APSU Paws to Care

09/22/2025

Good morning, everyone. It's the dreaded Meow-n-day morning, but we have a smile for you today. Chouchou was ADOPTED over the weekend! She was one of Bonnie's "generator" kittens way back in April. We bottle fed and raised the kittens, and our amazing foster Kelly took over and showed them what true love and care can do. Chouchou went to a wonderful couple and we are SO happy for all of them. THANK YOU! Thanks also go to Puurrrfect Paws and Petsmart for helping us get her adopted! 🐾❤😺🎩

09/19/2025

because our adorable tag team is not the most helpful when it comes to admin work. In fact, they managed to lock their foster mom out of her computer while she stepped out for her lunch break 😹 but how could you possibly by upset at faces this cute 😻

09/18/2025

Good morning, everyone. Today, we are *especially* thankful on this "Thankful Thursday" post! You probably all remember Bonnie, the momma who had the kittens under one of the generators on campus. Well, last week someone told us they saw her with a bloody leg. Sure enough, she had a large, deep gash on her left rear leg (‼️graphic picture in the comments section - we didn't want to show it uncensored in the main post in case FB flagged it‼️). 😿

We are SO grateful that someone was kind enough to alert us to it, and HUGE thanks go out to Elizabeth, Jennifer and Jill, her feeders, and Brandie, who gave up her time to trap poor Bonnie and get her to the vet! Thanks also go to the awesome Dr. Baugher at The Cats on Commerce, and the vet tech Lori, who is making sure that Bonnie heals in a safe, warm and comfortable environment. THANK YOU SO MUCH!!❤😻

Dangers abound for the campus cats, and we can't always protect them, but we do our very best to take care of them, and we have a fantastic bunch of students, faculty and staff who keep an eye on the kitties, as well as an amazing team of members who work together. We are definitely "Thankful", every day, not just on Thursdays. (Photo credit 📸: Jennifer Ellis) 🐾❤😺🎩

09/11/2025

Good morning, everyone. We know that this will be a somber day for many as we reflect on everything that remembering this day means. We still wanted to do a "Thankful Thursday" post to maybe give some of you a smile or two.

Today we'd like to send out heartfelt "THANK YOUS!" to Janet N., Linda T. and Sherry L. for their generous donations. Thanks to you, we can get the new kittens examined and spayed/neutered! 😽

We'd also like to send out a special "THANK YOU!" to Ginger Ruberry for sending us some Mosquito Dunks from our Amazon wish list! We're hoping these will help the cats over by the drainage pond, so that they won't have to fight against the heart worms from so many mosquitos!

Jazz wanted to say "Thank Mew!", too! (Photo credit📸: Brit Dewey) 🐾❤😺🎩

09/07/2025

Good morning, everyone. Today, we'd like to share a "Pay it Forward" post for Saving Kittens Sanctuary and their bake sale. If you'd like something warm and yummy as the season turns colder, this is a great way to help some kittens and get something good to eat at the same time! 😻

🍁 Fall Bake Sale Pre-Orders Are OPEN! 🍁
We're baking up something sweet to help our rescue kitties — and we’d love your support!

🧁 Pick-up Date:
📅 Sunday, Sept 14
📍 Clarksville PetSmart (3PM–5PM)

🍪 Delicious Fall Treats:
• Brown Butter Blondie – $3
• Chocolate Chip Banana Bread – $5
• Spice Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting – $5
• Chocolate Fudge Brownies – 2 for $3

🚗 Delivery Available – Add $5 per order
(Frosting available on brownies/blondies upon request – just let us know!)

✨ Every bite helps save a life! Funds raised go directly to rescuing and treating cats like Firepaw, a sweet 2-month-old orange tabby currently seeing a specialist for his eye.

💛 TO ORDER: comment or message the page!

• Venmo:
• PayPal: [email protected]
• SavingTheKittens.org

Please share and help us make this a purr-fect success! 🐾

09/04/2025

Good morning, everyone! It's Thursday here on the beautiful APSU campus and that means it's time for a "Thankful Thursday" post. Today, we are grateful to Mrs. Linda Stolz, for being so generous and always helping us out with food for the cats. THANK YOU, Linda! 😻 We surely couldn't feed them as well without you! We also appreciate any anonymous food and $$ donations we have received lately! YOUR support helps us do things like foster kittens found on campus until we can adopt them. Speaking of kittens, there's nothing quite like "Kitten Therapy", so we have a short, cute video of Indy and Dora for you today. These guys will be up for adoption soon, so if you're interested in giving these adorable fluffballs a great forever home together, send us a message. 🐾❤😺🎩

08/23/2025

Releasing Calypso (aka Spicy Potato) back on to campus after her spay recovery. We had considered whether or not to try to foster this gorgeous girl, but after a week in foster care it was obvious she was too much of a free spirit to be tamed.

Thank you to all of our supporters who donate! We could not help the campus kitties without your support!

08/22/2025

Here's another "Pay it Forward" post for a baby in real need. We know everyone is asking for help right now, but this poor little guy could really use some if you possibly can. 🥺😿🙏

08/22/2025

Good morning, everyone! Happy Fur-i-day! We just wanted to give you a quick update about Goliath to set your minds at ease. We were unable to catch him (he's wily and has been trapped 3x before), but it appears that the problem with his tail has healed itself. It scabbed over and is almost un-noticable now. He's still his gentle, chonky self and still waits for the food and treats to be delivered. Have a great weekend! (Photo credit 📸: Brandie Duke) 🐾❤😺🎩

08/21/2025

Good morning, everyone. It's Thursday here on the beautiful APSU campus and there's a buzz in the air because the students are already returning. Today, for our "Thankful Thursday" post, we'd like to first and foremost give a HUGE shout out THANK YOU! to the brave guys who helped to rescue the kitten Indy (he was on the ROOF of Browning! Thus, his name is Indiana Jones). We're respecting their wish to stay anonymous, but words can't express how GRATEFUL we are for their help! You guys saved his life!😻

Secondly, we'd like to send a great big THANK YOU to June Cacal, Kay Haralson, Carolann Kinney and everyone else who sent donations and food! You are the BEST supporters and we (and the cats) love you and are thankful for your generosity! ❤

Dora and Indy wanted to say, "Thank Mew!", too. Speaking of our intrepid adventurers, one of our amazing team members (THANK YOU, Brittani!) has agreed to foster these cuties, so we'll be adopting them out in a month or two. We'd like to adopt them out together, because they are already as thick as thieves. Stay tuned for updates and let us know if you're interested in giving them the best forever home. 🐾❤😺🎩

08/17/2025

Good morning, everyone. As a "Pay it Forward", we'd like to share a post from one of the smaller rescues here in town, Saving Kittens Sanctuary. Like us, they struggle with finding enough funding to keep afloat. Kitten season has been crazy this year (it is, almost every year) and we all do our best to save as many as we possibly can. We know financial times are hard right now for everyone. However, every little bit counts - it all adds up. It's a small thing the community can do to help. :)

08/15/2025

Good morning, everyone. Happy Fur-i-day! What's that old saying, "When it rains, it purrs"? 😛 Yesterday, one of our feeders was on the way to feed the station at Browning and heard a kitten in distress. Turns out, it was a 3-4 week old tabby baby, crying her heart out and no momma anywhere around. The feeder scooped her up and continued replenishing the station when she heard ANOTHER kitten crying, but could not, for the life of her, find the other kitten!

So she recruited some help from her partner, who determined that the kitten was UP A TREE, but neither of them could see it. It's a large holly tree that grows somewhat close to the building. After several phone calls, a couple of very nice guys showed up to help. One climbed the tree and discovered the crying kitten was actually ON THE ROOF of Browning in the gutter! On. The. Roof. We have no idea how he got up there, and he wasn't injured as if a hawk or owl had taken him up there. (He must have climbed the tree?!) but we're sure he has probably used one of his 9 lives already! 😱

Both kittens are about 3-4 weeks old and in pretty good shape aside from mild cases of ringworm on their tails. One is weaned and the other is working on it. We've decided to call the boy (from the roof) Indiana Jones, and the girl we're calling Dora the Explorer. Because neither one is feral (both are already attention hogs) we suspect they were dumped. 😔Not only is this illegal, it's also heartless and cruel. These poor babies would not have made it if no one had found them. Not without their mom and not in the kind of heat we've been having.

Once they're weaned, we'll have to decide whether to take them to Animal Control or try to foster and then adopt them out. Unfortunately, we don't have a lot of funds right now, so they may end up at the shelter. We rely strictly on the kindness of others - i.e. donations. If any of our supporters out there would like to donate to the cause, we have an Amazon wish list or you can call in a donation to the vet we use most, The Cats on Commerce (931) 292-2829. In the meantime, Indy and Dora are safe and being well cared-for. 🐾❤😺🎩

08/14/2025

Good afternoon! We have another Thankful Thursday post for our Paws fans! We are so grateful to each and every one of you who take the time to help the kitties on campus! 😻 From our feeders, fosters, Helping Paws student group, donors, our veterinarian and staff at The Cats on Commerce, to our helpers on campus... we thank each and every one of you! These cats would not be able to have the lives they do without your help!

We wanted to share a bit the work we do for our local cat colony. We found a young Mom and three babies on campus back in April, hiding under a generator. We were able to get the kittens, with the help of the campus police, but Momma ran off before we could get her. We had a foster bottle feed the kittens but Momma would not allow us to trap her. She remained at large until a joint effort of scheduled feeders and trappers finally caught her. She has finally been fully vetted and rejoined the campus colony. 😻

Thank you to everyone who put in time and effort to help get Bonnie and her babies the care they needed!

08/05/2025

Good morning, everyone! We have a trapping update for you. In the same area where Tipper and Ripple are, there is also Sunshine. Sunshine isn't a well-known campus cat, but he's been pretty shy and tended to hang in the background over the years. He was already 3 years old when we discovered him in 2021, but he looked like a kitten back then! He only had half of his tail and seemed very small for his age. Lately, we noticed he was losing a lot of weight (the same as Tipper and Ripple). We managed to catch him and get him in to see Dr. Baugher at the Cats on Commerce. There's good news and bad news.

Bad news first: Sunshine (and probably most of the other colony cats in that same area) has heartworm disease. It's different in cats than it is in dogs - cats' bodies continue to fight off the infection until it clears. It is still VERY hard on their bodies and without treatment it can take years. The area where these particular cats live has a large drainage "pond" which is a mosquito haven. Heartworm larvaes come from mosquitoes. 😔 The reason poor Sunshine was so very skinny is because he has been exhausted, trying to fight off the disease and just not getting enough to eat to maintain the fight his immune system has been undertaking.

Good news: While we can't do much about the mosquitoes, we CAN treat the cats over there with doses of medicine. The ones who will let us close enough, we can treat with topical doses on their necks. The others we will spot feed with wet food and the chewable version chopped up into the food. It's a once a month treatment, and will hopefully resolve this problem in any/all of the cats over there. We are still going to try to catch Tipper and Ripple, to make sure there isn't something else going on with them. In the meantime, Sunshine seems to be feeling better already!

Someone asked us if we couldn't just move the feeding station for the cats who eat over there. Unfortunately, there is no other place nearby to relocate the station, so we're going to do what we can to mitigate the problem. (Photo credit 📷: Kelly Loy) 🐾❤😺🎩

07/31/2025

Good morning, everyone! Today is Thursday, so it's time for another "Thankful Thursday" post. We have SO much to be grateful for lately! First, THANK YOU to everyone who has donated to The Cats on Commerce for the vet care for Goliath, Tipper and Ripple. We're still trying to catch them. Which brings us to our second "thankful" shout out - THANK YOU to the trappers who have been working out in this horrible heat to try to catch these kitties. You're amazing! Third, THANK YOU to Mrs. Linda Stolz for sending us some dry food for the cats! We REALLY needed it! We are all SO thankful for the support and generosity of the community and our own (small but mighty) Paws to Care team, who go above and beyond for love of these cats. P***e (one of our genius college cats) wanted to say. "Thank Mew!", too. (Photo credit 📷: Kelly Loy). 🐾❤😺🎩