Feral Cat Spay/Neuter Project

12/13/2024

Happy Big Boy Thursday! Moses visited us last month for his neuter and vaccines, and at 15.1 pounds,, this 2½-year-old dude may just be the biggest cat we’ve seen at our Lynnwood clinic this year! He’s so big, in fact, that we had to rotate the pic of him on our scale to make it fit in this post—and we still had to crop it. And Moses has big polydactyl paws to match, with lots of extra toes!

Mose of Mose Auto in Georgetown called Alley Cat Project when he saw a litter of black cats (adult mom, adult male, and an unknown number of kittens) living across the street in a very industrial area. Moses was the fifth cat ACP caught there, and the third pic is of him on the ACP trail cam before they nabbed him. They determined he had potential to be socialized for adoption, so they arranged for him to go into foster care. “At any rate,” ACP tells us, “he was just too handsome to let go!”

12/12/2024

Would you like to visit (and maybe adopt!) some beautiful kitties, and also pick up some gifts for the cats and humans in your life? You can do all that in the festive setting of Community Cat Coalition's Home for the Holidays event! It's happening every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday through Dec. 22 from 10am-5pm at 19709 Hwy 99 in Lynnwood, WA (at the intersection with 196th St. SW, in the shopping center between Mud Bay and JoAnn's and close to Trader Joe's).

Trust us, the cat beds will be very popular with your own felines! And you can see from these pics that kittens don't come any cuter than these!

12/11/2024

With the unexpected move from our old Lynnwood clinic to our temporary digs (while we await completion of our brand new space), we've had a lot of experience this year in making things work. And what do we do when we have a partial power outage in our temporary space? You guessed it–we make it work!

Here you see Dr. Birchmeier spaying in our clinic manager's office by window light last Thursday—an unexpected sight from the parking lot, no doubt. We spayed and neutered 30 cats that day, despite the change in scenery!

12/10/2024

Our Renton clinic/collaboration with South County Cats hit a milestone Friday— 4,000 cats spayed & neutered in one year! This is a huge accomplishment since this location opened in 2020. For comparison, this location altered 3,630 total cats in 2023.

Lucky cat number 4,000 is handsome Milo, who belongs to a longtime cat advocate and friend of our partner South County Cats! He was one of 67 cats snipped in the clinic Friday, and he won over the hearts of all staff and volunteers with his sweet demeanor and stunning Maine Coon-mix features.

Congratulations to the hard-working Renton team! Here’s to 4,000 more!

12/06/2024

Me-WOW! Thanks to our wonderful supporters, this year’s Giving Tuesday is one for the record books! More than 150 of you helped us not only meet our $25,000 goal, but blow right past it to $35,000! That’s a lot of cats you’re helping to receive spays and neuters, vaccines, and other vital medical care—feral/community cats, beloved pets, and rescue/shelter kitties on their way to forever homes!

Even a hissy little kitten like Taz (perhaps disgruntled at having her toenails trimmed?) knows these are all good things! Taz visited us via Community Cat Coalition this week for her spay and rabies vaccine, as well as a toenail trim, and she’s now on her way to a happy spayed life!

Our hearts are full of gratitude and appreciation for the overwhelming support you've shown the kitties and for the trust you place in FCSNP, knowing that we take care to make the best use of every one of your hard-earned dollars to help the cats and kittens who need it most.

If you were part of this amazing demonstration of compassionate caring in action, thank you so very much. And if you haven't yet had a chance to make your gift, you can still join in the excitement at the link in the comments or in our bio!

12/06/2024

Happy Big Boy Thursday from Hudson!

This 4½-year-old, 13-pound kitty was brought to us by Community Cat Coalition for his neuter and vaccines. He was one of multiple cats being fed by a woman in a mobile home park. CCC held him after surgery for a few days while theycontinued to trap and also to see if he wanted to be adoptable. Ultimately, he made the choice to go back outside.

But there’s more to the story! One year ago, his trapper trapped a mom and older feral kittens in that same park. A woman from that location said there was a big black and white cat around, so they tried to get that cat as well. He never showed back up and they pulled the trap. WELL, Hudson is that cat! They even had the woman give a positive identification.

“It feels so good to know we finally got a male that we thought we never would see again,” his trapper told us. “He is a big and beautiful boy. The 2 of the kittens we trapped last year look a lot like him!”

12/04/2024

12/04/2024

Giving Tuesday was a blast! Thank you so much to everyone who contributed yesterday to helping us provide spay and neuter services to all kinds of cats, like Aneki, a 4-month-old pet kitten who visited us recently from right here in Lynnwood. Because Aneki now has his neuter, he will avoid a lifetime of tomcat health problems and stresses. And guess what—if you missed Giving Tuesday yesterday, there’s still time to get in on the fun and be part of our spay/neuter mission!

Your gift received today will be included in our Giving Tuesday total. We are soooo close to meeting our $25,000 goal, and you can help us get there! We do love to watch that therMEOWmeter rise! You can find our Giving Tuesday link in the comments or in our bio.

12/04/2024

Wow! Giving Tuesday is rolling right along, and we have a new opportunity for you to pounce on right away! A kind donor has offered to match your Giving Tuesday gift dollar-for-dollar up to $500, in memory of their sweet girl Sophie. ♥️Just think, you'll be helping cats like this kitty who visited our Renton clinic/collaboration with South County Cats for Spay Day earlier this year!

Your matched gift will go towards twice as many spays and neuters for feral and community cats, rescue and shelter cats who will now be ready to go to their forever homes, and beloved pets whose human family members might not be able to afford the cost of spay/neuter surgery without FCSNP.

Hurry and make your gift now so it can be matched up to $500! Find our Giving Tuesday link in the comments or at the link in our bio.

12/03/2024

Toes for Tuesday—Giving Tuesday, that is! This is the day when people around the world come together to celebrate compassion, humanity, and radical (or should we say catical?) generosity! Nova, a very polydactyl pet kitty who visited us last week for her spay, wants you to know that some wonderful FCSNP donors are prepared to match your Giving Tuesday gift dollar-for-dollar up to $2,250!

Having your gift matched means you are subsidizing twice as many kitty snips for the feral colonies and the caring rescuers who help them, as well as for the beloved feline family members of families who need a little help affording spay/neuter. And just think—the match means you're getting a 100% return on your investment, which is something that doesn't happen very often!

Thanks to the generosity of several Lead Gift Donors who got a head start on their Giving Tuesday generosity, the Giving Tuesday therMEOWmeter is already starting to rise. But the kitties have a long way to go today to get to their $25,000 goal, and they need you to help! Find our Giving Tuesday link in the comments and in our bio, and be a part of breaking the cycle of feline overpopulation!

12/03/2024

Pssst—Sherlock has vital information for you: Tomorrow is Giving Tuesday! It's a chance for you to help us provide kitties like Sherlock with spay and neuter services to ensure they live happier, healthier lives. Sherlock, a 7-month-old pet kitty from Arlington, WA, visited us last month for his neuter and vaccines. He’s excited that he can now devote his days to hunting for clues and solving mysteries without being sidetracked by tomcat hormones, and he wants other cats to know the same peace of mind!

Even better, it’s not too early to give! Your gift today will be part of the Giving Tuesday total, and you can get a head start on helping us meet our goal! You can find our Giving Tuesday link in our bio.

11/30/2024

Black Friday or Black Cat Friday? We know which we prefer, and Toothless and Cinder agree! Why stress over shopping when you can look at these faces (and think of all the benefits of spay and neuter) instead?

11-month-old Toothless visited us a couple of weeks ago from Everett for her spay, vaccines, and microchip. She's a friendly community cat with a caretaker—and yes, we can see a resemblance to the character from How to Train Your Dragon!

Cinder is a pet kitty from Granite Falls who received his own neuter, vaccines, and microchip the day before Thanksgiving. He wasn't entirely motionless for his photo shoot, but he's just 6 month old, and we understand it's hard for kittens to sit still!

11/29/2024

Happy Thanksgiving from FCSNP! We’re thankful for many things: all of you who support us, our clinics in Lynnwood and Renton—and, of course, Big Boy Thursday! And big boys are also thankful for the kind people who care for them!

Bob visited us for his neuter and vaccines a couple of weeks ago. He’s about 4 years old and definitely qualifies as a big boy at 14.6 pounds! Bob is a friendly community cat from Bothell whose caretaker who’s working on making him an indoor kitty—a life which is going to look much more enticing to him now that he’s free of those tomcat urges to roam and fight!

11/28/2024

Poplin- #3 is so excited for Thanksgiving tomorrow that she’s put on her best holiday bowl so she doesn’t miss a bite! (In reality, she’s one of a group of ear-tip cats who visited us from Gray’s Harbor Spay/Neuter Project last Thursday for their snips. Sometimes it’s just not safe to reach into a feral cat's carrier to remove a food dish, and this 1½-year-old community cat ended up wearing hers!)

That day was special, not only fashion-wise, but because our Lynnwood clinic snipped 51 cats! That’s the most cats Lynnwood has spayed and neutered on a single-doctor day in 5 years. The last time we accomplished this feat was in November 2019! It was a great feeling hitting our pre-COVID numbers and we’re grateful to everyone who made it possible: our staff and volunteers, plus everyone who brought cats in to help break the cycle of feline overpopulation!

11/27/2024

This is the face of a kitty who is very happy to join the ranks of the spayed! Dash is a year and a half old and had 3 litters of kittens over the past year, including her first litter when she was just a baby.

But Dash was lucky! She showed up at the house of someone who is happy to keep and feed her and her babies—and who wanted them all fixed so they don't end up with more cats! With help from Community Cat Coalition, Dash visited us earlier this month for that all-important spay as well as vaccines. Mom and her babies are now all snipped, and get to enjoy just being cats!

11/26/2024

Some cats seem to be at ease wherever they go, even the spay/neuter clinic! Like Shogo, a 2-year-old tabby who visited us for his neuter and vaccines in mid-November through Community Cat Coalition. His relaxed demeanor may be the first thing you notice about him—but also, take a look at those wonderful polydactyl paws with their extra toes!

Shogo is part of a colony of cats a woman has been caring for. She lets them in her house and loves them all very much. She was grateful for help getting them snipped so they won’t have any more babies!

11/23/2024

It can be hard to wake up after your neuter, says Boo, but it sure is good to have that done! Boo is a 1½-year old pet kitty who visited us from Woodinville last week for his snip and vaccines. He's very relieved to know he's going to live his life free of those distracting tomcat urges to roam, get into fights, and father litters of kittens!

11/22/2024

Here's Doug, looking ever so handsome for Big Boy Thursday! Doug visited us earlier this month from Everett for his neuter and vaccines. He's 4½ years old and weighs 12.6 pounds!

Doug is a free-roaming cat at a mobile home park. The management contacted FCSNP for help trapping cats and taking them to a shelter, and we asked one of the trappers we regularly work with if she could help. She is now working with management to trap and return the free roamers like Doug, and find homes for the tame cats!