Colonies

Woodrow Whiskers is Available for Adoption or Fostering

Woodrow Whiskers is fully recovered and available for adoption or fostering. He is playful, likes to snuggle, is fine with other cats, and discovered the pure joy of making happy paws with all 12 of his front toes on blue shag carpeting. He is loving being indoors now. Please contact me or visit this link… Read more »

Another Puffy, the Long-Haired Colony Cat, Sighting

Puffy McWondertail, aka Snuffleupagus, aka The Street Sweeper, came for breakfast today. Jim took these photos of him, because he’s a rare sight. First, he always sits on the round concrete table in the catio. And then he gets closer. One day I am determined to get a nice shot of him because he is… Read more »

The Cats In My Yard are Ready for the Holidays

There’s been a lot going on with the other colonies, but all is quiet with the cats in my yard.   They’ve been out enjoying the fairly mild winter weather. Only Bouncy Bear is around all of the time, because she is obsessed with wet food.  I left all of the summer flowers out, and… Read more »

Woodrow Whiskers is Available for Adoption

Woodrow Whiskers is feeling much better now after his vet visits. He’s been indoors with his feeder for almost two weeks now.  If you’d like to make a donation to his $485 vet bill there is a Paypal donation link at the top of this page, or you can email [email protected]   He had inflammation that made… Read more »

Thank You, Ben M., for Your Generous Donation and Compassion!

Ben’s new ongoing Paypal donation came as a complete surprise this week. I am so grateful.   These donations help with other surprises like Woodrow Whisker’s vet visit this week. So far Woodrow’s medical bill is $285. He is a colony cat TNR’d in 2010 that became very ill over this past weekend. After disappearing for five days, he showed up… Read more »

The TNR of the Armando Colony Cats

The Armando Colony population is now almost stabilized and the numbers are reduced by almost half because of TNR. We did this in four days.   Seven kittens were pulled. One adult cat died during surgery. And eight other adult cats were Trapped, Neutered and Returned. I’d like to now talk about those eight cats.  … Read more »

Pulling Kittens from a Colony

When we started TNR on the Armando Colony, the feeders told us about the kittens inside the house.   There were two litters, seven kittens total ranging from four to six weeks old. The mama cats were not there. The feeder said one of the mama cats was hit by a car and killed just… Read more »

RIP Sickie from the Armando Colony

We started on the first round of TNR of the Armando Colony on Monday this week. This colony is a mix of about 17 cats and kittens.   Nine adult cats were brought into the clinic, including Sickie. Unfortunately Sickie died during her surgery due to multiple complications, including excessive bleeding. The clinic also saw… Read more »

New Feralvilla Feeding Station

We added a new Feralvilla Feeding Station for our James’ Gang Colony.   Jim painted and assembled it over the weekend. I can’t thank him enough for his help.   We let it sit outside for a few days so that the cats could get used to it, and then Bouncy Bear jumped right in this… Read more »