Lake Norman Lucky Cat

09/02/2024

08/24/2024

8/26 Spay/Neuter Transport is filled to capacity.

08/22/2024

At this moment, space still available.
704-877-7779
[email protected]
Phone/email monitored Monday - Friday, except holidays so must hear from you in about the next next 24 hrs. if you wish to register. Please include your email!

08/18/2024

Did you know, 75% of kittens born in the wild perish? This is Trixie and she just may be the 25% of her litter who survived. Lucky Cat received notification of a tiny kitten in a busy Goodwill parking lot and knew we had to act fast. On Saturday night, no kitten but did see a cat we presume is her mom as they are both Torticos. Next morning, still didn’t see kitten but set trap and had her in no time flat! At approximately six weeks of age, there really wasn’t much to socializing her. She purred almost immediately. She was very dehydrated but is now receiving regular meals and fresh water, as much as she can drink. Trixie will be going up for adoption as soon as one of our rescue partners has space. And we’ll be going back to TNR mom too who we suspect is from the apts. behind GoodWill. Notice the sound of Trixie’s meows. She sounds like a baby cougar!

08/17/2024

Today is National Black Cat Day and this is a positive way to look at occurrences of black cats crossing your path. 😻

08/15/2024

Thank you to Nicole Kenny and Amelia Schaeffer who facilitated our spay/neuter clinic yesterday w/ Dr. Welch/CPMVC. And special thanks to Giving With Grace for making it possible for more people to have cats spayed/neutered/vaccinated❣️

30 more Lucky Cats! This has been a busy month for spay/neuter so we’re really anxious to see what our final numbers are at months end.

Next clinic transport (35 cats) is 8/26. Email [email protected] to start the registration process.

08/14/2024

Next Lucky Cats affordable spay/neuter opportunity is 8/26/24 for community cats in traps and kitties in carriers. Email [email protected] or call 704-877-7779, leaving a message to begin registration process. Limited appointments will fill quickly so please reach out today!

Spay ONE, Save HUNDREDS!

08/12/2024

8/14/24 Lucky Cat/CPMVC clinic is Full!

08/09/2024

TNR - Wednesday, August 14, 2024. Opportunity organized by LuckyCats.org. Services provided by Dr. Welch of CPMVC and community cats in traps subsidized by Giving With Grace❣️

Email [email protected] to begin registration process. Email/phone monitored Mon. - Friday, except holidays.

Registration closes at 5pm Mon. or sooner if clinic fills to capacity.

08/08/2024

Another successful TNR day with Community Pets Mobile Veterinary Clinic (CPMVC). Thank you Giving With Grace for sponsoring this clinic and Iredell Animal Services for accommodating our clinic and providing recovery space.

31 more Lucky Cats whose lives have been improved through spay/neuter today. No more fighting for the males and no more litters for the females.

The most community cats brought by one person today…14 and they arrived in a box truck. That was a first.

Thank you to all who participated in being part of the solution to cat over/population through spay/neuter.

08/06/2024

Sooo, just learned there is a 3rd kitten at Target Huntersville.

We are in need of someone to continue trying to trap mom/2 kittens while we facilitate spay/neuter clinic tomorrow, Wed.

Anyone up to the task? Pls. call 704-877-7779, leaving message if able to help. We’ll provide traps. Mostly need someone to monitor them.

08/06/2024

This can be a bit challenging…or not!

Find the 4th cat... and don't cheat! It took me one hour to find it 🤣🤣

08/06/2024

This is little bitty ‘Katina’, trapped today at Target Huntersville where someone dumped her, her mom and her sibling in a super busy parking lot with a thoroughfare running right through the middle of it. How they’ve survived the apparent week they’ve been there is due only to the kindness of strangers who didn’t look the other way. The Target is undergoing remodeling and the kitties have been hiding under the cargo containers. Katina was trapped in very short order and when approaching her in the trap, she had the spit and potty mouth of a seasoned sailor. Dirty wordies flowed forth because she was in the fight or flight mode. Not being able to flee, the striking out , spitting and dirty wordies were on full display. It didn’t take long in a cool car for the kitten meowing to start. One of the ladies who called Lucky Cat for help, was already on call to come collect her when trapped. Katina was easily transferred from a kitten trap to a carrier and tonight, she is safe/sound in a playpen with a hidey box and full tummy while she decompresses. Now, for mom and the other sibling.

08/03/2024

Hi hoomans! Remember me? It’s Jackson, the little kitten with not one but two broken back legs. Thanks for all your donations cause they helped the Dr. make me better.

My foster mom is taking me for my official meet and greet and I’d like to meet you! Yes, it’s finally my turn for a forever family so I’m here inviting you to come see me tomorrow, Sun. 8/4 at Pet Supermarket, Mooresville.

I’ll be the dapper guy looking for ‘you’! Just tell the good folks at PAR that you want to meet that ‘oh so special’ kitten known as Jackson.

If you’re the lucky person/family I get to live with, well, you’ll be lucky forever. But in case you’re too late, I have lots of little friends in need of their own special family too so spread the love❣️

Resting up tonight to meet you tomorrow. I’m so excited, I hope I can sleep. 😻

07/31/2024

A lot of you despise me,
And I don't understand why.
I am not ugly or deserving of your hate.
I survive every day on the streets,
That used to be meadows.
There are no tasty seeds,
Because you turned trees into buildings.
I eat what you throw on the ground,
Because I have no choice.
Water is harder and harder to find.
Do you know what it takes to survive in a world that is not mine anymore?
Please don't scare me or hurt me,
Just let me live -
Live in your world that was once mine..

07/28/2024

You can be part of the problem or you can be part of the solution to cat over-population. ‘Fix by Five’ months of age to prevent kittens having kittens.

That’s right, kittens as young as four to five months of age can get pregnant and after a mere 62-65 days will give birth to yet more unwanted kittens.

These young moms, only babies themselves, can be confused and not understanding what has happened or what to do, they sometimes walk away leaving those babies to die. 😥

Remember, spaying before a first heat not only reduces suffering and euthanasia in our shelters, it greatly reduces risk of mammary cancer too!

07/26/2024

We're making a difference in our community through TNR, thanks to our dedicated volunteers and donations. You can help too, support www.luckycats.org.

Want to learn more about TNR (trap-neuter-return)? Trapping clinic tomorrow: Iredell County Library, July 27, 2024, 11AM-1PM, 201 N Tradd St, Statesville.

https://www.wnct.com/news/north-carolina/nonprofits-tackle-iredell-county-cat-colonies/?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=socialflow&fbclid=IwY2xjawEQp_VleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHZHH-kIRxIYF-9DEZ7JUFpGA_YwsmWpAB_-0RSrp7scvFXA4SlWgasU5kA_aem_8qqMZ0t5gkZFZ7mI3Gn0ow

The volunteers often have cat colonies living near their homes.

07/25/2024

It’s that time again! Make your cat or the cats you feed ‘Lucky Cats’ through a Spay/Neuter opportunity made possible by Luckycats.org, community Pets Mobile Veterinary Services and thanks to Giving With Grace Foundation for subsidizing cost of community cats.

For registration:
Email [email protected]
Phone 704-877-7778

Include:
Name
Phone number
Email
Location (town/county)
Number of cats/kittens
Friendly/feral

Don’t delay, limited appts. will fill quickly!

07/17/2024

July 22 spay/neuter transport has reached capacity!

07/17/2024

Heartbroken for Lucky Cats of Kinston as they mourn the loss of Kimball, one of their beloved colony members. May he rest peacefully on the other side of the rainbow bridge. 🐈‍⬛🌈

RIP Kimball
Kimball / Scout / Sir Pees A-lot.
A feral cat that lived in an abandoned building.
Black with large white
cravat. Sir “p*es a lot” because he
often gets excited at feeding time and squats trying to p*e. “Kimball” because of the Piano
colors. “Scout” because he, and some of the other tuxedos used to always be the scouts for the colony watching for the Lucky Cat feeders.
A year and a half ago, the colony had to be relocated. Relocation only has a 50/50 success rate. LCK volunteers worked tirelessly for over a month relocating the 21 feral cats. Fortunately, 16 of the 21 were successfully relocated. Kimball was not one of those and went back to the abandoned building. Volunteers would catch a glimpse of him from time to time when passing by the abandoned building. Unfortunately, yesterday morning, one of our volunteers saw him on the side of the road from apparently being hit by a vehicle. We are saddened by the incident and will miss him. One of our dedicated volunteers found him and was able to give him a resting place. 💙

07/16/2024

Sadly, cat/kitten abandonment is at a crisis level due in part to the economy and also due to shelters limiting cat/kitten intake. Some shelters are limiting cat intake to only those cats who are injured and kittens up to four months of age. Others, are not accepting cat surrenders at all! Wondering why?Perhaps its an effort to maintain their ‘No Kill’ status. 🤷‍♀️

Problem is, non-profits, with no city/county ‘budget’ money are trying to absorb what it seems the shelters should be taking in as people abandon their animals.

Just yesterday we had a call about a mom/kitten in a local neighborhood. Kitten, about 12 weeks old is friendly so this tells us they were likely ‘dropped off’ aka abandoned, which is illegal in NC.

We don’t yet know socialization level of mom other than she is fearful which is to be expected under the circumstances.

Kudos to the neighbors who didn’t just look the other way. They reached out for advice and are making the effort to help mom/kitten with the assistance of Lucky Cat.

Because they took the initiative when the cats showed up, we will be able to have mom spayed before she has another litter and then litter after litter.

‘People’ who don’t spay/neuter their pets or the cats they feed are at the root of the problem of cat-over population and subsequent suffering. ‘People’ also have the opportunity to be the solution as these neighbors are doing by spaying mom. Kitten is going into a partner rescue. A better outcome for these two than for most who continue to roam aimlessly in search of food/shelter.

Its cold. Are you coming back?

Remember me? You couldn't wait to have me. I was so small and cute and I was FREE. You thought about getting me fixed,
but I was a baby and that was a long way off. We were best friends. Then you started packing, and I was excited, we were
going to go on an adventure. And then you were gone, and lam still here. It's cold. Are you coming back?

When you take on a pet, you are taking
on a life and a moral and legal
responsibility to take care of that life.
Please don't abandon pets.

07/12/2024

So appreciative of Your Karma- Center for Yoga and Wellness including Lucky Cat in their support of local animal welfare groups. And thanks to those who participated in the drop in classes for making this donation a reality. We’ll put this donation to the absolute best possible use making more cats ‘Lucky Cats’!

Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!
We've already donated:
Kitten food to Piedmont Animal Rescue - PAR about $100
Iredell County Animal Services received about $200 worth of dog and cat food
Lake Norman Lucky Cat received $100
Cats of Davidson received $150 and
Lake Norman Humane LKNH received $150.
Today I have written checks to:
Lake Norman Humane - LKNH $150.00
Piedmont Animal Rescue - PAR - $150.00
Iredell County Animal Services - $150.00
Lake Norman Lucky Cat - $100.00
Cats of Davidson - $100.00
Totaling about $1,350.00 raised so far between $5 drop-in classes and such unbelievably generous donations from our community. Our goal is $2,000.00. Can you help us get there?? Blessings, Shelly

07/09/2024

Look who’s had his surgery and is doing grrreat! Jackson, aka the ‘Purrminator’, has been a trooper, the perfect patient. We, Dr. Jackson and Jackson’s surgeon Dr. Benitez, could not be more pleased with the outcome and his recovery.

An updated x-ray was taken the morning of his surgery and the decision was made not to
amputate his back right leg because as you can see from the photos, the displaced fracture is actually realigning on it’s on. 🙀The surgeon was shocked at this development considering the severity of the fracture.

The ‘ball’ of the ball and socket joint of Jackson’s left hip was successfully removed and while he was feeling puny the night of his surgery, he was feeling much better the next morning and got to come home to continue his recovery.

He was playing the day he came home and we’ll be posting those videos for everyone to enjoy.

Lucky Cat’s executive director fostered Jackson for six days post surgery and says “this is one special kitten…like none other❣️”

You cannot help but fall in love with him at first purr and you only need to speak to him for the motor to engage and run and run and run.😻

Once he’s made a full recovery, Jackson will be available for adoption to a very lucky person/family through Piedmont Animal Rescue.

Thank you so much to those who have donated for Jackson’s surgery. For those who haven’t been able to do so yet, it’s not too late. We still need to raise money to pay for Jackson’s surgery and are unable to help any other kitties with medical conditions/injuries, until that bill is paid so ya’ll please donate at Luckycats.org and place Jackson’s name in ‘additional comments’.

07/08/2024

Yet another opportunity to be part of the solution to cat over-population through spay/neuter!

06/28/2024

Have you seen ‘Pickle’ missing since May, from Cornelius, NC?

06/26/2024

A team effort for sure and oh, what a TEAM❣️

06/19/2024

Absolutely amazing Tuesday with Pets Mobile Veterinary Clinics Dr. Elizabeth Welsh and registered vet tech April Chovan.

17 cats became ‘Lucky Cats’ yesterday! Any cat fortunate enough to be spayed/neutered is indeed a Lucky Cat! Out of the seventeen, only three were males leaving 14 females. That’s a whole lotta unwanted kittens prevented ya’ll.

Thank to all who made the effort to take advantage of this opportunity and especially our dedicated volunteers! It was hot running kitties to/from the climate controlled staging area to the air conditioned mobile unit and let’s just say the volunteers were ‘glistening’ in the heat.

We’d like to express tremendous gratitude to Animal Services (IAS) for helping make this clinic location and the air conditioned bay for the kitties possible by allowing us to operate on site and too, for their warm reception.

“Alone we can do so little; Together we can do so much.”
-Helen Keller

The mobile clinic is a 33 ft.long, diesel generator operated, self contained, air conditioned, surgical mobile clinic consisting of two surgery tables, 31 kennels of various sizes, absolutely everything needed to ‘go to’ and provide spay/neuter surgeries on site. Especially needed in rural areas where there are no low-cost basic vet care options available to them!

06/17/2024

Lucky Cat is partnering with Community Pets Mobile Veterinary Clinic (Dr. Elizabeth Welch) for this pawsome spay/neuter opportunity with Lucky Cat subsidizing the cost of cats in traps. Haven’t made your appointment yet? Better do it now!

Spaying/neutering today, prevents tomorrows unwanted litters of kittens, preventing suffering and reducing extremely high NC euthanasia rates.

Registration required!

06/12/2024

Nine year old Arabella has donated her tooth fairy money ($20) for Jackson’s surgery❣️

We challenge each of you reading this post to match or exceed Arabella’s donation.