Cats of Davidson

07/14/2025

Collaboration makes rescue stronger!

We had the pleasure of meeting with fellow rescue heroes from Carolina Street Cats and Friends of Feral Felines this week!

We shared tips, stories, and ideas to help each other improve our processes, support our communities, and give even more cats the second chances they deserve. 🐱💛

It's inspiring to sit down with others who share the same mission: saving lives, one whisker at a time. We're looking forward to working together and making an even bigger impact—together.

Friends of Feral Felines Carolina Street Cats

07/13/2025

IMMEDIATE FOSTER NEEDED! HELP HELP HELP!

Hello everyone! Meet Gunner. Gunner has been part of our Cats of Davidson family for a few weeks and due to circumstances beyond his paws, is in sudden need of a new foster. He's a playful, curious little guy growing up fast that loves giving kitty kisses. He comes with everything you need to foster and sure could use an immediate placement. What do you say? Is it time to make July full of fun? Message us right away - Gunner is waiting for you! Foster Application here: https://airtable.com/appInUG0xKQkUOxT7/shrgDRmgpt4L3o2Oo

07/11/2025

Some of our most recent intakes. These babies were abandoned in a locked house and found by some realtors who called us. There were a couple of mamas, barely six months old, doing their best to keep their kittens alive. No food. No water. Unconscionable.

07/10/2025

It’s National Kitten Day! Recognize any of these cutie patooties? 😻😻😻

07/09/2025

Poor babies. Sad to think they were just left behind. Welcome to the first day of living your best life!

07/02/2025

Finally - an update about everyone's favorite kitten, Hal. As I write this, he is sound asleep on my lap, waking only to purr and give little kitten kisses before he goes back to sleep.

Our little boy is a medical mystery. Typically, the types of injuries he sustained are caused by 1 of 2 things: horrific abuse or some kind of car accident. Both were definitively ruled out. So how does a kitten get injuries so severe our only option was amputation?

We honestly don't know.

We are working with our vet plus two different specialists who have run tests, and done additional x-rays and exams. His xrays showed additional bones that were broken and healed over - we don't know how or when those occurred - but it means there is a history of bones breaking inexplicably.

There are a couple of possibilities - one is called osteogenesis imperfecta, which is a rare genetic disorder that makes bones fragile and prone to breaking, often with minimal or no apparent cause. However, other than multiple broken bones, he doesn't present with any other indicators - thus the medical mystery.

His broken leg was amputated yesterday and he is in recovery. As soon as he woke up, he started trying to run around like nothing ever happened, so we know he's feeling better and is in less pain, although WE keep having minor heart attacks watching him!

We have sent samples to pathology and we hope we get some answers back so we can make good decisions for his long-term welfare. Lots of thanks and apprecation to Drs Wasserman (Hal's primary surgeon

06/30/2025

What a difference 24 hours makes!

This is Popsicle. He’s about 10 weeks old and just learning he’s about to live his best life. Available for adoption soon.

06/29/2025

This team is doing great work to stop the kitten cycle in its tracks by targeting specific areas with high cat populations. Help them achieve their goal, donate, volunteer, or trap.

Robin and Amelia walking and talking in the historic Mill Village, Mooresville, early this morning in an effort to isolate pockets of cats in need of Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) to prevent future litters. Our focus for the month of July is ‘targeted’ TNR in the Mill Village.

Owned cats are eligible as well. We have three surgery dates set aside for Mill Village beginning with July 10th.

Anyone wishing to volunteer with trapping, care of cats pre/post op., please let us hear from you ‘now’ by emailing [email protected].

We’ll begin trapping early evening of the 8th and continue on the evening of the 9th if needed to fill 35-40 appts. for the initial TNR day. We’ll be focused on two locations in the village at this time.

We have a staging area in the mill where cats will be cared for through the 11th when they are returned to their site of origin.

06/29/2025

The last two sibling from the Italian Gang - Tiramisu and Gelato - Gelato because everyone needs a gray one and Tiramisu because, because, well, because we ran out of other dessert names. Keepin' it real, folks. But in all seriousness, Tiramisu is super goofy and loves to play. Gelato is sweet and sassy and tries to keep her brother in line. They are both ready for their forever homes. We hope it might be with you!

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06/28/2025

You know we're suckers for a great rescue story.

Meet Cannoli and Spumoni - two of 4 siblings. Look carefully at Cannoli - the handsome tuxedo. For those of you who follow us, remember when he came in as a wee little kitten with a huge cut across his face and a mangled ear? Well....take a look at his glow-up! (Cannoli wants you to know he's just as handsome.) Time to bring home a low calorie but high sweet treat? (oiy - that was really bad - which is how you know we wrote this - not chatgpt - :-D ) 'tshop

06/27/2025

These posts are always super hard to make and heartbreaking. But rescue isn’t all cute kittens and snuggles.

Sometimes it’s horrific.

Hal is one of our kittens in foster. We aren’t sure what happened or how, but he has suffered a painful injury that has broken his pelvis in several places as well as his leg. Honestly, I have no words right now…

Our only choice right now to save him is to amputate his leg.

Let me tell you about Hal. Of all our kittens, he’s been voted Most Likely to Foster Fail. He only wants to be on your lap. He would walk over, purring, and ask to be picked up. He’d rather live in you than play - genuinely one of the sweetest kittens we have had in 5 years. His vet and vet techs are all in love with him too. He was ready to find his forever home - and this happened.

He didn’t deserve whatever happened and will now be a tripod. Cats can get along well on three legs, but obviously this isn’t what we would have wanted for him.

He’s full of pain meds right now and sedated enough to keep him quiet and in one place - his surgery is scheduled for Monday.

His surgery will cost $1500. If you’d like to help, you can donate for Hal’s Amputation Surgery or Venmo or mail to 513 Westside Terrace, Davidson NC 28036. Please indicate your donation is for Hal - every penny will go toward his care. We will keep you updated on Monday on how our sweet kitten does.