Since Laura was a young girl she would help her dad in farming and started rescuing all kinds of animals from bats to dogs, cats and even bottle feeding goats and lambs. One of the rescued cats was Igor who had only one eye after an attack by a crow. He is still a much-loved family pet back home in […]

Ebon Bouri and Jenny Pill are both from the UK. They met while studying Creative Writing at Bath Spa University, and have now been together for over fifteen years. They came to Playa del Carmen in 2009, where they were involved with the first meetings of Cocos Cat Rescue (now Cocos Animal Welfare). Ebon and Jenny have travelled all over […]

Lorraine Reynolds is originally from Montreal, Canada and is now enjoying life in the Riviera Maya with her husband, JP, five cats and two dogs. After attending Pratt Institute in NYC as a Fine Arts major, Lorraine worked 35 years in the airline industry as a flight attendant for Air Canada. During those years she also represented her colleagues as […]

Born and raised in Evansville, Indiana, Sherry studied Interior Design, Graphics and Marketing at the University of Kentucky and competed in Championship level equestrian events. Upon graduation, she moved to Atlanta, Georgia to begin her own mail order company, Scintilla, representing designers and craftsmen of artisan lighting, home décor and jewelry. Looking for a change of lifestyle, Sherry moved to […]

Sherwood Anders has been an animal lover her entire life. She got her first dog when she was a year old, and rescued her first cat at age six. Growing up, she wanted to pursue a career as a veterinarian, but followed a path into advertising, marketing and fundraising instead. She and her husband Bob first visited the Riviera Maya […]