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Colony Cat Club Detroit, Detroit, MI (2025)

11/13/2025

Open up your third eye, and meet our Mystic Litter: Tarot, Rune and Hex 🦄🔮✨

We caught these little goblins while we were out trapping their colony. Tarot and Rune were the first to come back with us, but little Hex put us through the ringer. He was all tricks, no treats. After many attempts to catch him, we finally got Hex the day after Halloween. Persistence is key!

The kittens are doing wonderfully inside. They are playful and learning to appreciate people. Rune is the bravest of the 3. Tarot is the most playful, and Hex just likes to slink around. Since they had previously been outdoors, they are fighting off boogers and gooey eyes, and we are so happy that they get a chance at a better life. These kittens came from the same location as the Judge Litter. This is why TNR is crucial. If we don't fix the problem, we will just keep taking in more and more kittens!

Did one of the kittens cast a spell on you? You can apply for them today!

11/13/2025

✨ DIY your own cat shelter ✨

Items you need:
😻 Styrofoam cooler - you can sometimes get coolers for free from pharmacies. They ship vaccines in coolers, and then usually throw them away! Ask nicely and you may get hooked up. 😊
😻 sharp knife
😻 mylar insulation - some meal delivery kits use this in their shipping! Ask friends and family to save their insulation for you to upcycle.
😻 aluminum tape - also called HVAC tape, this might be the biggest expense on the list. Use tape wisely! And be careful on the edges; it's easy to cut yourself. ❤️‍🩹
😻 duct tape - check your garage!
😻 straw - ONLY USE STRAW. Hay holds moisture and will freeze. Remember: hay is for horses, straw is for strays.

Step 1
Cut a 6"X6" opening high up enough on the cooler wall to avoid snow from getting inside. Position the opening to the left or right (not center). This way, your cat can get cozy away from the opening. We only do one opening on our shelters.

Step 2
Line the inside of the cooler with mylar insulation. This will keep heat inside your shelter. Use aluminum tape to seal the edges. Don't forget to line the inside of the lid! Seal the 6"X6" opening with aluminum tape.

Step 3
Stuff the cooler 3/4 of the way full with straw. It should be full enough to be impactful, but not so full a cat can't get in. 🚨Only use straw!🚨 Blankets and hay will get wet and freeze, putting the cat at serious risk.

Step 4
Seal the lid to the cooler using duct tape. Place your shelter outside against a wall for support. Utilize bricks on top to secure your shelter. You want your shelter to be as sturdy as possible to stand up against blustery winter winds.

Congratulations! You just helped a colony cat. ❤️‍🩹

11/13/2025

Friday night, 6-8pm. Come help us help keep the outdoor kitties warm this winter! Come as you are, we will have supplies to turn styrofoam coolers into life-saving shelters for stray cats. Everyone who comes will have the opportunity to take a shelter home! Limit one per household.

Feel free to bring any supplies you may have, and if you can’t make it and want to donate supplies, please send us a message!

11/11/2025

Have you wanted to try fostering, but unsure if it's for you? Our "Home for the Holidays" Foster Program might be what you've been waiting for!

Running now until New Year's Day, we are looking for short term fosters to open up their home to a cat or kittens in need. We have a few kitties that will need a space to crash for a week or two while their regular fosters travel. We also have cats who need to gain some social skills, and we have found that sometimes a change of scenery can help them.

Fosters play a crucial role in getting homeless cats and kittens ready for their forever home. There is magic in knowing that you are literally changing a cat's life for the better. You are teaching them inside skills, and also affirming that people are safe.

We are asking our Home for the Holidays fosters to provide basic supplies (litter & litterbox, toys, beds, etc.) but we can still provide food and any vet care that may arise. We will NOT be bringing in new cats for this program, because when the New Year comes, they will be returned to their regular fosters. All of our current adoptable cats are not taking part in this program, but we will do our best to match you with a perfect pal to have when the snow starts falling.

What if you fall in love with fostering? Amazing! If your foster cat is the perfect fit, we can discuss permanent fostering. This is a low stakes chance to test out fostering, and help some cats in the meantime.

Are you an introvert looking for the perfect excuse to leave an event early? Now that you have a foster cat, you have a built in reason to get home at a reasonable time! Will you be home from college and looking for some volunteer experience? This is it! Want to see how your current cat would do with a buddy without the commitment? We got you!

If this sounds like what you've been looking for, please fill out our foster application, linked in our bio, and put "Home for the Holidays" in the question portion at the bottom of the app.

Did we miss something? Ask any and all questions in the comments!

11/09/2025

It's shelter building time, part two! ❄️❄️

Grab a pint🍺and join us Friday, November 14th from 6-8pm at Florian East in Hamtramck for our second shelter building event of the year.

All supplies will be provided, and we will teach you how to make an outdoor cat shelter. Take one home with you, or donate it to the cause! We will make sure the shelters go to cats in need. 😻

Florian East has an extensive drink menu to quench your thirst, and El Taco Dojo will be onsite to help keep your bellies full. Come socialize for a good cause!

📍9350 Joseph Campau Ave, Hamtramck, MI 48212
🗓️ Friday, November 14
🕒 6pm-8pm

Can't wait to see you there!

11/09/2025

We TNR'd two cats from Hamtramck this week. Do we keep TNRing through the winter? You betcha!

In the winter months, we become weather experts and watch the forecasts pretty closely. We do our best to trap during warm spells, so that cats are being returned safely post surgery. We also might do extended recovery times, and trap in areas that have good shelters in place and engaged caretakers. Our top priority is the cats well-being.

We also got 10 outdoor shelters delivered yesterday, with a total of 22 shelters made and distributed from our shelter building event. Every action helps make life for a stray cat a little easier. ✨

Do you feed a colony of cats? Let us know how you care about stray cats in the comments!

11/04/2025

Meet Einstein and Darwin: bonded brothers and best friends!

These two knuckleheads were found in the brush in Detroit. After some convincing (and scratches to the humans 🫣) both boys were secured and ready to learn about life inside.

Einstein has a cute little mustache. He has color point markings, and stunning blue eyes. His appearance does not mean that Einstein is a purebred cat. The color point gene is recessive, meaning that both parents need to carry it to pass it along. The parents might not even have color point markings themselves! Here's where genetics get even weirder: Einstein's brother Darwin is a long-haired tabby. 🤯 Cats can get impregnated by multiple male cats during a single heat cycle. So even though Einstein and Darwin were born at the same time, they could be half-brothers, or even full brothers with a wild genetics journey.

The boys are getting used to indoor living, and showing their curious sides. They are cautious at first, but definitely warm up as they feel secure. Einstein and Darwin are bonded, meaning they must be adopted as a pair. They've survived outside together, and are ready to see what life holds for them...together!

They are just about to turn 8-weeks-old and be ready for an adoptive family. We just had to share them with you early! 🤍🤎

11/03/2025

Help us help Beatrice!

🚨Trigger Warning 🚨 Some of the videos may be difficult to look at and show a very infected eye.

Meet Beatrice, a young colony cat with a bad eye. We had her TNR'd on Thursday, and had her receive an antibiotic shot at that time to help with her eye infection. However, there has been no improvement, and we would have expected to see positive change at this point. We showed our vet a video of her, and they said her eye needed to be removed. So that's exactly what we are going to have done!

Beatrice will recover in our care, and if she seems to acclimate to indoor life, we will be listing her for adoption. The choice is up to Beatrice! But for now, we want to get her the medical attention she so deserves.

Please help us raise funds to get Beatrice an eye enucleation. 🧿 Colony cats deserve medical care and humane treatment. ❤️‍🩹

11/02/2025

Help us help Beatrice!

🚨Trigger Warning 🚨 Some of the videos may be difficult to look at and show a very infected eye.

Meet Beatrice, a young colony cat with a bad eye. We had her TNR'd on Thursday, and had her receive an antibiotic shot at that time to help with her eye infection. However, there has been no improvement, and we would have expected to see positive change at this point. We showed our vet a video of her, and they said her eye needed to be removed. So that's exactly what we are going to have done!

Beatrice will recover in our care, and if she seems to acclimate to indoor life, we will be listing her for adoption. The choice is up to Beatrice! But for now, we want to get her the medical attention she so deserves.

Please help us raise funds to get Beatrice an eye enucleation. 🧿 Colony cats deserve medical care and humane treatment. ❤️‍🩹

11/02/2025

As a cat rescue, our primary focus is TNR (trap, neuter, return). We believe that we cannot solely adopt our way out of the stray cat crisis affecting Detroit, Hamtramck and Highland Park.

This year, we have TNR'd 179 cats. Our goal is 200, and we are so close! We spend our time strategizing and coordinating, and then implement these strategies with unpredictable cats. It's ethical fishing! 🐈‍⬛🎣

We asked ChatGPT to help us with statistics, to see how many kitten births we will prevent by TNRing 200 cats. The data isn't perfect, but it gives us some stark numbers. We would love it if there was a statistics person who would chime in!

We sent this prompt to chat: Statistically speaking, how many kitten births are prevented from fixing 200 outdoor cats? Please consider mortality rates for both cats and kittens. 25% of outdoor kittens survive to 6 months of age, and kittens can get pregnant as young as 4 months old.

AI used this information, and assumed that half of the cats TNR'd were females, and gave us low, mid (baseline) and high scenarios. We then asked to give us a 5 year model of population growth. Here are the results:

✨Key results (rounded, from the model):
😳 No intervention: population grows quickly — from 200 to ~4,700 after 5 years (expected total).
😥 Sterilize 50 females at start: growth is slower — population ≈ 2,350 after 5 years.
🤗 Sterilize 100 females (all initial females): almost no reproduction — population falls (no breeders) and after 5 years is close to zero growth from newborns (survivors only).
🙌 Sterilize 200 (everyone): trivial — no births; population declines slowly with adult mortality.✨

Would you like to see more data posts? Are you a numbers nerd who would like to help us with statistics? Reach out!

11/01/2025

Come return fixed and vaccinated cats back to their colonies. ✌️

As winter approaches, we are working overtime to help keep outdoor cats warm, and also to set them up for success when spring arrives. Getting a cat spayed or neutered is 100% effective at preventing kitten births. Very few things in life are 100% effective, so we think it's money well spent to guarantee that these cats will not be reproducing.

If you feed them, you should fix them! ❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹

11/01/2025

This is Fezzik! 🖤 He's a tiny little kitten with a giant personality.

Sweet baby Fezzik was found all alone in a back alley, with awful, crusted over eyes. He was very apprehensive of people, probably because he could barely see what was going on. 😥 But with medication and food, Fezzik is coming to realize that people aren't half bad. We did search the area for other kittens, but didn't find them. Fezzik was so lonely without his family, that he cried all night long. We gave him a heartbeat stuffie to help mend his broken heart. ❤️‍🩹

Fezzik is almost 8 weeks old, and can't wait to be introduced to some friends! He is playful and brave, and so stinking cute. Look at that little round face!! 🥹🥹🥹

Fezzik will be available for adoption next week, when he turns 8 weeks old. Do you want the littlest cuddle bug out there? Apply for Fezzik today, and get pre-approved to adopt.

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