furbabies fixed. Unfortunately, it seemed the vets were overwhelmed and not taking appointments for several months. Linda went into heat 3 times before we could get her in to the vet in March of 2022. Midnight is fixed, but we had some interesting events for a while here. He soon made friends with Linda and the babies though. We learned something new with Meeko. He is what is called a “cryptorchid”, meaning that his dingleberries were buried in his abdomen and he had to have his belly shaved for a male type “spay”. Also known as expensive!! Plus, he had to wait for surgery until June 2022.
I am really thankful for my clients who book in regularly as we spent close to $2000 to have all of our cats taken care of properly with vet care.
Linda and Diamond were listed as Lynx Point. Meeko and Max were listed as brown tabbies. Beautiful sweet kitties.
Names: Midnight is like a mini panther, all black. Linda already had her name when we brought her home. She responds to her name so we kept it and often call her Linda Lou. Max has a distinctive M on his forehead. We fondly call him “gluteus Maximus” since he can be a little mischievous a**. Meeko was named after the Disney raccoon as Melissa is a Disney fan. Diamond is my sweetie named after my soul mate’s nickname.
The good thing is that Midnight got used to his new family and they all get along quite well. The boys are all getting bigger now and they all have learned some kitty behavior from Midnight. Like tossing themselves at our feet in our small kitchen. We have two cat trees, a hammock, and a table in the front window so they are all spoiled with having perches to look down on the world outside. They also have a tunnel and other toys for entertainment. We have been taking them outside for supervised visits and fresh air every few days.
All of our cats love energy balancing and are happy kitties here. They even sleep soundly through thunder storms as long as they are inside on their perches. They have not taken a liking to the vacuu-monster however. Something still to work on with them.
Melissa took up gardening and we are finding the cats really like our fenced yard and hiding among the foliage. They are allowed to enjoy outside during the day but we round them all up for bedtime and safety.
We have a cat door but we keep it locked most of the time, especially at night. We have blocked stuff in front of the door but all of the cats seem to band together and figure out ways to escape by knocking things over and the also manage to unlock the door. I have caught them mid-flight getting out an open door many times as well when they were supposed to be kept inside. For these reasons we have allowed some supervised grass time and limited exploring time outside.
Our cats have been mostly indoor, but open doors in the summer time with scents of grass and sunshine with people coming and going often has meant that our felines want to enjoy grass time outside in our fenced yard and garden. I believe in giving sentient beings some freedoms within reason, of course! Meaning, we got them all fixed to curb hormonal roaming and spraying; and we do ensure they are inside for the night.
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September 27 2022: Regrettably, since so many people are asking, I am now letting you know that FOUR of our sweeties have disappeared in a short span of time.
July 3 Diamond, July 13 Meeko, July 17 Max, and most recently September 24, Linda.
Despite our best efforts of getting them all fixed, chipped, and protected with a good home, treats, kitty towers in the windows, etc. and lots of love and energy balancing… Summer time means more people coming and going with doors open and they have each escaped out into our fenced yard. We have always made sure they are inside for the night though.
All of our sweeties are registered and listed on
https://bcpetregistry.ca/ and
http://www.bcpetsearch.com/
I am frustrated and disheartened with posting to social media as there are too many keyboard warrior cruel humans who feel it necessary to comment with a backlash of rude opinions such as: “you should have kept them inside”, “I hate cats”, “cats get into gardens”, “cats should not be outside”. I find that these are the same kind of people who are not emotionally mature enough to understand and accept differences in opinions nor take into account unknown mitigating factors.
Why is it that when someone posts a missing dog or other animal, communities reach out to offer compassionate and hope, but cat posts often evoke cruel chastising comments? In my opinion, these kinds of comments say more about the person. They are self-righteous and derogatory in their “I am better than you” persona and feel that their opinions are the only ones that count. Perhaps they just need to be heard? Again, emotional maturity is a factor here.
I wonder if these same horrible people would have the same attitude towards human children. Yes, I am making that comparison because I believe that many animal lovers consider their furbabies part of the family as their children. Animals do have souls and feelings. We certainly consider our pets to be family members. A compassionate person offers hope rather than chastising parenting skills.
I also find it quite disheartening that the SPCA staff have told me that apparently, in their experience, not all animal owners are quite so involved in trying to locate their pets. They have said it is appreciated that I am so concerned in being in contact with them often.
I have lost friends over the “strict indoor only confinement” theory for cats. Yes, there are many happy cats who live in apartments and homes on busy streets or other reasons for strictly indoor. That is great and wonderful.
In those situations, I do hope the animals have got proper natural stimulations to cater to their animal instincts. There are also many happy barn cats on farms. I am all for enclosed “catios” as well if this is an affordable and viable option.
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We are well aware of wildlife encounter concerns, but when we can still get energy on their pictures and know they are alive, this feels much more like human involvement. There are just too many weird factors for this to be wildlife encounters.
I am able to work on them energetically but just not pinpoint where they are. We have a lovely neighbor who is also an animal lover. She has two elderly cats of her own that have made friends with our cats. In chatting about our cats disappearing, she mentioned that our cats are very “pretty” and suggested that someone may have taken them purposely
With so many other dogs and cats disappearing all over town, we are now wondering about a hoarding situation somewhere. Not only am I distraught in missing our babies, I am also feeling extremely targeted in feeling that our babies may have been stolen.
I have consulted a few animal intuitives in the past, but I have not had a good experience there, and have not been able to find Reese, Ebony, or Niko. I have not found an effective animal intuitive for these more recent disappearances. I have had a few consultations with some energy practitioner friends and some are psychic intuitives.
From these more recent communications we have had numerous suggestions that it may be a hoarding situation with other cats and dogs being “detained”. Perhaps a woman with mental health concerns who may have lost a pet at a young age. While I can be compassionate to mental health concerns, this is not a good situation for poorly treated animals. We have done much energy healing and dowsing around this situation of any animals disappearing in hopes that whomever may be involved will come to realize that these animals have loving homes and will encourage them to return home.
Since animals are extremely intuitive and bring many life lessons to their human counterparts, there has been a suggestion as well that the reason our cats have gone missing is to force me to become more of an animal communicator myself.
With that in mind, I am delving deeply into some courses, books and other information on this subject.
Being an intuitive energy healer already, it is hard to not feel completely helpless in the fact that I can tune into their energy to work on them energetically, but I am not able to pinpoint where they are to bring them home.
I am just keeping my sweeties in our prayers, sending them energy healing every night and keeping vigil that they will return home sooner than later.
Thank you to anyone who offers their prayers and hope in our sweeties coming home.
I will update here any new information that comes to light.
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October 10 2022:
Considering the “power of words”, I have deleted the social media posts and am being consciously aware of feeding into the energy of “missing” and “lost”. Plus, I didn’t appreciate the energy of some of the ensuing comments on those posts. For those interested, I will keep information regarding updates mainly here in this page.
I have been taking a workshop and spending time with a reputable dowser who has had much success in finding lost items and animals. Together we have confirmed that Linda went out looking for her babies and that they will be home soon. She is with 2 of them regularly but still trying to round up Diamond. We have deduced that they are only a few blocks away, but someone has been kindly feeding them so they are not in a hurry to return home but with colder weather upon us, Ginette figures they will be home sooner than later. https://www.reachginette.com/
October 20 2022
Update on kitties:
No, they are still not home, but we know they are alive and being “detained”. I have been working with Ginette Lucas, an expert in finding lost items and cats, as well as a gifted intuitive.
We have reason to believe that some well-meaning person in our extended neighborhood has taken in our cats not realizing that they have a home already.
Last fall we took in a mom and 3 boys. They are a close-knit family. When Diamond got out around the time of having company visiting back in July 2022, the others one by one got out and went searching for their bro. Sept 24 momma Linda also disappeared.
They are all fixed and microchipped. We are just praying that whoever has taken them in will do the right thing in bringing them in to get scanned and returned to our home.
I have made some phone calls recently and found out a lot of information I didn’t know about the whole microchipping program.
More information on what I found out about microchipping etc. here:
https://ladybugwellness.ca/animal-welfare/
October 29 2022:
I have made a social media paid post so this ad will go out targeted around Prince George in hopes that this exposure might reach more people and bring awareness so that someone may recognize our babies and bring them home.
Ladybug Wellness
Published by Jackie Rioux
Help us bring our fur family mascots home! $200 reward for the SAFE return of all 4 cats together (or $50 reward each for safe return).
Momma Linda and her 3 sons Diamond, Meeko, and Max. Much loved and missed by our family, friends, and clients who have met our sweeties.
All spayed / neutered and microchipped shortly before disappearance. All had colored collars as well.
Lakewood area Prince George BC.
Details of disappearance in website.
Thank you to Deborah for her comment and Court of Atonement intention that others can join in to intend as well:
Deborah Danzeiser:
I,______, place all of these cats into a full court of atonement with God for the purpose of their safe and immediate return. I ask for divine intervention and family reunification. I ask to search their timelines to resolve any and all reasons they are apart. I ask for miracles and positive resolution.
Sage LeSage: Hi Jackie, I looked up angel pet guardians and found Archangel Raphael and Saint Francis for lost pet communication to be guided safely and quickly home.
October 31 2022: We have just blasted our neighborhood with posters on several lamp posts. We are offering a REWARD for the SAFE return of all four of our furbaby family. I have been tuning in and working on their energy every night. They are scared, unhappy, and not able to escape where ever they are being detained. Someone somewhere knows something. Please watch out for our cats and assist in bringing them home!
November 29 2022: I had another phone chat with Ginette last Friday. She did some map dowsing to find the cats. They have been separated now. She figured Meeko was loose over by Lakewood Park. I ran over there quickly with treats and posters. Talked to a few people. Nothing.
I put posters up on lamp posts and into mailboxes around the other 3 addresses given. Still nothing. I renewed a paid social media post so hoping that gets shared around our region and that someone somewhere will come forward with them.
Ladybug Wellness: posted and renewed Facebook ad:
November 29 2022: All I want for Christmas is to have our kitties home with us!
REWARD OFFERED!
Thank you for sharing to assist us in bringing our fur family mascots home! Reward offered for the SAFE return of each of all 4 of them!
Please encourage friends and neighbors to have found animals checked for a microchip so we can bring our furbabies home. Thank you!!
Momma Linda and her 3 sons Diamond, Meeko, and Max. Much loved and missed by our family, friends, and clients who have met our sweeties.
All spayed / neutered and microchipped shortly before disappearance. All had colored collars as well.
Lakewood area Prince George BC.
Details of disappearance and updates in website.
January 30 2023: Ginette has been busy and we have not been able to connect and chat in quite some time. Another friend sent a suggestion to contact Sheila Wood https://www.sheilajwood.com/ for animal communication and finding lost pets.
I did contact Sheila and had a short chat. She basically gave me similar information that we have already been getting regarding the kitties situation.
What we knew intuitively so far:
The kitties are no longer in a hoarding situation a few blocks away.
They may have been given away or sold to someone about an hour north west.
Sheila feels something nefarious going on there.
Momma Linda seems to be with one baby. She is sad and missing all her babies.
The other two have been separated.
One may be a rural location northwest an hour away.
One may be southwest of our home, about 20 minutes away.
She feels that Linda and one baby may be just 2 to 5 blocks away.
Grey weathered building like a boarded up home or an old commercial building.
There’s pavement around (asphalt).
Trees overhanging the roof.
Small cleared area nearby.
Windows are old, look boarded up with either paper or wood.
This building with description seems to have an older man living there.
February 4 2023: Today Ginette was the guest speaker on Tucson Dowsers monthly webinars. Replay will be out soon. Ginette taught us about her charts and skills in how she finds lost items. Quite informative. As always, I will be saving these links in my E-Learning Excel document found in Free Downloads of this website.
In the webinar chat, someone shared this link: https://www.missinganimalresponse.com/lost-cat-behavior/
I have read through this page and also ordered a few books on the topic of finding lost cats.
February 8 2023: Ginette was a guest speaker on Tucson Dowsers on February 4 2023, then later had a personal chat with Ginette. She is certain that someone out there is just being selfish in keeping our cats because they are such nice kitties.
This is so frustrating for us. Midnight is exhibiting so much upset behavior no matter how much I work on him. He is lonely and missing his family. When we brought Linda home to live with us, she came with some toy babies. All the time she was with us, she would carry these babies around and “talk” in ways I have never heard a cat “talk” before. Such a mothering personality. Any time I tune in to Linda’s energy, I can feel that she is lonely and missing her babies. I am not giving up hope in finding our cats.
I did see a social media post from the SPCA encouraging the reasons for getting animals microchipped. I wish there was some sort of program to enforce the use of microchips and checking for them as well. I have noticed there are some counties in the US where microchips are mandatory.
In an ideal world… ugh.
I am redoing the Facebook post advertisement this evening and adding a downloadable poster here as well. I know there are good people out there that would put up a poster in outlying areas.
I am encouraging everyone who loves animals to make sure to check microchips on any found animals AND on any rehomed animals over 6 months of age. In my chat with Sheila, she felt that someone had been hoarding many animals and has possibly sold them to someone farther away.