Cat Crew California

07/02/2025

Welcome to our another Wednesday Word, where we bring you interesting cat-related words that you may never have heard before! Today’s special word is “agouti”, which refers to the pattern of color in a cat’s coat where each hair can alternate between light and dark bands. You often see this in tabby cats, but this is separate from your typical tabby striping: each individual hair actually has different bands of colors! If you look close to the skin, you can usually see the different color bands in the hairs, but from a distance it gives the cat more of a “speckled” or “silky” or “salt and pepper” appearance, which can help camouflage the cat in wild settings. The gene and the resulting banded colors on hairs is also found in dogs and rodents…if you think of what a rabbit’s fur looks like, that’s classic agouti banding at work!

07/01/2025

Today is the first day of July & the purrfect time to do a little recap of June! We hosted another BINGO event last month (thank you as always to our patrons for coming out & playing) and we had an adoption event at the Hill’s Bookstore! We also took in an additional 42 kittens last month, which put us over capacity and we were forced to close intake, which we hate to do and is never a decision we make lightly, but we prioritize quality of care over quantity. If you would like to help as always you can find all of our links here: http://linktr.ee/catcrewcalifornia 🐾❤️

07/01/2025

We are celebrating the birthday of our very own local hero: Jessica of Red Dog Ranch! She is a super woman who raises her children, helps run her ranch, and makes time for the many animals in our community that need saving! If you’ve met her, you love her, and we are celebrating with a special summertime raffle!

“You can’t buy love but you can rescue it!” And you can also buy some raffle tickets! The goal is to raise some money for some of their adorable fosters! From medical bills to puppies to food & supplies, RDR hardly ever says no: they see hope and give them a chance, so please help us help them! We are so thankful to work aside them in some cases, and grateful to have them in our community! $5 a ticket, 100% of the money earned from this raffle goes to Red Dog Ranch, so let’s show them & their fosters some love! We are pulling the winner on July 13th, so get your raffle tickets bought and let’s help out Jessica and give her and her fosters a great birthday!!

06/30/2025

PLAN AHEAD: Fireworks are coming (if not already started 😬), so make sure you are making plans for your pets NOW! We might enjoy the bright lights and loud bangs, but our animals definitely do not, so keep your pets safe while you celebrate this 4th!

06/29/2025

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Shoutout to our friends at Cat Crew California Rescue!

We'd like to thank them wholeheartedly for stepping in to help our boy Goofy. When they heard about Goofy's need for a soft landing, they didn't hesitate to jump into action, and we are so grateful for them! 🥰

Pictured is Goofy and his foster mom, Maggie!Thank you, Maggie, for opening your heart and your home to support Goofy on his journey.

Best wishes to you all! ❤️🐶❤️

06/28/2025

Today is Safety Saturday, and did you know that more pets get lost of July 4th than any other day of the year? Here are 7 ways to make sure you & your furbabies are protected during the holiday!

06/27/2025

Today we want to showcase one of our biggest groups of overlooked fosters: our adults! They don’t get near the views or applications that their kitten counterparts do, but that doesn’t mean that they are any less deserving of their happily ever after, especially when there are all kinds of reasons to adopt an adult instead of a kitten! Pictured here are Savannah, Sandy and Chuck, so if you want to apply for one of them or any of our other adults, you can do so at: https://forms.gle/PBVwmcqA5TQQEker5

06/26/2025

Today is Truth Thursday, and today we need to talk about declawing, something we hoped was a thing of the past as it is illegal in over 35 countries now, but still happens in parts of the US! There’s not much to talk about though, because we feel like this picture speaks for itself! Please, do NOT declaw your cats!

06/25/2025

🐈CCC CAT INTAKE TEMPORARILY CLOSED JULY 2025 🐈‍⬛
While we care a lot about our numbers and weigh our fosters ability into what they can manage, we care more about quality of care. We have 100 cats/kittens and a couple dogs that currently require all our love, attention, medicine and vet visits. With our local shelter very limited in what cats they will take in, this leaves so much on the shoulders of rescues. We tend to be the clean up crew of the animals and take in the ones from the over populated properties we trap on, the sick ones that need around the clock care, the injured with little hope or sometimes just the sweet ones that need a soft landing. We are grateful to our community for donations, attending events or sending supplies. Our friends that share our adoptables we post as we can’t take in more unless we find homes for who we have (many we have had years, months, weeks). We try to hold our community members hands that are do-ers that need supplies or advice or help with spay/neuter. We have a crew of trappers (we need more- apply!) that rarely get a day off as they trap around the clock with no paid holidays! 😉 We have some amazing vets at SBVC that squeeze us in, provide advice and answer our 500 questions a week!

We couldn’t do this without our community and so when we say we are closing intake, this descion isn’t made lightly.
So please help us, help them!
💕Adopt-donate-share 💕

06/25/2025

We are celebrating the birthday of our very own local hero: Jessica of Red Dog Ranch! She is a super woman who raises her children, helps run her ranch, and makes time for the many animals in our community that need saving! If you’ve met her, you love her, and we are celebrating with a special summertime raffle!

“You can’t buy love but you can rescue it!” And you can also buy some raffle tickets! The goal is to raise some money for some of their adorable fosters! From medical bills to puppies to food & supplies, RDR hardly ever says no: they see hope and give them a chance, so please help us help them! We are so thankful to work aside them in some cases, and grateful to have them in our community! $5 a ticket, 100% of the money earned from this raffle goes to Red Dog Ranch, so let’s show them & their fosters some love! We are pulling the winner on July 13th, so get your raffle tickets bought and let’s help out Jessica and give her and her fosters a great birthday!!


, and we are celebrating with a summertime raffle!

06/25/2025

Today is Who Cat it Be Now: Calico edition, with our very own Jean Grey! Most people think calicos are a breed of cat, but in fact that’s not at all true: it’s a combination of color genes that just happen to produce three distinct colors in a cat…so any cat with three colors is a calico! As a crazy side effect of the genetics behind the colors, calicos have a 99.9% chance of being female: only 1 in 1000 are male! The lovely Jean Grey here is of course female, but look at that gorgeous face and tell us she isn’t staring right into your soul!? Apply to adopt Jean Grey today at: https://forms.gle/PBVwmcqA5TQQEker5