Nickel City Cats

03/02/2025

Dear cat owners,

Most declawing veterinarians don't want you to see this post.
Why? Because they make easy and good money barbarically amputating your beloved cat's toe bones and claws like the ones in the photo. (Scalpel declaw)

The facts are that declawing is inhumane, cruel, and ALWAYS causes negative issues for your cat's long term health and well being.
There are credible and recent peer reviewed studies that prove this.

If you really love your cat and want what's best for them, please take the humane path and use the easy, humane alternatives to declawing like sturdy scratching posts, scratching pads, nail trims, deterrents like double sided tape and Feliway, Soft Paws, etc.

Below is the info that declawing vets do NOT want you to read. Also, a study showed that declawing causes chronic stress.
Remember, cats are masters at hiding their pain and suffering so they silently suffer for the rest of their lives from walking on those 10-18 amputation sites.

Here's everything you need to know about declawing. https://citythekitty.org/declawing-facts-vs-myths-humane-options/

If your vet declaws cats, please ask them to honor their veterinary oath and stop. If they won't then it's best you take your pets to ethical and humane vets who put the welfare of ALL animals over profits.
Send us an email if you go to or work at an AAHA Accredited Animal hospital that declaws cats. We will keep your info anonymous. [email protected]

Please go to citythekitty.org and sign all our petitions. No need to donate any money when you sign them since the money goes to change. org.

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03/01/2025

UPDATE!

Today’s 50/50 winner donated her winnings back to us 🥹🥹🥹. We are all so much more blessed for all of your support.

Another update:
SUKI IS GONE HOME!
Anyone who has visited in the last few months and have been accosted by a tiny flying squirrel spider monkey of affection know this little ball of love. Suki is 1 of our 3 FIP babies who has gone from skin and belly and bones to a robust yet diminutive dynamo. It absolutely pained her mama to leave her with us during her treatment. It was even more painful to lose little Sokka to FIP. Mama’s house went from 2 kittens to 0. But we persisted!

She chose Cobblepot to fill Sokka’s space. Mama Batman went with him for fostering. Now that Suki is going home, we concluded that Hugo should go for foster too. He hasn’t been thriving like the rest of his siblings since mama Batman left. We are hoping that this cures what ails him. Suki likes him to boot!

Thank you so so so so much Steph for your patience, dedication , and kindness. We’ve been on this journey together and you’ve been wonderful.

So lots of news for today!

03/01/2025

50/50 drawing!

02/28/2025

**UPDATE**

🚨🚨TODAY is the LAST day to participate! 🚨🚨

We have over 230 entries and the jackpot is at $465!

⏰ Here’s your sign to do it now⏰.

March 1st is tomorrow 🙀. Help fund the cat distribution system!

It ends at midnight!

💥Go here… NOW!👉🏻 https://www.zeffy.com/ticketing/first-5050-of--2025

02/27/2025

Tomorrow is the LAST day to participate! We have over 100 entries and the jackpot is at $277.50!

If you’ve been waiting, now’s your chance ⏰. March 1st is on Saturday… yeah… the day after tomorrow 🙀. We will find out who wins along with our furry friends!

💥Go here… NOW!👉🏻 https://www.zeffy.com/ticketing/first-5050-of--2025

02/27/2025

On our way to take 7 more kitties out of the breeding pool! Getting up at 5:30am ain’t easy. Usually it’s Mr NCC who drives us but today Buddy Kate’s dad is giving us a hand.

02/26/2025

We can’t stress this enough. Reasons why people don’t spay/neuter:

⭐️Cost⭐️Availability⭐️Laziness⭐️
⭐️Ignorance⭐️

👉🏻 If we want people to do it, make it affordable FFS
👉🏻 Prioritize these surgeries over everything else. 5 month wait times help no one.
👉🏻 If the previous two items were actually corrected, people wouldn’t be hesitant to get it done!
👉🏻 Educate the pet owners around you who have intact pets. Cats can be desexed safely as early as 8 weeks old. Anything against that is old wives tale and/or nonsense. *Some* dogs benefit from being sexually mature before desex surgery however this is ONLY if the dog has breed specific traits desired. No excuses otherwise.

02/24/2025

🚨JACKPOT IS AT $237.50🚨

Tell your friends to tell their friends! A little help can go a long way.

👉🏻We are desperately wanting to make an order for food. $700 is the minimum purchase. $700 translates to approximately $1,400 retail. $700 gives us 4 months of kibble from Royal Canin’s PRO line.

👉🏻👉🏻 $500 for 2-3 specialized traps SPECIFICALLY made to trap cats. These traps make no snapping sounds, are NOT spring loaded, are super easy to set, and make transferring kitty to a carrier a breeze. They are made to be as low trauma as possible which gives users the greatest chance at socializing feral kitties.

💥💥Fundraising Time💥💥 SHARE SHARE SHARE

We've got ourselves all set up on Zeffy to handle a lot of the administrative gobbledygook when it comes to stuff like this. Woo!

No more sending e-transfers directly to us and hoping that it works. It's just like buying tickets online using your credit card if you so choose. Follow the link below and you'll get an email confirmation of your entry and if I'm not mistaken... tax receipt if requested 🙀 If you prefer to e-transfer at [email protected] OR PayPal ... that's cool too.

Thank you for your participation everyone and good luck!

At this risk of missing out, here's the link as well
https://www.zeffy.com/ticketing/first-5050-of--2025

02/23/2025

Happy Mews!

I didn’t announce it but Ivy and Quinzel found their furever home this week.

Minnie went home this afternoon to keep an older brother kitty on his toes alongside her 3 human sisters.

Selina now has two big brothers! One of them is from our very first litter of kittens… the kitty formerly known as Dean now has a baby sister.

7 kittens down, 5 more to go! We still have Circe, Zatanna, Hugo, Spike, and Wolfie.

02/22/2025

UPDATE! Minnie adoption is pending

Picture 1: Minnie, female, dilute torti **ADOPTED
2: Oliver, male, grey tabby **ADOPTED
3: Wolfie, male, grey
4: front- Lady, female, dilute torti **ADOPTED
4: rear- Spike, male, grey tuxie

All appear to be short haired. All are big and snuggly with no effs given.

So if you didn’t notice, they haven’t been here much longer than 24 hours and two are ADOPTED🙀🙀😱🙀🙀!

02/22/2025

🧊The JACKPOT is at $225🧊
Let’s grow that pot 💪🏻💰🌳

💥💥Fundraising Time💥💥 SHARE SHARE SHARE

We've got ourselves all set up on Zeffy to handle a lot of the administrative gobbledygook when it comes to stuff like this. Woo!

No more sending e-transfers directly to us and hoping that it works. It's just like buying tickets online using your credit card if you so choose. Follow the link below and you'll get an email confirmation of your entry and if I'm not mistaken... tax receipt if requested 🙀 If you prefer to e-transfer at [email protected] OR PayPal ... that's cool too.

Thank you for your participation everyone and good luck!

At this risk of missing out, here's the link as well
https://www.zeffy.com/ticketing/first-5050-of--2025

02/21/2025

⭐️JACKPOT IS AT $222.50⭐️

There is still 7 days to participate. Buy your entry now before you forget.

💥💥Fundraising Time💥💥 SHARE SHARE SHARE

We've got ourselves all set up on Zeffy to handle a lot of the administrative gobbledygook when it comes to stuff like this. Woo!

No more sending e-transfers directly to us and hoping that it works. It's just like buying tickets online using your credit card if you so choose. Follow the link below and you'll get an email confirmation of your entry and if I'm not mistaken... tax receipt if requested 🙀 If you prefer to e-transfer at [email protected] OR PayPal ... that's cool too.

Thank you for your participation everyone and good luck!

At this risk of missing out, here's the link as well
https://www.zeffy.com/ticketing/first-5050-of--2025

02/19/2025

💥💥JACKPOT IS AT $192.5💥💥

Keep it coming! Our jackpot goal is $2,500 to help pay for:
➡️$700 food order
➡️ $400 FIP meds
➡️$900 veterinary care
➡️$500 specialty cat traps
Extra goes to supplies like kitty litter, nitrile gloves, fuel, etc.

💥💥Fundraising Time💥💥 SHARE SHARE SHARE

We've got ourselves all set up on Zeffy to handle a lot of the administrative gobbledygook when it comes to stuff like this. Woo!

No more sending e-transfers directly to us and hoping that it works. It's just like buying tickets online using your credit card if you so choose. Follow the link below and you'll get an email confirmation of your entry and if I'm not mistaken... tax receipt if requested 🙀 If you prefer to e-transfer at [email protected] OR PayPal ... that's cool too.

Thank you for your participation everyone and good luck!

At this risk of missing out, here's the link as well
https://www.zeffy.com/ticketing/first-5050-of--2025

02/19/2025

Update!

Cobblepot-now-Toulouse is home with his fur mama and mama! Batman will chill out and recuperate there.

Mama Aurora didn’t come in today but that’s quite alright.

Two more kitties were posted in the chat group, Kiki and Poet. They’re running free range here but between them and the three recovering FIP kittens… it’s a zoo here. Intentions were to put them in the big cat room but that room is still under construction.

Kiki is adoptable, already spayed and up to date on her shots. She’s dog, cat, and child tolerant. Kiki’s a shy hider so there’s no need to isolate her. She’ll work her way out when she’s ready.

Poet is adoptable, will be neutered within a month and up to date on his shots. He’s dog tolerant as far as we know, takes a bit of time to warm up to strange cats. Loves kids. He may need isolation if you have other pets in the house who may or may not appreciate his presence.

Again, I support foster failing 😁.

02/18/2025

The ⚡️💥JACKPOT 💥⚡️ is currently at $120! Our goal is a jackpot of $2,500 by March 1st.

What’s special that happens on March 1st?

Give your silly answers below after purchasing your entries! ⬇️

💥💥Fundraising Time💥💥 SHARE SHARE SHARE

We've got ourselves all set up on Zeffy to handle a lot of the administrative gobbledygook when it comes to stuff like this. Woo!

No more sending e-transfers directly to us and hoping that it works. It's just like buying tickets online using your credit card if you so choose. Follow the link below and you'll get an email confirmation of your entry and if I'm not mistaken... tax receipt if requested 🙀 If you prefer to e-transfer at [email protected] OR PayPal ... that's cool too.

Thank you for your participation everyone and good luck!

At this risk of missing out, here's the link as well
https://www.zeffy.com/ticketing/first-5050-of--2025

02/18/2025

⭐️⭐️FOSTER FOSTER FOSTER⭐️⭐️

Do you have a room in your house that can be closed off from the rest of the world?

Do you have 2 weeks to keep a cat in there?

If you said yes… you can foster!

Last year we posted up a chat group for fosters and considering the fostering opportunities were slim to none at the time, it died. Well we are in luck!

Currently we have 3 Chrystal Falls kittens in foster!

👑Queen Mary (F, DSH, grey tabby, dob August 1/24)
👑Early Grey (M, DSH, grey tabby, dob August 1/24)
👑Chai (F, DSH, colour point, dob August 1/24)

They’re with a very knowledgeable foster who is experienced with feral cats and are doing well. Chai is by far the fiercest and has the habit of peeing on her handlers lol.

Today it has become clear that Mama Batman is not mean enough to her babies and is not coping well with nursing 7 kittens who are 7 weeks old. She needs to rest and recuperate. We hoped that the big girl room would be complete by the time she needed to move however luck is not on our side.

If you can help Mama Batman heal up, please let us know. The link to the foster group is below ⬇️.

Related story, we are getting another Mama and family today! Mama Aurora is also needing a foster. Her 5 babies share the exact same birthday as Team Batman. Team Aurora comprises of 2 girls and 3 boys. No pictures yet because they’re not here at the time of posting.

Aurora was born and raised indoors and has much of the same temperament as Batman. She needs a place to recover for nursing.

FAQs:

1) Do you allow foster-to-adopt/foster failing?
YES!

2) What IS fostering?
Essentially it is babysitting our cat. We pay for all the basic needs. We give you food (canned and kibble), litter and litter box, toys, scratching posts, etc. If you, as the foster, wish to buy them things… have at it. Lots of fosters do as their way of contributing to the rescue.

3) Am I gonna get a feral cat? Does this cat have “issues”?
We will never give you a cat you aren’t mentally/physically capable of handling unless you lie. If you tell us that you’re capable of having a feral/unsocial cat and then are surprised that they have no indoor cat traits, that’s on you.

02/17/2025

The jackpot is at $50 at the moment. Let’s do this!

💥💥Fundraising Time💥💥 SHARE SHARE SHARE

We've got ourselves all set up on Zeffy to handle a lot of the administrative gobbledygook when it comes to stuff like this. Woo!

No more sending e-transfers directly to us and hoping that it works. It's just like buying tickets online using your credit card if you so choose. Follow the link below and you'll get an email confirmation of your entry and if I'm not mistaken... tax receipt if requested 🙀 If you prefer to e-transfer at [email protected] OR PayPal ... that's cool too.

Thank you for your participation everyone and good luck!

At this risk of missing out, here's the link as well
https://www.zeffy.com/ticketing/first-5050-of--2025

02/16/2025

P**p log day 275 because I’m a sharer:

It looks like most of the diarrhea with Team Batman has cleared up 😮‍💨. It usually takes a week or two for “normal” OMGCHANGE p**ps to settle and thank heavens it did. I also forgot to mention that kitten food gives adult cats the runs. Why? I don’t know. But considering our mamas are fed kitten food, their p**ps are usually extra loose.

Now I can breathe more easily however Batman is definitely starting to wean her babies. She’s no longer taking on the onus of pottying them and is adopting the loaf of nope when the babies go to hit up the milkbar at random. That said, I haven’t noticed if any of the kittens are eating kibble yet 🫤 and they’re not the biggest fans of fancy feast kitten food… of course. So I’ll leave links in the comments of alternative foods if the Amazon aunties and uncles want to help out.

Next p**p adventure is Layla and the Claustridium girls! Today I removed the “beware floor p**p” warning off the door!!! They are all doing amazingly on the Hills gastro biome cans. I don’t think there was ever so much solid p**ps from them. Layla may or may not have ever had a solid p**p in her life so this must be an adventure. No lies, this is my life, I got misty-eyed happy to clean out the litter boxes.

Oh! With that said, if you’re visiting Lasalle Animal Hospital and are feeling a desire to buy a case of the food for these girls… they would be ridiculously happy. Right now they are rather peeved because that is the only thing they can eat. Due to costs, we can only accommodate minimum amounts. They’re used to free feed so this is very frustrating for these girls.

In more poo news: Darla, Starla, and Twinkle continue to have beautiful p**ps. Can’t say the same for the mamas. But that’s totally normal. Giving birth, nursing, eating kitten potty, AND change of life will do that. Mama p**ps go in and out of form until the kittens are weaned.