Lake Norman Lucky Cat

11/29/2025

DON"T WAIT until you have a multitude of kittens to decide it's time to do something! PLEASE!!!! IF YOU'RE FEEDING THEM, FIX THEM!!! Adoptions are down this year and rescues are full in our area. There are so many suffering! There's nothing more kinder, more loving, more generous than FIXING A KITTY!! We still have space at both of our local clinics this month. Register at luckycats.org.

11/24/2025

Community Pets Mobile Vet Clinic and LKN Lucky Cat will be in Mooresville at the Mill on December 4th and at Iredell County Animal Services' shelter in Statesville on Thursday, December 11th for two kitty SPAY-NEUTER clinics! To register, scan the QR Code, visit luckycats.org and click the registration banner at the top, or click this link for Dec. 4th: https://forms.gle/d9ZNoeWqhufTRb7GA
Click this link for Dec. 11th: https://forms.gle/nUm7JAUoxBvn7p7m6

11/13/2025

Thank you to all who reached out for an opportunity for an appointment for the up coming Spay-A-Thon. So many folks trying to be part of the solution to the problem of cat over-population and too few appointments to accommodate the need.

The November Spay-A-Thon is now filled to capacity. As advertised, appointments were filled on a first come/ first first serve basis with Lenoir county given priority for a period of time before we moved to out of county requests.

If you have not received a response to your registration form, it is because we did not get to your name before the clinic filled.

Please note, no further registrations or payments are being accepted.

Please check back as we will be looking into and posting other possible options for affordable spay/neuter in the area.

Our November Kinston Kitty Spay-a-Thon is at capacity! Next week's clinic in Kinston is FULL!

11/13/2025

Our November Kinston Kitty Spay-a-Thon is at capacity! Next week's clinic in Kinston is FULL!

11/11/2025

Supporter Action Requested.

Our upcoming Kinston Spay-A-Thon is in need of two different items for our November 21 - 23 spay-a-thon. We need these items no later than Sunday, 11/16, so that if we have to order, we still have time to do so.

Supporters providing these items helps us keep our surgery pricing lower than if we had to purchase all ourselves.

We could use 2-3, 3 or 4 pack CLOROX wipes for general sanitizing.

‘Most needed’ however are puppy pads. We need LOTS and LOTS of puppy pads, like at least 300 for a 100 cat clinic.

The pads are used to cover 18-20 tables but primarly, they are used in the traps while we hold cats overnight to keep them clean/dry. We hold cats from Friday through Sunday and each cat will need a pad change ‘at least’ once a day.

Our goal is to keep the cats clean/dry rather than to allow them to lay on a wet puppy pad as urine/feces could cause infection to a surgery site.

Please DM Judy Simmons White for details on how to get items to us or, if you prefer, a monetery donation at Luckycats.org, marked ‘Kinston clinic supplies’ works too.

Amazon and Chewy may be options as well, just DM Judy.

Thank you everyone and looking forward to seeing our friends in Kinston!

11/01/2025

11/01/2025

Just to let everyone know, Lucky Cat at present has multiple clinic registrations running simultaneously.

Kinston folks, please do not be concerned that you may have registered and have not yet received a reply. Our volunteer who handles this process has recently and unexpectedly lost her father, service this weekend. She will begin processing Kinston next week, in the order (date/time) registrations are being received.

At the end of the week, we should be ready to process ‘out of county’ requests provided space is left. Either way, we will let you know whether we were able to accommodate ‘out of county’ requests and when we are filled to capacity.

Thank you for your understanding.

10/31/2025

LKN Lucky Cat will be providing a transport to Salisbury from Mooresville for a Kitty Spay-Neuter Clinic provided by Community Pets Mobile Vet Clinic. Drop-off and Pick-up will be in Mooresville at Merino Mill on Friday, November 7th. Scan the QR Code in the graphic or click this link to register: https://forms.gle/s5GvcMZjHmK2NQWd7

10/28/2025

Lucky Cat and Community Pets Mobile Vet Clinic are headed back to Kinston, NC in November for a 4th Kitty Spay-a-Thon! Let's FIX SOME KITTIES and prevent needless suffering of cats and kittens in North Carolina. Kitties can't fix themselves! It's up to us! Let's all be responsible and do our part. To register scan the QR code, click this link: https://forms.gle/dWnstviLCUaXh4aGA, or visit our website: luckycats.org and click the registration banner at the top.

10/25/2025

Oh what a day…in the best way!
Thursday, 10/23/25 Statesville clinic was a resounding success in many ways.

We were able to help a homeless man in the town of Mooresville to stabilize his much loved colony plus a kitten and an adult cat were pulled for adoption which our rescue partners will facilitate. This gentleman does have access to a portion of an over 100 year old house but has no electricity or running water. His warmth is provided by all the cats sleeping with him.

Two more colonies were stabilized meaning all cats TNR’d and a big ole ginger, super sweet, tom cat was pulled as well. He has that big, wide, endearing face of an un-neutered male and had the scars to prove it, including being FIV+. Do not allow FIV + status to dissuade you. Do your research and you’ll feel confident about adding one of these felines to your home. While FIV + used to be an automatic death sentence, it no longer is. More is now known and these kitties are getting the chance they deserve. Not yet sure which rescue he might be able to be adopted through.

We did elect to end the suffering of one older female as she was not thriving and in fact was suffering. She was extremely thin, had birthed who knows how many litters and was walking on bleeding foot pads, ‘pillow foot’. It is thought her kidneys/liver were shutting down. She was struggling and although it takes a toll on our hearts, we knew it was in her best interest to allow her to transition peacefully. Sometimes, there are things worse than euthanasia and this poor girl was living it. May this kitty now rest pain free.

40 cats
23 Female
(1 already spayed old cat with microchip. She has been living in a storm drain since at least July. The phone number attached to her microchip…disconnected!

14 Post-partum with likely multiple litters in the past. Multiple litters can pretty well be determined by the appearance of the uterus.
No pregnant or in heat cats.

17 males
1 already neutered.
1 abdominal cryptorchid meaning one or both testicles have not descended. Yes, these cats can still get a female pregnant!

Minor wounds were treated in addition to upper respiratory infections and ‘lots of fleas’. As Dr. Welch says, ‘Tis the season!’

Thank you Dr. Welch for always going above and beyond. We love the CPMVC team!

We would also like to thank Iredell County Animal Services for providing clinic space and as always, their welcoming hospitality!

HUGE thanks as well to our volunteers who did a whole lot of transporting to/from clinic in their personal vehicles.

10/18/2025

While Global Cat Day inspires hearts and minds to build a better world for cats, National Feral Cat Day is the time to join hands to achieve that goal. National Feral Cat Day 2025 was a day of action for Lucky Cats. Thanks to a collaborative effort with Helping Animals to Survive (HATS) of Lincoln county, NC, we TNR’d 24 cats from a mobile home park.

The caretaker trapped, HATS (Dana Pender) transported and Lucky Cats along with Community Pets Mobile Veterinary Clinic facilitated the TNR of 24 cats from one location, many friendly and known as ‘community cats’. Community cats is an umbrella term encompassing feral, free-roaming and yes, even friendly cats. ‘Community’ also implies a collective responsibility for the cats.

Our community came together on National Feral Cat Day for a total of 39 spay/neuters with a breakdown as follows.

Of 39 cats, 36 were community cats in traps.

24 female -
1 already spayed cat, 12 years old based on microchip. No tattoo. Phone number associated w/ chip disconnected so incision was made only to find cat was already spayed. Please ask your vet to tattoo your cat when spaying/neutering!
1 pregnant
5 post-partum, 2 recent, so they were returned evening of surgery day to reunite with kittens.
6 in heat (would have, w/o a doubt, become pregnant!)
11 normal kittens

15 male
1 abdominal cryptorchid meaning testicles had not dropped but were retained in the abdomen requiring a more involved surgery

1 beautiful blue-colored male, less than a year, euthanized due to leg injury. The right rear leg was actually amputated at the hock. We wondered what in the world could have happened to him and later learned, he had become entangled in a wire beneath a mobile home. People heard faint meows for a week before investigating and even then, it was 3 mos. before he received help. He deserved better and he deserved a name. We named him Bleu Boi.

We named a small, male, blue-colored kitten from same location in Bleu Boi’s memory. This little guy is super sweet but sick with upper respiratory so our executive director is fostering, medicating and snuggling this little fella until he is well enough to be placed for adoption.

While we wish Bleu Boi had not endured the un-necessary suffering he did, we were grateful to be able to help him transition the bridge so that he could hopefully be whole again.

And cat # 40 didn’t show morning of clinic. 🙀 Individual as it turns out, decided not to spay their female cat. Yes, we were left speechless upon reading the email. Unfortunately that left a last minute vacancy we were unable to fill that someone would very much like to have had. 😼