Stray Feral Rescue

Our organization began by finding homes for house cats, then due to the lack of help for feral and stray cats, we changed over to working with cats who had no viable options for placement in a traditional home due to behavior, age, health, or everyone else being full.  

We still have 22 colonies under our care, all on private property, and all have caregivers on site to see they are fed and watered and who monitor their health. We check on the cats and caregivers once or twice a week. All cats are spayed or neutered, all vaccinated, and all receive vet care when needed.  Our cats all have warm shelters, so they stay comfortable even in the worst weather. Snug warm or heated housing, vet care and catered meals! What more could a Community cat need! Unfortunately we have hit a brick wall when it comes to adding colonies, and our present colonies are overfill, with caregivers refusing to add more. We will continue to help care for those colonies as long as we last, and as their cat numbers lower will add a cat here and there when possible. However, because of this overwhelming cat population situation we have changed once again.  We can no longer take in cats. We have nowhere left to put them. But we have a lot of other ways to help. 

After Covid so many cats were abandoned unfixed. So many people have lost jobs or homes, so have left cats behind or released them when they were unable to care for them so numbers of unfixed strays has increased. Places that used to provide low cost spay neuter services did not reopen. Vet clinics are being bought out by corporations and the costs for spay and neuter has more than doubled at most vet clinics. The cat population exploded and the means were not there to control things. Since we can’t take more cats, we decided we would provide financial help to independent rescue people, who are younger and have the energy to be trapping and transporting and finding cats homes. Thankfully there are still some vets out there that believe in pet population control and we are so grateful for them, and their willingness to work with us. 

Our mission has become providing funds for spays and neuters and providing cat food when we can, so those younger people out there working as independent rescuers, and doing the ground work can care for the cats that have been dumped out on their own. Their energy and dedication have proven to be an amazing asset. We also help the smaller 501s whe. We have the funds. If all of us work together we can accomplish so much more!

The shortage of veterinarians has made things harder as the costs of care have gone up and well as the travel time to find a vet that can give us an appointment, and gas costs are sky high. The costs for cat food is also increasing. Cats need you more than ever, and we thank you so much for the help. 

Purple Cat Vet has been one of the mainstays of our population control efforts. They are wonderful. Most the cats we provide funds to fix go thru Purple Cat. We encourage all of you to also donate to https://www.purplecatvet.com/purple-cat-people/.  This group sponsors so many cats, and they make it affordable for people who adopt cats, as well as those of us in rescue, who are working to get as many cats fixed and healthy as possible. 

Thank you for your support!