Silvia Valles has plenty of tales about the cats she’s rescued in the last 20 years, more than enough to fill an autobiography she’s currently penning. One surely to make the final draft stands out for Valles’s absolute devotion to her feline friends.

Several years ago, this Miami resident and founder of the Octavio Feline Foundation had just picked up five kittens who were four days old. The following day, Valles drove north to her family’s farm and found the electricity was shut off for the season. “I had the babies with me and I was feeding them every two hours,” she says. “I needed to heat their bottles.”

And so, Valles drove 20 miles each way every two hours to heat up the bottles with a microwave, then return to the farm to feed them. “She does everything on her own,” says Palena Dorsey, founder of Sanctuary Animal Rescue. “She takes in all these cats who are beaten to hell.”

In honor of Valles’s determination to help any cat who crosses her path, Freekibble donated 1,000 pounds of Halo Spot’s Stew in October, delivered at the spot where she once heated the bottles for those tiny kittens.

“The cats love it, they love one with the chicken,” says Valles. “There are a few cats with bad skin, they had some problems, the skin is so dry and rough. The food really helped their skin get better.”

Valles’s primary mission is to spay and neuter the scores of cats on the streets of Miami, and then return them (called Trap, Neuter, Return or TNR). The cats she rescues from foreclosed homes and from shelters when facing euthanasia stay at her three-bedroom house or the foster homes of her volunteers. Valles shared her donation with all of her fosters.

“I am so grateful,” she says of her Freekibble/Halo gift. “This is the first time I’ve gotten a donation, this makes me so happy.”