Terri has been TNR’ing her backyard colony for a few years now. Currently there are about a half dozen TNR’d cats, but there are some newcomers. She has a completely private, enclosed backyard where the cats have free reign, and shelter in her garage. I’ve written about Terri before. This is her car…. Read more »
Paddy showed up last week on my neighbor’s garage roof, taunting the cats in my yard. Seriously? My colony cats run off any newcomers from the backyard, which is why I started feeding in the front yard last year. And yup, I trapped Paddy two nights later. He was a Textbook TNR case, in and… Read more »
Maryann cared for the outdoor cats in her neighborhood for years. She brought in cats that needed help, vetted them, and adopted them out. She has a photo album of her cat rescues. She told me stories of the cat that showed up with a wire wrapped tight around his leg. Thankfully, only two toes… Read more »
Some new cats were visiting my yard and the weather was mild so I decided to set out traps overnight. I call this stealth trapping, because sometimes this way you end up getting cats you didn’t even know existed. I set out traps in my secret, secure locations that I sleuthed out over the… Read more »
So this cat showed up in my yard a couple of weeks ago. Jim put traps out immediately but the cat never came back. Ever since then, I’ve been watching a house leave a lot of garbage in our alley, like they’re moving. And I started seeing a lot of cat supplies with the garbage…. Read more »
Clover was adopted off the street by a neighbor last fall. We crossed our fingers that she would want to stay permanently. Casey, her caregiver, just sent this photo. Thank you, Casey! The adoption is a success! Clover is from the now “retired” Eleanor Rigby Colony. She was the one cat from that colony that did everything… Read more »
Remember Woodrow Whiskers from the La Vida Lydia Colony? He showed up sick in December. After I fully vetted him he was admitted into Tree House. He was adopted last week. When I called to tell Lydia, his feeder, the good news, she already knew because she tried to visit him! Right now she is also… Read more »
Last December Heather, Melissa and I TNR’d and rescued 17 cats from the Armando Colony. Eight adult cats were TNReturned to him, and these seven kittens were placed into a no-kill shelter. The kittens were pulled just in time – you can see that some of them are sick here. Armando is an animal lover… Read more »
I visited the V Colony today and was very happy to see this TNR’d tuxedo cat dining on their steps. Their yard is shoveled and the cats are well-fed. Some of the cats still have chronic URI issues but I’ll just have to keep an eye on them for now. I don’t want to stress out the… Read more »
Nineteen inches is a lot of snow all at once. Jim did most of the heavy shoveling since I was out of town for work and missed the storm. Mooha helped me with the little bit of shoveling that was left yesterday afternoon. I made sure to clear out the cat paths so that… Read more »